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In Oracle Hyperion Financial Data Quality Management, Enterprise Edition (FDMEE), when you setup a target application, a target dimension class needs to be specified for each dimension. Target dimension class is a property that is defined by dimension type. For example, if you have Period dimension, the dimension class is “Period”; for Account dimension, dimension […]

Perficient’s Life Sciences practice regularly monitors the software release notes for several Oracle Health Sciences applications, including: Argus Safety Oracle Clinical/Remote Data Capture (OC/RDC) Thesaurus Management System (TMS) Generally speaking, we review release notes at the beginning of each month for the previous month. On occasion, there are no new releases and, therefore, nothing to […]

About EPM Automate EPM Automate Utility enables Service Administrators to automate many repeatable tasks,  including the following: Import and export metadata, data, artifact and application snapshots, templates, and Data Management mappings Upload files into environments, list files, and delete files from the service Download snapshots, reports, and metadata and data files from the service Run business rules on data, and […]

I recently attended the ODTUG Kscope18 conference in Orlando earlier this month. It was a great conference with a very strong focus on technical sessions and hands-on learning labs. In this blog post, I want to focus on some of the key features that are available now and/or in the pipeline from Oracle’s perspective for […]

EPBCS Security Setting up EPBCS security sometimes may look simple but gets complicated when the number of users and level of security among the EPBCS users gets complex. This blog is not to detail out the security setups done in EPBCS but its more about giving some tricks to resolve the security issues in a faster […]

Kscope18 is in the record books! ODTUGers who arrived early enough to take advantage of the Sunday Symposiums heard directly from Oracle VPs and product managers who shared the strategy and roadmap for Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) deployments including a sneak peek at the latest innovations and work in progress. Not to be left out, Oracle […]

Artificial Intelligence is already being used to conextualize data and significantly reduce efforts to transform data sets for better insights. Adaptive intelligence is being infused into cloud applications by vendors like Oracle to drive data-driven intelligence based on Machine Learning algorithms at vastly increased Speeds. To quote Angela Zutavern, coauthor of The Mathematical Corporation “We […]

Editor’s Note: This guest blog post comes courtesy of Gail Cole with Avalara. How often do you think about sales tax? Although not the most scintillating topic, sales tax should be a priority for any company that sells taxable goods or services. For starters, there’s a lot more to sales tax than rates. In addition, many businesses don’t […]

One of the things that organizations tend to want or need during and after an implementation are application refreshes. In this blog post, I have two environments, PROD (Source) and TEST (Target), which I have developed a script to facilitate end users to refresh TEST environment. This script should be run where EPMAUTOMATE was installed […]

Applies to Oracle Analytics Cloud Service – version 17.4.5 and later To learn more about why Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) Backup Operation fails, run the diagnostic collection script on the OAC server. Refer to Oracle Support Document 2236000.1 (How To Collect Diagnostic Files and Logs in Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC)). The diagnostic collection script generates […]

In Part 3 of my blog post series, I discussed Project Calendars. The focus of Part 4 is Project Work Breakdown Structures (WBS). WBS is a hierarchical assortment of top, mid, and lowest tasks within a project. A task is a piece or portion of work assigned to a resource. Within the Oracle Projects Work […]

Is your job composed of data analysis? Are you in charge of mapping or testing a healthcare enterprise data warehouse (EDW) implementation? Are you working with programs on Oracle, DB2, Google BigQuery or Db2 Warehouse on Cloud? Why? Employees can often get accustomed to the daily routine and lose sight of the big picture. Organizations […]