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In Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) / Gen 2 architecture, OAuth 2 access tokens are used to issue REST APIs on EPM Cloud to fulfill the requirement of avoiding the use of passwords in the environment. After the REST client has been registered the Refresh token is obtained using the Identity Cloud Service URL (IDCS URL), […]

We’re Headed to Ascend Perficient is headed to sunny Orlando, FL to attend Ascend which is being held June 11-14 at the Caribe Royale Resort. Did you know that Ascend is where the Oracle user community comes together to share and learn through hundreds of education sessions, panels, and networking events? If you are headed […]

Introduction: Centers of Excellence (CoE), also called “Center of competency” is a multidisciplinary team that includes executive sponsors, key stakeholders, finance representatives, business teams and technical implementation teams. They are fast becoming an integral part of Finance service’s delivery model. Why is CoE important? A 2020 BCG research showed that 70% of digital transformations fall […]

what is ETL? ETL is a process that extracts the data from different source systems, then transforms the data (like applying calculations, concatenations, etc.), and finally loads the data into the Data Warehouse system. The full form of ETL is Extract, Transform, and Load. What is a data warehouse (DW)? A Data Warehouse (DW) is […]

With all the pressure triggered by lacking the right technology, leaders do not have much time to spend on strategic initiatives, for which it is hard to believe that an organization’s work environment significantly impacts employee engagement and productivity. Fortunately, many management teams in these companies have not given up hope. To make their employees […]

Each month Oracle provides “What’s New” publications describing new features across the EPM Cloud stack. Within this publication, Oracle also provides notices about important changes either applied to that month’s release or planned for the future (the intent being to give customers ample time to plan for & address the change). We highly recommend service […]

Oracle’s March 2023 update for EDM (Enterprise Data Management) contains many great new features, but there are a few which are truly exciting for the EDM community! Request Activity Page Provides New Information Customers can now use the Request Activity page to easily view workflow information for all In-Flight requests. Invitees, Approvers, and Committers columns […]

We were presented with this client to build few complicated and lengthy reports. During writing of these reports, we noticed few scenarios that could be challenging to everyone out there who are writing reports in Smart View. Here is a scenario that we encountered to overcome challenges of writing a good report in smart view […]

Are you a part of the Human Resources team, which is tasked with reporting on Equal Employment Opportunity? Are you an Oracle Human Capital Management consultant tasked with configuring the environment setup of this report? The goal of this blog is twofold: demystify EEO reporting by defining the various reports, and outline EEO-1 reporting setups […]

In D & A Projects, building efficient SQL Queries is critical to achieving the Extraction and Load Batch cycles to complete faster and to meet the desired SLAs. The below observations are towards following the approaches to ensure writing SQL queries that meet the Best Practices to facilitate performance improvements. Tuning Approach Pre-Requisite Checks Before […]

It is common practice to update metadata (renames/corrections) in the business world to address changing business needs. Here we will discuss how the Model Validation page in Oracle EPCM can be used to identify the allocation rules referencing the dimension member and update the corrections. Allocation Process and Rules Cost Centers As an example, a […]

Can you believe it?… January is behind us and February is here! And with February comes Valentine’s Day… (just a friendly reminder for those of us who tend to mistakenly overlook this holiday 🙂 ). But lucky for customers, Oracle is not getting distracted by Cupid and is instead providing a laundry list of enhancements […]