Posts Tagged ‘EPM’

Automation is a critical aspect of any mature technological platform. Oracle’s recent updates to their EPM Cloud offerings include several new and exciting automation capabilities. Continue to read below for explanation on several of the noteworthy enhancements.   New and Improved EPM Automate Commands cloneEnvironment – Provides ability to clone the environment.  The UsersAndPreDefinedRoles optional […]

Essbase is a premier finance product and an excellent choice for Fortune 500 companies. However, Essbase can now be found powering many of Oracle’s Enterprise applications—from Fusion SaaS and EPM SaaS applications to on-premises custom analytic applications to Bespoke planning with Essbase on OCI. This can lead to confusion when trying to decide which form […]

With support for Oracle Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) coming to an end in 2021, organizations have a big decision to make this year as Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) has been the main resource for many businesses to automate their financial consolidation and close processes. As organizations may hesitate to make the jump to Oracle’s Financial […]

When integrating an on-premise system like an E-Business Suite application with an Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud application, SQL queries can be used as means to extract the data from the source database. You can extract the data and then load the data directly to the EPM Cloud applications using the EPM Integration Agent. The EPM Integration Agent […]

Oracle’s Enterprise Data Management (EDM) solution has been heavily focused on several areas over the past couple of years; data governance, data integrity, and out-of-box integrations, just to name a few. However, the latest updates have included enhancements geared towards user experience (in addition to a continued focus on the previously mentioned areas). One such […]

Oracle is introducing major enhancements to its EPM reporting capabilities with the February 2021 update. These enhancements will undoubtedly provide Oracle EPM customers the opportunity to expand their current reporting abilities to meet the challenges facing organizations today. Continue reading below as we touch on three things every customer must know about the new functionality […]

Oracle Hyperion EPM on-premises version 11.2.3.0 has been released on Oracle Software Delivery Cloud. What’s New with EPM 11.2.3? Release 11.2.3 contains bug fixes for Windows and Linux only, support for TLS 1.2, and the ability to apply an update directly from 11.2.1 or 11.2.2 (using the Apply Update option in the EPM System Installer) […]

Starting with the 20.09 update, Oracle will cease supporting Internet Explorer as a compatible browser for EPM Cloud applications. This will leave Edge, Chrome, and Firefox ESR as the remaining supported browsers for Windows users. The move away from Internet Explorer is due to the fact that Microsoft has announced that Internet Explorer 11 is […]

Oracle’s EPM Cloud Operations Guide is a must-have document for Oracle cloud EPM customers. This guide provides procedures to address many of the most common challenges encountered by customers. Whether it’s performance enhancements, security settings, compatibility questions, etc. – the guide contains instructions for addressing these challenges. No longer do EPM cloud customers have to […]

Co-authored with Rebecca Green. As you know, one of the key components in any implementation is the data. Users cannot budget without seeing some sort of trend from past months. Users cannot close their books without Actuals flowing into their consolidation application. Reconciliations cannot be performed without the data from an ERP system. Join us […]

Financial analysts are often looking for a daily tracker of their organization’s sales. Daily sales tracking requires bench-marking against budgets and forecasts. However, it is often the case that plans are defined at a higher level compared to actuals. In addition, while actuals are available from ERP, plans are maintained in a separate application for […]

Are you looking to supplement your Oracle EPM applications with enhanced analytics capabilities? At Perficient, we have successfully implemented analytics solutions that complement both on-premises Hyperion applications as well as Oracle EPM Cloud business processes: Planning and Budget Cloud Service, Financial Consolidation & Close Service, and Essbase Cloud. Our methodology requires minimal data movement leveraging […]