Posts Tagged ‘Oracle’

EPM Pipelines is quickly becoming a very useful addition to the arsenal of many of our Oracle customers. It is especially important for those users who do not have dedicated personnel or server-related resources to automate their daily business processes. In my recent blog, I detailed how to create a Pipeline to perform data load […]

Pipeline variables are a way to feed runtime parameters to your Pipeline jobs. They can be selected from a predefined set of out-of-box variables or custom-defined. You can define values for these variables that are then used during run time by individual jobs (Read more about creating Pipeline variables in my recent blog). In this […]

Oracle’s list of new features for EDM (Oracle Enterprise Data Management) in the September release are quite long. It seems they’ve really place focus on a few key areas to ensure an improved experience for the business user. Follow below as we take a look at three of the features which we believe are most […]

Oracle has recently announced that Enterprise Data Management (EDM) is now included in the Oracle Implementation Success Program (ISP). For those not familiar with the program, it is helps to ensure customer success by engaging Oracle Development teams in implementations. In addition to EDM, the program is also available to customers who use Planning, Financial […]

View the on-demand recording to learn how Perficient, a global digital consultancy with 7,500+ employees, is modernizing HR functions and enhancing the employee experience while better supporting our business by migrating from Oracle E-Business Suite to Oracle Cloud HCM. Andrea Lampert, VP of People, and Michael Zucker, VP of IT join key stakeholders from our […]

Oracle’s June 2023 EPM update included a very exciting new feature called ‘Pipelines‘. Data integration and data processing are major components of an organization’s overall EPM process. Many times the jobs associated with these processes follow a specific order. Pipelines allow for organizing individual jobs into one overall procedure directly within the application. Additionally, the […]

The June 2023 update for Oracle EDM (Enterprise Data Management) contains several new features that greatly enhance the current user experience within the solution. Continue reading below for an overview of the features which we are most excited about here at Perficient.   Security Enhancements – New Roles Provide Improved Segregation of Duties Two new […]

Inefficient manual processes. Lack of data integrity. Untrustworthy and cumbersome reporting. Complex mapping for chart of accounts between ERP applications. These are the greatest challenges regarding managing & aligning financial master data per Oracle’s 2022 “Value of EPM” survey. The issues result not only in frustration across organizations, but also contributes towards significant financial loss. […]

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), […]

What is a Slowly Changing Dimension? Slowly Changing Dimension (SCD) is a dimension that allows us to store and manage both current and previous data over time in a data warehouse. It is considered and implemented as one of the most critical ETL tasks in tracking the history of dimension records. There are three types […]

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 […]

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 […]