Oracle Planning and EPM Cloud Platform Updates:

Monthly Update Schedule:

  • Test Environments: Oracle will apply this monthly update during the first daily maintenance that occurs at or after 22:00 UTC on Friday, November 3, 2023.
  • Production Environments: Oracle will apply this monthly update during the first daily maintenance that occurs at or after 22:00 UTC on Friday, November 17, 2023.
NOTE: The monthly update will not be applied on any environment for which this monthly update is requested to be skipped using the EPM Automate skipUpdate command.

NOTE: Backing up the daily maintenance snapshot and restoring the environment as needed are self-service operations. Oracle strongly recommends that you download the maintenance snapshot every day to a local server.

Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Cloud Platform

This section contains announcements related to the common EPM Cloud components:

Center of Excellence

  • New Resources for Your EPM Center of Excellence

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Migration

  • OCI Migration: Oracle-Managed Migration Ending; Customer-Managed Migration Not Available Any Longer

REST APIs

  • REST API to Create a Job to Copy Library Artifacts
  • Connections REST APIs Expose Identity Domain Information to Help Customers on Classic Environments

Groovy Rules

  • Additional Groovy Examples and Information to Help with DataGridBuilder

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

  • Support Region Specific SPF Records for Email Delivery On OCI

Security & Access

  • Stronger Encryption Algorithm for Navigation Flows and Connections
  • Standardized Application Role Names

Forms & Dashboards

  • Forms 2.0 and Dashboard 2.0

Simplified Dimension Editor

  • Simplified Dimension Editor Now Supports Dimension Type for FreeForm Apps

Data Integration

  • Displaying Real-Time Progress Status for Data Maps and Smart Push
  • New Connector Option For EPM Cloud To Netsuite Connections

Data Integration Pipeline

  • New Upload and Download File Options for File Operations Job Type
  • Run Pipeline Integration Type and Task Type in Task Manager

Reports

  • Ability to Migrate Financial Reporting (FR) Saved Objects to Reports in the Platform

Oracle EPM Cloud Planning

There are no new features in this update except for the applicable features listed in the EPM Common section.

Defects Fixed

  • Software issues addressed each month will be posted to Enterprise Performance Management Cloud Release Highlights (Doc ID 2055579.1)

Refer to the following links and documents for further information: