Financial Consolidation and Close and EPM Cloud Common 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, April 7, 2023.

  • Production Environments: Oracle will apply this monthly update during the first daily maintenance that occurs at or after 22:00 UTC on Friday, April 21, 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 Common

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

  • OCI Migration: Oracle-Managed Migration Continues; Customer-Managed Migration Program Ends on April 30, 2023
  • EPM Automate Updates
  • New Version of REST APIs for Managing Users
  • Improved Usability for EPM REST API Compatibility Table and Quick Reference
  • New Version of Oracle Smart View for Office
  • Updated EPM Books Extension for Smart View
  • Reports Output to Excel Support for Borders on Text Boxes, Notes, Charts, and Grids
  • Activity Report Now Includes Data Center Information
  • Suppressing Missing Columns for Smart Push in Data Maps
  • EPM Integration Agent Certification with Java 11
  • Data Management Feature Replacement by Data Integration

Financial Consolidation and Close

  • New Process for System Calculation of Ownership Eliminations and Adjustments
  • Ability to Create Unbalanced Consolidation Journals
  • Metadata Solve Order Substitution Variable
  • REST APIs for Importing and Exporting Consolidation Journals
  • REST API for Validating Metadata
  • Performance Substitution Variables

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: