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, February 7, 2025.
  • Production Environments: Oracle will apply this monthly update during the first daily maintenance that occurs at or after 22:00 UTC on Friday, February 21, 2025.
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:

  • New Tutorials
    • New Tutorials
  • Center of Excellence
    • New Resources for Your Center of Excellence (CoE) and AI CoE
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
    • Oracle-Managed OCI Migration of Classic US Government Environments
    • OAUTH 2.0 Authentication Support for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud Adapter
  • Security and Access
    • Update to the Information Available in the Role Assignment Audit Report
  • EPM Automate
    • New compactCube Command
    • New runPipeline Command
    • New updateGuidedLearningSettings Command
  • REST APIs
    • Encoding Required for Space Character in the Value of Path or Query Parameter in REST APIs
  • Smart View
    • Updated EPM Books Extension
    • Improved Performance in Function Sheets
  • Smart View for Office (Mac and Browser)
    • Ability to Preview POV while Importing Reports in Smart View (Mac and Browser)
  • Data Integration Pipeline
    • New Pipeline Table View
    • Saving Pipelines
  • User Interface
    • Standardized User Interface for EPM Platform Artifact Pages
  • Navigation Flow
    • New Reload Navigation Flow Icon on Navigation Flows Menu
    • Hidden Forms Now Displaying in the Navigation Flow Artifact Library
    • New “Created” and “Last Modified” Columns on the Navigation Flow Page
  • Dimensions
    • Support for Transient Text Data Type
  • Forms and Dashboards
    • Ability to Drill into an Ad Hoc Grid from a Dashboard 2.0 Chart
  • Auto Predict
    • Auto Predict Predictions Can Run When The Last Historical Period Data Value is Empty
  • Activity Report
    • Task Manager Metrics Now Available for Planning and Enterprise Profitability and Cost Management Applications
  • Supplemental Data Manager and Enterprise Journals
    • Increased Character Limit for Attribute Names
    • System Report Attributes Updated from String to List Data Types

Financial Consolidation and Close

  • REST APIs for Importing and Exporting Configurable Consolidation Rulesets
  • New Operation Parameter Added to the exportEJJournals EPM Automate Command
  • New Operation Parameter Added to the setEJJournalStatus EPM Automate Command
  • Enabling Year-to-Date (YTD) Data Input in Forms
  • Consolidation Setting for Calculate Movements System Rule

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: