Profitability and Cost Management 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, August 2, 2024.
  • Production Environments: Oracle will apply this monthly update during the first daily maintenance that occurs at or after 22:00 UTC on Friday, August 16, 2024.
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:

  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
    • Integrating Oracle EPM Cloud with Oracle Guided Learning
    • Air-Gapped (Replicated) Backups in Secondary Region
  • Security and Access
    • Best Practices for Using Identity Cloud Service Network Perimeter with EPM Cloud
    • New Application Roles
  • Essbase
    • Upgrading Selected Environments to a Newer Version of Essbase
  • EPM Automate & REST APIs
    • REST APIs to Work with User Variables
    • REST APIs to Copy to and From an SFTP Server
    • New copyFromSFTP and copyToSFTP EPM Automate Commands
    • Essbase Version Downgrade Option Removed from the Recreate EPM Automate Command
  • Groovy Rules
    • Groovy Script for Post-Daily Maintenance Cloning from Primary to Standby Environment
  • Smart View for Office (Mac and Browser)
    • Enhancements in Smart View (Mac and Browser)
  • Data Integration
    • Job Scheduling in Data Management and Data Integration
  • Task Manager
    • Edit Embedded Template Tasks
  • Supplemental Data Manager and Enterprise Journals
    • Enhanced Workflow Columns for Supplemental Data Manager and Enterprise Journals
  • Audit
    • Application Administration Audit Type Now Tracks Hybrid Mode Changes

Profitability and Cost Management

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: