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, September 6, 2024.
  • Production Environments: Oracle will apply this monthly update during the first daily maintenance that occurs at or after 22:00 UTC on Friday, September 20, 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
    •  Upgrading All Environments to a Newer Version of Essbase
    •  Air-gapped Backup Paired Regions Announced
  •  Security & Access
    •  Documentation of Provisioning Users and Groups from Microsoft Entra ID to Oracle Identity Cloud Service
  •  REST APIs
    •  REST API to Export Audit Reports for a Month or Other Date Range
    •  REST API to set the Oracle Guided Learning Application ID and Server URL
  •  EPM Automate
    •  exportAppAudit EPM Automate Command Updated to Generate the Audit Data for a Custom Period
  •  Activity Report
    •  Enhanced ASO Cube Dimensions Table in Activity Report
  •  Smart View
    •  Updated EPM Books Extension for Smart View
  •  Data Integration
    •  Job Scheduling in Data Management and Data Integration
  •  Application Creation Calendar
    •  Application Creation Calendar Enhancements
  •  Task Manager, Supplemental Data Manager, and Enterprise Journals
    •  Run Parallel Queries for Operational Dashboards 

Profitability and Cost Management

  • Migrations – Administer Role Now Updates Daily Maintenance Start Time

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: