I've been doing a lot of consulting work in Narrative Reporting lately, and it's been a joy. Every customer uses reporting tools differently, so it's been a fun journey to see how customers creatively use the solutions within this suite of products to accomplish their business goals. In these findings, I have discovered a small … Continue reading Narrative Reporting Quick Tip: Suppression Bug
Category: EPM Cloud Quick Tips
EPM Cloud Quick Tip: Managing User Security on iPad Browsers
I'm one of the administrators of the internal Cloud environments at the company I work for. We are fortunate to be able to license several environments. Since we switch them out regularly for testing and training, security also has to be managed on a regular cadence. Sometimes it's at night or on the weekends when … Continue reading EPM Cloud Quick Tip: Managing User Security on iPad Browsers
EPRCS Quick Tip: Provide Feedback Everywhere!
During a recent discussion with the Oracle Product Management team, it was mentioned to me that the Provide Feedback option had been enhanced and in a super helpful way. In case you've forgotten what Provide Feedback does, here's an older post on this feature. Over the years, Provide Feedback has gotten smarter. For instance, now … Continue reading EPRCS Quick Tip: Provide Feedback Everywhere!
EPM Cloud Quick Tip: Self-Service Domain Relocation Tool
About 2 months ago, I used the (somewhat) new self-service domain relocation tool to migrate one EPM Cloud instance to another domain. However, this was not successful, and this is the quick tip that I wanted to share with this audience. I used the self-service domain relocation tool, which is available through the My Account … Continue reading EPM Cloud Quick Tip: Self-Service Domain Relocation Tool
EPM Cloud PSA: Back Up Your Snapshots
It's amazing what you learn the hard way. This week the interRel team learned about a backup policy that Oracle rolled out for their Oracle EPM Cloud products months ago: "Snapshots that you create or upload to the service are stored for 60 days after which they are automatically deleted." We somehow missed this announcement, … Continue reading EPM Cloud PSA: Back Up Your Snapshots
Oracle Cloud Quick Tip: Log In Without Ever Knowing Your URL
I've been meaning to blog about this for a while now. Although this process takes a few extra steps vs. hitting the URL directly, it's a nifty little quick tip for those of you who are getting older (like me) and can't remember all of this technology stuff. This really comes in handy when I … Continue reading Oracle Cloud Quick Tip: Log In Without Ever Knowing Your URL
EPM Cloud Quick Tip: Financial Reports Don’t Appear After Migration
This tip results from several not-so-perfect Financial Report (FR) migrations. At interRel we are constantly moving EPM Cloud applications in and out of our various environments. In addition, we occasionally migrate entire applications or in piecemeal from on-prem to EPM Cloud. One of the issues that I've encountered multiple times is reports not showing up … Continue reading EPM Cloud Quick Tip: Financial Reports Don’t Appear After Migration
EPM Cloud Quick Tip: Opening Simultaneous Instances
Earlier this year when working with EPM Cloud, I noticed that I couldn't open up multiple instances of EPM Cloud at the same time without issue. This would either be multiple instances within the same domain (Test and Production, for example), or different instances completely (PBCS & FCCS, for example). Whenever I tried to open … Continue reading EPM Cloud Quick Tip: Opening Simultaneous Instances
PBCS Quick Tip: 3 Settings for Administrator Happiness
This set of tips comes courtesy of seeing these overlooked settings several times over at clients. Included in this post are three generic PBCS settings that administrators can apply to nearly any PBCS environment and will go a long way for your happiness (and sanity). Note that these are not application specific settings, but basic … Continue reading PBCS Quick Tip: 3 Settings for Administrator Happiness
EPC Quick Tip: Login Fails
This tip comes courtesy of many frustrating failed logins due to operator error. Here is the simple rule of thumb if you're in Oracle EPM/Planning Cloud consulting or happen to have more than one domain across many EPC (Enterprise Planning Cloud - PBCS or EPBCS) pods: remember to sign out. Just do it. Have you … Continue reading EPC Quick Tip: Login Fails
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