A couple of weeks ago I attended the Oracle EPM Cloud partner training, featuring a 2-day class on FCCS. We received the standard roadmap and product updates. Then we got to play with some new features in the November and December releases. One of the more interesting features in the 17.11 update ("17.11" = November … Continue reading FCCS Series: Technical Preview of Configurable Calculations
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EPM Cloud Update: EPBCS & FCCS Partner Training
A couple of weeks ago, I was privileged to attend the Oracle EPM Cloud partner training in Reston, VA. Product training on the docket this time: EPBCS and FCCS. It was the best Oracle EPM partner training that I've attended to date. They really did it right this time. We received the standard training through … Continue reading EPM Cloud Update: EPBCS & FCCS Partner Training
EPRCS Series: MR – the FR Killer?
(Background image courtesy of shutterstock) One of the main reasons why EPM and BI folks are starting to notice EPRCS is because of the Management Reporting ("MR") tool. One of 4 current tools within the EPRCS umbrella, MR is a Financial Reporting ("FR") direct competitor and Oracle customers are being told that MR will be … Continue reading EPRCS Series: MR – the FR Killer?
EPRCS Series: Inaugural Post – Frequently Asked Questions
Welcome to the first post in the EPRCS blog series! Although Enterprise Performance Reporting Cloud (EPRCS) is not the new Cloud kid on the block, there still seems to be much confusion about what this product is and how it fits into the EPM/BI reporting spectrum. I thought I'd start this blog series by sharing … Continue reading EPRCS Series: Inaugural Post – Frequently Asked Questions
OAC Quick Tip: Patch documentation
A very quick tip for those of you who are keeping up with OAC patches. To recap, OAC is a PaaS (platform as a service) solution, so it works a bit differently than SaaS. The customer is responsible for the backups, patches, and upgrades. At this point in time, administrators are not notified of new … Continue reading OAC Quick Tip: Patch documentation
OAC Series: Patching OAC
Last night we decided to patch our OAC instance to the awaited 106 release for Essbase Cloud. There were actually 2 patches made available, one for Essbase Cloud and one for BI Cloud. I installed them consecutively (although you can run all patches at once since they hit different VM's - we haven't tried this … Continue reading OAC Series: Patching OAC
OAC Series: Introduction to Access Rules
Access rules are a feature new to administrators in the world of PaaS. But what are they and why do you need to know about them? Are these new "rules files" for Essbase Cloud? (Nope.) Regardless of which area of OAC you're managing, you'll need to become familiar with access rules. If you are having … Continue reading OAC Series: Introduction to Access Rules
OAC Quick Tip: Manually Accessing Essbase Cloud Log Files
Please note that the following blog post contains temporary information. In patch 106 (released in mid-August 2017), Oracle added a feature to Essbase Cloud that allows customers to download their Essbase log files directly from the web interface. While troubleshooting the issue we hit last week (read the first part of that blog post here), … Continue reading OAC Quick Tip: Manually Accessing Essbase Cloud Log Files
ODTUG Kscope17: The Fun Never Stops
This post is a little late, but better late than never! Here is a recap of what I like to call the most nerdiest, fun week of the year! Thursday (pre-Kscope) ODTUG Board members arrive to Kscope early because we have an all-day meeting the Friday before Kscope starts. Therefore, the Board descended upon San … Continue reading ODTUG Kscope17: The Fun Never Stops
OAC Quick Tip: Manually Restarting Essbase Cloud
Yesterday, our team encountered an unfortunate situation. Our OAC - Essbase Cloud environment started acting "funny." We were unable to create new applications nor start existing applications. Here is what some of those error messages looked like: This was the first time we've encountered this situation in our public GA environment, so a group of … Continue reading OAC Quick Tip: Manually Restarting Essbase Cloud
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