For EPM cloud, any recent update will be rolled out to the production instance on the first' Friday of every month to check instance' and on the third' Friday of every month.' The update will be implemented during the regular activity period.
New monthly release should be rolled out by Oracle to the
Test instance at the first regular activity on or after "23:00 UTC (15:00
PST)" on "Friday, January 3, 2020." During the first regular
activity at or after 23:00 UTC (15:00 PST) on "Friday, January 17,
2020," New monthly release should be rolled out by Oracle to your Production
instance. Access to new documents is supported by Oracle Help Center. The
updates are available at the "Friday, January 3, 2020" Help Desk. Some
of the connections in this orchestrating document to incipient feature
documentation will not work until the Oracle Avail Center update is plenary.
"EPM Cloud
Updates - January 2020"
"EPM Common"
1."ESSBASE FUNCTIONS SUPPORTED BY CALCULATION MANAGER":
Essbase functions supported by "Calculation Manager in
block storage applications" are now included in Calculation Manager Guide and
links to all functions is in the Essbase Technical Reference.
2."NEW DOCUMENTATION: ADDITIONAL TROUBLESHOOTING PROCEDURES
FOR EPM CLOUD":
For troubleshooting common issues in EPM Cloud are
available in "With new sections allowed, start with Oracle EPM Cloud for
administrators."
"Financial Consolidation
and Close" Service
N/A
"Profitable and
Cost Management" Cloud Service
"PCMCS TROUBLESHOOTING CALCULATION ISSUES": To troubleshoot
Calculation Issues a new chapter have been included in Administration Guide.
Details of "EPM
Cloud Updates - December
2019"
For the "December update," the latest test instance
changes will be applied on "Thursday, December 6, 2019 and on December 20,
2019 to the production instance."
EPM Common
1."New Access
Control Feature to Assign a User to Many Groups"
With this, Service Administrators can allocate a user to multiple
groups. Application roles and access control will be helped by group-based
assignment.
2. "New Select
All Option in the Financial Reporting Web Studio and Book Editor Select Members
Dialog Box".
In the Cull Members dialog box "Financial Reporting
Web Studio," we can pick all members currently assigned to a report or
book rather than choosing one member at a time. If you have a multi-member
report or book and plan to abstract all members to update the report or book
rather than abstract one party at a time, this would prevent uncompulsory time
consumption.
3."Financial
Reports Renamed to Reports"
Financial Reports have been transmuted to reports.
"Financial
Consolidation and Close"
1."Task Manager Audit Enhancements"
Audit records are included for the Holiday Rules
established in the Task Manager to be engenderment, modified and expuncted.
2."Ability to Disable Ratio Calculations"
To manage consolidation performance, Ratio calculations of
"FCCS_Days Sales in Receivables" and "If you don't use these calculations,
"FCCS Days Sales in Stock" can be unchecked for selected scenarios. This
can only be used during testing of the Asset Management function.
3."Dynamic
Children Support is not Available for Business Rules Created Using Calculation
Manager"
"Create Dynamic Members and Delete Dynamic Members" options
are unavailable for FCCS applications, whilst utilizing Calc Manager to
engender a business rule.
4."Accumulate
Export Mode Available for "Financial Consolidation and Close" Users in Data
Management and Data Integration":
Incipient accumulate export mode is now available in Data
Management and Data Integration for FCCS users.
"Profitable and Cost Management"
N/A
"EPM Cloud
Updates - November 2019"
For the Nov update, on "Friday, Nov 1st, 2019 and on
Nov 15th, 2019," Oracle will implement the latest changes to Test instance
and Prod instances subsequently.
EPM General
1."New User
Group Report":
This version has added the User Group Report. Report shows
the direct / indirect participation in Access Control of users allocated to
classes. They will be called direct members if they are mapped to the party. They
will be kenned as indirect participants, if they are assigned to a group that
is a child of another group.
For every user,
below details will be captured.
"Login ID, First and
Last name, Email ID, Name of the groups on where the user is directly or
indirectly assigned".
The CSV report certifies whether the consumer is allocated
directly or indirectly to a category through the use of Yes or No.
2."New EPM
Automate Utility Version":
This update contains the incipient
"userGroupReport" function, which produces a CSV file listing the
groups allocated to users in Access Control. The report denotes either direct
or indirect user assignment to party.
3."Planning
Label in Migration Changed to Core":
From this version, Planning has been replaced with Core in
the artifact categories listing that is shown when we perform Migration. Due to
this, it reflects the type of artifacts included in this category and does not
have any functional impact.
4."Group Export
/ Import Options Removed - Access
Control"
Export and Import buttons will not be shown in the Manage
Groups screen as Oracle has excluded ability to export and import groups from
Access Control. This is because, import and export groups can be done through
Migration and EPM Automate. Migration for interactive export & import of
groups and EPM Automate for automated import & export of groups should be
used instead.
5."New Dashboard
Icon for Shifting Navigation Flows at Executiontime":
To change navigation flows at runtime, a new Dashboard icon
has been supported.
6."Provision to
Data Integration Extended":
Any Cloud users provisioned with Power User and User
predefined roles for the Planning business process will now access the Data
Integration user interface, unlike earlier the users delegated to the Service
Administrator predefined role had access to the Data Integration user
interface.
7." EPM Cloud
Groovy Rules Java API - revision"
Members can be excluded in Smart Push while using Groovy.
We can run a calc script first and return to the Groovy script for the more
execution. The name of the API is cube.executeCalcScript().
8." Engendering a Drill-Down without a Source System
Landing Page Utilizing the EPM Integration Agent":
Through Data Integration in EPM Integration Agent, run an
SQL query and display the results in a pop-window to drill down to an
on-premises source system without a landing page.
9." Generate a
User Group Report using New REST API":
REST APIs can be used to create a User Group Report about
the users in the system and write the report to a provided file name. This will
include the direct or indirect membership of users mapped to groups. It can be
done using the Download REST API.
"Financial
Consolidation and Close"
1."Opening
Balance Ownership Change (OBOC)":
The OBOC Framework Act controls the income from the Opening
Balance of Proportion and Elimination carried forward from the previous
period's Closing Balance when the consolidation number varies from time to
time. These adjustments show that total opening balances + related OBOC
adjustments = closing balance reflecting the current percentage period of
consolidation in the current period. Before this surrender, all OBOC changes
were declared to the member of the Elimination Consolidation Dimension. "The
OBOC adjustments are posted to the member of the movement "FCCS Mvmts
Acquisitions" when the percentage of ownership increases over the period
and to the member of the movement "FCCS Mvmts Disposals" when the
percentage of ownership decreases over the period.
2."Decimal
Precision in Intercompany Eliminations":
The total amount of removal of an intercompany transaction
does not surpass the proportionalized sum. If an intercompany account's net
contribution magnitude has been truncated to zero, there can be no more
rejections. Computerized system probably couldn't /doesn't exactly record an
amplification to zero. All computer systems have an issue called "decimal
precision" because of this. The trial and error as to whether added
intercompany eliminations should be processed must be predicated on the net
contribution being "approximately equal" to zero rather than precisely
equipollent to zero. FCCS applies "decimal precision of four decimals"
while applying the trial and error by default. The net contribution of 0.0001
is measured "as zero and no additional eliminations" are applied to the data. This
level of accuracy should provide ample accuracy in "most cases and for most
currencies". However, if accidental eliminations do occur, to adjust the
decimal precision added to the check, a Supersession Variable can be inserted
into the specification.
3."Translation
Calculations":
If POV source and destination are identically tantamount
currency / language, the aggregation and conversion execution source data set
is not bulwarked by any of the translation processes. Consolidation and
Translation will apply translation processes to the source data when the POV
source and destination represent different currencies.
4."Performance
Substitution Variables":
To amend performance below Substitution Variables can be checked
:
"EnableSimpleAggregation":
This Substitution Variable avail to ameliorates the performance while
the child entities are accumulated into parent entities. To optimize the
consolidation performance, this should be utilized in combination with the
"OptimizeYTDCalculation".
"OptimizeDBRefresh": Use this vector over the DB refresh to
modify the way when moving the exchange rates to the consol cube.
"OptimizeYTDCalculation":
This Supersession Variable can be utilized to eschews
redundant and perpetual calculations. To enhance consolidation performance this
should be utilized in combination with "EnableSimpleAggregation". To check the
Supersession Variables, "set the parameter Cube = Consol", in integration to
setting Value = true.
"Profitable and
Cost Management"
N/A
"EPM Cloud
Updates - October 19"
Test instance will get the recent updates on "Friday, Oct
6th, 2019" and Production on "Oct 20th, 2019."
EPM General
1."New EPM
Integration Agent in Data Integration":
EPM Integration Agent has been included to create
connectivity between the EPM Cloud and on-premises sources including SQL data
sources like Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server, E-Business Suite GL, and
PeopleSoft GL. Third-party REST API established systems / systems that can be
accessed using a Jython or Groovy script to bind to practically any source of
data. Responds when the data load rules for data management & system
integration are implemented by a user and provides the details required.
2."Warning for
Snapshot Imports":
From this release, a red flag info will be displayed in the
import process in Migration on the below scenarios":
If the snapshot
being imported is not from current release or from release one month prior or
from next month release.
Snapshots can be upgraded from other month releases for business
processes other than ARCS and EDMCS to make them compatible with the current
version of the instance.
3. "Loading
Data from the Oracle ERP Cloud - Adapter":
"Non-general ledger data from Oracle Financials ERP cloud
sources" can be extracted and loaded to an EPM server using data integration
and data management. The updated "Oracle cloud ERP adapter" allows one of the "cloud
business processes" in the EPM to use cloud ERP data extracts as a "data source".
"BI Publisher data extract" can be defined as being directly referred via data
management from sources such as "payables, receivables, fixed assets, and
supply chain".
"Financial
Consolidation and Close"
1."Ability to
Specify Name of a Report in the Input Arguments for Generate Report REST API
Call":
Availing a supplemental input argument called
generateReportFileName, an incipient designation can be designated by an
Utiliizer, Whilst utilizing the engender report REST API call.
2."Supplemental
Data Ad-Hoc Forms": They can develop Supplemental Data Forms, such as
Administrators does if the correct security rights given for the Utilizer. Administrators
can designate if Users can generate Ad-Hoc forms and abort those users who can
generate Ad-Hoc forms when generating Ad-Hoc forms.
3."Creating
Supplemental Data Form Attributes":
"Supplemental Data Forms" attributes can be created by an
administrator in the "form templates" once0020 without creating "the attributes"
in the data sets. In addition, attributes will be included in Data Sets.
4."Task Manager
Audit Enhancements":
Two new columns are included in Task Manager Audit to show
more information about tasks. Utilizing Task ID, and Source, you can switch to
see the audit details.
5."Delegate
Action in Approvals":
Consolidation Bottom-Up prototype works by testing Delegate
activity in the Approvals option. This allows a user to own an acceptance
approval unit regardless of whether they are on the promotional route or not.
They can promote, dismiss, sign off, or dismiss units of approval.
6."Enhancement
for Unlocking Entities in Approvals":
Any owner, "including the current owner", can be a "new
owner in the previous promotional path". Unlocking the entity in Approvals will
be able to do by them. When an entity is released, "the new owner will be the
current owner of the entity if the Automatic option is chosen".
7."Configurable
Equity Pickup Movement Members":
Default entries can be modified from the movement aspect "to
single level 0 members" by an administrator over "FCCS Mvmts Subtotal". "The
rule-set will now" extend to any modes of kineticism to which "data has been" applied
by the device law.
8."Input
Currency Journals":
Below options can be leveraged which utilize "Input
Currencies, in addition to journals that" avail Entity Currency.
"Create, Approve
Post
Unpost
Reject journals"
Next, "create new Data Source members under FCCS
TotalInputAndAdjusted and" map the "Source Data Type and Source Currency Type
custom attribute values for" input currencies.
"When creating a journal or journal template, you will be able to select
the new Data Source members" you created.
"Profitable and
Cost Management"
1."Updated
Exportqueryresults EPM Automate Command and REST API":
"New Version of
EPM Automate"-
This package includes changes to the command exportQueryResults, which now agrees with the optional parameter roundingPrecision. This argument spotted the no. of decimal places to be used when exporting the results of the query (rounding precision).
"Export Query
Results REST API "
A recent available roundingPrecision attribute has indeed
been modified to the Export Query Results REST API for retrieving information,
that enables to configure the decimal places to be used when exporting results.
"EPM Cloud
Updates - September 19"
For the Sep update, it uses the latest changes to trial and
error instance on "Friday, Sep 6th, 2019 and to production instance on Sep
20th, 2019."
EPM General
1."New Version
of EPM Automate":
This contains these commands importAppSecurity,
roleAssignmentReport, setDailyMaintenanceStartTime, setManualDataAccess, and
setEncryptionKey.
"importAppSecurity": Loads utilizer or community access
sanctions from a CSV script. Importing sanctions overwrites current assignments
only for imported representatives, data types, directories for data type, task
lists, business rules and folders for Calculation Manager.
"roleAssignmentReport": Engenders and stores a "Role Assignment Report
(CSV)" in the default location of the file from which you can access your
contract. The report lists the responsibilities and task functions assigned to
the users. This report is consistent with the Access Control Function
Assignment Report version of the CSV.
"setDailyMaintenanceStartTime": Sets the UTC period when
the instance's routine maintenance starts.
"setManualDataAccess": Specifies that Oracle is authorized
to manually access an instance database in emergency cases where an instance is
non-responsive and the client has not yet submitted a request for service to
evaluate and provide the instance.
"setEncryptionKey": Sets a custom database authentication
encryption key. Utilizing this command sanctions customers with such a "Bring
Your Own Key (BYOK)" approach to include "EPM Cloud" in their standard rotation
of key management.
2."New Feedback
Activity Report": "When a user submits feedback using the Provide Feedback
Tool, Oracle EPM Cloud produces a new operation log". It is separated by
prefixing input to the name of the report. The report shows user-submitted
information, such as screenshots and problem description, as well as the
information available in the Incident Report.
3."Activity
Report as a JSON File and New Activity Report Sections":
In order to facilitate the activity report, "Oracle EPM
Cloud" additionally engenders a "JSON version of the Activity Report". It is
engendered during the circadian maintenance process together with the Activity
Report. Listfiles "EPM Automate command" can be acclimated to find the
JSON-formatted activity report and replicate it to a own desktop folder. In
additament, adscititious metrics including "manual database access information,
Essbase design metrics, application size details, Essbase BSO and ASO cube
statistics, and quantifications" in each cube have been integrated to the
Activity Report. "This amendment does not apply to Narrative Reporting, which
does not engender the Event Report". "This will consist of: Manual Database
Access Information, Configuration Size, Essbase Layout Metrics, Essbase BSO and
ASO Cube Statistics, Dimensions in Each Cube"
4."Support for
Different Identity Domains for Test and Production Instances"
By design, one concrete identity domain is utilized in the
EPM Cloud test and development instances to enable utilizer management and task
assignments for each instance. Now migrate "EPM cloud instances to relocate the
instance of development, test instance, or both to different identity domains".
This is a shift in how the transfer of the territory has been treated
historically.
5."Smart View
for Office new features (Mac and Browser)"
"There is a new version of Oracle Smart View for Office
(Mac and Browser)". "It includes the ability to save an ad hoc grid as a
template, support on saving using Submit and Calc to run business rules, and
help in member selection for members of the Dynamic Time Series".
"Save an Ad Hoc
Grid as a Form
Submit and Calc
Support for
Dynamic Time Series Members in Member Selection"
6. "Current
Oracle NetSuite Seeded Searches Data Management Available"
New "indexed saved searches for metadata and data" were
released by "Oracle Netsuite". Customers who want to load "data or metadata
from the Oracle NetSuite Cloud ERP Platform" will have sancture to more "predefined
content" to strengthen their current integrations.
7. "New REST
APIs to support the development of your own main solution and the output of
roles"
Two new REST APIS are now listed; "Set Encryption Key and
Role Assignment Report". The REST API Set Encryption Key helps incorporate a "Bring
Your Own Key (BYOK) solution" to add EPM Cloud in the regular rotation of key
management. "This can be used to set and remove a user-defined
encryption key to an instance of Oracle EPM Cloud".
"Financial
Consolidation and Close"
1."Task Manager
Schedule Status Displayed on Tasks":
The task status is now shown under the schedule name in the
Task Manager on the Task Properties page.
2."Increased
Character Limit for Task Manager Messages":
By viewing Tasks from the Tasks card, up to 3000 characters
can now be shown in the messages within a task.
3."New Data
Exchange Card for Data Integrations":
Data Integration has been included in "Data Exchange" card
under Applications. From the Data Integration page, data integration can be
created, or can run an existing integration.
4."New REST
APIs for Oracle "Financial Consolidation and Close":
REST APIs can be availed to sancture journal information
and other journal behavior.
Following
actions could be performed:
"Retrieve Journals, Retrieve Journal Details, Submit,
Approve, Post, Unpost, and Reject Journals, Update Journal Periods (open or
close periods)"
5."Support for
Additional Functions in Configurable Calculations and On-Demand Rules":
In both "Configurable Calculations and On-Demand rules",
additional Essbase functions are enabled.
Supports these
additional functions now: "@MIN, @ANCEST, @ILANCESTORS, @INTERSECT, @ISIBLINGS,
@MERGE, @CREATEBLOCK"
"Profitable and
Cost Management"
N/A
"EPM Cloud Updates
- August 2019"
For the August version, latest changes will be used to trial
and error instance on "Friday, Aug 2nd, 2019 and to production instance on Aug
16th, 2019."
"Financial
Consolidation and Close"
1."Ability to
Create Rate Accounts for Translation Overrides":
Besides the seeded "framework rate accounts (Average and
Ending), additional rate accounts" can be generated to be utilize as part of
the rules for "configurable Translation Override". You can build, edit, or delete user-defined
rate accounts from "Manage Translation Override Rules."
2."Scenario
Override Option for Opening Balance":
"Now it is possible to determine a different scenario from
which to derive the data on the closing balance in the first quarter of each
year". "The default deportment is to carry forward from the same scenario the
closing balance as the aperture balance to which the data is being submitted".
3."Simplified
Seeded Balance Sheet and Movements Option":
You can cull an incipient "Basic" Balance Sheet
option whilst developing an application. This alternative includes simpler
hierarchies for the min set of representatives of the Account and Kineticism Division
and a min set of seeded forms. Withal included are the incipient Traditional
and Net Asset Strategy hierarchies.
4."Event
Monitoring Integrations for Oracle Fusion General Ledger":
"Task Manager now provides out-of-the-box Event Monitoring
tasks for Oracle Fusion General Ledger.
It is possible to monitor these events"
"Accounting Period Closed, Accounting Period
Opened, Accounting Period Re-opened, Journal Batch Approved, Journal Batch
Posting Completed"
5."Task Manager Limits on Object Instances":
Maximum limitations on the "number of templates, schedules,
attributes, tasks per template, and tasks per schedule" have been implemented
to boost Task Manager application performance. When such objects are created,
the device enforces maximum limits. Furthermore, during the Migration import
process, the program also enforces the max no., of such objects.
"Profitable and
Cost Management"
1."New Models
Cluster in Profitability and Cost Management":
A new Profitability and Cost Management Models cluster
provides an improved user interface to create, manage and measure model rules.
Designer, execution control, and Job Library screens are included in the Models
cluster.
"EPM Cloud Updates - July 2019"
For the July version, latest changes will apply to trial
and error environment on "Friday, Jul 5th, 2019 and to production environment
on Jul 19th, 2019."
"Financial Consolidation
and Close"
1."New Version
of EPM Automate":
A "New Version of EPM Automate"is available with this
update. These new commands are now available": addUsersToTeam, and
removeUsersFromTeam.
addUsersToTeam Command": This command adds users listed in
a CSV file to an existing team. If a user included in the CSV file is already a
member of the team, this command ignores that user.
removeUsersFromTeam Command": "This command abstracts users
listed in a CSV file from a team. If a utilizer included in the CSV file is not
a member of the team, this command ignores that utilizer".
2."Ability to
Export Metadata Validation Results":
"When you validate metadata, you can now export all error
messages to a CSV file. The members are displayed in [Parent].[Child] format".
3."Using
Calculation Manager in Standard Mode":
Such changes affect the following options for calculation:
"If you are using Standard mode, you cannot launch
Calculation Manager from the Advanced Consolidation card". "If you are using
Enterprise mode, Calculation Manager will launch from Advanced Consolidation".
4."Configuring
the Reference Set of Consolidation Rules":
You can now pick a different member of the Scenario, Year,
Period, Organization, Consolidation and Currency for Configurable
Consolidations when constructing a rule set and choosing the Reference Dataset
for the specifics of the Elimination. "The destination to which the data stored
is written will not change and will remain as the case, year, period and person
currently being processed"
5." View and filter jobs":
"You can utilize the POV bar to search the list and select
a specific job while browsing the Task Manager Jobs page". You may filter by
name of the work, rank, generated by (or changed by), date of start and date of
end.
6." To create reports, use the REST API":
You can either generate a single predefined "Financial
Consolidation and Close" or "Tax Reporting report" using the REST API, or
you can create a "custom report"
7." Reports created by email using the REST API":
You can now use REST API to create email notifications from
the Task Manager and Supplemental Information Manager.
8."Comma Separate
Cost Support (CSV) Reporting System"
In Comma Separated Value (CSV) format, you can now produce
a chart. This is available for custom or predefined papers.
9." Tracing users in the workflow of the task manager":
In Task Manager workflows, a new attribute is available for
each workflow stage showing the actual user for the completed workflow, for
example Assignee (Actual). In the workflow, the Actual column will show who did
work on the task, regardless of the user status.
10."
Use of the REST API to add or remove users":
If interacting with teams using the REST API, you can now
add or remove a group of users.
"Profitable and
Cost Management"
1."Better
Support for Rule Development and Testing"
The Cloud Documentation Framework Report on Profitability and Cost Control has been improved to better support the development and testing of rules. Previously, "the columns of the Estimated Source Count and Estimated Destination Count of this report showed an estimated number of members included in the accumulation of members for each dimension in the rule by resolving each member included down to their caliber 0 children but without applying the designated member filters". The report uses the required filters to give each member an appropriate number of members for every dimension.
"EPM Cloud
Updates - June 19"
For the June version, latest changes will avail to trial
and error environment on "Friday, Jun 7th, 2019 and to production environment
on Jun 21st, 2019."
"Financial
Consolidation and Close"
1."Equity
Pickup":
"Equity Pickup" is an other way of quantifying the
valuation of assets in companies, calculating the latest value predicated on
the portion of net earnings owned by the lender. During application
development, or from the "Enable Features" tab, you can check Equity Pickup.
Four supplemental seeded aggregation rules and incipient members for "Equity
Pickup have been applied to the Account (FCCS EPUSource) and Data Source (FCCS
EPU)"
2."Updates to
Seeded Configurable Consolidation Rules":
Several vicissitudes were made for the seeded consolidation
rules.
The Owner's Equity (Holding) rule-set has transmuted the
Owner's Equity source account from the Owner's Equity to the Total Equity
account. This move is to promote the coming development that would sanction a
minimally seeded account application to be developed. "Consolidated data should
not be adjusted as the only accounts included in the set that were not
antecedently included are Minority (Non-controlling) Interest and CTA, none of
which should be filled at the caliber 0 holding company"
Both Total Equity assets are now added in either the "Owner's
Equity Adjustments (pre-acquisition) or Net Income Adjustments
(post-acquisition) Regulations" for the abbreviation of equity, to ascertain
that all equity transactions are either treated as an equity modification or an
adjustment to profit. If the default set-up does not suit the client
requisites, the rule sets can be replicated and updated.
The execution requisite has been adjusted for Holding (as
afore), plus Subsidiary and Proportional system entities in the two investment
rule sets. The move inspirits the utilization of "square"
organization structures where the first (and only) parent will omit all
investment in subsidiaries.
The subsisting condition of the Intercompany dimension
class (# Any ICP being a progeny of the current parent #) must ascertain that
the modification operates only on a concrete parent. The POV for the "Data
Source dimension has been transmuted from Total Input to Total Data Source for
all rule sets". This move is intended to satiate recursive calculations such as
minority interest (non-controlling).
3."Support for
@Currmbrrange Function in Configurable Calculations":
When you make configurable calculations, now you could utilize this "Essbase Financial feature in Calculation Manager" : @CURRMBRRANGE. "This method produces a list of members based on the estimation of the relative position of the latest member". "It can be used with other features like "@SUMRANGE and @AVGRANGE" as well".
"Profitable and
Cost Management"
N/A
"EPM Cloud
Updates - May '19
For the May version, Recent changes will be added to the
test environment on "Friday, May 3rd, 2019 and to production environment on May
17th, 2019."
"Financial Consolidation
and Close" Cloud
1."Approvals
Process":
Oracle's "Financial Consolidation and Close"
platform also offers a mechanism and workflow for approval. Administrators may
control the approval process by establishing an approval unit hierarchy or by changing
the standard approval unit hierarchy, setting the promotional course, and
status review. Users can use the "promotional path set up for the approval unit
hierarchy to start, promote, reject, authorize, and send data."
2."On-Demand
Rules":
"On-demand rules sanction you to integrate your own ad hoc
rules that can be utilized outside the consolidation process for calculations".
The results of quantification can be checked or modified afore consolidation is
invoked. Administrators build "-demand rules, and users with launch sanctions"
can launch them from data sources, Keenly intellective "View, journals,
Supplemental Data, or from the Rules sheet".
3."Metadata
Validation Enhancements":
Incipient validations have been applied to the Metadata
Validation process. For instance, now
the system validates to ascertain that
primary members subsist afore shared members, "whether a parent member of
Custom or Multi-GAAP is shared, or whether members of Level 0 have the Dynamic
Calc property"
It is highly suggested that you follow the guidelines for
validation errors to minimize the risks associated with "data integrity issues"
and take advantage of considerations of good professional practice outcomes.
4."Enhanced
Auditing for Task Manager":
Administrators can now show from the Audit Card the history
of all changes to the Task Manager. For example, the Audit log also contains
all changes to schedules and descriptions of missing assignments, models and
other artifacts or settings of the Task Manager.
5."Task Manager
Reassignment Requests":
Administrators can pick the system users who can accept
requests for task reassignment in the Task Manager System Settings. Including
administrators and power users, if the administrator has given them
permissions, users can now accept reassignment requests from their Worklist.
6."Task Manager
Reminders for Due Dates": Once administrators set up Task Manager email
notifications, they can additionally fix the number of days to raise reminders
before the deadline.
7."Task Manager
Integration Enhancements":
Additional Role Forms for Project Manager Integrations have
been introduced.
"Oracle Financial
Consolidation and Close" Cloud":
"Approvals, Manage Ownership"
"Oracle Tax
Reporting Cloud":
"Approvals"
"Oracle
Planning and Budgeting Cloud":
"Approvals, Manage Dimensions"
8."Importing
and Exporting Teams and Users in Supplemental Data Manager":
"Instead of updating teams and members individually, administrators and power users can be done bulk update of teams and members".
"You can additionally export a list of utilizers from the Manage User page to a
CSV script to pull user information".
9."Support for
Additional Essbase Functions in Configurable Calculations":
Now, when you build configurable calculations, you can take
these extra Essbase Financial functions in "Calculation Manager" : "@ATTRIBUTE,
@COMPOUND, @INTEREST, @IRR, @NPV, @SHIFT, @SHIFTMINUS, and @SHIFTPLUS".
10."Audit Entry
for Copy Data and Clear Data":
"The related audit entries are now accessible when operating "Copy Data or Clear Data" in the task
group Audit Task List Information".
"Profitable and Cost Management" Cloud
1."New Rest API
Resource to Merge Slices of Data":
"A REST API resource, Merge Slices for Oracle PCMCS,
combines every incremental slices of data into the main slice of the database &
deletes zero-value cells as an option to compact the
Essbase cube".
"EPM Cloud
Updates - March 19"
The latest changes will be included to the trial and error
environment for the March update on "Friday, March 1st, 2019 and to production
environment on March 15th, 2019."
"Financial
Consolidation and Close" Cloud
N/A
"Profitable and
Cost Management" Cloud
N/A
EPM Cloud Updates - Feb 2019"
The latest changes will be included to the trial and error
environment for the February update on "Friday, February 1st, 2019 and to
production environment on February 15th, 2019."
"Financial
Consolidation and Close" Cloud
1."Process
Management":
FCCS also offers a workflow and approval process. Administrators
may control the approval process by establishing an approval unit hierarchy or
by changing the standard approval unit hierarchy, setting the promotional
course, and status review. "Users can
use the promotional path set up for the approval unit hierarchy to start,
promote, reject, authorize, and send data".
2."Support for
Additional Elimination Members in the Data Source Dimension":
A new parent member of "FCCS Total Eliminations"
has been included to the Data Source dim & the current member of "FCCS
Intercompany Eliminations" is a new Total member's brother. To build more
accurate monitoring of consolidation change and exclusion entries, you can add
siblings from the original "FCCS Intercompany Eliminations" member
(descendants of the introduced Total member)
3."Close
Manager Renamed to EPM Task Manager":
In every places in the User Interface, the term "Close
Manager" has been renamed "Task Manager." It covers assignments, job styles, models,
schedules, staff, device settings, characteristics, alerts, and reports.
4."Embedded
Template Information in Task Manager Templates":
"In order to identify embedded templates, such new columns have been added to the Manage Templatescreen within the Task Manager". "However, if you build a task template, a new option is available in
the Properties tab to set a template as "Embedded Only."
5."FCCS
Translations - Override Entries To Intercompany Accounts Should Also Be Applied
To Elims":
If applying an Override number or cost to an already removed Intercompany entry, "the Override will
also be applied to the removal entry".
"Profitable and Cost Management" Cloud
1." Easy to use "Web System Section for
Profitability and Cost Control":
Current PCMCS Framework tab symbols indicate if the framework
is ready to use.
2."Report
execution statistics Available from the Work Library in Microsoft Excel Format:
"The PCMCS Execution Statistics Report now supports performance while running in Microsoft Excel file
format from the Job Library".