ENTERPRISE PERFORMANCE
MANAGEMENT CLOUD - MAR '20 UPDATE
EPM CLOUD COMMON:
NEW VERSION OF EPM
AUTOMATE:
A new version of EPM Automate includes additional "Tax Reporting and Financial Consolidation and Close (runSupplementalDataReport and runTaskManagerReport) services" commands, as well as adjustments to some established commands (recreate and reset service).
VALIDATE DATA WHEN
LOADING DATA AS SERVICE ADMINISTRATOR:
In this update, while Service Admin
load data, have the option to allow data validation. All data validations that
are implemented in data entry form will be enforced during data loading.
Because of the improved validations the data load output will be slower. Data
validations for users who were not Service Managers were only implemented in
prior updates.
SUPPORT FOR ADDING
DYNAMIC MEMBERS IN SMART VIEW:
Smart View now expands the faculty
to integrate dynamic members. Users can now integrate dynamic members to Smart
View by running business rules that administrators build on dimensions
sanctioned for dynamic members (sometimes called "on - the-fly
members").
ENHANCED DATA
VALIDATION DURING DATA LOAD IN DATA MANAGEMENT:
If data cells are abnegated when you
load data utilizing Data Management, a data validation report sets out the
reasons for repudiation. You can download the Validation Error report from the
Process Details page, by clicking the Output button. Alternatively, a replica
of the error file will be preserved in the Outbox.
WRITING BACK JOURNALS
TO THE ORACLE FINANCIALS CLOUD:
You can utilize Oracle ERP
Cloud-General Ledger to Write back Actuals data. In General Ledger, journal ingressions
are made when you write back the actuals data. Journal reports can be checked
in General Ledger and posted there. You could only write back Budget Balance
forms prior to this update.
RECREATE REST API
ENHANCEMENTS FOR ESSBASE VERSION:
The Reconstitute REST API was
updated to accept an optional parameter EssbaseChange. This avails you by
upgrading or downgrading the current version of Essbase to the incipient FCCS ,
EPBCS, PBCS Plus 1 environments.
RESTART REST API
ENHANCEMENTS FOR AUTO TUNE:
An optional AutoTune parameter has
been improved to embrace Restart service REST API. This avails you by
auto-tuning the environment to ascertain that Essbase caches are tailored for
your program afore you restart it.
ACCOUNT
RECONCILIATION:
IMPROVED FILTERING FUNCTIONALITY
WITH GROUPING BY PREFERRED FIELDS ON UNMATCHED TRANSACTIONS:
You can now group unrelated
transactions by your predilection fields into Transaction Matching. In the
Match Process an incipient Bucket Attribute Mapping table sanctions administrators
to build up to three bucketing attributes for each Match Process. These bucketing attributes are shown in the Peerless
Transactions View as an incipient bucketing bar from which you can filter
preferred values, and click through each bucket to simplify unparalleled
transaction navigation. For example, you
might want to bucket by location or number of invoices so unrelated
transactions with the same value are shown together in both sources.
ENHANCED DATA
MANAGEMENT PROCESSING OF BAI AND MT940 BANK FILES TO ALLOW PULLING OF END
BALANCES:
Processing of BAI and MT940 Bank
files for data management has been amended to sanction the closing
verbalization balances to be pulled. The
balance sheets may then be traced for period-end reconciliations to the
sub-system.
AUDITING DETAILS
RETAINED FOR FILTER OR COLUMN CHANGES IN SAVED LISTS:
Audit amended by logging when a
saved List has modified the filter or columns linked. Audit ameliorated by
logging when a saved List has modified the filter or columns linked.
SERVICE AND TENANT
INFORMATION ADDED TO EMAIL NOTIFICATIONS:
Email alerts additionally contain
information about accommodation and the client in the footer to avail identify
where an email emanates from.
FINANCIAL
CONSOLIDATION AND CLOSE
@XREF FUNCTION
SUPPORTED IN CONFIGURABLE CALCULATION RULES:
The @XREF function is fortified in
Configurable Calculation rules.
PERFORMANCE
SUBSTITUTION VARIABLES:
The below Subs Variables can be enabled to enhance
performance:
·
EnableSimpleAggregation
·
OptimizeDBRefresh
·
OptimizeYTDCalculation
NOTE:
The degree of performance amendment varies widely among different applications,
as it is driven pristinely by application design and distribution of data.
TASK MANAGER EMAIL
NOTIFICATIONS INCLUDE THE SERVICE NAME:
Task Manager email notifications has
service name in the footer of the electronic mail. "Note: This
is an automated email message created on efim.arcs from the EPM Task Manager.
SEARCH CAPABILITY FOR
TEMPLATES:
Within Task Manager, can dig for
templates from a list in the selection dialog when you integrate tasks to the
templates. This is utilizable when
you've got an immensely colossal number of templates available.
TASK MANAGER AUDIT
INCLUDES CHANGES IN FILTER CONDITION AND COLUMN SELECTION:
In "Task Manager Audit", audit
records are available for transmutations in the filter and column cull of Task
Manager published lists.
METADATA VALIDATION
ERRORS IN THE ACTIVITY REPORT:
The Activity Report was ameliorated
with a table detailing errors and alerts from the most recent metadata
validation FCCS over the last 24 hours.
NARRATIVE REPORTING
ABILITY TO LOAD US
GAAP 2020 AND SEC 2020 EXTENSION:
Supporting Server Taxonomy Cache for
US GAAP 2020 and SEC 2020 Extension.
PLANNING
MODEL TO MODEL DATA
MAPS IN STRATEGIC MODELING:
You may migrate data from a
Strategic Modeling Model (Source) to multiple Strategic Modeling Models
(Target) that are managed by different account level properties. This data
transfer method between Strategic Modeling Models is called Model Data
Management (MDM).
NEW FUNCTIONS IN ASO:
Four incipient ASO functions;
@ANCESTOR, @LAYERGEN, @LAYERLEVEL, and
@PARENT, are available in Calculation Manager.
GROOVY BUSINESS RULES
TUTORIALS:
Documentation, videos and tutorials
on the Groovy business rules are more facile to access.
NEW CALCULATION
MANAGER PLANNING EXPRESSIONS:
Two incipient functions in
Calculation Manager, getSubVarValue (plan type name, subs var name) and
getSubVarValue (substitution variable name), sanction you to utilize
supersession variables in Orchestrating Forms Expressions.
"PROFITABILITY AND COST MANAGEMENT"
APPLICATION DESIGN
BEST PRACTICES
The Managing Productivity and Cost
Control Cloud guide has been included to a new Application Design Best
Practices Appendix.
"TAX REPORTING"
TASK MANAGER EMAIL NOTIFICATIONS INCLUDE THE SERVICE NAME
Task Manager email notifications include the service name in the footer of the
electronic mail. "Note: This is an automated email notification
engendered from EPM Task Manager on efim.arcs".
TASK MANAGER AUDIT INCLUDES CHANGES IN FILTER CONDITION AND COLUMN SELECTION:
In Task Manager Audit, audit records are now available for changes in the filter condition and column selection of Task Manager published lists.
SEARCH CAPABILITY FOR TEMPLATES:
In Task Manager, when you add tasks to templates, you can now search for templates from a list in the selection dialog. This is useful when you have a large list of available templates.