PBCS and EPBCS Updates (August 2018): Incremental Export and Import Behavior Change, Updated Vision Sample Application & More

The August updates for Oracle's Planning & Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS) and Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (EPBCS) have arrived! This blog post outlines several new features, including an incremental export and import behavior change, updated vision sample application, and more.

The monthly update for PBCS and EPBCS will occur on Friday, August 17 during your normal daily maintenance window.

FCCS Updates (August 2018): Enhancements to Close Manager, Ability to Create Journals for Entities with Different Parents & More

The August updates for Oracle's Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud Service (FCCS) are here! This blog post outlines new features, including enhancements made to Close Manager, create journals for entities with different parents, and more.

The monthly update for FCCS will occur on Friday, August 17 during your normal daily maintenance window.

ARCS Updates (August 2018): Changes to Filtering on Unmatched Transactions in Transaction Matching, Considerations & More

The August updates for Oracle's Account Reconciliation Cloud Service (ARCS) are here. In this blog post, we’ll outline new features in ARCS, including changes to filtering on unmatched transaction matching, considerations, and more.

We’ll let you know any time there are updates to ARCS or any other Oracle EPM cloud products. Check the US-Analytics Oracle EPM & BI Blog every month.

The monthly update for Oracle ARCS will occur on Friday, August 17 during your normal daily maintenance window.

EPRCS Updates (August 2018): Drill to Source Data in Management Reporting, Improved Variable Panel Display in Smart View & More

In this blog, we'll cover the August updates for Oracle Enterprise Performance Reporting Cloud Service (EPRCS) including new features and considerations.

The monthly update for EPRCS will occur on Friday, August 17 during your normal daily maintenance window.

Tutorial: Updating Connection Pools in OAC & OBIEE 12c

I recently ran into an interesting issue with a client — each RPD connected to different databases based on the environment (Dev, Test and Production). Due to the client’s security policy, OBIEE developers were not permitted to have the passwords for the data sources.

To migrate the RPD, a member of the DBA team must be contacted to input the passwords for the connection pools. At times, a DBA with available bandwidth can be difficult to locate (even for a few minutes), and the existing ticketing system does not lend itself to “on the fly” RPD promotions (such as Dev to Test).

If only we had a way to apply connection pools to the RPD while keeping the connection pool information secure…

Automating Backup & Recovery for Oracle EPM Cloud [Tutorial]

What happens when you have data loss or a devastating change to your Oracle Cloud application? Is there an undo button or safety net to help you easily bounce back?

We want to proactively help you with this topic, whether it's preventing minor and major data loss, being prepared in case of application corruption, or you simply want an undo for your application changes. You also may want to surgically undo for a specific application artifact like a form or setting, or a specific slice of data back several weeks. Can you call Oracle for help, or should you do it yourself?

Managing Metadata in OBIEE 12c [Video Tutorial]

In this 5-minute video tutorial, learn how system admins manage metadata in OBIEE 12c, including how to upload RPD files using the command line.

Starting & Stopping OBIEE Components [Video Tutorial]

In this quick video tutorial, learn the options you have for starting, stopping, and viewing the status of OBIEE components in 12c.

Self-Service Data Transformation: Getting In-Depth with Oracle Data Flow

In part one, I talked about the common concepts and goals that Tableau Prep and Oracle Data Flow share. In part two, I looked at a brief overview of both tools and took an in-depth look at Tableau Prep.

In this third post, let's dive deeper into Oracle Data Flow.

Self-Service Data Transformation: Getting In-Depth with Tableau Prep

In part one of this series, I shared an overview of the common concepts that Tableau Prep and Oracle Data Flow share as well as a brief look at the tools themselves. In part two, I want to take a more in-depth look at Tableau Prep and share my experiences using it.

In my first example, I have three spreadsheets containing data collected from every World Cup Match from 1930 to 2014. One contains detailed information about each match individually.