Document History

This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:

Date Update Version Notes
29 NOV 2018 December 2018 Update Delivered new features in December 2018 update.
25 OCT 2018 November 2018 Update Delivered new features in November 2018 update.
27 SEP 2018 October 2018 Update Delivered new features in October 2018 update.
30 AUG 2018 September 2018 Update Delivered new features in September 2018 update.
26 JUL 2018 August 2018 Update Delivered new features in August 2018 update.
28 JUN 2018 July 2018 Update Delivered new features in July 2018 update.
24 MAY 2018 June 2018 Update Delivered new features in June 2018 update.
16 MAY 2018 May 2018 Update Revised May 2018 update.
28 MAR 2018 April 2018 Update Delivered new features in April 2018 update.
23 FEB 2018 March 2018 Update Delivered new features in March 2018 update.
05 FEB 2018 February 2018 Update Revised February 2018 update.
22 DEC 2017 January 2018 Update Delivered new features in January 2018 update.

December 2018 Update

Revision History

This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:

Date Feature Notes
29 NOV 2018   Created initial document.

Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud, December Update

This document outlines the upcoming Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud update.

Monthly Update Schedule

Oracle will apply the latest updates to your test environments starting at 22:00 UTC (15:00 PDT) on Friday, December 7, 2018 and to your production environment on Friday, December 21, 2018, also starting at 22:00 UTC. The updates will be applied to your environments during the first subsequent daily maintenance.

The Oracle Help Center, which provides access to updated documentation, has a new look and feel. The updates will be available on December 7, 2018. Some of the links to new feature documentation included in this document will not work until after the Oracle Help Center update is complete.

Reminder: Backing up the daily maintenance snapshot and restoring the environment as needed are self-service operations. Oracle recommends that you download the maintenance snapshot every day to a local server.

NOTE: Account Reconciliation Cloud does not support migration of snapshots from the latest service version to an earlier service version (for example, when moving snapshots between test and production pods during the window when test is upgraded before production.) Migration between the same versions will still be supported.  Some objects, such as Profiles, may still be moved from the latest to an earlier version outside of migration snapshots by exporting them from the latest service version and importing them into the earlier version.

Backing up the daily maintenance snapshot and restoring the environment as needed are self-service operations. Oracle recommends that you download the maintenance snapshot every day to a local server.

Key Resources

Please Join Oracle Cloud Customer Connect

Please take a moment to join the Cloud Customer Connect forums for EPM Cloud services. Oracle Cloud Customer Connect is a community gathering place for members to interact and collaborate on common goals and objectives. This is where you will find the latest release information, upcoming events, or answers to use-case questions. Joining takes just a few minutes. Join now!

https://cloud.oracle.com/community

NOTE: The Settings and Actions menu now contains a link to Cloud Customer Connect. To access this link, from the Home page, click the down arrow next to the user name (in the upper right-hand corner of the screen), and select Cloud Customer Connect.

Give Us Documentation Feedback

We welcome your comments and suggestions to improve the content of the What's New document and the product documentation. Please send us your feedback at EPMdoc_ww@oracle.com. In the body or title of the email, state that you are inquiring or providing feedback, and indicate for which EPM Cloud service and the monthly update cycle.

Announcements

Integration Improvements Between Reconciliation Compliance and Transaction Matching

In this release update (18.12), Transaction Matching is more integrated with Reconciliation Compliance making it easier to use both modules with similar set up and configuration. Customers using Transaction Matching can also now benefit from available features in Reconciliation Compliance such as a more robust Reconciliation List view with ability to select columns and use filtering, use of bulk upload, and use of teams functionality.

Highlights of the changes are:

UPGRADE CONSIDERATIONS FOR EXISTING TRANSACTION MATCHING CUSTOMERS

As a result of the integration improvements, certain actions will be performed automatically upon release of 18.12.

Migration tasks performed automatically include:

After the migration takes place, the Administrator can use the Matching Migration card to check the status of their Transaction Matching reconciliation to Profile upgrade. Review the status column to confirm that your Transaction Matching reconciliations were successfully upgraded.  

Key Resources

Parallel Review and Approval Enables Multiple Preparers or Reviewers to Act on a Reconciliation

Sometimes you may need to have levels of preparation or review for a reconciliation. An example is if members of an approval team might all need to approve a reconciliation but the order in which they approve does not matter. Now you can assign the profile workflow to all members of a team by using the "Require Action By" field to select “All Preparers” or “All Reviewers”. 

Key Resources

Allow Workflow Users to Perform and Approve Reassignment Requests Directly

First, an Administrator has to turn on this feature to allow workflow users to directly perform and approve reassignment of reconciliations rather than submitting requests to an Administrator or Power User for approval. The Administrator allows workflow users this ability through Reassignment Requests under System Settings under Configuration. 

Once users can perform reassignments, workflow users will see a Profiles card under Applications where they can request Profiles to be assigned to them. Users can then approve reassignment requests from their Worklist. 

Key Resources

New EPM Automate Utility Version

A new version of the EPM Automate Utility, which includes the getdailymaintenancestarttime command, is available with this update. You use this command to display the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) at which the daily maintenance of the environment is scheduled to start.

You must install this version of the utility to use the new command.

Key Resources

Working with EPM Automate for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud

Data Management Dimension and Attribute Column Enhancements

Dimension and attribute columns can now accept a maximum of 300 characters. Formerly, the dimension column accepted a maximum of 80 characters, attribute columns 1-7 accepted a maximum of 70 characters, and attribute columns 8-14 accepted a maximum of 20 characters.

In addition, you can now import values into a maximum of 40 attribute columns. Formerly, you could only import a maximum of 14 attribute columns.

System Maintenance Task Options Enhancements

The Maintain FDMEE Data Tables option has been renamed to Maintain Data Tables by Application.

The new Maintain Data Table by Location option allows you to delete data for a specific location by period or category. You can still delete all locations for a target application by using the Maintain Data Tables by Application option.

A new Maintain Setup Data option has been added so that you can view and delete an orphan row or invalid data that cannot be accessed or deleted from the user interface. This data may include an orphan row from an import format, location, or data load rule. It can also include a duplicate row, or a Cloud user id or password defined for a local target application.

Key Resources

Administering Data Management for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud

Defects Fixed

Software issues addressed each month will be posted to My Oracle Support.

Considerations

Academy

In the Academy, some pages and icons may appear different in the video and the Cloud service.

Using Refresh

It is a best practice to use Refresh within the Account Reconciliation Cloud user interface rather than performing a browser refresh.

November 2018 Update

Revision History

This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:

Date Feature Notes
25 OCT 2018   Created initial document.

Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud, November Update

This document outlines the upcoming Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud update.

Monthly Update Schedule

Oracle will apply the latest updates to your test environments starting at 22:00 UTC (15:00 PDT) on Friday, November 2, 2018 and to your production environment on Friday, November 16, 2018, also starting at 22:00 UTC. The updates will be applied to your environments during the first subsequent daily maintenance.

The Oracle Help Center, which provides access to updated documentation, has a new look and feel. The updates will be available on November 2, 2018. Some of the links to new feature documentation included in this document will not work until after the Oracle Help Center update is complete.

Reminder: Backing up the daily maintenance snapshot and restoring the environment as needed are self-service operations. Oracle recommends that you download the maintenance snapshot every day to a local server.

NOTE: Account Reconciliation Cloud does not support migration of snapshots from the latest service version to an earlier service version (for example, when moving snapshots between test and production pods during the window when test is upgraded before production.) Migration between the same versions will still be supported.  Some objects, such as Profiles, may still be moved from the latest to an earlier version outside of migration snapshots by exporting them from the latest service version and importing them into the earlier version.

Tips And Considerations

Backing up the daily maintenance snapshot and restoring the environment as needed are self-service operations. Oracle recommends that you download the maintenance snapshot every day to a local server.

Key Resources

Please Join Oracle Cloud Customer Connect

Please take a moment to join the Cloud Customer Connect forums for EPM Cloud services. Oracle Cloud Customer Connect is a community gathering place for members to interact and collaborate on common goals and objectives. This is where you will find the latest release information, upcoming events, or answers to use-case questions. Joining takes just a few minutes. Join now!

https://cloud.oracle.com/community

NOTE: The Settings and Actions menu now contains a link to Cloud Customer Connect. To access this link, from the Home page, click the down arrownext to the user name (in the upper right-hand corner of the screen), and select Cloud Customer Connect.

Give Us Documentation Feedback

We welcome your comments and suggestions to improve the content of the What's New document and the product documentation. Please send us your feedback at EPMdoc_ww@oracle.com. In the body or title of the email, state that you are inquiring or providing feedback, and indicate for which EPM Cloud service and the monthly update cycle.

Announcements

Export of Adjustments and Transactions as Journal Entries

In Transaction Matching, you can export adjustments or transactions as dual sided journal entries that can then be imported into your ERP system. Using Jobs History, the exported journal entries are made available in a text file.

In addition, attributes for Adjustment and Support Types have now been made global so that you can reuse these attributes by choosing from a drop down list.

The process for exporting adjustments and transactions as journal entries is:

Key Resources

Variance Analysis Monthly Format Added

A Variance Analysis Monthly standard format has been added to the 19 other pre-delivered formats that are provided by Account Reconciliation Cloud.

Key Resources

Able to Create Match Process Without an Auto Match Rule

You can now create a match process without an Auto Match rule present. This enables customers who want to perform manual matching only in Transaction Matching to create a match process without any auto matching rule.

Key Resources

Proposed Changes to Application-Level Access Control

Using Groups created in Access Control, EPM Cloud supports application-level access control for planning, consolidation and close, tax reporting, and Oracle Enterprise Data Management Cloud applications. In addition to the custom groups created in Access Control, access control screens list predefined identity domain roles (Service Administrator, Power User, User and Viewer) as groups.

Pre-defined Roles and Groups in Forms Access Control Screen

With a view to simplifying security across EPM Cloud and to ensure that application-level access control can be seamlessly migrated across environments Oracle plans to remove the ability to display predefined roles as groups in access control screens. After this change, you will no longer see predefined roles listed when you search for groups in access control screens.

NOTE: The proposed change will not affect how you create and manage groups or use them for application-level access control.

Before making this change, Oracle wants to evaluate the impact, if any, that the proposed change will have on your environments. If you are concerned that the proposed change will affect your environment, please create a service request explaining your use case.

New EPM Automate Utility Version

A new version of the EPM Automate Utility is available with this update. This version includes the following new commands

Additionally, this version includes enhancements to the following commands:

NOTE: In a future update, Oracle will make the simplified Provisioning Report as the default report that is generated from Access Control as well as using the provisionreport command. You will still be able to create the classic Provisioning Report using this command.

Key Resources

REST APIs for Managing Users

You can now use REST APIs to perform these user management-related operations:

Key Resources

Improved Performance While Uploading and Downloading Files

This update features improved performance while processing large files using the following EPM Automate commands:

Key Resources

Defects Fixed

Software issues addressed each month will be posted to My Oracle Support.

Considerations

Academy

In the Academy, some pages and icons may appear different in the video and the Cloud service.

Using Refresh

It is a best practice to use Refresh within the Account Reconciliation Cloud user interface rather than performing a browser refresh.

October 2018 Update

Revision History

This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:

Date Feature Notes
27 SEP 2018   Created initial document.

Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud, October Update

This document outlines the upcoming Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud update.

Monthly Update Schedule

Oracle will apply the latest updates to your test environments starting at 22:00 UTC (15:00 PDT) on Friday, October 5, 2018 and to your production environment on Friday, October 19, 2018, also starting at 22:00 UTC. The updates will be applied to your environments during the first subsequent daily maintenance.

The Oracle Help Center, which provides access to updated documentation, has a new look and feel. The updates will be available on October 5, 2018. Some of the links to new feature documentation included in this document will not work until after the Oracle Help Center update is complete.

Reminder: Backing up the daily maintenance snapshot and restoring the environment as needed are self-service operations. Oracle recommends that you download the maintenance snapshot every day to a local server.

NOTE: Account Reconciliation Cloud does not support migration of snapshots from the latest service version to an earlier service version (for example, when moving snapshots between test and production pods during the window when test is upgraded before production.) Migration between the same versions will still be supported.  Some objects, such as Profiles, may still be moved from the latest to an earlier version outside of migration snapshots by exporting them from the latest service version and importing them into the earlier version.

Tips And Considerations

Backing up the daily maintenance snapshot and restoring the environment as needed are self-service operations. Oracle recommends that you download the maintenance snapshot every day to a local server.

Key Resources

Please Join Oracle Cloud Customer Connect

Please take a moment to join the Cloud Customer Connect forums for EPM Cloud services. Oracle Cloud Customer Connect is a community gathering place for members to interact and collaborate on common goals and objectives. This is where you will find the latest release information, upcoming events, or answers to use-case questions. Joining takes just a few minutes. Join now!

https://cloud.oracle.com/community

NOTE: The Settings and Actions menu now contains a link to Cloud Customer Connect. To access this link, from the Home page, click the down arrownext to the user name (in the upper right-hand corner of the screen), and select Cloud Customer Connect.

Give Us Documentation Feedback

We welcome your comments and suggestions to improve the content of the What's New document and the product documentation. Please send us your feedback at EPMdoc_ww@oracle.com. In the body or title of the email, state that you are inquiring or providing feedback, and indicate for which EPM Cloud service and the monthly update cycle.

Announcements

New EPM Automate Utility Version

A new version of the EPM Automate Utility is available with this update. This version includes the renameSnapshot, which enables you to rename a snapshot available in an environment to prevent the maintenance process from overwriting it. Customers who have small applications can use this command to archive snapshots in the environment subject to snapshot retention policies.

This version also includes updates to the rundailyMaintenance command, which has been enhanced to take skipNext as a new optional parameter. This parameter allows you to skip the next occurrence of the daily maintenance process. Use this parameter to prevent the daily maintenance process from interfering with long running ad hoc processes of unknown duration that you execute in an environment.

Additionally, the runcalc command has been updated with the DATA_POV_NAME optional parameter, which enables you to run Profitability and Cost Management Cloud calculations using rules in a model POV against data in a different data POV without copying rules.

Key Resources

Defects Fixed

Software issues addressed each month will be posted to My Oracle Support.

Considerations

Academy

In the Academy, some pages and icons may appear different in the video and the Cloud service.

Using Refresh

It is a best practice to use Refresh within the Account Reconciliation Cloud user interface rather than performing a browser refresh.

September 2018 Update

Revision History

This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:

Date Feature Notes
30 AUG 2018   Created initial document.

Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud, September Update

This document outlines announcements in the upcoming Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud update.

Monthly Update Schedule

Oracle will apply the latest updates to your test environments starting at 22:00 UTC (15:00 PDT) on Friday, September 7, 2018 and to your production environment on Friday, September 21, 2018, also starting at 22:00 UTC. The updates will be applied to your environments during the first subsequent daily maintenance.

The Oracle Help Center, which provides access to updated documentation, has a new look and feel. The updates will be available on September 7, 2018. Some of the links to new feature documentation included in this document will not work until after the Oracle Help Center update is complete.

Reminder: Backing up the daily maintenance snapshot and restoring the environment as needed are self-service operations. Oracle recommends that you download the maintenance snapshot every day to a local server.

NOTE: Account Reconciliation Cloud does not support migration of snapshots from the latest service version to an earlier service version (for example, when moving snapshots between test and production pods during the window when test is upgraded before production.) Migration between the same versions will still be supported.  Some objects, such as Profiles, may still be moved from the latest to an earlier version outside of migration snapshots by exporting them from the latest service version and importing them into the earlier version.

Tips And Considerations

Backing up the daily maintenance snapshot and restoring the environment as needed are self-service operations. Oracle recommends that you download the maintenance snapshot every day to a local server.

Key Resources

Please Join Oracle Cloud Customer Connect

Please take a moment to join the Cloud Customer Connect forums for EPM Cloud services. Oracle Cloud Customer Connect is a community gathering place for members to interact and collaborate on common goals and objectives. This is where you will find the latest release information, upcoming events, or answers to use-case questions. Joining takes just a few minutes. Join now!

https://cloud.oracle.com/community

NOTE: The Settings and Actions menu now contains a link to Cloud Customer Connect. To access this link, from the Home page, click the down arrow next to the user name (in the upper right-hand corner of the screen), and select Cloud Customer Connect.

Give Us Documentation Feedback

We welcome your comments and suggestions to improve the content of the What's New document and the product documentation. Please send us your feedback at EPMdoc_ww@oracle.com. In the body or title of the email, state that you are inquiring or providing feedback, and indicate for which EPM Cloud service and the monthly update cycle.

Announcements

Ability to Save Lists on Unmatched Transactions in Transaction Matching

In Transaction Matching, in addition to using filters on Unmatched Transactions, you can now save list views. Save Lists works the same as in Reconciliation Compliance and an Administrator or Power User can make a saved list view public to other users. In addition, to saving a list, you can Clear All Filters or Set a Default View.

Key Resources

Clarification of Transaction Matching Support for Numbers up to 15 Digits

Transaction Matching supports numbers up to 15 digits including the decimal places and rounds numbers to 2 decimal places for variance calculations. However, when two numbers are added or subtracted, the resulted number may have more than 15 significant digits and can lead to rounding errors.

Provisioning Changes to Simplify Role Usage

The following changes that affect provisioning are included in this update.

Defects Fixed

Software issues addressed each month will be posted to My Oracle Support.

Considerations

Using Refresh

It is a best practice to use Refresh within the Account Reconciliation Cloud user interface rather than performing a browser refresh.

August 2018 Update

Revision History

This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:

Date Feature Notes
26 JUL 2018   Created initial document.

Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud, August Update

This document outlines announcements in the upcoming Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud update.

Monthly Update Schedule

Oracle will apply the latest updates to your test environments starting at 22:00 UTC (15:00 PDT) on Friday, August 3, 2018 and to your production environment on Friday, August 17, 2018, also starting at 22:00 UTC. The updates will be applied to your environments during the first subsequent daily maintenance.

The Oracle Help Center, which provides access to updated documentation, has a new look and feel. The updates will be available on August 3, 2018. Some of the links to new feature documentation included in this document will not work until after the Oracle Help Center update is complete.

Reminder: Backing up the daily maintenance snapshot and restoring the environment as needed are self-service operations. Oracle recommends that you download the maintenance snapshot every day to a local server.

NOTE: Account Reconciliation Cloud does not support migration of snapshots from the latest service version to an earlier service version (for example, when moving snapshots between test and production pods during the window when test is upgraded before production.) Migration between the same versions will still be supported.  Some objects, such as Profiles, may still be moved from the latest to an earlier version outside of migration snapshots by exporting them from the latest service version and importing them into the earlier version.

Tips And Considerations

Backing up the daily maintenance snapshot and restoring the environment as needed are self-service operations. Oracle recommends that you download the maintenance snapshot every day to a local server.

Key Resources

Please Join Oracle Cloud Customer Connect

Please take a moment to join the Cloud Customer Connect forums for EPM Cloud services. Oracle Cloud Customer Connect is a community gathering place for members to interact and collaborate on common goals and objectives. This is where you will find the latest release information, upcoming events, or answers to use-case questions. Joining takes just a few minutes. Join now!

https://cloud.oracle.com/community

NOTE: The Settings and Actions menu now contains a link to Cloud Customer Connect. To access this link, from the Home page, click the down arrow next to the user name (in the upper right-hand corner of the screen), and select Cloud Customer Connect.

Give Us Documentation Feedback

We welcome your comments and suggestions to improve the content of the What's New document and the product documentation. Please send us your feedback at EPMdoc_ww@oracle.com. In the body or title of the email, state that you are inquiring or providing feedback, and indicate for which EPM Cloud service and the monthly update cycle.

Announcements

Auto Match Tolerance Levels Can Be Expressed as a Percent and Variance Limit

In Transaction Matching, an enhancement was added to the auto match calculations to allow tolerance levels to be expressed as a percentage and a variance amount.  In the past, only values could be entered for tolerance levels. This change to the auto match calculations affects:

Role Information

Changes to Filtering on Unmatched Transactions in Transaction Matching

In Transaction Matching, filters are now saved for each user by match type, match process and data source.  This means that a user can log out and come back in and retain their filtering choices.  The Status field that was originally on Unmatched Transactions was moved to Filter Conditions where you can use the filter condition, Attribute, to view All, New, or Supported.

Key Resources

New Reconciliation List Column Available for Days Overdue

In Reconciliation Compliance, a new column showing the Days Overdue for a reconciliation can be selected for display.  For example, it will show 0 Days Overdue if the Preparer is late but overall the reconciliation is not overdue.

Defects Fixed

Software issues addressed each month will be posted to My Oracle Support.

Considerations

Academy

In the Academy, some pages and icons may appear different in the video and the Cloud service.

Using Refresh

It is a best practice to use Refresh within the Account Reconciliation Cloud user interface rather than performing a browser refresh.

July 2018 Update

Revision History

This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:

Date Feature Notes
28 JUN 2018   Created initial document.

Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud, July Update

This document outlines announcements in the upcoming Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud update.

Monthly Update Schedule

Oracle will apply the latest updates to your test environments starting at 22:00 UTC (15:00 PDT) on Friday, July 6, 2018 and to your production environment on Friday, July 20, 2018, also starting at 22:00 UTC. The updates will be applied to your environments during the first subsequent daily maintenance.

The Oracle Help Center, which provides access to updated documentation, has a new look and feel. The updates will be available on July 6, 2018. Some of the links to new feature documentation included in this document will not work until after the Oracle Help Center update is complete.

Reminder: Backing up the daily maintenance snapshot and restoring the environment as needed are self-service operations. Oracle recommends that you download the maintenance snapshot every day to a local server.

NOTE: Account Reconciliation Cloud does not support migration of snapshots from the latest service version to an earlier service version (for example, when moving snapshots between test and production pods during the window when test is upgraded before production.) Migration between the same versions will still be supported.  Some objects, such as Profiles, may still be moved from the latest to an earlier version outside of migration snapshots by exporting them from the latest service version and importing them into the earlier version.

Tips And Considerations

Backing up the daily maintenance snapshot and restoring the environment as needed are self-service operations. Oracle recommends that you download the maintenance snapshot every day to a local server.

Key Resources

Please Join Oracle Cloud Customer Connect

Please take a moment to join the Cloud Customer Connect forums for EPM Cloud services. Oracle Cloud Customer Connect is a community gathering place for members to interact and collaborate on common goals and objectives. This is where you will find the latest release information, upcoming events, or answers to use-case questions. Joining takes just a few minutes. Join now!

https://cloud.oracle.com/community

NOTE: The Settings and Actions menu now contains a link to Cloud Customer Connect. To access this link, from the Home page, click the down arrow next to the user name (in the upper right-hand corner of the screen), and select Cloud Customer Connect.

Give Us Documentation Feedback

We welcome your comments and suggestions to improve the content of the What's New document and the product documentation. Please send us your feedback at EPMdoc_ww@oracle.com. In the body or title of the email, state that you are inquiring or providing feedback, and indicate for which EPM Cloud service and the monthly update cycle.

Announcements

Power (Exponential) Calculation Added

A new scripted calculation allow you to use POWER(x,y) to raise one number to the exponential power of another. The usage is:  POWER(x,y) where x=BASE NUMBER,and y=EXPONENT. x and y can be attributes or calculations, as long as they are numeric.

Key Resources

Drag and Drop Attachments

You can now add one or more attachments to reconciliations by using drag and drop functionality from the Add Attachments dialog box. This is available for reconciliation comments and transactions.

Key Resources

Search Expanded for Worklist Fields

Search functionality has been expanded for fields on the Worklist. Using the Search field, you can now search on all fields except Date. 

Key Resources

Both New and Supported Transactions Can Be Selected

In Transaction Matching, you can now select "Both" in the Status field in order to display New and Supported unmatched transactions at one time.

Key Resources

Changes to Labels and Threshold Values in Activity Report

Oracle has lowered the display threshold for the following metrics in the Activity Report to 2 seconds.Additionally, the labels of these metrics have been modified to reflect these changes.

Key Resources

New EPM Automate Utility Version

A new version of the EPM Automate Utility is available with this update. This version includes the copyfilefrominstance command, which copies a file from a source environment to the environment (target) from which you run the command.

This version also includes changes to the following commands to make them consistent with other file operation commands:

Key Resources

Defects Fixed

Software issues addressed each month will be posted to My Oracle Support.

Considerations

Academy

In the Academy, some pages and icons may appear different in the video and the Cloud service.

Using Refresh

It is a best practice to use Refresh within the Account Reconciliation Cloud user interface rather than performing a browser refresh.

June 2018 Update

Revision History

This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:

Date Feature Notes
24 MAY 2018   Created initial document.

Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud, June Update

This document outlines announcements and considerations in the upcoming Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud update.

Monthly Update Schedule

Oracle will apply the latest updates to your test environments starting at 22:00 UTC (15:00 PDT) on Friday, June 1, 2018 and to your production environment on Friday, June 15, 2018, also starting at 22:00 UTC. The updates will be applied to your environments during the first subsequent daily maintenance.

The Oracle Help Center, which provides access to updated documentation, has a new look and feel. The updates will be available on June 1, 2018. Some of the links to new feature documentation included in this document will not work until after the Oracle Help Center update is complete.

Reminder: Backing up the daily maintenance snapshot and restoring the environment as needed are self-service operations. Oracle recommends that you download the maintenance snapshot every day to a local server.

NOTE: Account Reconciliation Cloud does not support migration of snapshots from the latest service version to an earlier service version (for example, when moving snapshots between test and production pods during the window when test is upgraded before production.) Migration between the same versions will still be supported.  Some objects, such as Profiles, may still be moved from the latest to an earlier version outside of migration snapshots by exporting them from the latest service version and importing them into the earlier version.

Tips And Considerations

Backing up the daily maintenance snapshot and restoring the environment as needed are self-service operations. Oracle recommends that you download the maintenance snapshot every day to a local server.

Key Resources

Please Join Oracle Cloud Customer Connect

Please take a moment to join the Cloud Customer Connect forums for EPM Cloud services. Oracle Cloud Customer Connect is a community gathering place for members to interact and collaborate on common goals and objectives. This is where you will find the latest release information, upcoming events, or answers to use-case questions. Joining takes just a few minutes. Join now!

https://cloud.oracle.com/community

NOTE: The Settings and Actions menu now contains a link to Cloud Customer Connect. To access this link, from the Home page, click the down arrow next to the user name (in the upper right-hand corner of the screen), and select Cloud Customer Connect.

Give Us Documentation Feedback

We welcome your comments and suggestions to improve the content of the What's New document and the product documentation. Please send us your feedback at EPMdoc_ww@oracle.com. In the body or title of the email, state that you are inquiring or providing feedback, and indicate for which EPM Cloud service and the monthly update cycle.

Announcements

Accessing Exported Transactions File

In Transaction Matching, you can now access the exported transactions file directly from Unmatched Transactions in addition to going to Jobs History.

Key Resources

Updates to Snapshot Retention Policy

The daily maintenance process has been enhanced to prevent large accumulation of snapshots (over 150 GB) in EPM Cloud environments.

By default, the snapshots that you create through the export process or upload to an environment are stored for a period not exceeding 60 days after which they are automatically removed. Starting with this update, the daily maintenance process will automatically remove snapshots prior to sixty days, oldest first, to prevent the total size of all snapshots from exceeding 150 GB, which may adversely impact your environment. The daily maintenance snapshot, irrespective of its size, is always retained in EPM Cloud environments.

Key Resources

Defects Fixed

Software issues addressed each month will be posted to My Oracle Support.

Academy

In the Academy, some pages and icons may appear different in the video and the Cloud service.

Using Refresh

It is a best practice to use Refresh within the Account Reconciliation Cloud user interface rather than performing a browser refresh.

May 2018 Update

Revision History

This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:

Date Feature Notes
16 MAY 2018 Using Refresh Updated document. Added a consideration.
09 MAY 2018 Enhanced Reconciliation Actions User Interface

Updated document. Revised Key Resources link.

26 APR 2018   Created initial document.

Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud, May Update

This document outlines announcements, defects fixed and considerations in the upcoming Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud update.

Monthly Update Schedule

Oracle will apply the latest updates to your test environments starting at 22:00 UTC (15:00 PDT) on Friday, May 4, 2018 and to your production environment on Friday, May 18, 2018, also starting at 22:00 UTC. The updates will be applied to your environments during the first subsequent daily maintenance.

The Oracle Help Center, which provides access to updated documentation, has a new look and feel. The updates will be available on May 4, 2018. Some of the links to new feature documentation included in this document will not work until after the Oracle Help Center update is complete.

Reminder: Backing up the daily maintenance snapshot and restoring the environment as needed are self-service operations. Oracle recommends that you download the maintenance snapshot every day to a local server.

NOTE: Account Reconciliation Cloud does not support migration of snapshots from the latest service version to an earlier service version (for example, when moving snapshots between test and production pods during the window when test is upgraded before production.) Migration between the same versions will still be supported.  Some objects, such as Profiles, may still be moved from the latest to an earlier version outside of migration snapshots by exporting them from the latest service version and importing them into the earlier version.

Tips And Considerations

Backing up the daily maintenance snapshot and restoring the environment as needed are self-service operations. Oracle recommends that you download the maintenance snapshot every day to a local server.

Key Resources

Please Join Oracle Cloud Customer Connect

Please take a moment to join the Cloud Customer Connect forums for EPM Cloud services. Oracle Cloud Customer Connect is a community gathering place for members to interact and collaborate on common goals and objectives. This is where you will find the latest release information, upcoming events, or answers to use-case questions. Joining takes just a few minutes. Join now!

https://cloud.oracle.com/community

NOTE: The Settings and Actions menu now contains a link to Cloud Customer Connect. To access this link, from the Home page, click the down arrow next to the user name (in the upper right-hand corner of the screen), and select Cloud Customer Connect.

Give Us Documentation Feedback

We welcome your comments and suggestions to improve the content of the What's New document and the product documentation. Please send us your feedback at EPMdoc_ww@oracle.com. In the body or title of the email, state that you are inquiring or providing feedback, and indicate for which EPM Cloud service and the monthly update cycle.

Announcements

Loading a Bank File into Account Reconciliation Cloud Using Data Management

Account Reconciliation Cloud customers who need to load Bank file data (which uses a Bank Administration Institute (BAI) file format) to either an Account Reconciliation Cloud target application or to Transaction Matching can now use Data Management as the integration mechanism.

Key Resources

Export Transactions to a Comma-Separated Value (CSV) File Available

You can now export transactions in Transaction Matching from the Overview dialog to a comma separate value (.CSV) file for further review offline.

Key Resources

Deleting Transactions That Are Part of Match Sets Automatically Takes Care of Unmatching

An Account Reconciliation Cloud administrator can now unload a transactions file from Transaction Matching and the process will automatically unmatch any match sets that had transactions related to that file.  

Key Resources

New EPM Automate Utility Version

A new version of the EPM Automate Utility is available with this update. This version includes the runDailyMaintenance command, which enables Service Administrators to run the daily service maintenance process as needed. For example, Service Administrators can use this command to update their service as soon as a patch to an environment is available instead of waiting for the daily maintenance window.

Key Resources

Migrating from On-Premise Account Reconciliation Manager to Account Reconciliation Cloud

You can migrate from Oracle Hyperion Financial Close Management’s Account Reconciliation Manager module to Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud. The Finance Close Management release must be at 11.1.2.4.250 or later to perform this migration.

Key Resources

Enhancements to the Account Reconciliation Cloud User Interface

This update includes major enhancements to the Account Reconciliation Cloud user interface that achieve these goals:

The next several topics provide details on each of these.

Streamlined Integration Between Reconciliation Compliance and Transaction Matching

Account Reconciliation Cloud has reorganized the cards and navigation throughout the service to make it easier and more seamless to work in both Reconciliation Compliance and Transaction Matching.

The Home Page reflects this streamlined integration between transaction matching functionality and the period-end reconciliation process.

Some highlights of the more streamlined navigation that helps you get to your work faster include:

Conformance with Other Enterprise Performance Management Cloud Services

Since many customers have multiple Oracle EPM Cloud offerings, the user interface reflects changes to the cards on the Home page to conform to usage in other services which makes it faster to navigate functionality since it’s in the same location.

For example, some of the major changes are:

Key Resources

Enhanced Reconciliation Actions User Interface

Based on customer feedback, the Reconciliation Actions dialog has been redesigned in order to increase efficiency when users work on reconciliations.

The old dialog had a vertical layout and required a lot of scrolling. This graphic shows the old dialog with the summary tab, adjustments, and a history tab showing the audit trail across the top.

The new Reconciliation Actions dialog looks like this:

Here’s some features of the new layout:

On the upper right, the unexplained difference is always showing so that you can focus on getting that difference down to zero.

The Balance Summary Numbers panel now shows two columns for GL Balance and AP Subledger Balance.  If you click on the adjustments number or the tab, you can see a detailed list of the transactions.

There’s a new graph panel that displays the trend over time of the previous reconciliations.  New reconcilers can see if they are in the range that was previously achieved. Existing users can see trends and figure out if there are new issues to address based on those trends.

The right hand side contains key metrics for the reconciliation:  who owns it, when it’s due, and any violations.  You can also see the most recent attachments and comments.

Other functionality, such as properties, comments, questions, attachments, are taken off the summary page and placed in right hand side tabs that are easier to access.

Key Resources

Transitioning to the Enhanced User Interface

To help existing users become more comfortable with the new cards and navigation, this table shows the previous and new navigation paths.

 

Home (OLD)

Old Sub-Menu

Old Sub-Menu

Home (new)

New Sub-Menu

New Sub-Menu

RC

Reconciliations

Worklist

 

Worklist

   

RC

Reconciliations

Reconciliations

 

Reconciliations

Reconciliations

 

RC

Reconciliations

Transactions

 

Reconciliations

Transactions

 

TM

Reconciliations

   

Matching

   

RC

Dashboards

Overview

 

Dashboards

Overview

 

RC

Dashboards

Compliance

   

Compliance

 

RC

Tools

Configure

System Settings > Compliance Reporting

Dashboards

Compliance

 

TM

Dashboards

Daily Statistics by Recon. Type

 

Dashboards

Match Metrics

 

RC

Reports

Reports

 

Reports

Reconciliation

Compliance

 

TM

Reports

Reports

 

Reports

Transaction Matching

 

RC

Dashboards

Activity

 

Application

Overview

Recon. Activity

RC

Console

Console

 

Application

Periods

 

RC

Tools

Configure

Attributes

Application

Configuration

Attributes

RC

Tools

Configure

Currency Rates

Application

Configuration

Currencies > Currency Rates

RC

Tools

Configure

System Settings > Currency Bucket

Application

Configuration

Currencies > Currency Bucket

RC

Tools

Configure

System Settings > Rate Type

Application

Configuration

Currencies > Rate Type

RC

Tools

Configure

System Settings > Currencies

Application

Configuration

Currencies > Currencies

RC

Tools

Configure

Data Loads

Application

Configuration

Data Loads

RC

Tools

Configure

Filters

Application

Configuration

Filters

RC

Tools

Configure

Formats

Application

Configuration

Formats

RC

Tools

Configure

Lists

Application

Configuration

Lists

RC

Tools

Configure

Sys Settings > Calendars

Application

Configuration

Organizations > Calendars

RC

Tools

Configure

Sys Settings > Holiday Rules

Application

Configuration

Organizations > Holiday Rules

RC

Tools

Configure

System Settings > Org. Units

Application

Configuration

Organizations > Org. Units

RC

Tools

Configure

Periods

Application

Configuration

Periods

RC

Tools

Configure

Sys Settings > Account Type

Application

Configuration

Sys Attributes > Acct Type

RC

Tools

Configure

System Settings > Aging Profiles

Application

Configuration

Sys Attributes > Aging Profiles

RC

Tools

Configure

Sys Settings > Frequencies

Application

Configuration

Sys Attributes > Frequencies

RC

Tools

Configure

Sys Settings > Global Int. Tokens

Application

Configuration

Sys Attributes > Global Int Tokens

RC

Tools

Configure

Sys Settings > Profile Segments

Application

Configuration

Sys Attributes > Profile Segments

RC

Tools

Configure

Sys Settings > Process

Application

Configuration

Sys Attributes > Process

RC

Tools

Configure

Sys Settings > Risk Rating

Application

Configuration

Sys Attributes > Risk Rating

RC

Tools

Configure

Sys Settings > Allow Comment Deletion

Application

Configuration

Sys Settings > Allow Comment Deletion

RC

Tools

Configure

Sys Settings > Bulk Updates

Application

Configuration

Sys Settings > Bulk Updates

RC

Tools

Configure

Sys Settings > Dashboard Maximum Rows

Application

Configuration

Sys Settings > Dashboard Maximum Rows

RC

Tools

Configure

Sys Settings > Data Loads

Application

Configuration

Sys Settings > Data Loads

RC

Tools

Configure

Sys Settings > Due Date Reminder Notification

Application

Configuration

Sys Settings > Due Date Reminder Notification

RC

Tools

Configure

Sys Settings > Email Notifications

Application

Configuration

Sys Settings > Email Notifications

RC

Tools

Configure

Sys Settings > Maximum Attachment Size

Application

Configuration

Sys Settings > Maximum Attachment Size

RC

Tools

Configure

Sys Settings > Reopen

Application

Configuration

Sys Settings > Reopen

RC

Tools

Configure

Sys Settings > Reviewer Levels

Application

Configuration

Sys Settings > Reviewer Levels

RC

Tools

Configure

Sys Settings > Service Start Times

Application

Configuration

Sys Settings > Service Start Times

RC

Tools

Profiles

 

Application

Profiles

 

RC/TM

Console

Migration

Categories

Application

Migration

Categories

RC/TM

Console

Migration

Snapshots

Application

Migration

Snapshots

RC/TM

Console

Migration

Reports

Application

Migration

Reports

RC/TM

Console

Remove Application

 

Tools

Migration

Remove Application

RC

Console

Archive

 

Application

Archive

 

RC/TM

Tools

Manage Reports

Queries

Application

Report Configuration

Queries

RC/TM

Tools

Manage Reports

Report Groups

Application

Report Configuration

Report Groups

RC/TM

Tools

Manage Reports

Reports

Application

Report Configuration

Reports

RC

Console

Jobs

 

Application

Jobs

Recon Compliance

TM

Console

Jobs History

 

Application

Jobs

Transaction Matching

RC

Console

Services

 

Application

Services

 

TM

Tools

Reconciliation Types

 

Application

Match Types

 

TM

Tools

Calendars

 

Application

Match Types

Calendars

       

Tools

Appearance

 

RC/TM

Tools

Announcements

 

Tools

Announcements

 

RC/TM

Tools

Daily Maintenancee

 

Tools

Daily Maintenance

 

RC

Console

Activity Reports

 

Tools

Service Activity

 

RC

Tools

Configure

Sys Settings/

Power User Security

Tools

Access Control

Power User Security

RC

Tools

Configure

Sys Settings/

Teams

Tools

Access Control

Manage Teams

RC

Tools

Configure

Sys Settings/

Users

Tools

Access Control

Manage Users

RC/TM

Tools

Access Control

Provisioning Report

Tools

Access Control

Provisioning Report

RC/TM

Tools

Access Control

User Login Report

Tools

Access Control

User Login Report

Rebranding Your Display

You can now enhance the appearance of your display by customizing the logo or background theme.

Key Resources

Retain Last Accessed Tab in Cards

When working with cards in the user interface that have multiple tabs or sub tabs, the last tab accessed by a user will be retained the next time the user accesses the card in the same session.

Context Sensitive Help Available Through New User Assistance Menu

A User Assistance icon (shown below) has been added to many dialogs in Account Reconciliation Cloud so that you can access context sensitive help for the dialog you are on as well as link to the Oracle Help Center that contains the full documentation set and videos. The drop down menu also provides links to Cloud Customer Connect, Provide Feedback and Oracle Support.

Defects Fixed

Software issues addressed each month will be posted to My Oracle Support.

Using Refresh

It is a best practice to use Refresh within the Account Reconciliation Cloud user interface rather than performing a browser refresh.

Academy

In the Academy, some pages and icons may appear different in the video and the Cloud service.

April 2018 Update

Revision History

This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:

Date Feature Notes
28 MAR 2018 Created initial document.

Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud, April Update

This document outlines announcements, defects fixed and considerations in the upcoming Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud update.

Monthly Update Schedule

Oracle will apply the latest updates to your test environments starting at 22:00 UTC (15:00 PDT) on Friday, April 6, 2018 and to your production environment on Friday, April 20, 2018, also starting at 22:00 UTC. The updates will be applied to your environments during the first subsequent daily maintenance.

The Oracle Help Center, which provides access to updated documentation, has a new look and feel. The updates will be available on April 6, 2018. Some of the links to new feature documentation included in this document will not work until after the Oracle Help Center update is complete.

Tips And Considerations

Reminder: Backing up the daily maintenance snapshot and restoring the environment as needed are self-service operations. Oracle recommends that you download the maintenance snapshot every day to a local server.

NOTE:  Account Reconciliation Cloud does not support migration of snapshots from the latest service version to an earlier service version (for example, when moving snapshots between test and production pods during the window when test is upgraded before production.)  Migration between the same versions will still be supported.  Some objects, such as Profiles, may still be moved from the latest to an earlier version outside of migration snapshots by exporting them from the latest service version and importing them into the earlier version.

See Backing Up and Restoring an Environment Using the Maintenance Snapshot in Getting Started with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud for Administrators for detailed procedures.

Please Join Oracle Cloud Customer Connect

Please take a moment to join the Cloud Customer Connect forums for EPM Cloud services. Oracle Cloud Customer Connect is a community gathering place for members to interact and collaborate on common goals and objectives. This is where you will find the latest release information, upcoming events, or answers to use-case questions. Joining takes just a few minutes. Join now!

https://cloud.oracle.com/community

NOTE: The Settings and Actions menu now contains a link to Cloud Customer Connect. To access this link, from the Home page, click the down arrow next to the user name (in the upper right-hand corner of the screen), and select Cloud Customer Connect.

Give Us Documentation Feedback

We welcome your comments and suggestions to improve the content of the What's New document and the product documentation. Please send us your feedback at EPMdoc_ww@oracle.com. In the body or title of the email, state that you are inquiring or providing feedback, and indicate for which EPM Cloud service and the monthly update cycle.

Announcements

Migrating From On-Premise Account Reconciliation Manager to Account Reconciliation Cloud

You can migrate from Oracle Hyperion Financial Close Management’s Account Reconciliation Manager module to Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud.  The Financial Close Management release must be at 11.1.2.4.250 or later to perform this migration.

Key Resources

See Migrating from On-Premises Financial Close Management to Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud for detailed instructions.

Ability to Output Reports in .XLSX Format

For both Reconciliation Compliance and Transaction Matching, you can now output reports in .XLSX (Excel) format as well as .XLS, HTML, and PDF formats.

Key Resources

See Using Reports in Administering Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud.

Additional Charts in Activity Report

The Activity Report has been enhanced to include the following charts that help you understand the processing load in your environment:

Number of User Interface Requests by Hour

Duration of User Interface Requests by Hour

CPU Usage

Memory Usage

Key Resources

See Using Activity Reports and Access Logs to Monitor Usage in Getting Started with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud for Administrators.

Removal of Support

Enhanced User Experience in Reconciliation Compliance

As of early calendar year, 2018, the old method of accessing the Reconciliation List, Transactions List, and Profiles List will no longer be available. Enhancements to the Reconciliation Compliance user interface that were introduced several months ago provided a more intuitive and improved user experience, including Reconciliation, Transaction and Profile List Views, Manage Reports, and common use of a filter bar across multiple EPM Cloud services. These changes provide you with quick, easy navigation.

Defects Fixed

Software issues addressed each month will be posted to My Oracle Support.

Considerations

Academy

In the Academy, some pages and icons may appear different in the video and the Cloud service.

March 2018 Update

Revision History

This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:

Date Feature Notes
23 FEB 2018   Created initial document.

Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud, March Update

This document outlines announcements, considerations and defects fixed in the upcoming Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud update.

Monthly Update Schedule

Oracle will apply the latest updates to your test environments starting at 22:00 UTC (14:00 PST) on Friday, March 2, 2018 and to your production environment on Friday, March 16, 2018, also starting at 22:00 UTC. The updates will be applied to your environments during the first subsequent daily maintenance.

The Oracle Help Center, which provides access to updated documentation, will also be available on March 2, 2018. Some of the links in this document may be available only after the Oracle Help Center update is complete.

Reminder: Backing up the daily maintenance snapshot and restoring the environment as needed are self-service operations. Oracle recommends that you download the maintenance snapshot every day to a local server. See Backing Up and Restoring an Environment Using the Maintenance Snapshot in Getting Started with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud for Administrators for detailed procedures.

Please Join Oracle Cloud Customer Connect

Please take a moment to join the Cloud Customer Connect forums for EPM Cloud services. Oracle Cloud Customer Connect is a community gathering place for members to interact and collaborate on common goals and objectives. This is where you will find the latest release information, upcoming events, or answers to use-case questions. Joining takes just a few minutes. Join now!

https://cloud.oracle.com/community

NOTE: The Settings and Actions menu now contains a link to Cloud Customer Connect. To access this link, from the Home page, click the down arrow next to the user name (in the upper right-hand corner of the screen), and select Cloud Customer Connect.

Give Us Documentation Feedback

We welcome your comments and suggestions to improve the content of the What's New document and the product documentation. Please send us your feedback at EPMdoc_ww@oracle.com. In the body or title of the email, state that you are inquiring or providing feedback, and indicate for which EPM Cloud service as well as the monthly patch cycle.

Announcements

Migrating from On-Premise Account Reconciliation Manager to Account Reconciliation Cloud

You can migrate from Oracle Hyperion Financial Close Management’s Account Reconciliation Manager module to Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud.  The Financial Close Management release must be at 11.1.2.4.250 or later to perform this migration.

Key Resources

See "Migrating from On-Premises Financial Close Management to Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud" for detailed instructions.

Transaction Matching: Enhancements to Unmatched Transactions

This update includes these enhancements to the Unmatched Transactions dialog:

Viewing More than 1,000 Transactions: You can now scroll and see more than 1000 transactions.

Select All Transactions Capability: You can now use a Select All check box to select all transactions for a given data source.  Select All can be used to match, adjust, support or delete transactions.

Export to .CSV File: You can now export transactions from the Unmatched Transactions dialog to a comma separate value (.CSV) file for further review offline.

Key Resources

Provisioned Users Audit Report

A script is now available to automate the process of creating an audit report for provisioned users. This report shows the users and associated roles or groups that changed since the last time the report was generated.

Key Resources

See Scenario 13: Creating Provisioned Users Audit Reports in Working with EPM Automate for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud for detailed information.

New REST API for Account Reconciliation Cloud

You can now use a new Account Reconciliation Cloud REST API to monitor reconciliations in Reconciliation Compliance for a given period and filter name.

Key Resources

For more information, see the Oracle Cloud REST API for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud Guide.

Removal of Support

Enhanced User Experience in Reconciliation Compliance

As of early calendar year, 2018, the old method of accessing the Reconciliation List, Transactions List, and Profiles List will no longer be available. Enhancements to the Reconciliation Compliance user interface that were introduced several months ago provided a more intuitive and improved user experience, including Reconciliation, Transaction and Profile List Views, Manage Reports, and common use of a filter bar across multiple EPM Cloud services. These changes provide you with quick, easy navigation.

Defects Fixed

Beginning in this update, software issues addressed each month will be posted to My Oracle Support.

Considerations

Change in Transaction Matching Table Requires Custom Reports Revision

Transaction Matching transaction reports created prior to 18.02 will give invalid/wrong results from 18.03 onwards. This happens because a change was made and the Transaction Match ID is now stored in the respective dynamic tables (TM_TRANS_*) in the MATCH_ID column and the TM_MATCH_TRANS table is deprecated from 18.02. This requires that custom reports on transactions using TM_MATCH_TRANS must be changed to use the transactions dynamic table (TM_TRANS_*). In a future update, this will not be needed.  Sample queries can be created using the Transaction Matching report builder.

Academy

In the Academy, some pages and icons may appear different in the video and the Cloud service.

February 2018 Update

Revision History

This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:

Date Feature Notes
05 FEB 2018 Defects Fixed Updated document. Added defect information.
26 JAN 2018   Created initial document.

Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud, February Update

This document outlines the announcements and considerations in the upcoming Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud update.

Monthly Update Schedule

Oracle will begin applying the latest updates to EPM Cloud Test environments starting at 22:00 UTC (14:00 PST) Friday, February 2, 2018 and to Production environments on Friday, February 16, 2018, also starting at 22:00 UTC. The updates will be applied to your EPM Cloud environments during the first subsequent Daily Maintenance.

The Oracle Help Center, which provides access to updated documentation, will also be available on February 2, 2018. Some of the links in this document may be available only after the Oracle Help Center update is complete.

NOTE:  Account Reconciliation Cloud does not support migration of snapshots from the latest service version to an earlier service version (for example, when moving snapshots between test and production pods during the window when test is upgraded before production.)  Migration between the same versions will still be supported.  Some objects, such as Profiles, may still be moved from the latest to an earlier version outside of migration snapshots by exporting them from the latest service version and importing them into the earlier version.

Please Join Oracle Cloud Customer Connect

Please take a moment to join the Cloud Customer Connect forums for EPM Cloud services. Oracle Cloud Customer Connect is a community gathering place for members to interact and collaborate on common goals and objectives. This is where you will find the latest release information, upcoming events, or answers to use-case questions. Joining takes just a few minutes. Join now!

https://cloud.oracle.com/community  

NOTE: The Settings and Actions menu now contains a link to Cloud Customer Connect. To access this link, from the Home page, click the down arrow next to the user name (in the upper right-hand corner of the screen), and select Cloud Customer Connect.

Give Us Documentation Feedback

We welcome your comments and suggestions to improve the content of the What's New document and the product documentation. Please send us your feedback at  EPMdoc_ww@oracle.com.  In the body or title of the email, state that you are inquiring or providing feedback, and indicate for which EPM Cloud service as well as the monthly patch cycle.

Announcements

Migrating from On-Premise Account Reconciliation Manager to Account Reconciliation Cloud

You can migrate from Oracle Hyperion Financial Close Management’s Account Reconciliation Manager module to Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud.  The Financial Close Management release must be at 11.1.2.4.250 or later to perform this migration. 

Key Resources

See Migrating from On-Premises Financial Close Management to Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud for detailed instructions.

New EPM Automate Utility Version

A new version of the EPM Automate Utility is available with this update. This version includes the upgrade command, which automatically downloads and silently installs the newest version of the EPM Automate Utility. After you run the login command to initiate a session, the utility identifies the current installed version. If the installed version is not the newest available, you can run this command to the utility prompts you to download and install the latest version.

Key Resources

See  EPM Automate Utility Commands in “Working with EPM Automate for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud” for detailed information.

Jobs History Now Retained for Up to 60 Days

The history for system and user initiated jobs is now retained and displayed for up to 60 days.

Reconciliation Compliance

Archive, Purge, and Restore of Reconciliations Available

Administrators can now help keep the size of the database in check and help performance by using archive, restore, and purge functionality in Reconciliation Compliance. This allows you to archive data and access the archived content as needed. Archiving is an extension of the existing Lifecycle Management (LCM) export and import functionality and a new artifact of reconciliations has been created in LCM for Account Reconciliation.

Archiving allows you to save reconciliations, transactions and related data from selected periods in Account Reconciliation Cloud in an archive file that can be stored locally. Purge allows you to permanently remove reconciliations, transactions, and related data from selected periods in Account Reconciliation Cloud after archiving if you wish. Restore allows you to restore the saved archive file to a different machine or the same machine.

Key Resources

See Archiving for detailed instructions.

Transaction Matching

Delete Transactions Now Available

If enabled by a service administrator, users can now delete incorrect or unwanted transactions in Transaction Matching. The deletion is performed on the Unmatched Transactions dialog.

Key Resources

See Deleting Transactions for detailed instructions.

Change in Transaction Matching Table Requires Custom Reports Revision

A change was made and the Transaction Match ID is now stored in the respective dynamic tables (TM_TRANS_*) in the MATCH_ID column and the TM_MATCH_TRANS table is deprecated from 18.02. This requires that custom reports on transactions using TM_MATCH_TRANS must be changed to use the transactions dynamic table (TM_TRANS_*). In a future update, this will not be needed.  Sample queries can be created using the Transaction Matching report builder.

Removal of Support

Enhanced User Experience in Reconciliation Compliance

As of early calendar year, 2018, the old method of accessing the Reconciliation List, Transactions List, and Profiles List will no longer be available. Enhancements to the Reconciliation Compliance user interface that were introduced several months ago provided a more intuitive and improved user experience, including Reconciliation, Transaction and Profile List Views, Manage Reports, and common use of a filter bar across multiple EPM Cloud services. These changes provide you with quick, easy navigation.

Defects Fixed

Check this list again for the latest information when the update is applied to your test environment.

Defect Number

Description

27220245

Error when clicking OK on Reconciliation Reassignment Request dialog fixed.

27196785

Ability to input second values for parameter query in reports now working.

27164621

Clicking the Enter key on the Reconciliations or Profiles window no longer takes the user out of Account Reconciliation Cloud

27137527

My Role column in Reconciliation List no longer displays NONE

27031351

Auto close of null balance reconciliations has been corrected.

26405218

In Data Management, the French version of the File Selection window now shows Télécharger (Download button) and Charger (Upload button).

27267369

In Data Management, the application snapshot no longer fails with the "EPMFDM-140223:EXPORT FAILED FOR SYSTEM SETTING" error.

27314175

In Data Management, the Source Value field in Data Load Mappings now has a maximum length of 80 characters instead of 75.

Considerations

Academy

In the Academy, some pages and icons may appear different in the video and the Cloud service.

January 2018 Update

Revision History

This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:

Date What's Changed Notes
22 DEC 2017   Created initial document.

Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud, January Update

This document outlines the announcements and considerations in the upcoming Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud update.

Monthly Update Schedule

Oracle will begin applying the latest updates to EPM Cloud Test environments starting at 22:00 UTC-8 (2:00pm Pacific Time) Friday, January 5, 2018 and to Production environments on Friday, January 19, 2017, also starting at 22:00 UTC-8. The updates will be applied to your EPM Cloud environments during the first subsequent Daily Maintenance.

The Oracle Help Center, which provides access to updated documentation, will also be available on January 5, 2018.

Please Join Oracle Cloud Customer Connect

Please take a moment to join the Cloud Customer Connect forums for EPM Cloud services. Oracle Cloud Customer Connect is a community gathering place for members to interact and collaborate on common goals and objectives. This is where you will find the latest release information, upcoming events, or answers to use-case questions. Joining takes just a few minutes. Join now! 

https://cloud.oracle.com/community  

NOTE: The Settings and Actions menu now contains a link to Cloud Customer Connect. To access this link, from the Home page, click the down arrow next to the user name (in the upper right-hand corner of the screen), and select Cloud Customer Connect.

Give Us Documentation Feedback

We welcome your comments and suggestions to improve the content of the What's New document and the product documentation. Please send us your feedback at  EPMdoc_ww@oracle.com.  State that you are inquiring or providing feedback, and indicate for which EPM Cloud service as well as the monthly patch cycle, in the body or title of the email.

Announcements

Detailed Information Now Available in Transaction Matching Balancing Report

You can now drill down on each category in the Balancing panel to view details about the transactions that make up the category.  Just click the link on Unmatched Transactions, Unmatched Supported Transactions, and Matched In-Transit Transactions to see each transaction in that category.

Relocate EPM Cloud Environments from One Identity Domain to Another

Oracle Cloud Account Administrators can now move an environment from its current identity domain to another. Unifying multiple EPM Cloud environments under one identity domain helps simplify user management and single sign on configuration. It also supports seamless cross-environment navigation.

Oracle Cloud Account Administrators may relocate an environment from its current identity domain to another if the target identity domain is provisioned to the same customer account and is in the same data center.

In addition to requesting the relocation of instances from My Services, additional service environment-specific tasks must be completed.

NOTE: You can relocate an environment only if it was provisioned after May 1, 2016. Environments that were provisioned prior to this date  cannot be unified to use one identity domain.

See Relocating an EPM Cloud Environment to a Different Identity Domain in “Getting Started with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud for Administrators” for detailed information.

Migrating from On-Premise Account Reconciliation Manager to Account Reconciliation Cloud

You can migrate from Oracle Hyperion Financial Close Management’s Account Reconciliation Manager module to Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud.  The Financial Close Management release must be at 11.1.2.4.250 or later to perform this migration.  See the “Administering Oracle Accounting Reconciliation Cloud” guide for detailed instructions.

New EPM Getting Started Guides

Starting with the 17.12 update, Service Administrator and end-user “getting started” information for all EPM Cloud Services is available from the following new guides:

Getting Started with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud for Administrators contains information on the tasks that Service Administrators can perform with EPM Cloud Services. This guide, which provides common administrative information for all EPM Cloud services, is now the primary source for tasks related to EPM Cloud administration including managing users and roles, setting up single sign-on, and backing up and restoring environments. This guide replaces the following guides:

Getting Started with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud for Users introduces end-users to Oracle EPM Cloud and provides information that enables them to quickly become proficient. This guide replaces the following guides:

Links in the Cloud Help Center and Oracle Learning Library have been modified to direct users to these guides. Please change your personal bookmarks and shortcuts so that they point to these new guides.

Removal of Support

Enhanced User Experience in Reconciliation Compliance

As of early calendar year, 2018, the old method of accessing the Reconciliation List, Transactions List, and Profiles List will no longer be available. Enhancements to the Reconciliation Compliance user interface that were introduced several months ago provided a more intuitive and improved user experience, including Reconciliation, Transaction and Profile List Views, Manage Reports, and common use of a filter bar across multiple EPM Cloud services. These changes provide you with quick, easy navigation.

Defects Fixed

Check this list again for the latest information when the update is applied to your test environment.

Defect Number

Description

26997565

Short description value in pre-mapped transactions import cannot exceed 50 characters.

Considerations

EPM Automate

When using EPM Automate, log out and log in again after importing a Financial Close Management (FCM) snapshot to refresh the icons on the Home page.

Navigator

You may receive inaccurate messages from Navigator if pop-up blockers are enabled. Disable pop-up blockers in your browser to avoid this.

Academy

In the Academy, some pages and icons may appear different in the video and the Cloud service.