Revision History

This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates are logged below, with the most recent updates at the top.

Date	What's Changed	Notes
06 JUN 2017	Change of Behavior: Imports from Executable Files	Change of Behavior: File uploads section modified to Change of Behavior: Imports from Executable Files
26 MAY 2017		Initial Document Creation

Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud, June Update

This document outlines the announcements and fixed issues in the upcoming Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud and Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud updates.

Announcements and New Features

Planning and Budgeting Cloud and Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud

Monthly Update Schedule

Oracle will apply the latest updates to your test environment on Friday, June 2, 2017 and to your production environment on Friday, June 16, 2017. The update will be applied during your normal daily maintenance window.

The Oracle Help Center, which provides access to updated documentation, will also be available on June 2, 2017.

New EPM Automate Utility Version

A new version of the EPM Automate Utility is available with this update. This version includes the updated importsnapshot command, which now provides the resetPassword option. This option determines whether the default password assigned to Identity Domain users who are created while importing snapshots into an instance must be changed after the users sign in for the first time.

You must install this version of the utility to use the updated command. See these sections in Working with EPM Automate for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud:

• Installation instructions: Installing the Utility
• Instructions to run commands: Command Reference

Activity Report Now Shows Database Query Performance Data

An enhanced Activity Report, which provides visibility into database query performance by providing the following information, is available with this update:

• Worst performing database queries over 15 seconds, which lists top 10 queries that took more than 15 seconds to finish.
• Top 10 database queries by duration, which lists top 10 queries that took the most time to execute.
• Top 10 database queries by execution, which lists the top 10 queries that users executed.

Oracle NetSuite Integration with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud

Data Management is now available as the integration mechanism for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud customers looking to load data from Oracle NetSuite. Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud customers now have direct access to Netsuite’s unified suite of cloud-based ERP, CRM and commerce applications. The integration uses the NetSuite Saved Search framework to query data from the NetSuite system, which includes pre-packaged or customer defined Saved Searches.

NetSuite customers interested in leveraging this integration should contact NetSuite Support for more information on how to configure the required patch bundle in the NetSuite environment.

Ability to Change Number Format for Chart Point of Values and Axis Labels

In Financial Reporting Web Studio, you can now customize the number formatting in the Axes tab and in the Bar Options, Line Options or Pie Options tabs, depending on which chart type is selected.

Options to Push Data and Clear and Push Data Combined Into One

When moving data to a reporting cube, you now have only one option: Push Data. Selecting this option invokes a user confirmation which asks you to confirm whether to clear the existing data first.

To learn more about moving data, see “Moving Data to a Reporting Cube” in Administering Planning for Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud.

New Approval Unit Status Report

You can now create an approval status report to view detailed status of the approval process. The approval status report can be filtered by approval status, scenario, version, and approval unit hierarchy. Reports can be created in XSLX, PDF, HTML, or XML formats.

To learn more about this new report and to see a sample report, see “Creating Approval Status Reports” in Administering Planning for Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud.

Setting Usage By Cube for Period Dimension Members

Service Administrators can now set usage by cube for members of the Period dimension in the same way that they can set usage by cube for members of custom dimensions, the Account dimension, and the Entity dimension.

To learn more about editing member properties, see “Editing Member Properties in the Simplified Dimension Editor” in Administering Planning for Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud.

Support Added for Google Chrome

Interoperability with Google Chrome and Oracle Smart View for Office 11.1.2.5.700+ is available with this update. From your service, you may now select Open In Smart View to access the same data in Microsoft Office. Conversely, you may launch Chrome from Smart View to access service instances when performing drill-through operations.

Ability to Manage Applications from Smart View

Service Administrators can now use Microsoft Excel to manage applications in Oracle Smart View for Office. Using a downloadable Excel workbook template, you can quickly create Planning applications in Smart View. By editing worksheets within the application template workbook, you define application properties, dimension and member properties, security (access permissions), and substitution variables. You can also load data from the template. Additionally, Service Administrators can edit and delete the application from Smart View. See Administering Planning for Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud for more information.

Dashboards Offer a New Combination Chart Type

Dashboard designers and users can now select a new chart type called Combination that alternates displaying row data with vertical bars and lines in the chart. For example, the data in row 1 of a form is displayed as a bar and the data in row 2 as a line. This chart type is particularly useful when you want to compare two categories of data (for example, Germany and France’s average exchange rates over several years).

To learn more about this chart type, see “Designing Dashboards” in Administering Planning for Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud.

Upload Custom Fonts to Financial Reporting

You can now upload custom fonts to the Financial Reporting. When you upload a custom font, the following restrictions apply: only true type fonts (.tff) are supported, you can only upload one font at a time, the font's embeddability property must be set to "installable." When uploading custom fonts, you are responsible for meeting the Terms of Service for the fonts, and you should license them accordingly. Oracle does not guarantee that an uploaded font will work, and Oracle is not liable if a font is misused. See "Uploading Custom Fonts" in Designing with Financial Reporting Web Studio for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud for more information.

Application Type “Lite” Renamed to “Reporting”

In this update, the Lite application type has been renamed to Reporting. A Reporting application is a basic application with one cube and the core components that you need to get up and running quickly. If you later decide that you need more complex business logic, you can convert a Reporting application into a Standard or Enterprise application.

To learn more about the Reporting application type, see “Creating a Reporting Application” in Administering Planning for Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud.

Updated Application Design Guidelines

Updated application design guidelines are available in this monthly update. As you plan an application, you can review design guidelines that help ensure that the application will meet your business needs.

For more information, see “Designing Your Application” in Administering Planning for Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud.

Updates to Academy

You now have access to additional content in the Academy within Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud. To view the updates, access a service instance, and then click Academy.

Change of Behavior: Imports from Executable Files

To enhance security, Oracle now prevents you from importing data and metadata from executable files (for example, files with extensions such as .EXE, .BAT, and .sh) into the service. Starting the 17.06 updates, you cannot import data, metadata, and so on, from executable files.

Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud Only

Strategic Modeling

Strategic Modeling combines a set of rich financial forecasting and modeling features with built in on-the-fly scenario analysis and modeling capabilities. It helps users quickly model and evaluate financial scenarios, and offers out of the box treasury capabilities for sophisticated debt and capital structure management. It provides a complete solution that can be used to build long range forecast models, perform quick financial impact analysis, and present focused financial information for informed decision making. Strategic Modeling can be used as a standalone business process or along with other business processes.

Strategic Modeling provides these key features:

• Ability to create models on the fly
• On the fly scenario Modeling
• Consolidate across scenario models
• Account forecast with out of the box forecast methods
• Audit Trail to determine how values are calculated
• Goal seek
• Funding options
• Out of the box model reports including income statement, balance sheet and cash flow
• Create custom reports using Excel
• A built-in hierarchical chart of accounts to get you up and running quickly, along with the ability to add subaccounts for planning at a more detailed level
• The ability to check the status of consolidations from the Job Console, and the ability to customize navigation flows
• Access control to manage permissions for models

Strategic Modeling provides a familiar web and Smart View interface.

Ability to Create Business Rules Written in the Groovy Scripting Language

Oracle now supports the creation of business rules written in the Groovy scripting language. Groovy business rules allow customers to design sophisticated rules that solve use cases that normal business rules cannot solve; for example, rules to prevent users from saving data on forms if the data value is above a predefined threshold. Groovy rules are created in Calculation Manager, and deployed, validated, and run in the application.

Information sources:

• For information on creating Groovy rules, see “Creating a Groovy Rule” in Designing with Calculation Manager for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud.
• For information on using Groovy rules in the application, see "Using Groovy Rules" in Administering Planning for Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud.
• To open Groovy Javadocs, click Groovy Javadocs in the Administer section in Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud Academy. To access the Academy, sign into a service instance, and then click Academy.

Integration of Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud Workforce with Oracle Human Capital Management

In this update, Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud customers who use the Workforce business process can now align and pull workforce data from Oracle HCM Cloud. Data Management provides an out of the box solution that enables customers to apply predefined mappings from the Oracle HCM Cloud data model to target dimensions in Workforce. Customers can also customize and extend these integrations, for example, by applying other mappings as needed to meet their business requirements.

Additional Checks in Enable Features, Increment Enablement, and Upgrade Processes

In Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud, when Service Administrators enable features for business processes, the application is put in maintenance mode and only Service Administrators can use the application. If any metadata changes are detected, the database is refreshed before the business process features are enabled. If the database refresh fails, Service Administrators must resolve the issues before enabling features. The database is refreshed when needed for first time enablement, incremental enablement, and content upgrade.

Removal of Support

Standard Interface (Planning and Budgeting Cloud Workspace Interface)

This change affects Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service customers who activated their subscriptions on or before July 31, 2016 only.

The Simplified Interface, an option available in the service since November 2014, will be established as the standard across the service. As a result, the current Standard Interface, which is also known as the Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud Workspace, will not be supported starting with the December 2017 update to the service (December 1, 2017 for test instances and December 15, 2017 for production instances). After the deployment of the November update to production instances on November 17, 2017, bugs or enhancements for the Standard Interface will not be addressed.

To prepare for this change, have your users familiarize themselves with the Simplified Interface using the following information sources:

• Accessing the Service for steps to access service.
• “Displaying the Simplified Interface” in in Administering Planning for Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud.
• Working with Planning for Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud for information on completing Planning tasks.
• Administering Planning for Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud for information on performing Planning Administrative tasks.

Financial Reporting Studio Desktop Client

Oracle is committed to providing a simple and intuitive user experience. To achieve this, Financial Reporting Web Studio, available since March 2016, will become the only environment for designing and building reports.

Oracle is providing additional time for users to transition from Financial Reporting Desktop Studio to Financial Reporting Web Studio. Tentative plans call for functional parity between Financial Reporting Web Studio and Financial Reporting Desktop Studio in late 2017, at which time, support for the desktop Studio will transition to the Web Studio and distribution of the Desktop Studio will cease.

Oracle recommends that you transition to using Financial Reporting Web Studio at the earliest opportunity. Please send questions and concerns to Oracle using the Provide Feedback option in the service.

File-Based Integration of Data Management with Oracle Fusion Financials Cloud

Oracle Fusion Financial Cloud Budgetary Control and Encumbrance Accounting is now fully integrated with Data Management.

This enhancement brings the integration of Oracle Fusion Financials Cloud with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud on par with the current, out of the box, file-based integration. As a result, the file-based integration will be phased out starting the September update to the service.

If you are using file-based integration between Oracle Fusion Financials Cloud and Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud, Oracle recommends that you adopt this new integration as soon as possible.

Defects Fixed

Defect Number	Description
26051522	When PLAN6 is used as a target in a selected data load rule, the import succeeds but no rows are displayed in the Workbench.
26044617/ 25769964	For the Financials business process in Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud, you can now add child members under more members in the balance sheet accounts: OFS_Indirect Cash Flow Statement OFS_Revenue Planning OFS_Expense Planning OFS_Gross Profit OFS_Total Expenses OFS_Depreciation and Amortization OFS_Non Current Assets OFS_Rolling Accounts Calculated OFS_Total Preferred and Common Stock OFS_Total Other Current Liabilities OFS_Short Term Borrowings OFS_Fixed Assets OFS_Cash Flow from Operating Activities OFS_Net Cash From Investing Activities OFS_Net Cash from Financing Activities OFS_Adjustments to Net Income OFS_Sources of Cash OFS_Uses of Cash OFS_Total Non Current Liabilities OFS_Accumulated Depreciation and Amortization OFS_Variable Expense OFS_Total Fixed Expenses OFS_Cash OFS_Depreciation OFS_Total Retained Earnings
25980310	In Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud Financials, you no longer receive an error message when you attempt to configure Expense Accounts by selecting Application and then Configure.
25974115	You can now export a dynamic report to Excel without receiving an "Unable to process request" error.
25945535	In Financial Reporting Web Studio, charts with the "Page Break Before" property set now correctly display on separate pages in the PDF report.
25933968	Exports using Migration now correctly create snapshots containing the period mappings available in the application.
25926700	You now can export a report that contains an ampersand symbol (&) from Excel without any errors.
25917378	PDF preview no longer merges one grid with another grid.
25905487	You can now use the "DisplayFilterBySecurity" option on the Server tab in Financial Reporting Web Studio preferences to restrict non-administrative users so that they can only see the members to which they have access.
25896901	Saving ore refreshing data in forms now retains the cell focus.
25892406	Financial Reporting reports now correctly open in Excel when opened from the Simplified Interface.
25885110	Smart Push now gives the same results as using the Data Maps Clear and Push command.
25877833	You are now able to enable all dimensions after creating a new block storage cube in an application.
25877285	In Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud, the “Planning and Forecast Preparation” configuration tasks now uses the correct period if you previously made a change in the “Planning and Forecast Preparation” page but did not save your changes.
25874460	HTML preview now works correctly when you use Financial Reporting Web Studio to create a report in Japanese, and you add a prompt to a column.
25852056	When using a Chrome browser, when you run a Financial Reporting report in Excel, the prompt to select criteria in the Simplified Interface is now correctly displayed.
25830085	All rows in a form now display correctly after a form changes position in a dashboard.
25829683	You can now print forms by clicking the Print button or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+P key combination. Also, print preview displays as designed.
25764682	In the Workforce business process, changing the Hiring Requisition Status to Closed now correctly removes the compensation expense. Note that after upgrading your application, you must run the Change Hiring Requisition Status rule to set status to Closed.
25760533	When viewing a Financial Reporting report in the Simplified Interface, the Grid POV is now displayed.
25722233	When a user is deleted from the application, all instances of the user in the application are deleted.
25689592	When changing the time zone on the Daily Maintenance page, the application will now automatically convert the existing time to the new time zone.
25657911	When setting Current Application Defaults using the Navigator menu, you can now save Application Settings without error.
25607521	For the Capital business process in Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud, accumulated depreciation now calculates correctly for all In Service dates. (Fixed in 17.05)
25470358	When working with Business Rules Folders in Rules Security, previously deleted folders are no longer reappearing in the folders list.
25452803	You can now successfully export a Financial Report to Excel from the Simplified Interface.
25451586	When locking an approval unit fails, a link is provided to access the data validation error(s).

Considerations

Users Are Unable to Access Folders and Reports

Because of some security changes made to Financial Reporting objects introduced in the 17.04 update, users who are granted the User (Planner) predefined role in the service are no longer able to access Financial Reporting folders and reports.

Workaround: Sign in as a Service Administrator and assign the WORLD group to each affected report and folder. You assign the group by editing the current permissions of the report or folder. See My Oracle Support document 2262410.1 for detailed information.