In 2019, we discussed the idea of Finance Business Partnering, highlighting the growing trend of finance needing to actively collaborate with the broader business function to truly drive the business. The…

Cost reductions and process efficiencies are at the forefront of organizational goals, especially for the finance function. Given that labour is likely a company’s biggest expense, it is no surprise…

Each month, Oracle EPM Cloud releases a list of updates to each of the products in the EPM Cloud Suite. The patches are first deployed to Development environments (occurred on…

As data operations have expanded and grown more complex, risk of disasters and outages has increased and this can cause significant downtime to your company’s operations, often resulting in a…

Each month, Oracle EPM Cloud releases a list of updates to each of the products in the EPM Cloud Suite. The patches are first deployed to Development environments (occurred on…

Data security and controls are a growing area of importance in the world of modern finance, and there are different methods that can be taken to improve your information security.…

Each month, Oracle EPM Cloud releases a list of updates to each of the products in the EPM Cloud Suite. The patches are first deployed to Development environments (occurred on June 4th) and two weeks later to Production environments (June 18th after 22:00 UTC). Below are some of the highlights of changes made to your Oracle EPM Cloud Products:

Previously, we discussed the idea of Finance Business Partnering, highlighting the growing trend of finance needing to actively collaborate with the broader business function to truly drive the business. The…

Organizations who leverage Oracle Hyperion EPM for financial consolidation, business planning, reporting and analytic needs are at a critical crossroad. Version 11.1.2.4 Premier support ends as of December 2021.  Running on this current…

Multi-calendar reporting is a common Financial Reporting requirement where the fiscal year ends for submitting entities are different than the consolidated group or intermediary sub-group fiscal year end.  For example,…

You are certain the Essbase Calc Script you’ve written in Financial Consolidation and Close (FCC) is correct but can’t figure out why it’s not working? The issue is likely due…

With the end of support for Hyperion 11.1.2.4 approaching and Hyperion 11.2 being a terminal release, companies are forced to consider their go forward options. One of the leading tools…

In Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud Services (FCCS) business rules can be defined in a few places. This post will primarily focus on Configurable Calculations. These are seeded calculation rules…