EPBCS

Best practices and performance tuning for using Hybrid BSO in EPBCS

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I recently presented at ODTUG KSCOPE19 in Seattle. Thanks a ton to ODTUG content selection team for giving me this opportunity to present at such a great conference! I presented along with David DeLozier on Best Practices and Performance Tuning for using Hybrid BSO in EPBCS. I had a great audience with lots of questions being asked. Sincere thanks to Oracle’s Mark Rinaldi for attending this session and contributing to answer questions asked by the … Read More

Oracle Financials Cloud integration with Oracle Planning Cloud (PBCS) using Data Management

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This post explains the process to setup Oracle Financials Cloud as a data source in Data Management and execute the initialization process. I encountered an error during the initialization process which I have given the details and resolution for it. Configure Cloud Financials as a Data Source in Data Management To add Oracle Financials Cloud as a data source, we need to create an user id in Oracle Financials Cloud with ‘General Accounting Manager’ responsibility … Read More

Oracle PBCS November 2018 release updates

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The Oracle PBCS November 2018 update adds a few good features that you probably run into during your PBCS implementations. I have listed a few below. You can find Oracle’s November Updates release document here New EPM Automate Utility The new utility adds the following commands. These are particularly helpful when you want to perform automated security updates and have a source system that can provide you with security details via an extract file: addUsersToGroup: … Read More

PBCS Bug Alert: LCM export contains planning security group xml file even if group has been deleted from Access Control

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I was trying to automate a PBCS security update process where in I download existing security from PBCS, have the admin update specific groups xml files and then re-upload the security back to PBCS. The planning security download contains one xml file for each group that has been provisioned. The xml file contains the member level security that has been assigned to the group. After a clean up of unwanted groups, I noticed that the … Read More

Unboxing Oracle EPBCS – Creating an EPBCS application

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I have been waiting to try out Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (EPBCS) and I finally got a chance to write about it. In this post we will create an EPBCS application with multi-currency enabled and go through the application defaults. When you login to your EPBCS pod for the first time, you are presented with the following screen: Click on ‘Start’ under Planning and Budgeting You are presented with 3 options: Standard … Read More