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Last week Oracle dropped 11.2.5 on e-delivery and I gave a quick summary of what was found in the read me and promised to get back to you with a first impressions from an install. I’ve done the install now for two (2) scenarios: Clean 11.2.5 Install using SQL Server Apply Maintenance Patch to 11.2.4 […]

Oracle dropped 11.2.5 this week and its chock full of EPM goodness. The big news is the upgrade of the middleware stack. Oracle has upgraded to Fusion Middleware 12.2.1.4 which includes newer versions of: Oracle HTTP Server, Oracle WebLogic Server. and Java 1.8.0_251. They have also added support for MsSQL 2017. While 11.2.5 as a […]

Well folks, it’s that time of year again.  No, I’m not talking about the snow outside at the end of April.  I’m talking about the Oracle Critical Patch Update for the first quarter of 2021. As always, full details of the patch can be found right here.  For this particular release, there are a couple of […]

Well, as usual the people have spoken.  When the people speak (and by people I mean the customers paying the bills) even vendors as large as Oracle sometimes listen.   So what am I referring to?   Why nothing less than the return of the default splash/welcome/frequently-used-items Home Page.  In 11.2.4 the Home Page is back and […]

So apparently there is a bug with Financial Reporting LCM in 11.2.3 EPM.  This is caused by the FR product randomly storing a DB call in the Financial Reporting product registry. You can see this by running FRconfig.cmd, found at:  \Oracle\Middleware\EPMSystem11R1\products\financialreporting\bin Once launched, you can select the MBeans tab and then navigate to com.hyperion | […]

Many of the guides for setting up DRM Web Services API deal with configuration of older versions of WebLogic than what comes with Oracle EPM 11.2 . The EPM 11.2 documentation ‘Deployment Options Guide’ is a fine document but has no screen shots. The other DRM documents out there either say ‘look at these other […]

Many of the guides for setting up DRM Web Services API deal with configuration of older versions of WebLogic than what comes with Oracle EPM 11.2 . The EPM 11.2 documentation ‘Deployment Options Guide’ is a fine document but has no screen shots. The other DRM documents out there either say ‘look at these other […]

This will be the first part in a series of blogs aimed at discussing both the new on premise Essbase 21c, and the 19c corollary available for installation in OCI via the Marketplace. The new Essbase platform is available and with it comes a number of changes long discussed and anticipated.  For a complete listing […]

I would like to walk you through Enabling SSL in your EPM environment. This involves a number of steps. For this post we will focus on folder structure and generating a Certificate request (CSR). If possible please configure your new environment in a normal NON-SSL manner. Or if this is an existing environment, validate that […]

Please join us for the next session in our series of “EPM Cloud Wars” webinars in which we’ll discuss the latest trends in adoption of Oracle Hyperion EPM System deployments on the industry’s leading Cloud Infrastructure providers.  During this informative session we will discuss and compare our own real world experiences with: Technical update for […]