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Profitability Patch Release – March 2023 (23.03)

Another month has come and gone, and the third patch update of the year (23.03) was deployed to the Oracle Cloud EPM ...

EPCM Tech Tips – Using Quick Mode to Populate the Reporting Cube

The ability to create multiple databases in Oracle Cloud Enterprise PCM (EPCM) is one of the most exciting and ...

Profitability Patch Release – February 2023 (23.02)

Happy New Year! I know it’s a little late since we are already in February 2023. Since there were no significant ...

EPM Profitability Patch Release - December 2022 (22.12)

It feels like yesterday we published our blog on the November 2022 patch (22.11), but here we are already in December ...

How Oracle Cloud EPCM Changes Our Approach to Rule Maintenance

Our last blog post delved into how Oracle Cloud Enterprise Profitability and Cost Management (EPCM) changes our ...

EPM Profitability Patch Release - November 2022 (22.11)

As we all know, or at least should be aware, Oracle continually updates and improves its Oracle Cloud EPM products ...

Enterprise PCM Tech Tips – Exporting Level 0 Data to a Columnar Format

One of the latest and greatest features of Oracle Cloud PCM is the ability to extract, filter, and transform level 0 ...

How Oracle Cloud Enterprise PCM Changes Our Data Integration Approach

It’s been a while since our last blog on Embracing the Possibilities of EPCM (How Oracle Cloud EPCM Changes our ...

Profitability Tech Tips – Enabling NonEmptyTuple Governor in EPCM

In another blog post blog post (Profitability Tech Tips – Five Tips to Optimizing POV Calculations) that was aimed at ...

Profitability Tech Tips – Enterprise PCM Migration Utility V2.0

Back in June 2022, Oracle released the much-awaited Enterprise PCM which combines the very best features available on ...

How Oracle Cloud Enterprise PCM Changes Our Approach to Master Data Management

In our last blog, we explored how the introduction of Oracle Cloud Enterprise PCM (EPCM) impacts our allocation ...

How Oracle Cloud Enterprise PCM Changes Our Approach to Architecture

In the last blog, we shared our excitement about the recent release of Oracle Cloud Enterprise PCM, explored the ...

Embrace The Possibilities – Introduction to Enterprise PCM

Join me as I share a collective sigh of relief while I jump for joy at Oracle’s recent announcement on the release of ...

Building Allocation Solutions in a Custom-Built Application vs Oracle Cloud PCM

In this blog series, we have discussed why Oracle Cloud PCM has clear advantages over building allocation solutions in ...

Building Allocation Solutions in the General Ledger vs Oracle Cloud PCM

In the previous blog in this series, we looked at why Oracle Cloud PCM has clear advantages as an allocation solution ...

Building Allocation Solutions in Excel Vs Oracle Cloud PCM

The previous blog in this series, Why Oracle Cloud PCM Is the Right Tool for Allocation Solutions, established, at a ...

Why Oracle Cloud PCM Is the Right Tool for Allocation Solutions

In our technologically advanced world, we know there are many ways we can go about achieving our goals, be that our ...

Profitability Tech Tips – Exporting Level 0 Data in Columnar Format through REST API
Oracle EPM

Back in December 2021, we released a blog on how to export level 0 data from a PCM database in columnar format using ...

Profitability Tech Tips – New Functionality – Level 0 Export of Cube Data in Columnar Format
Oracle Cloud

I am happy to say we have some good news to share with some new, and very exciting, functionality coming to Oracle ...

Profitability Tech Tips: New Functionality – Query Based Optimized Aggregate Views
Oracle Cloud

Every so often, Oracle blesses us with new functionality in the Oracle Cloud PCM world, and the latest patch release ...

Oracle EPM Cloud Profitability and Cost Management vs. Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management (HPCM): The Final Verdict!
Oracle Cloud

So here we are at the end of another blog series, I hope it’s been one that has kept you well informed on making ...

Oracle EPM Cloud Profitability and Cost Management vs. Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management (HPCM): New and Future Feature Availability!
Oracle Cloud

For those who have already decided to stay on-premise and migrate to HPCM 11.2 instead of migrating to the cloud, this ...

Oracle Cloud EPM Profitability and Cost Management vs. Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management (HPCM): Performance Comparison!

In our previous blog in this series, we discussed the most immediate comparison point; how easy is it to upgrade to ...

Oracle Cloud EPM Profitability and Cost Management vs. Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management (HPCM): A Practical Comparison!

Ever since the release of Oracle Cloud EPM Profitability and Cost Management back in 2015, Alithya has released several ...

Profitability Tech Tips – Optimizing Performance with NonEmptyTuple

One of my favorite features that were introduced into Oracle EPM Profitability was the ability to utilize the ...

Profitability Tech Tips – Adding Attributes to An Existing Application

We all know that adding, or removing dimensions after the initial creation of an Oracle Profitability application is a ...

Profitability Tech Tips – Troubleshooting Resources

One of the many benefits of EPM's new reality in the cloud is that you are never alone. Like most aspects of our ...

Profitability Tech Tips – Five Tips to Optimizing POV Calculations

One of the most frequent questions we are asked is, “How can I reduce my calculations execution time?”. While it may ...