PBCS vs. On-Premise Hyperion Planning: New Features
As we all know, Oracle has put virtually all of their development efforts into the cloud. This is especially true for the EPM Suite of products (PBCS, FCCS, ARCS, etc.). As a result, PBCS keeps getting great new features that we may never see in on-premise Hyperion Planning. I was talking to Jake Turrell today and we were comparing notes on the new functionality that we have used in PBCS on projects recently. That conversation devolved into us making a rather long list of new features. Special thanks to Jake for helping me make this list, as I wouldn’t have thought of a good portion of the things on it without his help. So what new functionality has been added to PBCS that will likey never make it to on-premise Hyperion Planning? Forms Hyperion Planning has existed for over 15 years now, so you might think that the form design capabilities would be fully-baked by now. For the most part, this is a true statement. But, there have been some pretty big holes that PBCS
South Texas Hyperion User Group This Thursday
In case you haven’t heard, there is now a South Texas Hyperion User Group! Their first event is happening this Thursday, October 26, 2017 and like the NTxHUG, things will start up around 3:00 PM. That’s the when…here’s the where: Noble Energy 1001 Noble Energy Way Houston, TX 77070 Once the event ends, there will be a social hour here: Baker Street Pub & Grill 17278 Tomball Pkwy Houston, TX 77064 Things will start off with a Meet and Greet along with a welcome from the Organization Committee. Jake Turrell will give everyone an introduction to ODTUG and then get into his presentation on comparing PBCS to On-Prem Planning. Once he wraps up, Annie Hoang will provide a customer store about the Evolution of EPM at Parker Drilling. It sounds like the Houston crew has a great event planned for Thursday!
North Texas Hyperion User Group Meeting Next Week
It has been far too long since my last post and it will be a little longer before we get to another technical post. In just one week, the next North Texas Hyperion User Group will be meeting in Dallas. The event is on October 19, 2017 and things will start up around 3:00 PM. That’s the when…here’s the where: Balfour Beatty Construction 3100 McKinnon Dallas, TX 75201 Balfour has been kind enough to host in the past and it has always made for a great place to meet. Once the event ends, there will be a social hour here: Katy Trail Ice House 3127 Routh St Dallas, TX 75201 Trey Daniel will kick things off with his presentation: That’s Not in the Documentation: Gotchas From Implementing PBCS at GameStop. After Trey, there will be an Oracle representative getting us all up to speed on the on-premise roadmap. It should be a great a event and we hope to see everyone there! You can find more information here.
Weekly Offenders – Week Ending 8/3/2017?
Introduction to Weekly Offenders This week was so light, I thought I would wait a few days to see if we might get a few more contributions. We finally had a few more posts, so here goes! Cameron’s Blog for Essbase Hackers Cameron has a post about his guest post on Mark Rittman’s site. Check out the actual post here. EPM Junkie Keith has a very interesting post on installing the EPM stack on Linux with SQL Server…for Linux. What?! Essbase Down Under Peter continues where he left off with the REST API for PBCS. Glenn Schwartzberg’s Essbase Blog Glenn takes on the question of commentary in Essbase. He uses Linked Reporting Objects in OAC. I find it extremely interesting that OAC supports LRO’s as I thought they were being depricated. Jason’s Hyperion Blog Jason gives us a post about time period conversion using Drillbridge. I need to get back to doing some Drillbridge blog posts… More to Life… John Goodwin shows us how to create a custom scheduler for FDMEE. This should help with
Weekly Offenders – Week Ending 7/22/2017
Introduction to Weekly Offenders A bit of a light week… Essbase Down Under Peter gives us a heavy does of the REST API in PBCS after Kscope17. Exploits in Hyperion Sibin has several posts this week. He starts off with a post about digging into the XML of an LCM export. He also tells us that UAC is very bad for a Hyperion install. Keeping with his previous installation post, he also tells us about the dependency of IIS for EPMA. DEVEPM Rodrigo shows us how to install the ODI 12c Standalone Agent. Oracle Business Analytics – Proactive Support Blog The Proactive Support Blog has a set of OBIEE patches this week: 12.2.1.2.170718 12.2.1.1.170718 11.1.1.9.170718 11.1.1.7.170718 Woman in EPM Opal has a quick post on how to access the OAC log files. Be On the Lookout! That’s it for this week! Be on the lookout for more great EPM Blog content next week!
Weekly Offenders – Week Ending 7/15/2017
Introduction to Weekly Offenders This week was a bit busier than last week. We even had a few more posts about Kscope17 this week. What new this week? Adeshek EPM Gary has a pair of posts this week. First, he went and started his own Oracle User group for the Detroit Area (DOUG). He also dives head-first into the Essbase behind Oracle’s cloud ERP. EPM Marshall I continued my series focusing on Essbase Performance. This week we started talking about physical vs. virtual Essbase performance. Exploits in Hyperion Sibin started off the week with a post about keeping your downstream systems in mind when making changes. He then has a post re-capping his series on Universal Data Access in FDMEE. More to Life… John Goodwin has an excellent post showing off the new clearcube functionality in EPM Automate and the REST API for PBCS. Finally…ASO clears can be executed via batch! Oracle Business Analytics – Proactive Support Blog The Proactive Support Blog brings us news of just one on-prem patch this week. Oracle Hyperion Tax