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Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud, September Update
This document outlines the announcements and considerations in the upcoming Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud update.
Announcements And New Features
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We would like to inform you of the upcoming monthly update for your Oracle Cloud environments. We will apply the latest updates to your test environment on Friday, September 1, 2017 and to your production environment on Friday, September 15, 2017. The update will be applied during your normal daily maintenance window.
The Oracle Help Center, which provides access to updated documentation, will also be available on September 1, 2017.
NOTE: Account Reconciliation Cloud does not support migration of snapshots from the latest service version to an earlier service version (for example, when moving snapshots between test and production pods during the window when test is upgraded before production.) Migration between the same versions will still be supported. Some objects, such as Profiles, may still be moved from the latest to an earlier version outside of migration snapshots by exporting them from the latest service version and importing them into the earlier version.
Maximum Allowed Attachment Size Increased From 10MB to 20 MB
In Reconciliation Compliance, an administrator can set the maximum allowed attachment size up to 20MB in System Settings.
Automating Application Snapshot Uploads
While submitting feedback, Service Administrators can consent to submit the last maintenance snapshot of the instance to Oracle to expeditiously troubleshoot the issue and test fixes.
Oracle uses the submitted application snapshot for testing purposes only; no changes will be made to the application or data. If you consent to submit the maintenance snapshot, Oracle automatically copies the log files and maintenance snapshot to the sftp server. For detailed instructions, see “Helping Oracle Collect Diagnostic Information Using the Provide Feedback Utility” in Getting Started with Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud for Administrators.
The sign in process no longer requires you to select an identity domain while accessing the service. To simplify the sign in process, the name of your identity domain is now derived from the URL that you specify.
NOTE: This is an Oracle Cloud enhancement, which may already have been rolled out through Oracle Cloud data centers.
Support for Single Sign-On Using Oracle Identity Cloud Services (IDCS)
You can configure single sign-on (SSO) access to Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud using Oracle Identity Cloud Services (IDCS), which provides a comprehensive cloud-based identity management and security platform that supports a universal set of access controls, permissions, and password security constraints.
Configuring SSO requires you to configure a SAML 2.0 link between Oracle Identity Cloud Service and Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud. See “Configuring Single Sign-On in Using Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud” for information on configuring SSO using IDCS.
Integrated Business Process Navigation Flows
Service Administrators can set up connections that enable users to navigate across Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud subscriptions to create unified business process flows across multiple subscriptions which can belong to any combination of EPM subscriptions. The following subscriptions are supported within this feature:
- Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud
- Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud
- Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud
- Oracle Tax Reporting Cloud
- Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud
- Oracle Profitability and Cost Management Cloud
- Oracle Enterprise Performance Reporting Cloud
Considerations:
- Connections can be created using any of the following services as a source for the connection:
- Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud
- Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud
- Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud
- Oracle Tax Reporting Cloud
- All EPM service subscriptions can be connected into from these source connections. Connections can also be created between subscriptions of the same service type. Following connections are supported with this feature:
- Connections where services are in same domain within the same data center
- Connection across multiple subscriptions when services are in different domains and different data centers if an identity provider is set up for federated SSO
- Connection across multiple subscriptions when services are in different domains within the same data center will be supported in a future update.
For detailed information about connecting EPM Cloud services and navigating across applications, see “Connecting Subscriptions in EPM Cloud” in the Administrator’s Guide of the source service.
You can now use a REST API to copy an application snapshot. See “Copy Application Snapshot” in the Oracle® Cloud REST API for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud guide.
Simplified Provisioning Report
This release includes an enhanced Provisioning Report that provides a concise view of the roles assigned to each user. In addition to providing the number of provisioned users, the enhanced report presents information on each provisioned user in one row so as to provide a comprehensive view of all assigned roles.
For information on viewing the Provisioning Report, see “Generating Service-Level Provisioning Report” in Administering Access Control for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud.
Give Us Documentation Feedback
We welcome your comments and suggestions to improve the content of the What's New document and the product documentation. Please send us your feedback at E EPMdoc_ww@oracle.com. State that you are inquiring or providing feedback, and indicate for which EPM Cloud service as well as the monthly patch cycle, in the body or title of the email.
File-Based Integration of Data Management with Oracle Fusion Financials Cloud
Oracle Fusion Financial Cloud Budgetary Control and Encumbrance Accounting is now fully integrated with Data Management.
This enhancement brings the integration of Oracle Fusion Financials Cloud with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud on par with the current, out of the box, file-based integration. As a result, the file-based integration is not supported starting this update.
There are no customer reports defects fixed in this update.
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