June 2021 Update

Revision History

This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table:

Date	Product	Feature	Notes
27 MAY 2021			Created initial document.

Overview

This document outlines the upcoming Enterprise Performance Management Cloud update.

Feature Summary

Enterprise Performance Management Cloud

Monthly Update Schedule

Test Environments: Oracle will apply this monthly update during the first daily maintenance that occurs at or after 22:00 UTC on Friday, June 4, 2021.

Production Environments: Oracle will apply this monthly update during the first daily maintenance that occurs at or after 22:00 UTC on Friday, June 18, 2021.

NOTE: Backing up the daily maintenance snapshot and restoring the environment as needed are self-service operations. Oracle strongly recommends that you download the maintenance snapshot every day to a local server.

The Oracle Help Center provides access to updated documentation. The updates will be available in the Help Center on Friday, June 4, 2021.

NOTE: Some of the links to new feature documentation included in this readiness document will not work until after the Oracle Help Center update is complete.

Fixed Issues and Considerations

Software issues addressed each month and considerations will be posted to My Oracle Support.

This provides visibility into EPM Cloud release contents.

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NOTE: The Settings and Actions menu now contains a link to Cloud Customer Connect. To access this link, from the Home page, click the down arrow next to the user name (in the upper right-hand corner of the screen), and select Cloud Customer Connect.

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EPM Cloud Common

This section contains announcements related to the common EPM Cloud components such as EPM Automate, Migration, Access Control, Data Integration, Calc Manager, and Smart View for Office.

New Video

A new video is available.

Applies to: Account Reconciliation, Financial Consolidation and Close, Narrative Reporting, Planning, Planning Modules, Profitability and Cost Management, Tax Reporting

Overview: Embedding Content Using Direct Links

Wish you could insert functionally tailored artifacts from ERP EPM Cloud, Sales Planning Cloud, and Strategic Workforce Planning Cloud in your other systems? You can with direct links! Use direct links to enrich your planning, financial close, and reporting processes with forms, reports, and dashboards all within one, unified interface.

Business Benefit: Videos provide 3-5 minute overviews and step-by step instructions to perform tasks and achieve an outcome.

Updates to Getting Started with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud for Administrators for OCI (Gen 2)

The Getting Started with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud for Administrators Guide has been enhanced with topics that help you work in EPM Cloud environments supported on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure OCI (Gen 2).

Applies to: Account Reconciliation, Enterprise Data Management, Financial Consolidation and Close, Narrative Reporting, Planning, Planning Modules, Profitability and Cost Management, Tax Reporting

Updated and newly added topics include the following:

• Activating an EPM Cloud Subscription (for First-time Customers and Reorders)
• Key Terms and Concepts
• Accessing My Services
• Accessing Oracle Cloud Identity Console
• Sample EPM Cloud URLs
• URL Syntax for Smart View Connections
• Creating Users
• Assigning Roles to Users
• Setting up Secure Access
• Using Vanity URLs
• Retrieving Data after Service Termination

Business Benefit: These new or updated topics help customers to use My Services (OCI) and Oracle Cloud Identity Console to manage EPM Cloud users and security.

Key Resources

• Getting Started with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud for Administrators

Audit and User Reports Available in OCI (Gen 2)

In EPM Cloud on OCI (Gen 2) architecture, Identity Cloud Service provides you audit and login reports generated for preset ranges of 30, 60 or 90 days. Additionally, you can generate these reports for a custom date range. You can also download these reports as CSV files. The available reports include Application Access Report, Application Role Privilege Report, Successful Login Attempts Report, Unsuccessful Login Attempt Report, and Dormant Users Report.

Applies to: Account Reconciliation, Enterprise Data Management, Financial Consolidation and Close, Narrative Reporting, Planning, Planning Modules, Profitability and Cost Management, Tax Reporting

• Application Access Report shows which users accessed which applications and when.

• Application Role Privilege Report shows which users got assigned or unassigned to predefined roles in an environment. It also shows who assigned or unassigned them and when.

• Successful Login Attempts Report lists the users who successfully signed in and the providers they used to authenticate.

• Unsuccessful Login Attempt Report lists the users who failed to login, and the reasons why the failures occurred.

• Dormant Users Report lists the users who have not logged in since a predefined date.

You can also get these reports through IDCS REST APIs.

Business Benefit: These reports are highly requested by customers for accurate audit reporting.

Key Resources

• Accessing Audit and User Reports in Identity Cloud Service (for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure only) in Getting Started with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud for Administrators

REST APIs for EPM Cloud Now Support OAuth 2 on OCI (Gen 2)

You can now use OAuth 2 with REST APIs for EPM Cloud on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

Applies to: Account Reconciliation, Enterprise Data Management, Financial Consolidation and Close, Narrative Reporting, Planning, Planning Modules, Profitability and Cost Management, Tax Reporting

Business Benefit: Using OAuth lets you use an OAuth token to log in to an EPM Cloud environment, obviating the need for basic authorization (using passwords).

Key Resources

• Authentication in REST API for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud

Role Information

• Service Administrators

REST API for Get Applications Now Shows the Application Login Level

The Get Applications REST API now displays the login level. The response now includes a field called adminMode. This parameter returns a Boolean value:

• true indicates that the login level for the application is set to Administrators
• false indicates that the login level is set to All Users.

Applies to: Financial Consolidation and Close, Planning, Planning Modules, Tax Reporting

Business Benefit: The adminMode feature lets you quickly determine the application login level.

Key Resources

• Get Applications in REST API for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud

Role Information

• Service Administrators

Removal of Some Migration Options

Oracle has removed some unused or rarely used options from the Import Options screen in Migration.

Applies to: Account Reconciliation, Enterprise Data Management, Financial Consolidation and Close, Narrative Reporting, Planning, Planning Modules, Profitability and Cost Management, Tax Reporting

The Essbase Application options are no longer used in Migration. Default values are used instead of the Data Management - Skip Validation and Groups and Membership - Max Threshold options, as indicated in the following table:

Deleted Import Options and Default Replacement Values

Migration Option	Import Default Value
Data Management - Skip Validation	False
Essbase Application - Overwrite Artifacts	N/A
Essbase Application - Restructure Cube	N/A
Groups and Membership - Max Error Threshold	100

Changes in Import Options Screen

Business Benefit: The removal of these options streamlines the import process by removing unused settings.

Key Resources

• Setting Import Options in Administering Migration for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud

Update to EPM Automate Guide

The Working with EPM Automate for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud guide has been enhanced by adding new sample scripts that help customers leverage Oracle Object Storage to copy the daily snapshots directly from EPM Cloud, and copy it back to EPM Cloud as needed.

Applies to: Account Reconciliation, Enterprise Data Management, Financial Consolidation and Close, Narrative Reporting, Planning, Planning Modules, Profitability and Cost Management, Tax Reporting

Business Benefit: The new scripts help you automate the backing up of snapshots from EPM Cloud environments to Oracle Object Storage and the restoring of backup snapshots to EPM Cloud environments.

Key Resources

• Copying a Snapshot to or from Oracle Object Storage in Working with EPM Automate for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud

Dashboards 1.0 Enhancements

Enhancements were made to Dashboards 1.0 to make form instructions directly accessible from the dashboard, to make the handles and borders that resize objects in flexible dashboard layouts more prominent, and to expand the amount of text allowed in commentary dashboard objects to up to 2000 characters.

Applies to: Financial Consolidation and Close, Planning, Planning Modules, Tax Reporting

Some dashboard forms include instructions describing for users how to work with the form. Previously, the link to view dashboard form instructions was only accessible if the form was maximized. Now if a form has instructions configured for it, the instructions icon is accessible from the dashboard form's hover toolbar.

Dashboard Object Hover Icons

For 1.0 Dashboards that use a Flexible layout, we've enlarged the handles you use to expand and restore the dashboard object. We've also made the borders you drag to resize an object more prominent.

Lastly, for Commentary Dashboards 1.0 objects, we've expanded the text limit to 2000 characters. The 2000 character limit includes any formatting tags that are added for rich text.

NOTE: These enhancements are applicable only to Dashboards 1.0 and not to Dashboards 2.0.

Business Benefit: Improved usability for Dashboards 1.0.

Key Resources

• Creating Dashboards 1.0 in Administering Planning

OAuth 2 Enablement for EPM Digital Assistant

Starting in this update, you can configure the EPM Digital Assistant with OAuth 2, which will allow you to use an OAuth token to log in.

Applies to: Account Reconciliation, Financial Consolidation and Close

Business Benefit: Accessing the EPM Digital Assistant will be more seamless. Once you’ve logged into EPM Cloud, you won’t have to log in again to use the EPM Digital Assistant.

Steps to Enable

You must have a subscription to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) in order to use OAuth.

Key Resources

• Setting Up OAuth for Authentication in Getting Started with the Digital Assistant for Oracle Cloud Enterprise Performance Management

Microsoft Teams, Slack Support for EPM Skills for Digital Assistant

Starting in this update, EPM Skills are now supported in Microsoft Teams and Slack.

Applies to: Account Reconciliation, Financial Consolidation and Close

Business Benefit: Support for EPM skills in Microsoft Teams and Slack helps you get answers to EPM business questions from within these channels, thus improving productivity.

Key Resources

• Setting Up Channels in Getting Started with the Digital Assistant for Oracle Cloud Enterprise Performance Management

Easier Report List Search and Ability to Preserve or Clear Parameters When Generating Reports

The Reports enhancements add the following capabilities, including a Quick Search option, Back button and Reset button.

• Quick Search option: Helps to find a report under a selected group
• Back button: Preserves the parameters and provides an option to regenerate the report
• Reset button: Clears the parameters and provides an option to regenerate the report

Applies to: Account Reconciliation, Task Manager and Supplemental Data Manager in Financial Consolidation and Close and Tax Reporting

Business Benefit: The Reports search capability makes it easier to find the report you are looking for. The Back and Reset buttons give you the ability to preserve or clear parameters and makes it easier to generate reports.

Key Resources

• Using Reports in Administering Account Reconciliation
• Using Task Manager and Supplemental Data Manager Reports in Administering Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud

Task Manager Integration Parameters for Account Reconciliations

In Task Manager, the View Reconciliations and View Transactions remote Integration Task Types for Account Reconciliation now have drop-down selections for the parameters.

Applies to: Financial Consolidation and Close, Tax Reporting

Business Benefit: In Task Manager, you can select parameters from drop-down lists for all Account Reconciliation Integrations.

Key Resources

• Pre-Built EPM Cloud Integrations in Administering Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud

New EPM Integration Agent Diagnostic Mode

The EPM Integration Agent now enables you to run a set of validations against the parameters in the agent startup file. 

Applies to: Financial Consolidation and Close, Planning, Planning Modules, Tax Reporting

In diagnostic mode, the agent is not registered to the EPM Cloud but runs these validations:

• SSL certificates 
• Agent connectivity to the Internet. Includes making a test call to the oracle.com from the agent. 
• Agent connectivity to the EPM Cloud URL within the agent.
• Proxy type (basic, digest, or NTML) when proxy is enabled in the customers environment 
• Double quotes are used in Linux/Mac OS startup parameter file entries. Double quotes enable the shell to interpret dollar sign ($), backtick(`), backslash(\) and exclamation mark(!)
• Password is encrypted in the agent parameter file.
• Checks any whitespaces before or after parameters. If whitespaces are encountered, the system trims them and updates the startup parameter file.

Business Benefit: Diagnostic mode provides a way to identify any issues with the EPM Integration Agent startup parameters or network connectivity.

Key Resources

• Starting the EPM Integration Agent in Diagnostic Mode in Administering Data Integration for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud

Importing Data from Files in the EPM Integration Inbox

Customers can now import data from a file in a local EPM Integration Agent inbox folder and then have the agent upload and process the file.

Applies to: Financial Consolidation and Close, Planning, Planning Modules, Tax Reporting

This feature requires that a customer create an inbox in the EPM Integration Agent Data folder and then stage the file. Additionally, the customer must specify the location of the inbox in the startup parameters file and then update the integration definition in Data Integration.

Business Benefit: Prior to this update, a customer had to use an EPM Automate command to import data from a file to the EPM Integration Agent.

Key Resources

• Administering Data Integration for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud:
  • Importing Data From Files in the EPM Integration Inbox
  • Configuring the EPM Integration Agent Startup Parameters
  • Setting Data Integration Options

New EPM Integration Agent File Adapter

In this update, Data Integration supports the direct load of a file-based data source using the EPM Integration Agent.

Applies to: Financial Consolidation and Close, Planning, Planning Modules, Tax Reporting

With this feature, customers can now create a new data source adapter for an on-premises file. The agent file adapter does not include any connection or query parameters. The only required parameter is the name of the file.  A delimited file with a header record is required for the load.

Business Benefit: The Agent File adapter enables customers to load very large files from an on-premises file data source to the EPM Cloud. It extends the direct load method where the EPM Cloud database is bypassed for staging and processing, eliminating any performance bottlenecks and improving the performance and scalability of the load process.

Key Resources

• Administering Data Integration for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud:
  • Registering an On-Premises File
  • Using an Agent File Adapter

Changes to Oracle Netsuite Authentication

NSPB Sync SuiteApp Saved Search authentication for accessing integrations has changed. Integrations now requires token-based authorization instead of basic authentication in order to set up the connection to NSPB Sync SuiteApp Saved Searches from the EPM Cloud. Basic authorization credentials have been made read only in this release.

Applies to: Account Reconciliation, Financial Consolidation and Close, Planning, Planning Modules, Tax Reporting

Business Benefit: Token-based authorization is self-contained and contains all the information needed to connect to Oracle Netsuite.

Key Resources

• Registering Oracle Netsuite Applications in Administering Data Integration for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud

Exporting Dynamic Calculated Values from Financial Consolidation and Close

In Data Integration, you can now extract dynamic calculated values when exporting data from Financial Consolidation and Close by selecting the All Data selection as the Data Extract method in integration options.

Applies to: Financial Consolidation and Close, Tax Reporting

Dynamic calculated values refer to member data values calculated upon retrieval.

Business Benefit: For Financial Consolidation and Close customers, it may be more efficient to calculate some member combinations when you retrieve their data, instead of precalculating the member combinations during a batch database calculation. Dynamically calculating some values in a database can significantly improve the performance of an overall database calculation.

Steps to Enable

It is a prerequisite that the CONTROL TO-DATE VIEW STORAGE setting in Financial Consolidation and Close is enabled to extract dynamic calculated values using Data Integration.

Key Resources

• Setting Direct Integration Options in Administering Data Integration for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud
• Using the Control To_Date View Option in Administering Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud

Account Reconciliation

New Tutorials

The following new tutorials are now available:

Preparing Reconciliations in Reconciliation Compliance

Learn how to prepare account reconciliations in Reconciliation Compliance. You learn how to view balances, claim reconciliations in bulk, enter transactions, add comments and attachments, clear team alerts, and submit reconciliations for review.

Adding Transactions to Reconciliations in Reconciliation Compliance

Learn how to import transactions into reconciliations in Reconciliation Compliance from flat files and Excel using Smart View.

Business Benefit: These videos provide step-by-step instructions to help you perform your related business activities.

Ability to Activate/Deactivate a Rule While Configuring the Match Type

In Transaction Matching, Administrators can now deactivate a rule on the Edit Rule dialog if they do not want the rule to run during Auto Match.  Existing and new rules will default to “Active”.

Business Benefit: This feature is useful during match rule creation and testing so that you can then deactivate a rule that you do not want to run during Auto Match.

Key Resources

• Defining the Match Process by Creating Rules in Setting Up and Configuring Account Reconciliation

REST API and EPM Automate Command Available for Purge Transactions in Transaction Matching

You can now use either a REST API or EPM Automate command to purge transactions in Transaction Matching in addition to using the Account Reconciliation purge feature in the user interface.

Business Benefit: Using a REST API or EPM Automate command to perform a transactions purge can make it faster and easier for users.

Key Resources

• purgeTmTransactions in Working with EPM Automate for Enterprise Performance Management Cloud
• Purge Transactions in REST API for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud
• Performing a Purge of Transactions in Transaction Matching in Administering Account Reconciliation

Enterprise Data Management

There are no new features in this update except for the applicable features listed in the EPM Cloud Common section.

Updated Videos

The following videos have been updated.

Overview: Workflow Approvals in Enterprise Data Management

Updated to reflect the latest capabilities, this video orients you with the workflow process that you'll use to collaboratively submit and evaluate changes to enterprise data made through requests.

Incorporating Subscriptions Into Approval Workflows

Learn how to incorporate subscriptions into approval workflows to orchestrate consistent change across applications in Oracle Enterprise Data Management Cloud. The updated video reflects UI changes, new features, and differences in procedural steps.

Business Benefit: Videos provide overviews and step-by-step instructions to help you perform your related business activities.

Financial Consolidation and Close

Control To-Date View Storage Option

When you create an application, you can select the Control To-Date View Storage option, which enables you to store and consolidate data by View – for example, Periodic data only. When you select the Control To-Date View Storage option, the system adds several new consolidation and translation rules.

• Consolidate – by selected View
• Translate -by selected View (for multi-currency applications)
• ForceConsolidate – by selected View
• ForceTranslate – by selected View

NOTE: This feature is only available for Hybrid applications, and when the application is created with only Account as the dense dimension.

Business Benefit: When these rules are run, only the Periodic data is consolidated and stored, which results in smaller application size, faster consolidation times, faster restructure times, and easier maintenance.

Steps to Enable

Before you enable the Control To-Date View Storage option, you must review the steps in “Using the Control To-Date Storage Option”.   You can then enable the feature during application creation, or from the Application Configuration screen for existing applications.

Key Resources

• Using the Control To_Date View Option in in Administering Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud

Journal Report Enhancements

Journal reports have been enhanced to allow multiple period selection from within the same year or across years, the ability to select columns for the report and the option to include group by subtotals for selected columns. In addition, the Journal Report header information is now aligned as a single column.

Business Benefit: Journal report enhancements allow for greater flexibility in selecting periods, and the ability to customize the display.

Key Resources

• Managing Journal Reports in Working with Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud

Narrative Reporting

Disclosure Management customers should refer to an important Statement of Direction update.

Oracle Support Document 2762013.1 (Oracle Cloud Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Narrative Reporting - Disclosure Management Statement of Direction) can be found at:

https://support.oracle.com/epmos/faces/DocumentDisplay?id=2762013.1

Copy a Library Artifact URL to the Clipboard

This feature provides the ability to copy the URL of a Library artifact such as a Report Package, Report, Snapshot Report, Book, or a third-party file. The URL will launch the artifact directly into a thin viewer or download the third-party file. Once copied, the URL can be distributed so users can easily access the artifact or file via a direct link. It can also be set up as a browser favorite.

Business Benefit: Provides users with a direct URL to open a Library Artifact.

Key Resources

• Copying a URL for Reports and Books in Working with Reports for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud
• Copying a URL to Clipboard in Administering Narrative Reporting
• Copying a URL to Clipboard in Creating and Managing Report Packages for Narrative Reporting
• Copying a URL to Clipboard in Authoring and Approving Doclets for Narrative Reporting
• Copying a URL to Clipboard in Reviewing, Signing, and Receiving Report Packages in Narrative Reporting

Rest API to Publish a Word Report Package to Word

You can use this REST API to publish a Word document to native Word output.

Applies to: Narrative Reporting

Business Benefit: Automate publishing a report package to Word output.

Key Resources

• REST API for Narrative Reporting

Updated Narrative Reporting Extension for Smart View

The Narrative Reporting 21.06 extension for Oracle Smart View for Office is available to download and install. This update includes general improvements and bug fixes.

Business Benefit: Downloading and installing the latest Narrative Reporting extension for Smart View gives you access to the latest improvements and bug fixes.

Key Resources

• Installing the Narrative Reporting Extension in Working with Oracle Smart View for Office

Planning

Updated Videos

Two video tutorials are updated for Planning.

Performing Income Statement Planning

Learn how to plan for revenue and expenses so you can see how modules impact the bottom line. You set up assumptions for driver-based, trend-based and direct input accounts in Financials to drive revenue and expenses and to help determine which courses of action are more profitable. Furthermore, you can compare plan versus actual to analyze variances and you can analyze the detailed plans from each module to determine which are more profitable.

Performing Balance Sheet and Cashflow Planning

See how to plan for the balance sheet and cashflows. You set up assumptions for driver-based, trend-based and direct input accounts in Financials to drive balance sheet and cashflow plans.

Business Benefit: Videos provide 3-5 minute overviews and step-by step instructions to perform tasks and achieve an outcome.

Profitability and Cost Management

There are no new features in this update except for the applicable features listed in the EPM Cloud Common section.

Tax Reporting

There are no new features in this update except for the applicable features listed in the EPM Cloud Common section.

IMPORTANT Actions and Considerations

EPM CLOUD COMMON

Redwood Experience as Default Theme

Within the next few months, the Redwood experience will be the default theme upon creation or recreation of an EPM Cloud service, or upon creation or recreation of a business process/application for all instances (existing as well as new). Existing active services/business processes/applications will not be impacted. All migrations (i.e., LCM import/reimports of existing cloud applications) will honor the theme from the source/import file. You will be able to switch to an alternate non-Redwood experience theme from the Appearance page in the Tools cluster.

Support for Composite Forms in EPM Cloud

As of the May update (21.05), Oracle EPM Cloud no longer officially supports composite forms. As has been announced for several months, customers are required to use EPM Cloud dashboards instead. Customers can continue to use their composite forms without support.

Upcoming Security Changes for Predefined Reports

In an upcoming release, Power User security will be enforced on:

• All predefined Reconciliation Manager and Transaction Matching reports in Account Reconciliation
• All predefined Task Manager reports in Financial Consolidation and Close and Tax Reporting

Loaner Program for Cloud Infrastructure Generation 2 Testing

Oracle EPM Cloud is now live on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Gen 2 environments. If you are interested in testing your application performance on an OCI Gen 2 environment, open a service request following the process at https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/enterprise-performance-management-common/tsepm/op_procs_loaner_envs.html and request for a loaner environment in an OCI Gen 2 data center for a duration of 30 days with the business justification as “Want to test application performance in an OCI Gen 2 data center”.

After you have performed the testing, submit Provide Feedback from the loaner environment. Create a service request using the normal support process, if you have any issues or feedback for the OCI Gen 2 environment.

For more information, see What is a Gen 2 Cloud?

SMART VIEW

Upcoming Change to Smart View Ad Hoc Behavior Setting

Starting with the August update (21.08), all new applications and all recreated applications will use “Standard” as the Smart View ad hoc behavior.

For existing applications and migrated applications, “Native” will remain as the default Smart View ad hoc behavior, with “Standard” being an option. Existing and migrated applications will not experience any change in behavior. Currently selected ad hoc behavior will be persisted.

Please note that "Native" mode in Smart View ad hoc behavior will eventually be phased out (timeline is yet to be determined). We recommend that all customers plan on switching their applications to "Standard" mode ad hoc behavior soon. 

Smart View Add-on Installation for Task Manager and Supplemental Data Manager

In an upcoming release, the installation of Smart View add-ons for Task Manager and Supplemental Data Manager will change. At that time, users of the Smart View add-ons will need to uninstall and re-install their add-ons to take advantage of the latest features and fixes.

PLANNING MODULES

Strategic Modeling Terminology Change

In a future update, the Consolidation feature in Strategic Modeling will be renamed Scenario Rollup.

Removal of Strategic Workforce Planning from EPM Cloud Workforce Planning

In an upcoming release, the Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP) enablement option will be removed for all EPM Cloud Planning Modules (Standard and Enterprise) and EPBCS applications that have not already enabled this feature in the Workforce Module. Customers who have already enabled this feature will see no change in their existing applications with this feature already enabled. No new applications will support this feature after this change.

Strategic Workforce Planning functionality is provided in the Strategic Workforce Planning Cloud Service (SWPCS) product, which contains robust SWP functionality that is not available in the existing EPM Cloud Planning Workforce module feature. SWPCS is an Oracle Human Capital Management (HCM) product built on EPM technology. For more information about SWPCS, please refer to the Strategic Workforce Planning information on www.oracle.com.

If you have any concerns about this change, please contact Oracle Support.

NARRATIVE REPORTING

Removal of EPMCTRL Transfer Utility

Starting in an upcoming release, the EPMCTRL Transfer Utility will be removed. Customers should use EPMAutomate, which includes all the commands currently available in the EPMCTRL Transfer Utility, going forward. For more information, see Backing Up and Restoring an Environment in Getting Started with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud for Administrators.

ACCOUNT RECONCILIATION

Added Flexibility for Security Assignments

Starting in an upcoming release, more flexible granular security assignments across all roles will be available. For example, if you want to assign certain tasks like creating reports, you will be able to assign that ability to them.  As part of this project Power User access to Data Loads will be updated so that the Service Administrator will have to assign this ability to the Power User rather than the Power User receiving it by default.