Monthly Update Schedule:

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, April 7, 2017 and to your production environment on Friday, April 21, 2017. The update will be applied during your normal daily maintenance window.

Announcements:

• Using the Tax Reporting Cloud Sample Application 
  
• Configuring Jurisdictions and Entities 
  
• Enhanced Usability of the RTA Automation Form 
  
• Importing Data 
  
• Displaying the POV Member Selector for a Report 
  
• Performance Enhancements 
  
• New EPM Automate Utility Version 
  
• Single Sign-On Access with NetSuite 
  
• Accommodating Daylight Savings Time 
  
• Activity Report Now Contains Information on Long Running Reports
• New Smart View for Office Version 
  
• Changing Financial Reporting Server Values in Financial Reporting Web Studio
  

• Oracle Cloud Release Readiness - Get up to speed on the latest cloud release and ensure your upgrade is a success with Oracle's Release Readiness assets. To access this broad range of assets, locate your service on the left, then choose a release from the service's drop-down menu. Learn and how to plan your upgrade by reviewing expanded discussions of new features,including capability overviews, business benefits, setup considerations and usage tips.

• Oracle Tax Reporting Cloud - Product Documentation

• My Oracle Support (MOS) Knowledge Article: Enterprise Performance Management Cloud Release Highlights Doc ID 2055579.1

Monthly Update Schedule:

This document outlines the announcements and known issues in the upcoming Oracle Profitability and Cost Management Cloud Service update. Oracle applies the monthly service update to your test environment on the first Friday of every month and to your production environment on the third Friday of every month.

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, April 7, 2017 and to your production environment on Friday, April 21, 2017. The update will be applied during your normal daily one-hour maintenance window.

Known Issues:

• Translated Help and Guides Are Now Available 
  
• New Smart View for Office Version 
  
• Single Sign-On with NetSuite 
  
• Improved Smart View Cell Formatting 
  
• Dimension Management Improvements 
  
• Activity Report Now Contains Information on Long Running Reports
• Changing Financial Reporting Server Values in Financial Reporting Web Studio 
  
• Activity Report Now Includes Smart View Version Information 
  
• Oracle Profitability and Cost Management Cloud Supports Smart View Private Connections 
  
• Avoid Special Characters in Artifact Names, Including Calculation Rules 
  

Removal of Support for Financial Reporting Studio Desktop Client

Oracle is committed to providing a simple and intuitive experience to the users of the service. To achieve this goal, Financial Reporting Web Studio will be established as the only tool for designing and building reports. In this update, Financial Reporting Web Studio will achieve parity with most of the functional capabilities provided with Financial Reporting Studio desktop client. You will be able to create new reports and modify existing reports using Financial Reporting Web Studio.

Support for Financial Reporting Studio desktop client will tentatively be stopped in the May 2017 update. Oracle will not distribute Financial Reporting Studio desktop client after May 2017. Please send questions and concerns to Oracle using the Provide Feedback option in the service.

Oracle recommends that you transition to using Financial Reporting Web Studio at the earliest opportunity.

Refer to the following links and documents for further information:

• Oracle Cloud Release Readiness - Get up to speed on the latest cloud release and ensure your upgrade is a success with Oracle's Release Readiness assets. To access this broad range of assets, locate your service on the left, then choose a release from the service's drop-down menu. Learn and how to plan your upgrade by reviewing expanded discussions of new features,including capability overviews, business benefits, setup considerations and usage tips.

• Oracle Profitability and Cost Management Cloud - Product Documentation

• My Oracle Support (MOS) Knowledge Article: Enterprise Performance Management Cloud Release Highlights Doc ID 2055579.1

Monthly Update Schedule:

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, April 7, 2017 and to your production environment on Friday, April 21, 2017. The update will be applied during your normal daily maintenance window.

New Features:

• New EPM Automate Utility Version
• Single Sign-On Access with NetSuite
• Activity Report Now Contains Information on Long Running Reports
• New Smart View for Office Version  
• Project Revenue Recognition What If Planning  
• Ability to Add Additional Expense Categories  
• Simplification of Project Earned Value Management and Forecast Preparations Rules  
• Export Exchange Rates Template for Simplified Multicurrency Applications  
• Exclude Dynamic Calculation Members from a Data Map Push  
• New System Setting: Allow Drilling on Shared Members in Ad Hoc Grids  
• Changing Financial Reporting Server Values in Financial Reporting Web Studio  
• Displaying the POV Prompt for Reports  
• Data Management Integration with Oracle Fusion Cloud Budgetary Control and Encumbrance Accounting  
• Application Design Best Practices  
• Changing Maintenance Time to Accommodate Daylight Saving Time 
  

Removal of Support:

• Standard Interface (Planning and Budgeting Cloud Workspace) 
  
• Financial Reporting Studio Desktop Client
• File-Based Integration of Data Management with Oracle Fusion Financials Cloud
  

Defects Fixed:

• Refer to the April 2017 updates for full list of defects.
  

• Oracle Cloud Release Readiness - Get up to speed on the latest cloud release and ensure your upgrade is a success with Oracle's Release Readiness assets. To access this broad range of assets, locate your service on the left, then choose a release from the service's drop-down menu. Learn and how to plan your upgrade by reviewing expanded discussions of new features,including capability overviews, business benefits, setup considerations and usage tips.

• Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud - Product Documentation

• My Oracle Support (MOS) Knowledge Article: Enterprise Performance Management Cloud Release Highlights Doc ID 2055579.1