The following announcements and considerations are outlined in the upcoming Oracle Profitability and Cost Management Cloud  (PCMCS) update:

Monthly Update Schedule:

Oracle will apply the latest updates to your test environment on Friday, November 3, 2017 and to your production environment on Friday, November 17, 2017. The update will be applied during your normal daily maintenance window.

Announcements and New Features:

• Express Editing for Calculation Rules  
• Adding Alias Tables with Dimension Management  
• A New REST API Automatically Generates Program Documentation Reports 

Defects Fixed:

• 26789795 - Profitability and Cost Management Cloud trace allocation reports are now generated as expected.
• 26754786 - Aliases now are displaying correctly in model views and rule set contexts.
• 26753971 - You can now load multiple dimension files with EPM Automate.

Removal of Support for Financial Reporting Studio Desktop Client:

• Oracle is committed to providing a simple and intuitive user experience. To achieve this, Financial Reporting Web Studio, available since March 2016, will become the only environment for designing and building reports.

• Oracle is providing additional time for users to transition from Financial Reporting Desktop Studio to Financial Reporting Web Studio. Tentative plans call for functional parity between Financial Reporting Web Studio and Financial Reporting Desktop Studio in early 2018, at which time, support for the desktop Studio will transition to the Web Studio and distribution of the Desktop Studio will cease.

• Oracle recommends that you transition to using Financial Reporting Web Studio at the earliest opportunity. Please send questions and concerns to Oracle using the Provide Feedback option in the service.

Considerations:

• Mozilla Firefox  
• Microsoft Excel Known Issue That Affects Smart View for Office  
• Oracle Profitability and Cost Management Cloud Supports Smart View Private Connections  
• Avoid Special Characters in Artifact Names, Including Calculation Rules 

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

The following announcements and considerations are outlined in the upcoming Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud (PBCS) update:

Monthly Update Schedule:

Oracle will apply the latest updates to your test environment on Friday, November 3, 2017 and to your production environment on Friday, November 17, 2017. The update will be applied during your normal daily maintenance window.

New Features:

New Features for Planning and Budgeting Cloud and Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud

• Changes to CSV Version of the Provisioning Report  
• Registering Duplicate Target Application Names in Data Management

New Features for Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud Only:

• Currency Conversion for Weekly Plans  
• Detailed Configuration for Weekly Planning  
• Strategic Modeling Supports Creating and Editing Dataviews  
• Groovy Rules Support Data Maps and Smart Push

Removal of Support:

• Standard Interface (Planning and Budgeting Cloud Workspace Interface)  
• Financial Reporting Studio Desktop Client  
• Classic Dimension Editor

Defects Fixed:

Refer to the November 2017 - Defects updates for the full list.

Considerations:

• USING FIREFOX ESR 52.4.2 WITH SMART VIEW
  • Future releases of Mozilla Firefox will be phasing out support for XUL-based add-ons such as Smart View. Starting in mid-November 2017, only add-ons and extensions built with new web extension technology will work in Firefox. Therefore, Smart View 11.1.2.5.710 only supports Firefox versions up to ESR 52.4.1. If you want to continue using Firefox with Smart View 11.1.2.5.710, do not upgrade your Firefox browser.
  • If your Firefox browser is set to automatically install updates, Oracle recommends changing the setting to “Check for updates, but let me choose whether to install them.” See the Firefox help for instructions on changing this setting.

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 Planning and Budgeting Cloud - Product Documentation

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

The following announcements and considerations are outlined in the upcoming Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud (FCCS) update:

Monthly Update Schedule:

Oracle will apply the latest updates to your test environment on Friday, November 3, 2017 and to your production environment on Friday, November 17, 2017. The update will be applied during your normal daily maintenance window.

Note: You can migrate maintenance snapshots from the current version of the service instance to the preceding version or to the next version. For example, snapshots from 17.08 can be imported into 17.07 and 17.09 service instances. Migration between the same versions is always supported. For more information about migration, see Administering Migration for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud.

New Features:

• Configurable Calculations  
• Integrations Between EPM Cloud Services  
• Integration Available Between FCCS and TRCS and On-Premise Oracle E-Business Suite  
• Generating Custom Reports for Close Manager and Supplemental Data Manager  
• Journal Referential Integrity  
• Journals Display Currency Name  
• Updated Opening Balance Adjustment Translation for Historical Accounts  
• Limits on Dimension Members  
• Changes to CSV Version of the Provisioning Report  
• Registering Duplicate Target Application Names in Data Management

Removal of Support:

• Classic Dimension Editor - Effective the February 2018 (18.02) update, the Dimensions link in the Navigator will link to the Simplified Dimension Editor. Consequently, the Classic Dimension Editor will not be supported starting with the February 2018 update to the service (February 2, 2018 for test and February 16, 2018 for production instances). 
• 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 being phased out starting the September update to the service.
  • If you are using file-based integration between Oracle Fusion Financials Cloud and Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud, Oracle recommends that you adopt this new integration as soon as possible.

• Refer to the November 2017 - Defects updates for full list.

Considerations:

• Adding Base Members From Dimension Editor  
• Importing a Single Currency to 17.11  
• Smart View  
• Copying and Clearing Data  
• Change in Calculation of CTA for Net Income/Retained Earnings Current Accounts  
• CICTA Redirection Account Settings Not Retained After Upgrade  
• Self Service Upgrade  
• FCCS Amount Override and Rate Override Accounts  
• Editing Dates in a Data Collection Period  
• Entity Member Names/Aliases with ICP Property  
•  Working with Metadata 

Upcoming Updates to Plan For:

Please take note of these important changes coming to Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud in the next few months, and plan accordingly.

• Advanced Consolidation Capabilities - Advanced Consolidation features will be included in future updates. If the Ownership Management feature (which allows you to use Advanced Consolidation) is enabled, you will need to reconsolidate all existing data in order to re-populate the Proportion Consolidation dimension.

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 Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud - Product Documentation

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

The following announcements and considerations are outlined in the upcoming Oracle Enterprise Performance Reporting Cloud (EPRCS) update:

Monthly Update Schedule:

Oracle will apply the latest updates to your test environment on Friday, November 3, 2017 and to your production environment on Friday, November 17, 2017. The update will be applied during your normal daily maintenance window.

New Features:

• Conditional Formatting and Suppression in Management Reports  
• Inline XBRL Support in Disclosure Management 

Considerations:

• Management Reporting 
• Report Packages 
• Smart View
• Disclosure Management

Defects Fixed:

• 26695888 - In report packages, documents with subsections are now numbered correctly in the table of contents.
  • NOTE: To apply this fix to existing report packages, download the style sample document, modify it slightly to notify the system that is has changed (for example, insert a space), and then upload it. Then, edit your report package properties and re-upload and apply the style sample document.
• 26920875 - You can now import or copy report packages with a large number of reference doclets.

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 Enterprise Performance Reporting Cloud - Product Documentation

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

The following announcements and considerations are outlined in the upcoming Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud (ARCS) update:

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, November 3, 2017 and to your production environment on Friday, November 17, 2017. The update will be applied during your normal daily maintenance window.

NOTE: Account Reconciliation Cloud no longer supports 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.

• Integrations Between EPM Cloud Services  
• Changes to CSV Version of the Provisioning Report  
• Reusing Target Application Names 

Defects Fixed:

• 26942187    Toolbar sizing corrected so that buttons are not pushed into pop up menu.
• 26938395    Auto close of null balance reconciliations has been corrected.
• 26912959    Ability to load transactions with no zero before decimal point allowed.
• 26877418    Sorting account profiles based on organizational unit working properly.
• 26866877    All data source types are now correctly displayed in the drop-down for data source while defining a match process
• 26843496    Generating a report binder from Reconciliations worklist is now working properly.
• 26803889    Email notifications are now being correctly sent from the System account.
• 26103153    Auto Match for a many to 1 rule is now matching the proper number of transactions.

• When using EPM Automate, log out and log in again after importing a Financial Close Management (FCM) snapshot to refresh the icons on the Home page.
• You may receive inaccurate messages from Navigator if pop-up blockers are enabled.  Disable pop-up blockers in your browser to avoid this.
• In the Academy, some pages and icons may appear different in the video and the Cloud service.

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.

• Account Reconciliation Product Documentation

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