Thursday, November 5, 2026

Oracle Gen AI and New Skills for Core Infrastructure

New Skills for Core Infrastructure Management 

Including Security, Audit, Migration, Activity Reporting, Essbase Diagnostics, and Concurrent Testing

These skills let you use natural language to ask questions, explore business data, and prepare supported administrative actions, and require exact approval before most operations that change state or start work.

The Core AI skills support Oracle Cloud EPM infrastructure administration across the following 11 functional areas through validated REST operations.

  • Access Control and Identity Reports skill helps you review access permissions, assignments, and login history.  Supported reports include user and group role assignments, user-to-group assignments, user logins, invalid logins, user access, and assignment audits.
  • Environment, Services and Maintenance skill helps you manage service operations, maintenance schedules, environment recovery, and communications. This skill supports service inspection and environment operations such as reading the daily maintenance time settings and build version, inspecting session timeout and skipped updates, and reviewing email-domain policy. It also supports registered operations for maintenance changes, service restart or recreation, environment cloning and restoration, outbound EPM email, and feedback submission.
  • Essbase Block Analysis skill helps generate diagnostic information about Essbase blocks (block analysis report) and check the associated diagnostic job status. It is useful when a Service Administrator needs block-level evidence as part of investigating cube storage or performance.
  • Essbase Data Export skill enables you to extract cube data for downstream use.
  • Files, Object Storage, and  SFTP skill helps you manage repository files and supported transfers. You can list repository files, download a selected file, prepare an upload, delete a selected file or custom inbox folder, and prepare copies between EPM and supported Object Storage, SFTP, or another EPM instance.
  • Identity and Access Management skill helps you manage user identities, groups, memberships, and role assignments. Service Administrators can inspect available roles, list users and EPM groups, and prepare changes such as creating a group, adding members, or updating role assignments.
  • Migration and Application Snapshots skill helps you manage lifecycle management activities related to application snapshots, artifact migration, and transfer of backups.  It can list snapshots, categories, artifacts, history, available backups, and import options, as well as prepare supported exports, imports, copies, and snapshot renaming.
  • Query Governor Settings skill helps you manage the Essbase query execution-time settings. This skill gives Service Administrators a focused way to inspect the configured query time limit and review a proposed adjustment.
  • Security Administration skill enables you to manage selected environment security controls: virus scanning on upload, restricted data access for Provide Feedback, Oracle manual database access, and the environment encryption key. 
  • Simulate Concurrent Usage skill helps you run defined concurrent-user workloads, including starting a concurrent-usage simulation using an uploaded definition file and checking simulation job status.
  • User Activity Reports skill helps you list and retrieve access logs and environment activity reports. You can list log or report records, download an Access Log as a CSV file, filter access records using supported fields, or retrieve the latest or a selected JSON Activity Report.

Tuesday, November 3, 2026

Oracle SmartView version 26.200 - New Features!

Oracle Smart View for Office 26.200 and New Features!

Oracle Smart View for Office version 26.200 comes with exciting new features and updates for EPM Cloud applications.  You can download from My Oracle Support and Oracle Technical Resources (formerly Oracle Technology Network).

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

The following new features are included:

  • Enhancements in IPM Insights in Smart View
    • Support for Period Movement Variance Insight
    • View Contextual Insights for Forms
  • Work on Reports in Microsoft PowerPoint using Smart View
  • Improvements in Member Selection Search
    • Use Preferred Option to Search Members
    • View Hierarchy of Members from the Flat List of Search Results
  • Open Flex Form as a Regular Form from Task List and Right-Click Context Menu
  • New Health Check Option: WebView2 Runtime Shared

Business Benefit: This Smart View release includes the latest features, improvements, and defect fixes.

Oracle EPM - IPM Insights: Ability to Show Top Insights in Dashboards

Oracle IPM Insights Assistant and How to Enable Dashboards?

The IPM Insights Assistant used within EPM Assistants enables Service Administrators to download AI agent templates for integrating Cloud Enterprise EPM or Cloud EDM with Fusion AI Agent Studio.

Applies To: Enterprise Profitability and Cost Management, FreeForm, Financial Consolidation and Close, Planning, Tax Reporting 

The IPM Insights Assistant provides a reusable AI Agent Studio workflow that enables agentic applications to retrieve, validate, and present IPM Insights. The workflow supports the following paths:

  • Retrieve Insight detail by Insight ID—Use this path when you already have an Insight UUID, usually obtained from an earlier Insights retrieval.
  • Retrieve applicable Insights from business process context—Use this path when you provide business process context and need applicable Insights.
  • Retrieve open Insights without context—Use this path when neither an Insight ID nor business process context is supplied.
You can now include the top insights in Dashboards 2.0.

Applies To: Enterprise Profitability and Cost Management, Financial Consolidation and Close, FreeForm, Planning, Tax Reporting

When you pair this feature with the ability to use a dashboard as a landing page, you enable planners to see relevant insights immediately when they log in. 

Top Insights in a Dashboard Used as a Landing Page

Users can also choose to display the available insights in a table.


Users can click the Actions Actions menu menu in an insight to see insight details, open it as an ad-hoc grid, and dismiss or delete an insight.

Administrators use the Dashboards Designer to add an Insights component to the dashboard:

Dashboard Object Palette


Monday, October 19, 2026

Oracle Enhancements to IPM Insights in Smart View

Enhancements to IPM Insights in Smart View

Applies to: Enterprise Profitability and Cost Management, Financial Consolidation and Close, FreeForm, Planning, Tax Reporting

You can now view and insert Period Movement Variance insight in Oracle Smart View for Office. You can also view form-specific insights in the context of an open form in Smart View.

In Smart View release 26.200, the following enhancements have been made to IPM Insights.

Support for Period Movement Variance Insight

Smart View now supports inserting Period Movement Variance insight. This insight detects significant variance between the current period and a benchmark period, that includes Year-on-Year, Custom Period, and Historical Average.

While inserting the insight in Smart View, the chart for the benchmark with the highest variance percentage is inserted by default. To view the charts for other available benchmarks, select the required benchmark from the Comparison list above the chart.

Inserting Period Movement Variance insight is supported in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint.

View Contextual Insights for Forms

In addition to viewing IPM insights at the application level, you can now view insights and insight summaries in the context of an open form. This enhancement makes accessing insights easier, especially if you are tracking a particular form on a regular basis. You can view insights for the form as a whole or for a cell range in the form.

The Insights AI dialog box displays the number of insights categorized by insight type and priority, along with an AI summary of the insights, if Generative AI is enabled in the web application of the business process.

Viewing IPM insights for a form is available only in Microsoft Excel.

  • To view all insights for a form, select and right-click a cell in the form grid, click Smart View in the right-click context menu, and then click Insights AI.

  • To view insights for a data slice within a form, select and right-click a range of cells in the form grid, click Smart View in the right-click context menu, and then click Insights AI.

Friday, September 11, 2026

Oracle EPM runApplicationDiagnostics EPM Automate Command

The runApplicationDiagnostics EPM Automate command is now available. This command creates an Application Diagnostics report by running the Execute Application Diagnostic job to validate the application for compliance with best practices for metadata, forms, rules, and more. It generates a diagnostics report you can download from the environment.

Business Benefit: This command helps you verify that your application design abides by recommended best practices.

runApplicationDiagnostics

Create an Application Diagnostics report. 

This command runs the Execute Application Diagnostic job to validate the application for compliance with best practices in the use of metadata, forms, rules, and so on. It generates a diagnostics report that you can download from the environment.

Applies to

Planning, Planning Modules

Required Roles

Service Administrator

Usage

epmautomate runApplicationDiagnostics [fileName=FILE_NAME.xlsx] [overwrite=true|false], where:
  • fileName, optionally, is a name for the report, which is created in the default download location. If not specified, the AppReviewReport_jobID_dd-mm-yyyy.xlsx naming format is used by default to name the report. In this format, jobID is the ID of the EXECUTE_APPLICATION_DIAGNOSTICS job used to generate the report.
  • overwrite identifies whether to overwrite any existing diagnostic report with an identical name. Default is false. If this value is set to false or is not specified, the command execution fails if the file identified by fileName exists.

Wednesday, September 2, 2026

Oracle FCCS Consolidation Assistant - Now Available !!

Oracle EPM FCCS Consolidation Assistant

A Consolidation Assistant is now available. The Consolidation Assistant helps Service Administrators identify and diagnose system issues, provides detailed diagnostic findings, and recommends appropriate resolutions to address the detected problems. 

Leveraging Generative AI, the assistant helps administrators understand the likely causes of consolidation performance issues and system health issues through a guided chat experience.

It combines metric anomaly analysis with recommendation-based findings, which enable administrators to review a diagnosis summary and resolve issues.

Business Benefit: The Consolidation Assistant significantly reduces the manual effort and time required to diagnose consolidation performance and system health issues from multiple data sources.

Steps to enable and configure

To use the Consolidation Assistant, you must first enable Generative AI for your environment. To enable Generative AI:

  1. From the Home page, click Application, then click Settings.
  2. Under Enable AI, select the checkbox to enable Generative AI, then click Save.

Saturday, August 15, 2026

NEW *** Oracle EPM Integration Agent

Oracle EPM -  New Version for EPM Integration Agent

A new version of the EPM Integration Agent is available in this release. The key updates include:

  • Java 17 or higher is required to run this Integration Agent version.
  • Resource Scope support for OAuth 2.0 authentication has been added, enabling compliance with the Resource Scope requirement for OAuth 2.0–based integrations.

If you are upgrading to this version, make sure that your environment is running Java 17 or later. If using OAUTH method for authentication, update the OAUTH2 configurations as needed to take advantage of the new Resource Scope support.

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

Business Benefit: The new version strengthens integration security by supporting Resource Scope in OAuth 2.0 authentication and ensures compatibility with current Java platform standards by requiring Java 17 or later.

Workflow for EPM Integration Agent



The EPM Integration Agent can be deployed in two modes: synchronous and asynchronous. The mode determines how communication is opened between your on-premises data and the Cloud EPM. 

When an integration is executed in synchronous mode, the Cloud EPM initiates a direct call from the Cloud EPM to the appropriate agent based on the cluster assignment. When an integration is executed in asynchronous mode, the Cloud EPM queues for the integration job to execute. 

The agent polls at intervals and executes the jobs queued.