EPM version 11.1.2.4 was released in February and as you probably already know it brought a lot of changes to Hyperion Financial Management. Application performance is promised to be better and the new simplified HFM architecture has other benefits as well. Still it's common for many customers to be careful after major changes like this and to wait for at least one Patch Set Update to become available before picking up the new version. After a long wait, HFM PSU 11.1.2.4.100 was released on Friday last week. You can download PSU .100 (patch nr. 20455650) on Oracle Support. Let's have a look at the list of changes in this update.
New Features
The following new features are introduced in the PSU.
Thursday, July 16, 2015
Wednesday, July 1, 2015
Patch Set Update .700 - IE11 Support Comes To EPM 11.1.2.3
Oracle seems to be in the process of releasing patches belonging to Patch Set Update 11.1.2.3.700. There is a handy list of all .700 patches in the readme file for the Financial Reporting patch that is already downloadable. Note that all of the packages mentioned in the list are not yet available as I'm writing this post and I'm also not sure whether or not PSUs will also be issued for Essbase.
Update on July 2nd: Added the patches for Shared Services and Workspace that were missing from the original list
Update on July 2nd: Added the patches for Shared Services and Workspace that were missing from the original list
Product Name
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11.1.2.3.700 PSU Patch Number
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Oracle Data Relationship Management
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Oracle Financial Reporting
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Oracle Hyperion Calculation Manager
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Oracle Hyperion Disclosure Management
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Oracle Hyperion Financial Close Management
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Oracle Hyperion Financial Data Quality Management Enterprise Edition
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Oracle Hyperion Financial Management
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Oracle Hyperion Performance Management Architect
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Oracle Hyperion Planning
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Oracle Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management
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Oracle Hyperion Reporting and Analysis Framework
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Oracle Hyperion Tax Provision
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Oracle Hyperion Web Analysis
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Oracle Hyperion Shared Services
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Oracle EPM Workspace
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The most important update in this PSU is native support for Internet Explorer 11:
"Apply this patch to use Internet Explorer release 11 in standards mode instead of in Enterprise Mode. After you apply this patch, you can no longer use Enterprise Mode. You must apply the 11.1.2.3.700 PSU for all EPM products in your deployment."
The EPM System Certification Matrix document will undoubtedly be updated to match this information soon. The .700 patches must be applied to all EPM products in each environment so you have to be patient and wait for all of them to become available. Have a look at the readme files for each individual patch as there are numerous fixes made to the products. Also note the prerequisites as some of the patches seem to rely on newly released ADF patches.
Wednesday, June 10, 2015
No More Remote XUL Manager!
This is a quick post to point out a cool feature in EPM 11.1.2.4 that I have somehow overlooked (thanks to Nicklas Englund for the tip!). In previous EPM versions you had to install an extension called Remote XUL Manager in order to use EPM web applications with the Firefox browser. The EPM System certification matrix document also included a note about this: "Firefox 17+ ESR and 24+ ESR requires Remote XUL Manager 1.0.1 Add-on". In 11.1.2.4 this requirement has suddenly been removed without so much as a word in the readme file!
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
The HFM Upgrade Diaries Part 1 - Known Issues
Lately I have been busy installing HFM 11.1.2.4 environments for several local customers. In this series of blog posts I will share my experiences about these upgrades - hopefully making life a bit easier for other early adopters.
Known Issues In HFM 11.1.2.4
In this first post I will list the most notable problems I (and my colleagues) have ran into so far.
Known Issues In HFM 11.1.2.4
In this first post I will list the most notable problems I (and my colleagues) have ran into so far.
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
HFM 11.1.2.4 - Proven Performance?
Since EPM 11.1.2.4 was released in February, we have been busy testing the new release on the Infratects lab servers. It seems that Oracle was not bluffing when they showed us some very promising performance figures in Kscope14... HFM 11.1.2.4 indeed seems to give a nice boost to most of the customer's applications we have tested so far. I did a 2 Minute Tech Tip session with Bob Rhubart of OTN ArchBeat in March in which I shared some of our initial findings. See the video below for this bite-size introduction into what makes the new HFM version so fast.
My colleague Kieron Cassidy from our Netherlands office has collected the consolidation test results into a nice white paper which you can download from the Infratects website: White Paper: Hyperion Financial Management 11.1.2.4 - Real Performance Improvements
Personally I have installed two EPM 11.1.2.4 environments for different customers so far. These are Development/Test environments, with first Production ones scheduled to be implemented in May. There are plenty of upgrade projects in the pipeline and it's nice to see that customers are willing to give this version a try. Watch this space as I'm planning to post new stuff about the release soon!
My colleague Kieron Cassidy from our Netherlands office has collected the consolidation test results into a nice white paper which you can download from the Infratects website: White Paper: Hyperion Financial Management 11.1.2.4 - Real Performance Improvements
Personally I have installed two EPM 11.1.2.4 environments for different customers so far. These are Development/Test environments, with first Production ones scheduled to be implemented in May. There are plenty of upgrade projects in the pipeline and it's nice to see that customers are willing to give this version a try. Watch this space as I'm planning to post new stuff about the release soon!
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Steps To Completely Uninstall EPM 11.1.2.x + Greetings From Top Gun 2015
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| Opening speech by Soner Bekir |
To get back into blogging I thought I'd start with an easy post. Oracle has published an article yesterday that helps in case you need to get rid of all EPM products installed on a server. There are quite a few tasks to carry out so the list acts as a useful reminder even if you already know all the bits you need to clean up.
And a couple more photos from Top Gun to wrap things up properly:
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| Francisco giving a presentation on FDMEE |
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| Traditional transport to the social event |
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| Dinner served high on the Tower Bridge walkway |
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| The mandatory tourist photo |
Thursday, February 5, 2015
HFM 11.1.2.4 Running On Commodity Linux
HFM 11.1.2.4 was released by Oracle last week. The talks about platform independency got many EPM professionals excited - and then disappointed when they learned that besides Windows Server you can only run HFM on Oracle Exalytics. But some Exalytics servers run on Oracle Linux, right? Could HFM be installed and configured to run on a commodity Linux box? Just for the fun of it I tried and managed to get it working!
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