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With Christmas nearly upon us, many people are busy planning for the festive season and starting to look forward to 2020. However, there might just be a nasty late Christmas present in store when Microsoft release their latest security update which is due towards March 2020.

Since the last Oracle Critical Patch Update in April, there have been two additional patches released by Oracle (29694149/29800003) to address critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2019–2725 and CVE-2019-2729) with the Weblogic Server 10.3.x version used by Oracle EPM.

Load testing allows you to test your EPM system to determine how it performs while being used by several users doing various activities in the system simultaneously. It can also be used to determine how much load the system can handle before it starts slowing down and eventually failing.

Now that we know the robots are coming, what makes a process a good first candidate for automation?

In this post we will outline the key areas that should be considered to try and answer this question.

Automation: it is everywhere in the Accounting and Finance world, from invoicing to salary payments. Where there is a large proportion of repetition in a boring workflow, automating it is the sensible option.

Recently we had a request from an Oracle Cloud administrator who wanted to change user passwords programmatically. We came up with a solution to create a program that mimics the web requests that a normal user would make when changing their own password.

If you read our previous blog on the EPM Version and Types of Patches you will be familiar with the Oracle Lifetime Support policy. The eagle eyed amongst you may have noticed the following with regards to Hyperion BI+ 11.1.2.x: it has been dropped.

No doubt you have heard people discuss EPM Versions, Releases, Patch Sets and Patch Set Updates. But what do these terms mean and why does it matter?

One of the problems with Oracle’s software is its release schedule: the underlying middleware layer can remain un-updated for quite some time. For example, EPM 11.1.2.4 is the latest Oracle Hyperion EPM release but is based on an Oracle Middleware stack dating from as far back as 2012.

Every quarter, Oracle releases Critical Patch Updates (CPU) for their products. The Oracle EPM community is familiar with the normal Oracle EPM PSU/PSE patches which address functional aspects of the EPM products, either fixing defects or introduce new enhancements.