Notes from the field on Oracle EPM Cloud, Hyperion, and the automation that holds it all together.

Automating Oracle EPM Level0 Backups — With Email Reports, No Third-Party API Needed

If you run Oracle EPM Cloud (Planning, FreeForm, FCCS, or any of its siblings), you've probably reached for epmautomate exportEssbaseData at some point to pull a Level0 backup of a cube. It works well — but running it by hand, or firing it from cron with zero visibility into

Automating Oracle EPM Data Reconciliation: A Free, Source-Agnostic Pipeline (BigQuery, Snowflake, SAP HANA, Oracle ERP, JDE & More)

If you push data into Oracle EPM Cloud (EPBCS / FCCS / FreeForm) from an upstream system, you've probably asked the same question at some point during month-end close: does what landed in EPM actually match what the source system says it should be? This post walks through a

Automating Hyperion On-Prem Patching for Oracle's New Monthly CSPU Cadence

Oracle changed how often on-prem Hyperion environments need patching — and manual processes that survived quarterly cycles won't survive monthly ones. Here's how I automated Java, Opatch, FMW, WebLogic, and OHS patching with three dependency-ordered Ansible playbooks. The Change Oracle recently announced a shift in

Automating Fiscal Substitution Variables in Oracle EPM: A Groovy Business Rule Deep Dive

Manually updating substitution variables every week doesn't scale — especially when you're maintaining a rolling window tied to a 5-4-4 fiscal calendar. Here's how I automated it with a Groovy business rule in Oracle EPM Cloud, and the gotchas I hit along the