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Brovanture Oracle EPM November Update

November 2025 Oracle Cloud EPM Update: Post Clone Steps Simplified by using LocalHost URL in Connections

November 4, 2025
Sarah Ansell - Senior EPM Planning Consultant describes how Post Clone Steps are Simplified by using LocalHost URL in Connections in the November 2025 Oracle Cloud EPM Update
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Brovanture at SAOUG

Brovanture Presentations at SAOUG 2025 Conference

October 22, 2025
Guillaume Slee, Brovanture EPM Services Director, highlights the 6 sessions the Brovanture team will be delivering at the SAOUG 2025 conference in November.
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Brovanture Oracle Cloud EPM

Journal Precision – Oracle Cloud EPM FCC 25.10 release

October 14, 2025
Sarah Dow, Brovanture Practice Leader - Financial Close explains the new feature for Journal precision in the Oracle Cloud EPM FCC 25.10 release
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IPM Insights

Using IPM Insights in Smart View

September 12, 2025

Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Senior Consultant explains using IPM Insights with Oracle Smart View for Office in Oracle Cloud EPM Planning applications

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Intelligent Performance Management (IPM)

Configuring Intelligent Performance Management (IPM) Calendars & Events in Oracle Cloud EPM

August 7, 2025

Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Senior EPM Consultant explains the newly released Calendars & Events functionality in Oracle Cloud EPM Intelligent Performance Management (IPM) which allows admins to setup regional calendars containing events.

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KScope25 Recap

KScope25 Recap

July 17, 2025

Brovanture Senior EPM Consultant Lydia Maksoud shares her thoughts in her Oracle Cloud EPM KScope25 recap of the conference in the USA

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Brovanture Oracle

Restricted Members and Aliases in Oracle Cloud EPM Planning

June 11, 2025

Lydia Maksoud Brovanture Senior EPM Consultant highlights an issue where attribute dimensions are not being deployed successfully to the underlying Oracle Essbase cube.

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UKOUG Awards 2025

UKOUG25 Awards – Oh, What a Night!

May 29, 2025

Malcolm Brock, Managing Director – at the UKOUG25 Awards Brovanture were, for the third year running, winners of the UKOUG EPM Partner of the Year.

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Brovanture Data Integration

New Feature in Oracle Cloud EPM Data Integration

May 19, 2025

Sarah Dow Brovanture Practice Leader for Financial Close explains the new facility in the Oracle Cloud EPM April release to Data Exchange functionality with the ability to copy both Integrations & Pipelines

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Brovanture at Kscope25

Brovanture at Kscope25

April 30, 2025

Malcolm Brock, Managing Director announces the Brovanture led sessions at Kscope25

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Using Approval Groups in Oracle Cloud EPM Planning

Using Approval Groups in Oracle Cloud EPM Planning

April 22, 2025

Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Senior EPM Consultant – explains why approval groups are a welcome addition to the workflow approvals setup in Oracle Cloud EPM.

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EPM file export Brovanture

Exporting Oracle Cloud EPM Planning Data to a File Part 2

March 11, 2025

Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Senior EPM Consultant, shows how the combination of both Data Integration AND groovy scripting produces a highly customised file format

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International women's day

Brovanture Celebrating International Women’s Day 2025

March 7, 2025

Sarah Dow, Financial Close Practice lead – explains how Brovanture is celebrating international women’s day

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Exporting Oracle Cloud EPM Planning Data

Exporting Oracle Cloud EPM Planning Data to a File

February 25, 2025

Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Senior EPM Consultant – explains how to export data from an Oracle Cloud EPM application to a file, for upload to a third-party system

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Oracle Cloud EPM Forms 2.0

Oracle Cloud EPM Forms 2.0 – Financial Consolidation and Close – Part 2

February 19, 2025

Sarah Dow, Brovanture Practice Leader – Financial Close, shares the latest updates to Oracle Cloud EPM Forms 2.0

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It was 20 years ago today!

February 11, 2025

Malcolm Brock, Managing Director – Brovanture celebrating 20 years delivering EPM and ERP success

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25/02 Oracle Cloud EPM update

25/02 Oracle Cloud EPM update for Financial Consolidation and Close

February 10, 2025

Brovanture Practice Manager Sarah Dow shares exciting new features in the 25/02 Oracle Cloud EPM February update

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Fastest Growing

Brovanture Named in Fastest Growing 200 Tech Suppliers in the UK

February 4, 2025

Malcolm Brock, Managing Director – Brovanture named in list of 200 fastest growing UK public sector tech suppliers

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Brovanture @ UKOUG

Brovanture @ UKOUG Discover 2024 Conference

December 12, 2024

Brovanture Senior Consultant Lydia Maksoud shares some of her highlights from the UKOUG Discover 2024 Conference

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brovanture UKOUG

Brovanture Team at UKOUG Conference 2024

November 27, 2024

Malcolm Brock, Brovanture Managing Director – the Brovanture team are at UKOUG Conference 2024 in Birmingham next week and will present 6 Oracle Cloud EPM and Oracle Essbase sessions.

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Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel – 40 years of #REF! #VALUE! #NAME? …

November 6, 2024

Malcolm Brock, Brovanture Managing Director discusses the good the bad and the ugly of Microsoft Excel at 40!

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G-Cloud 14

G-Cloud 14 – Brovanture is approved by Crown Commercial Services

October 29, 2024

Malcolm Brock, Brovanture Managing Director – announces UK Government approval of Brovanture Cloud services for Oracle and NetSuite EPM and ERP continues with G-Cloud 14.

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Treasury Management

treasury management – 5 financial processes to automate and optimise

October 9, 2024

Toni Berga – Co-CEO & Co-Founder @ Embat – Access to cloud platforms makes it possible to optimise treasury management processes in a previously unknown way using AI algorithms.

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Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP

Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP – now I get it!

September 26, 2024

Brovanture Director Roger Cressey shares his investigation at Oracle CloudWorld of the ‘transformative platform’ that is Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP

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Oracle Cloud EPM Forms

Enabling Oracle Cloud EPM Forms 2.0 for Financial Consolidation and Close (FCC)

August 5, 2024

Sarah Dow, Brovanture Practice Leader – discusses Enabling Oracle Cloud EPM Forms 2.0 for Financial Consolidation and Close (FCC) and the implications.

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Oracle Cloud EPM Update Aug 2024

Oracle Cloud EPM Update Aug 2024 – Highlights

August 2, 2024

Sarah Dow, Brovanture practice leader, explains the changes implemented in the Oracle Cloud EPM Update August 2024

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Brovanture Kscope24

Brovanture at Kscope24 – review and wrap-up

August 1, 2024

Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Senior EPM Consultant, reviews her, Sarah Dow and Roger Cressey’s attendance and sessions at Kscope24

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Oracle Cloud EPM Pipelines

Oracle Cloud EPM Pipelines – Batch Timeout in Minutes

July 23, 2024

Lydia Maksoud, Senior EPM Consultant, highlights a potential issue with Oracle Cloud EPM Pipelines timeout setting and how to solve this.

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Brovanture KScope

The Brovanture Team Perform in Nashville (KScope)!

July 18, 2024

Malcolm Brock Managing Director – three members of the Brovanture team presented at four well attended Kscope24 expert sessions

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Brovanture team at Kscope

Brovanture Team at Kscope24

July 12, 2024

Malcom Brock, Managing Director – Meet members of the Brovanture team at Kscope24 Broanture where they will be presenting four expert sessions

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Oracle Cloud EPM Redwood

The Future is Oracle Cloud EPM Redwood!

July 10, 2024

Lydia Maksoud, Senior EPM Consultant – makes sure users are aware that the Oracle Cloud EPM July 24.07 patch will only support the Oracle Cloud EPM Redwood theme.

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Brovanture retains the Gold UKOUG EPM Partner of the Year Award in 2024

July 2, 2024

Malcolm Brock, Managing Director – The UKOUG Community Awards 2024 results are in and Brovanture is again #1 Oracle EPM Partner in the UK and IRE having been awarded the GOLD UKOUG EPM Partner of the Year Award

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UKOUG Awards Brovanture

Brovanture Consultant Lydia Maksoud Shortlisted for the 2024 UKOUG Women in Tech Award

June 18, 2024

Malcolm Brock, Managing Director, announces that our Brovanture colleague Lydia Maksoud has been shortlisted for the 2024 UKOUG Women in Tech Award

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Oracle ACEs - Brovanture

Oracle ACEs – Brovanture now holds a pair!

June 11, 2024

Malcolm Brock, Managing Director – I am delighted to announce Sarah Dow has been appointed an Oracle Ace so now Brovanture now holds a pair!

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UKOUG Awards Brovanture

Brovanture Nominated for UKOUG EPM Partner Award 2024

May 30, 2024

Malcolm Brock Managing Director – Brovanture has been nominated for the UKOUG EPM Partner of the Year Award for 2024

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Brovanture Oracle Cloud EPM

Tips for using REST API and Groovy to run jobs in Oracle Cloud EPM Planning

May 15, 2024

Sarah Ansell, Brovanture Senior EPM Consultant, shares tips for using REST API and Groovy to run jobs in Oracle Cloud EPM Planning

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Brovanture UKOUG Shine

Brovanture Practice Leader Sarah Dow joins UKOUG Shine Mentoring Programme

May 8, 2024

Malcolm Brock, Managing Director, I am delighted to announce Sarah Dow has been accepted into the UKOUG Shine mentoring programme.

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Oracle Cloud EPM Business Rules Custom Error Messages

Oracle Cloud EPM Business Rules Custom Error Messages

April 25, 2024

Brovanture Consultant Richard Jeffries details how you can provide useful additional information when generating Oracle Cloud EPM Business Rules Custom Error Messages

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Kscope24 Brovanture Team

Kscope24 Brovanture Team Sessions have been Selected

April 17, 2024

Malcolm Brock, Brovanture Managing Director, announces four Kscope24 Brovanture team expert sessions have been selected for the conference

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Brovanture Oracle Cloud EPM

Oracle Cloud EPM transaction matching tip for period mapping

April 4, 2024

Sarah Dow, Brovanture Practice Leader – Financial Close, shares a solution for pulling data from Oracle Cloud Fusion ERP for Oracle Cloud EPM transaction matching.

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Oracle Cloud EPM Pipelines

Utilising Oracle Cloud EPM Platform Jobs in Pipelines

March 22, 2024

Brovanture Consultant Lydia Maksoud explains utilising Oracle Cloud EPM platform jobs in Pipelines to schedule jobs in the required order, including pre-processing rules, data load rules and post-processing rules.

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Oracle Cloud EPM Pipelines

Oracle Cloud EPM pipelines – using substitution variables

March 15, 2024

Brovanture Consultant Lydia Maksoud, explains how substitution variables can be used in Oracle Cloud EPM pipeline scheduled jobs.

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Brovanture work placement

Brovanture continues support of students with work placement

March 8, 2024

Brandon Forword, Senior Project Manager at Brovanture, provides an update on our latest scheme to support students considering a career in IT consultancy.

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Brovanture Oracle Cloud EPM

Oracle Cloud EPM Feb 2024 Update – Important Actions & Considerations

February 13, 2024

Sarah Dow, Brovanture Practice Leader – Financial Close highlights that Oracle Cloud EPM Feb 2024 Update has Important Actions & Considerations which shouldn’t be overlooked as they may impact your applications!

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Brovanture SA Grads

Brovanture Extends its Graduate Training Scheme to South Africa

January 16, 2024

Kim Kannemeyer, South Africa Country Manager, announces that Brovanture has extended its Graduate Training Scheme in 2024 by appointing two outstanding graduates in South Africa.

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Oracle Cloud EPM – setting user variable default values using Groovy

December 21, 2023

Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Senior Consultant – explains how to set user variable values in Oracle Cloud EPM using Groovy.

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Oracle Cloud EPM reports formulas – reference rows and columns

December 14, 2023

Sarah Ansell, Brovanture Consultant, explains how you can reference sub-rows and sub-columns within a formula in Oracle Cloud EPM reports

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Why is Brovanture an Oracle EPM Partner?

November 16, 2023

Malcolm Brock, Brovanture Managing Director reveals the Ventana Research that confirms why Brovanture is an Oracle Partner and only sells Oracle EPM solutions

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Why Oracle Cloud EPM Pipelines have all the answers!

November 7, 2023

Lydis Maksoud, Brovanture Senior Consultant explains the new Oracle Cloud EPM Pipelines and why it’s worth making the switch to Pipelines as soon as possible.

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Brovanture Senior Consultant Lydia Maksoud Oracle ACEs it!

October 24, 2023

Malcolm Brock, Managing Director – congratulations to Brovanture Senior Consultant Lydia Maksoud who has been officially awarded Oracle ACE status

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UKOUG Conference ‘23 – Brovanture team sessions announced

October 17, 2023

Malcolm Brock, Brovanture Managing Director reveals that two of the Brovanture team along with one of our clients, discoverIE, have been selected to present two sessions at the UKOUG Conference ’23

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Anam – My first month at Brovanture

September 6, 2023

Anam Liaqat, new Brovanture Graduate Consultant, shares the experience of her first month on the Brovanture Graduate Development Scheme.

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Brovanture Oracle Cloud EPM

Setting up seven day rolling artifact snapshot backups for Oracle Cloud EPM Planning

August 23, 2023

Brovanture Consultant, Sarah Ansell, explains how to set up 7 Day Rolling Artifact Snapshot Backups for Oracle Cloud EPM Planning using Groovy Script.

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Celebrating South Africa Women’s Day

August 9, 2023

South African Brovanture Consultant Kim Kannemeyer, encourages you to seek out a worthy cause for South Africa Women’s Day

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Oracle Cloud EPM Latest Features – out with the old and in with the new!

July 26, 2023

Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Consultant explains the Oracle Cloud EPM functionality that will no longer be available in the future and the new features that will be supported and enhanced.

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Oracle’s MFA policy for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

Oracle’s MFA policy for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) – Navigating Multi-Factor Authentication

July 21, 2023

Tej Bople, Brovanture Consultant delves into the details of Oracle’s MFA policy for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and explores the available options for customers to navigate this change effectively

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Unlock the power of OCI: Building a Windows VM Server from scratch in an hour

July 7, 2023

Brovanture Consultant Tej Bhople provides the detailed steps to unlock the power of OCI: Building a Windows VM Server from scratch in an hour

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Brovanture scenario plan

Have you got a scenario plan for your water supplier’s insolvency?

June 30, 2023

Malcolm Brock, Managing Director, discusses the need for flexible scenario plans for crisis and long-range planning, cash forecasting, and more.

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Kscope23 – Brovanture team presentations hit the spot

June 29, 2023

Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Consultant – four members of the Brovanture team have been at KScope23 in Aurora, CO, USA this week giving presentations on Oracle Cloud EPM.

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Oracle EPM Cloud Consolidation and Close – restricting viewing questions and comments in tasks

June 13, 2023

Emma Pawlyn, Brovanture Consultant, shows how attributes can be restricted from view when added to a task with the option “Do Not Display – Anywhere” set for a role type.

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Top Five Oracle Cloud EPM Report Text Functions

Top Five Oracle Cloud EPM Report Text Functions

June 7, 2023

Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Consultant, reveals and explains her Top Five Oracle Cloud EPM Report Text Functions

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Brovanture’s Thames Moonlight 10 Mile Walk for the Young Women’s Trust

May 30, 2023

Emma Pawlyn, Brovanture Consultant announces that Brovanture will be taking part in the Thames Moonlight 10 Walk on the evening of Friday 8th September raising money for Young Women’s Trust

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Oracle Cloud EPM Redwood UX Design will be the only Theme Supported from 2024

May 25, 2023

Kim Kannemeyer, Brovanture Consultant, highlights the impending change to Oracle Cloud EPM Redwood UX Design in late 2023 when this theme will only be the only theme supported.

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Brovanture is UKOUG EPM Partner of the Year 2023

May 23, 2023

Malcolm Brock, Brovanture Managing Director announces that Brovanture has been awarded UKOUG EPM Partner of the Year 2023

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Automating Oracle Cloud EPM Data Integrations via Business Rules using REST API Commands

May 16, 2023

Sarah Ansell, Brovanture Consultant – explains automating Oracle Cloud EPM Data Integrations entirely within the cloud using Automate EPM Data Load Rules and without the need to install automation software on a server.

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Oracle Cloud EPM Consolidation and Close – Changing the prompts for On-Demand rules

May 2, 2023

Emma Pawlyn, Brovanture Consultant – explains changing the prompts for on-demand rules in Oracle Cloud EPM Consolidation and Close

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Brovanture listed at #2 in FeedSpot 25 Best Oracle EPM Blogs and Websites

April 27, 2023

Malcolm Brock, Managing Director – Brovanture has been listed at #2 in FeedSpot 25 Best Oracle EPM Blogs and Websites

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Brovanture Nominated for UKOUG Partner Award 2023

April 25, 2023

Malcolm Brock, Managing Director – announces that this week Brovanture has been nominated for the UKOUG EPM Partner of the Year Award for 2023.

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Loading Oracle Cloud ERP GL Balances to Oracle Cloud EPM Account Reconciliation

April 10, 2023

Brovanture Consultant, Lydia Maksoud explains the detailed steps for loading Oracle Cloud ERP GL balances to Oracle Cloud EPM account reconciliation

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Gen2 Migration for Oracle Cloud EPM

April 4, 2023

Tej Bhople, Brovanture Consultant, explains Oracle’s plans to migrate all Oracle Cloud EPM instances in Classic commercial data centres to OCI. This will affect all Oracle Cloud EPM instances.

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Brovanture Shortlisted for Three Women in Tech Employer Awards 2023

March 23, 2023

Brovanture Managing Director, Malcolm Brock, announces that Brovanture has been shortlisted for three Women in Tech Employer Awards 2023

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Kscope23 – Brovanture Team Have Been Selected to Present

March 20, 2023

Malcolm Brock, Managing Director, reveals the Kscope23 – Brovanture presentations on Oracle Cloud EPM which have been accepted

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Utilising the Out-of-the-Box Oracle Cloud ERP Chart of Accounts integration

March 15, 2023

Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Consultant, shows how to utilise the out-of-the-box Oracle Cloud ERP Chart of Accounts integration in Oracle Cloud EPM

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Oracle Cloud EPM Account Reconciliations – Changing the Preparer on multiple profiles/reconciliations

March 10, 2023

Emma Pawlyn, Brovanture Consultant, explains how to change the preparer to a new or current employee in Oracle Cloud EPM Account Reconciliations

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Streamlining adjustment period data load in Oracle Cloud – ERP to EPM

March 2, 2023

Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Consultant – gives the inside track on how to streamline adjustment period data load from Oracle Cloud ERP to Oracle Cloud EPM

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Oracle Hyperion to Oracle Cloud EPM – right change, right time?

February 28, 2023

Malcolm Brock, Brovanture Managing Director discusses when is the right time to transition from Oracle Hyperion on-premises EPM to the newer Oracle Cloud EPM solutions

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Oracle Cloud EPM Consolidation and Close Audit Log Purge Enhancement

Oracle Cloud EPM Audit Log Purge Enhancement

February 22, 2023

Sarah Dow, Brovanture Consultant – explains the Audit Log Purge road map enhancement item for Oracle Cloud EPM which is expected in the 2023 March release (23.03)

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We are recruiting for the 2023 Brovanture Graduate Training Programme

February 15, 2023

Richard Jeffries, Graduate and Student Placement Manager, explains the Brovanture Graduate Training Programme and opens applications for the 2023 programme.

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My First Week at Brovanture

February 7, 2023

Tej Bhople, Brovanture Consultant, shares the experience of her first week in her new role and new company at Brovanture. #wearebrovanture

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Oracle Cloud EPM Consolidation and Close – Data Validations

January 26, 2023

Sarah Dow, Brovanture Consultant – answers ‘How do we add validations into the close process?’ when moving from Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) to Oracle Cloud EPM Consolidation.

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Life at Brovanture

January 18, 2023

Sarah Ansell, Brovanture Consultant – shares what ‘Life at Brovanture’ has been like since her student placement in 2014 and subsequent employment as a business consultant.

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Oracle EPM Cloud Planning: Hidden Member Property UDAs

January 11, 2023

Richard Jeffries, Brovanture Consultant, reveals hidden member property UDAs in Oracle EPM Cloud Planning and how they can be used to test for specific member properties.

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Oracle Cloud EPM Data Management Multi Currency Load

November 17, 2022

Sarah Ansell, Brovature Consultant – reveals the simple steps within Oracle Data Management or Oracle Data Exchange to upload a data file that contains multiple currencies

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Top 5 Oracle Cloud EPM Report Member Functions

November 1, 2022

Brovanture Consultant, Lydia Maksoud shares her top 5 Oracle Cloud EPM Report Member Functions that make reports more dynamic and reduce report maintenance going forward.

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A Week is a Long Time in Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting!

October 27, 2022

Malcolm Brock, Brovanture Managing Director takes a look at how your organisation could get on the front foot with its planning, budgeting and forecasting

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Brovanture Approved by Crown Commercial Services for G-Cloud 13

October 20, 2022

Malcolm Brock, Brovanture Managing Director – announces that Brovanture continues our UK Government approval with G-Cloud 13.

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Oracle Cloud EPM Planning – UDA vs Attribute Dimensions vs Alternate Hierarchies

September 28, 2022

Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Consultant – provides a comprehensive cheat sheet to help deciding between using a UDA, attribute dimension or an alternate hierarchy in Oracle Cloud EPM Planning.

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Exploding the Myth Around Oracle Cloud EPM Integration

September 23, 2022

Malcolm Brock, Brovanture Managing Director explodes the myth circulating about Oracle Cloud EPM Integration

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UPDATED – Loading valid intersections in bulk to Oracle EPM Cloud Planning

August 17, 2022

Mike Falconer, Brovanture Consultant – updates his explanation of loading valid intersections in bulk to Oracle EPM Cloud Planning

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Customise Oracle Cloud EPM tooltips using Groovy

June 30, 2022

Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Consultant –shows how to use groovy scripting to generate user Oracle Cloud EPM tooltips, depending on the cell being referenced.

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Inflation, Stagflation, Recession – there has never been a greater need for driver-based financial planning and analysis

June 1, 2022

Brovanture MD, Malcolm Brock – discusses the need for driver-based financial planning and analysis

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How to Create an Oracle Wallet SSL Certificate Request Containing Subject Alternative Name?

May 5, 2022

Guillaume Slee, Brovanture Services Director – shares his solution to creating an Oracle wallet SSL Certificate request containing subject alternative name

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Oracle Hyperion FDMEE Integration to Oracle Cloud Financials with a Web Proxy

April 20, 2022

Ben Derrick, Brovanture Consultant – Shows how to integrate Oracle Hyperion FDMEE to Oracle Cloud Financials if your web traffic is routed through a proxy.

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Oracle Hyperion EPM 11.2.8 FDMEE ODI Upgrade Issue

April 12, 2022

Guillaume Slee, Brovanture Services Director – provides the solution to an issue when upgrading an Oracle Hyperion 11.2.2 EPM environment to version 11.2.8

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Finance Automation – Account Reconciliation Offers a Quick and Significant Win

March 17, 2022

Brovanture MD, Malcolm Brock – highlights the potential for a financial automation quick win with account reconciliation.

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Marmite and the Case for Connected Enterprise Planning

February 28, 2022

Malcolm Brock, Managing Director – discusses why connected enterprise planning will be the key to an organisation’s ability to respond to the rate of change expected in 2022 and beyond

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Solving the Computer Application Documentation Dilemma

February 3, 2022

Malcolm Brock, Brovanture MD – discusses the Brovanture solution to the software application ‘documentation dilemma’

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Oracle renews Brovanture expertise Certifications for Oracle Cloud EPM solutions for 2022

February 1, 2022

Malcolm Brock, Managing Director – announces the renewal of Brovanture’s NEW Oracle PartnerNetwork expertise certifications for Oracle Cloud EPM for 2022 for Western Europe

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Integrating Oracle Cloud EPM Planning with Power BI Pro

December 8, 2021

Mike Falconer, Brovanture Consultant – explains how to integrate Oracle Cloud EPM with Power BI

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Brovanture OAC

Oracle Analytics Cloud – Using CLI to Automate Starting-Stopping of Instances

December 2, 2021

Guillaume Slee, Services Director – explains the use of Oracle Command Line Interface to control instances in the new Gen2 Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) architecture

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Intelligent Performance Management (IPM) in the November 2021 release of Oracle Cloud EPM

November 24, 2021

Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Consultant – reveals the exciting new Intelligent Performance Management (IPM) functionality released as part of the November 2021 Oracle Cloud EPM update

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Sustainability Disclosure Brovanture

Sustainability disclosure announcements at COP26 – will your reporting processes deliver?

November 15, 2021

Malcolm Brock, Managing Director – discusses the #IFRS Foundation announcement of the Climate Disclosure Standards Board (#CDSB) at #COP26 and asks will your reporting processes deliver?

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Climate Scenario Planning – At COP26 Government Reveals Legislation for UK Organisations?

November 8, 2021

Malcolm Brock, Managing Director – discusses the COP26 announcement of UK Legislation for large UK Organisations to have Net-Zero climate scenario plans by 2023

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Import a Hybrid Snapshot into Non-Hybrid Pod in Oracle EPM Cloud

November 2, 2021

Guillaume Slee, Brovanture Services Director – explains how to Import a Hybrid Snapshot into Non-Hybrid Pod in Oracle EPM Cloud without hitting an unsupported migration issue

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FP&A teams – are you Climate Scenario Planning?

October 28, 2021

Malcolm Brock, Managing Director – discusses the requirement for integrating climate scenario planning into standard FP&A processes

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Oracle Cloud EPM Brovanture Segments

Oracle Cloud ERP Segment updates your Oracle Cloud EPM Dimension with this simple integration

October 8, 2021

Mike Falconer, Brovanture Consultant – takes you through the process of creating a connection between your Oracle Cloud ERP and your Oracle Cloud EPM

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Using Target Expressions in Oracle Cloud EPM Data Exchange

September 30, 2021

Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Consultant – explains how to use Target Expressions in Oracle Cloud EPM Data Exchange as they are more efficient than data load mappings, especially for loading large data sets

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Brovanture 2021 Graduate and Intern Cohort – Two Weeks In…

September 7, 2021

Brovanture 2021 Graduate and Intern Cohort – provide an update on their first two weeks

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Brovanture Welcomes its New Graduate and Intern Cohort of 2021

August 26, 2021

Richard Jeffries, Brovanture Consultant – announces a record intake of new Brovanture graduate and intern participants in 2021 to its Oracle Cloud EPM training programme

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Oracle EPM Cloud – Make the User Experience Simple & Intuitive with Direct Links

August 23, 2021

Guillaume Slee, Brovanture EPM Services Director – explains the new feature Oracle Cloud EPM, the ability to download direct links to any Oracle Cloud EPM navigation flow card or cluster.

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Oracle Smart View for Microsoft Office

Standard vs Native Oracle Smart View for Office Ad Hoc Behaviour

July 15, 2021

Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Consultant – explains how to enable the additional enhanced ad hoc features in Oracle Smart View for Microsoft Office Standard Mode in the latest July (21.07) Oracle Cloud EPM patch

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Spreadsheets and Tyranny!

July 5, 2021

Malcolm Brock, Brovanture Managing Director – discusses the ‘tyranny’ of spreadsheets and when organisations should be looking for Cloud application alternatives

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Clear Target Data in Oracle Cloud EPM – ERP Integration Using a Data Exchange Clear Region

June 4, 2021

Sarah Ansell, Brovanture Consultant – shows how to use a Clear Region to wipe data from Oracle Cloud EPM Planning and Oracle Cloud ERP General Ledger for data integration via Data Exchange or Data Management.

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Plan for the NEW Normal – 4 Essentials for Finance Departments

May 19, 2021

Malcolm Brock, Managing Director – discusses 4 essentials to consider as Finance departments start to think about 2021 H2 Planning

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Oracle Cloud EPM - Integrating Consolidation and Close with Planning

Oracle Cloud EPM – Integrating Consolidation and Close with Planning

April 27, 2021

Jazmin Ribeiro, Brovanture Consultant – takes you through setting up an Oracle Cloud EPM integration with Consolidation and Close as the source and Planning as the target

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FAQs answered for the new Clone Snapshot Oracle Cloud EPM Planning feature

FAQs answered for the new Clone Snapshot Oracle Cloud EPM Planning feature

April 22, 2021

Sarah Ansell, Brovanture Consultant – provides a ‘what you need to know’ blog about the latest new Oracle Cloud EPM Planning feature: Clone Snapshot

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Drill-through from Oracle Cloud EPM Planning to Oracle EBS

Drill-through from Oracle Cloud EPM Planning to Oracle EBS

April 14, 2021

Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Consultant – shows how to setup the drill-through component for a specific data intersection in Oracle Cloud EPM Planning opening the relevant balances in Oracle EBS.

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Oracle Cloud EPM Planning Part 2

Connecting Oracle Cloud EPM Planning to Apex with Rest API: Running Jobs from Apex Part 2 of 2

April 8, 2021

Richard Jeffries, Brovanture Consultant – completes his explanation of how to run jobs in Oracle Cloud EPM Planning from Apex

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Brovanture’s investment in our workforce continues to deliver for clients and staff

March 25, 2021

Malcolm Brock, Managing Director – celebrates the achievement of Brovanture consultant Jazmin Ribeiro ACMA, CGMA

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Connecting Oracle Cloud EPM Planning to Apex with Rest API

Connecting Oracle Cloud EPM Planning to Apex with Rest API: Running Jobs from Apex Part 1 of 2

March 17, 2021

Richard Jeffries, Brovanture Consultant – explains how to run jobs in Oracle Cloud EPM Planning from Apex

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Oracle Cloud EPM Security

Oracle Cloud EPM Planning – Cell-Level Security Definitions & Testing

March 12, 2021

Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Consultant – explains the new cell-level security feature introduced as part of the March 2021 Oracle Cloud EPM update

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Customising the Oracle EBS GL Balances to Oracle Cloud EPM Connection

March 10, 2021

Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Consultant – solves the difficulty of updating multiple historic periods and multiple ledgers balances in Oracle EBS with an Oracle Cloud #EPM connection

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Brovanture achieves Oracle Expertise Certifications for Oracle Cloud EPM Solutions

March 4, 2021

Malcolm Brock, Managing Director – announces that Brovanture has been awarded the NEW Oracle PartnerNetwork Certifications for Oracle Cloud EPM Solutions

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Oracle Hyperion EPM 11.2 - How to Start OHS Remotely

Oracle Hyperion EPM 11.2 – How to Start OHS Remotely

March 2, 2021

Guillaume Slee, Brovanture EPM Services Director – explains how, in a clustered EPM 11.2.x environment, to start a second instance of OHS from a primary Foundation server?

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Brovanture Ltd Announces UK Partnership with AMANA Consulting GmbH

February 26, 2021

Malcolm Brock, Managing Director – announces the signing of a partnership with AMANA Consulting GmbH to sell, implement and support their IFRS16 and XBRL software solutions in the UK.

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Connecting Oracle Cloud EPM Planning to Apex with Rest API: Separating Substitution Variable access by User

February 23, 2021

Richard Jeffries, Brovanture Consultant – explains out how to apply granular security to your Oracle Cloud EPM Planning application’s substitution variables within Apex.

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Oracle EPM Cloud Reporting

‘Reports’ – Next Generation Reporting in Oracle Cloud EPM

February 18, 2021

Cristina Arzuza, Brovanture Consultant – shares with you the capabilities and potential of the new generation reporting tool, ‘Reports’, in Oracle Cloud EPM.

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Oracle Smart View for Office drill-through to Microsoft Excel in Oracle EPM Cloud

February 9, 2021

Mike Falconer, Brovanture Consultant, highlights a new feature in Oracle EPM Cloud to use Microsoft Excel in Oracle Smart View for Office to directly drill-through to source data.

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Connecting Oracle EPM Cloud Planning to Apex with Rest API: POST Substitution Variables ‘Extras’

February 2, 2021

Richard Jeffries, Brovanture Consultant – completes his series of blogs on how to build the connector between the web source modules and an Oracle Cloud EPM Planning application

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Oracle Wallet Manager

Oracle Hyperion EPM 11.2.x – Where did my Oracle Wallet Manager Go?

January 19, 2021

Guillaume Slee, EPM Services Director – warns of the problem of the missing Oracle Wallet Manager when installing Oracle Hyperion EPM 11.2.x

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Loading Oracle EBS GL Balances to Oracle Cloud EPM using the EPM Integration Agent Adapter

January 13, 2021

Lydia Maksoud – Brovanture consultant, gives a step by step guide to using EPM Integration Agent Adapter

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Oracle EPM Data Management update – Another Solution!

January 11, 2021

Malcolm Brock, Managing Director – UPDATED POST to a change in Oracle EPM Data Management that could create issues for Oracle EPM Cloud users.

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Connecting Oracle Cloud EPM Planning to Apex with Rest API – Part 2: Running Jobs in Oracle Cloud EPM Planning from Apex

January 7, 2021

Richard Jeffries, Brovanture Consultant – outlines how to build the connector between the web source modules and an Oracle Cloud EPM Planning application

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Don’t let an Oracle EPM Data Management update spoil your New Year!!

January 4, 2021

Malcolm Brock, Managing Director – reveals a change in Oracle EPM Data Management that could create issues for Oracle EPM Cloud users.

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Brovanture Support – Why you Should ‘Lean on Us’

December 22, 2020

Malcolm Brock, Managing Director – why should you ‘lean on Brovanture’ for your support for Oracle EPM Cloud and Oracle Hyperion on-premises software applications.

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Connecting Oracle Cloud EPM Planning to Oracle Apex with Rest API – Part 1: GET Substitution Variables

December 16, 2020

Richard Jeffries, Brovanture Consultant – outlines how to create a table in Oracle Apex that dynamically pulls through the substitution variables from an Oracle Cloud EPM Planning

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Finance ‘Just in Time’!

February 27, 2020

Malcolm Brock, Managing Director – Finance and Manufacturing have many similarities so what could Finance learn from modern manufacturing techniques?

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Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) Remote Data Gateway Part 2: The RPD

February 14, 2020

Guillaume Slee, EPM Services Director – shows how to get the Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) RPD semantic layer to connect to on-premises applications using the Data Gateway facility

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Clear a GL Accounting Scenario in the Oracle Cloud ERP Essbase database

February 4, 2020

Lydia Maksoud – Brovanture consultant, provides insight into handling Accounting Scenario in Oracle Cloud ERP

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Lydia’s Story – Brovanture Six Years On

November 28, 2019

Lydia Maksoud – Brovanture consultant, looks back on six years at Brovanture

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Loading multi-period row data in Oracle EPM Cloud Data Management

October 21, 2019

Lydia Maksoud – Brovanture consultant, explains the process for loading multi-period row data in Oracle EPM Cloud Data Management

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EPM Automate Migrating large Snapshots using: copysnapshotfrominstance

October 14, 2019

Sarah Ansell, Brovanture Consultant – Shows how to create a simple script to manage your migration process between environments that works no matter how large your Snapshots grow

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Getting Started with REST API’s using Python

October 8, 2019

Duncan Brock, Brovanture EPM consultant – REST APIs open the door to a whole world of additional programming languages, but the Oracle documentation only scratches the surface of what is possible…

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UK government reaffirms commitment to using Oracle with Cloud Memorandum of Understanding

October 4, 2019

Malcolm Brock, Managing Director – Oracle and UK Government agreement is good news for all parties delivering Oracle Cloud Services to UK Government organisations

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Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) – Starting and stopping instances using the REST API (Autonomous/Oracle Managed)

September 25, 2019

Guillaume Slee, EPM Services Director – shows how REST API calls can be used with Oracle Managed OAC instances to allow you to stop and start your instances

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Connecting to multiple Oracle Cloud Environments

September 18, 2019

Sarah Ansell, Brovanture Consultant shows you how to save valuable time by creating a Smart View environments short-cut to connect to multiple EPBCS environments

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Setting up a Direct Link to a ‘Planning in the Oracle EPM Cloud’ Form or Dashboard

September 13, 2019

Lydia Maksoud – Brovanture consultant, explains how to construct the URL to ensure it works

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Robotic Process Automation (RPA) – Why does it matter to Finance?

August 29, 2019

Malcolm Brock, Managing Director – discusses how RPI can improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your finance organisation

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OAC Remote Data Gateway: Connecting to MS SQL Server

August 1, 2019

Guillaume Slee, EPM Services Director – how to use OAC Remote Data Gateway to connect an OAC instance to an on-premises MS SQL Server database

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Brovanture Rises to G-Cloud 11!

July 26, 2019

Malcolm Brock, Managing Director – Brovanture announces approval of eight of its services, covering hosting, software and support, through the UK Government G-Cloud 11 framework

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Write Back Budgets from PBCS to Oracle Fusion ERP Cloud

July 24, 2019

Lydia Maksoud – Brovanture consultant, extends how to integrate Oracle Cloud ERP and EPM with the inside track on writing back plans, budgets and forecasts to ERP

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Integrating PBCS with Oracle Fusion ERP Cloud

July 23, 2019

Lydia Maksoud – Brovanture consultant, gives the low down on how to integrate Oracle Cloud ERP and EPM plus tips on what can go wrong and how to fix it

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Setting up a Custom Role for a NetSuite to PBCS Integration

July 19, 2019

Mike Falconer – EPM Consultant, gives the inside track on setting up a custom role for an Oracle NetSuite to PBCS integration

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Significant changes to the Oracle EPM Cloud offering

July 15, 2019

Jazmin Ribeiro, Brovanture Consultant – explains the significant changes to the way Oracle are packaging and pricing their EPM Cloud solutions

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ODTUG KScope19 – Deep-Dive into Data Integration

July 11, 2019

Mike Falconer – EPM Consultant, takes a detailed look into the future of data integration

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ODTUG KScope19 – Deep-Dive into the future of Oracle Cloud Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting

July 10, 2019

Mike Falconer – EPM Consultant, takes a detailed look into the future of Oracle Cloud planning

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ODTUG KScope19 – Thoughts on the EPM Strategy Symposium

July 9, 2019

Mike Falconer – EPM Consultant, my review of the EPM Strategy Symposium at ODTUG kscope19

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Brovanture Wins Best Speaker Award at Premiere Oracle Conference

July 4, 2019

Guillaume Slee – EPM Services Director, last week members of the Brovanture team attended the @ODTUG #Kscope19 conference in Seattle

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Brovanture sees Cyber Essentials Certification as ‘Essential’

June 20, 2019

At Brovanture we are committed to the wellbeing of our customers’ IT systems and data whether we supplied them all, or not.  This means we have to be sure of the integrity of our own systems and to be able to demonstrate we have and are continuing to do the right thing on security. One […]

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Jazmin breaks 4 hour marathon

May 3, 2019

Malcolm Brock, Managing Director – Jazmin Ribeiro one of our consultants raises over £1000 pounds for charity and runs the London Marathon in under 4 hours

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Brovanture Session at ODTUG Kscope19 Highlighted

April 26, 2019

Malcolm Brock, Managing Director – the Brovanture session ‘Integrating EPBCS with the Oracle Cloud’ at ODTUG Kscope19 is highlighted by Oracle Ace, Jon Harvey, conference EPM Data Integration Track lead

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OAC – Essbase Streaming Dataload from SQL Server Database

April 8, 2019

Guillaume Slee EPM Services Director, Brovanture – In my latest blog post I take a look at streaming to the OAC Essbase cloud from a MS SQL Server source.

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OAC – Scripted Backups on Autonomous

April 3, 2019

Guillaume Slee EPM Services Director, Brovanture – In this blog post I explain how to schedule a backup of your BI and Essbase applications using the esscs/esscli command line REST API wrapper to perform an LCM backup, as well as using the MaxL client to perform data exports.

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OAC – Bulk Importing Users & Groups via IDCS REST API

March 28, 2019

Guillaume Slee EPM Services Director, Brovanture – In my previous post we saw how it’s possible to bulk import users using a CSV file. Here we look at how we can automate creating/importing users using the IDCS REST API.

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OAC – Bulk Importing Users & Groups via the IDCS UI

March 26, 2019

Guillaume Slee, EPM Services Director at Brovanture – A key part of Cloud SaaS is integrating it with your existing systems. This blog will show you how to bulk import users manually via the IDCS UI.

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Connecting two Clouds – NetSuite to Oracle PBCS Cloud-to-Cloud Integration

March 20, 2019

Mike Falconer, Brovanture Consultant – Connecting a source system to a forecasting system is rarely straightforward. Therefore, when an opportunity arises to ditch the shackles of extract-based integrations and migrate entirely through the cloud, one must grasp that opportunity with both hands – And I will show you how.

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Cloud Automation Helps Finance Teams Save Time and Refocus On Strategy

March 13, 2019

Gary Boniface, Brovanture Consultant – forward-thinking business leaders are automating financial processes end to end

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OAC – How to Create Oracle Autonomous Essbase and OBI Analytics Cloud Instances

March 6, 2019

Guillaume Slee, EPM Services Director at Brovanture – Here I will show how easy it is to spin up new OAC instances, create an Essbase instance and a Business Intelligence Enterprise instance.

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Guide to building a Financial Dashboard in FCCS.

February 28, 2019

Sarah Dow, Brovanture Consultant – creating your own dashboards in FCCS is easy when you know how, with each graph facilitating drill down to explore the data in more detail

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FDMEE System Maintenance Tasks: Maintain Setup Data

February 12, 2019

Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Consultant – As well as staging table data, Data Management/FDMEE stores various setup components in SQL tables behind the scenes. There are a number of ‘System Maintenance Tasks’ within data management which can be used to update and maintain these hidden tables.

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Moira Jacques Nominated for an Oracle Change Agents of Finance Award

February 7, 2019

Malcolm Brock, Managing Director Brovanture – Moira Jacques, Commercial Finance Controller at Edrington-Beam Suntory UK Distribution Limited is nominated for the Crystal Ball Award in the 2019 Oracle Change Agents of Finance Awards.

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Creating an Infolet in Oracle FCCS

February 4, 2019

Sarah Dow, Brovanture Consultant – Oracle FCCS Infolets are a great way to display key high-level static information this blog explains how to set them up

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Brexit – Do you have a plan B, C, D, E, F, G, H…?

January 24, 2019

Malcolm Brock, Managing Director – Dealing with a complex set of scenarios like this and maintaining control, plus really understanding the variables and their implications, is a big task and vitally important right now.

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PBCS Cheap Tricks – Quick and Easy Backup Process

January 2, 2019

Mike Falconer, Brovanture Consultant – the November 2018 PBCS update for EPM Automate has come with a neat new command that can really streamline your rolling backup process

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PBCS Cheap Tricks – Dealing with Dates and Depreciation

November 21, 2018

Mike Falconer, Brovanture Consultant – dates have been the bane of many a Hyperion Administrator’s life for about 20 years now and this is mostly due to the inconsistency in the business rule formulae surrounding them

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UKOUG EPM Partner of the Year – Brovanture win gold!

November 12, 2018

Mike Fitzgibbon, Marketing Manager – Brovanture WON GOLD at the 2018/19 UKOUG Partner of the Year awards in London on 4 October 2018

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Integrating Oracle PBCS with Power BI Pro

November 6, 2018

Mike Falconer, Brovanture Consultant – Have you ever wanted to visualise your forecast using state of the art tools? – here’s how…

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how automation is changing the finance function

November 5, 2018

Gary Boniface, Brovanture Consultant – While the implementation of automation in accounting in most businesses is still in the early stages, the future is coming faster than you might think…

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Customise and Simplify Drill-Through Regions in PBCS

August 27, 2018

Mike Falconer, Brovanture Consultant – Setting up a demanding FDMEE schedule for a global business who required half-hourly updates from their source system

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My Placement Year at Brovanture

August 6, 2018

Richard Jefferies, Brovanture placement student – The role turned out to be a perfect mixture between technology and finance, building and fixing financial systems without the repetitive tasks involved in actually using them

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Brovanture Ascends from G-Cloud 9 to G-Cloud 10!

July 12, 2018

Malcolm Brock, Managing Director Brovanture –
We were on Cloud 9 but now we are Cloud 10!, literally, with the approval of eight of the services Brovanture provides, covering hosting, software and support, through the UK Government G-Cloud 10 framework

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Brovanture is Nominated for UKOUG EPM Partner of the Year Award

June 29, 2018

Malcolm Brock, Managing Director Brovanture – Whatever the result, we will carry on delivering great service and most importantly putting our customers first in everything we do

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PBCS: Financial Report Bursting to the File System

June 22, 2018

Guillaume Slee, Brovanture Director – many users in the EPM on-prem world use the Financial Reporting bursting feature to burst out 100s of reports but what about EPM Cloud?

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EPM Market Consolidation Time Again? Should you be Considering Your Options?

June 14, 2018

Malcolm Brock, Managing Director Brovanture – Out of the blue this week, Workday announced its acquisition of the Cloud planning vendor Adaptive Insights, just before a planned IPO

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Transfer of Smart List Values to Members in Calculation Manager

May 31, 2018

Sarah Ansell, Brovanture Consultant – Retrieving and transforming a Smart List entry (stored against a dimension member) into a member name to be used within a calculation script

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Could Your Next IT Project Drive You to Your Knees?

May 2, 2018

Malcolm Brock, Managing Director Brovanture – For over a week now, the UK ‘High Street’ bank TSB has been reeling under bad press and customer pressure because its switch over to new IT systems

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Loading Metadata using PBCS Data Management

April 22, 2018

Lydia Maksoud, brovanture consultant – After much anticipation, the ability to load metadata from a flat file into (e)PBCS is now supported using the inbuilt data loading ETL tool Data Management

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How Close Are You to a Spreadsheet Disaster?

April 17, 2018

Malcolm Brock, Managing Director Brovanture – Monday morning (9 April 2018), reading The Times newspaper Business Section I was struck by the headline ‘Spreadsheets plus human error can add up to disaster’

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Are You Prepared for A Cyber Attack?

March 16, 2018

Malcolm Brock, Managing Director Brovanture – Reading the news this week I was struck by an expert discussing the implications of the current Sergei Skripal poisoning incident in Salisbury in the UK

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The ‘Beast from the East’ and Month End

March 1, 2018

Malcolm Brock, Managing Director Brovanture – Without the right systems and technology, the result will be that month end processes cannot be completed so dates will be missed and vital information needed to plan and make decisions will be late

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The ‘Ultimate Question’ for FP&A

February 22, 2018

Malcolm Brock, Managing Director Brovanture – For FP&A, Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting and the ‘ultimate question’, in my experience it has to be…

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Taking Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service Beyond Finance

February 7, 2018

Malcolm Brock, Managing Director Brovanture – Much is talked about broadening the horizons of planning, budgeting and forecasting and how organisations should adopt a truly ‘enterprise’ approach…

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Our Focus is on Customer Success

February 1, 2018

Malcolm Brock, Managing Director Brovanture – On the 15 January 2018 Brovanture became the 1st Oracle Fully Certified Cloud Excellence Implementer (CEI) for EPM…

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New 2018 UK Growth Optimism – Are You Prepared?

January 23, 2018

Malcolm Brock, Managing Director Brovanture – Last week I wrote about gloomy predictions for the UK hotel sector in 2018. What a difference a week can make!

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2018 UK Hotel Market – Bull to Bear?

January 15, 2018

Malcolm Brock, Managing Director Brovanture – We don’t expect the growth in 2018 to match 2017, even though the outlook is broadly positive for the UK hotels sector…

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Maximising the Return on Public Sector IT Investment

January 11, 2018

Malcolm Brock, Managing Director Brovanture – For Public Sector organisations there is significant relevance in this. Austerity has put great pressure on their budgets and is driving a ‘doing more for less’ revolution

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Smart Lists as Run Time Prompts

December 1, 2017

Sarah Ansell, Brovanture Consultant – Smart Lists are very powerful tools within Planning Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS) software

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When it comes to financial software, Darwin has a point!

October 12, 2017

Malcolm Brock, Managing Director Brovanture – Good financial software solutions are designed based on current best practice and end to end processes. What organisation would not want to adopt these best practices?

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FDMEE Tips: Using Factors in Import Formats

July 7, 2017

Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Consultant – Import expressions can be added to an FDMEE import format to alter the data being imported from a file in several valuable ways

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An introduction to Predictive Planning

June 20, 2017

Sarah Ansell, Brovanture Consultant – Predictive Planning is an extension to Oracle Hyperion Smart View for Office that can be used to display predictions based on historical data

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FDMEE Automation – Automatically Identifying the process ID

June 14, 2017

Mike Falconer, EPM Consultant – here is another neat way of identifying what can often be a useful variable in your data load, the process ID

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FDMEE Automation – automatically identifying the load period

June 5, 2017

Mike Falconer, EPM Consultant – a couple of tips and tricks for this blog related to how to identify key inputs into the data load process!

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PBCS workflow approvals via iPhone and Android

June 2, 2017

Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Consultant – Workflow processes can be set up in PBCS applications to manage the progress and approval of a specific work task

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FDMEE Automation – send email notification reports automagically!

May 17, 2017

Mike Falconer, EPM Consultant – This is the first of a multi-part series exploring techniques that can be used in an automated data load into PBCS using FDMEE

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SharePoint quietly shifts to OneDrive for a week

May 10, 2017

Mike Falconer, EPM Consultant – For those unacquainted with OneDrive, it essentially functions as Microsoft’s answer to Dropbox, or similar cloud storage solutions

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PBCS Stealth Update – reports won’t prompt for input

May 9, 2017

Mike Falconer, EPM Consultant – As we all know, PBCS is being updated all the time. This adaptability is one of PBCS’s greatest strengths but can also be a weakness.

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What’s going on with my business rule security?

May 3, 2017

Mike Falconer, EPM Consultant – All my standard checks came up empty. In desperation I turned to another cheap support trick, creating a user with similar access.

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Branding your Cloud and FCCS

April 26, 2017

Mike Falconer, EPM Consultant – How do I brand my own interface? The Branding options are found under Tools > Appearance.

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Using SQL to map null values to ignore

April 25, 2017

Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Consultant – there is a way around this using a custom SQL mapping script to define your own mappings and this blog is here to show you how

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Loading valid intersections in bulk to Oracle PBCS

April 19, 2017

Mike Falconer, EPM Consultant – A very useful feature of PBCS over traditional Oracle Hyperion Planning is the ability to define Valid Intersections of your dimension members. This means you can restrict your users to only enter data into specific intersections of several dimensions which you define.

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Data copy in an ASO Application

April 18, 2017

Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Consultant – One of the main problems with ASO databases in the past was finding a way to perform calculations such as a standard data copy from one member to another

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Using EPM Automate to back up your PBCS application

April 12, 2017

Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Consultant – EPM Automate is a utility which enables service administrators to remotely perform a selection of routine tasks on their PBCS system

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Sneaky new PBCS features

April 6, 2017

Jazmin Ribeiro, Brovanture Consultant – new admin features in PBCS that we can’t recall being mentioned in the monthly update documents

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It’s new & it works!

January 31, 2017

Jazmin Riberio, Brovanture Consultant – the October 2016 PBCS update saw the release of the “Enhanced Data Integration with Fusion Financials Cloud”

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Brovanture Oracle EPM November Update

November 2025 Oracle Cloud EPM Update: Post Clone Steps Simplified by using LocalHost URL in Connections

November 4, 2025
Sarah Ansell - Senior EPM Planning Consultant describes how Post Clone Steps are Simplified by using LocalHost URL in Connections in the November 2025 Oracle Cloud EPM Update
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Brovanture at SAOUG

Brovanture Presentations at SAOUG 2025 Conference

October 22, 2025
Guillaume Slee, Brovanture EPM Services Director, highlights the 6 sessions the Brovanture team will be delivering at the SAOUG 2025 conference in November.
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Brovanture Oracle Cloud EPM

Journal Precision – Oracle Cloud EPM FCC 25.10 release

October 14, 2025
Sarah Dow, Brovanture Practice Leader - Financial Close explains the new feature for Journal precision in the Oracle Cloud EPM FCC 25.10 release
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IPM Insights

Using IPM Insights in Smart View

September 12, 2025
Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Senior Consultant explains using IPM Insights with Oracle Smart View for Office in Oracle Cloud EPM Planning applications
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Intelligent Performance Management (IPM)

Configuring Intelligent Performance Management (IPM) Calendars & Events in Oracle Cloud EPM

August 7, 2025
Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Senior EPM Consultant explains the newly released Calendars & Events functionality in Oracle Cloud EPM Intelligent Performance Management (IPM) which allows admins to setup regional calendars containing events.
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KScope25 Recap

KScope25 Recap

July 17, 2025
Brovanture Senior EPM Consultant Lydia Maksoud shares her thoughts in her Oracle Cloud EPM KScope25 recap of the conference in the USA
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Brovanture Oracle

Restricted Members and Aliases in Oracle Cloud EPM Planning

June 11, 2025
Lydia Maksoud Brovanture Senior EPM Consultant highlights an issue where attribute dimensions are not being deployed successfully to the underlying Oracle Essbase cube.
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UKOUG Awards 2025

UKOUG25 Awards – Oh, What a Night!

May 29, 2025
Malcolm Brock, Managing Director - at the UKOUG25 Awards Brovanture were, for the third year running, winners of the UKOUG EPM Partner of the Year.
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Brovanture Data Integration

New Feature in Oracle Cloud EPM Data Integration

May 19, 2025
Sarah Dow Brovanture Practice Leader for Financial Close explains the new facility in the Oracle Cloud EPM April release to Data Exchange functionality with the ability to copy both Integrations & Pipelines
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Brovanture at Kscope25

Brovanture at Kscope25

April 30, 2025
Malcolm Brock, Managing Director announces the Brovanture led sessions at Kscope25
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Using Approval Groups in Oracle Cloud EPM Planning

Using Approval Groups in Oracle Cloud EPM Planning

April 22, 2025
Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Senior EPM Consultant - explains why approval groups are a welcome addition to the workflow approvals setup in Oracle Cloud EPM.
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EPM file export Brovanture

Exporting Oracle Cloud EPM Planning Data to a File Part 2

March 11, 2025
Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Senior EPM Consultant, shows how the combination of both Data Integration AND groovy scripting produces a highly customised file format
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International women's day

Brovanture Celebrating International Women’s Day 2025

March 7, 2025
Sarah Dow, Financial Close Practice lead - explains how Brovanture is celebrating international women’s day
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Exporting Oracle Cloud EPM Planning Data

Exporting Oracle Cloud EPM Planning Data to a File

February 25, 2025
Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Senior EPM Consultant – explains how to export data from an Oracle Cloud EPM application to a file, for upload to a third-party system
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Oracle Cloud EPM Forms 2.0

Oracle Cloud EPM Forms 2.0 – Financial Consolidation and Close – Part 2

February 19, 2025
Sarah Dow, Brovanture Practice Leader – Financial Close, shares the latest updates to Oracle Cloud EPM Forms 2.0
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It was 20 years ago today!

February 11, 2025
Malcolm Brock, Managing Director - Brovanture celebrating 20 years delivering EPM and ERP success
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25/02 Oracle Cloud EPM update

25/02 Oracle Cloud EPM update for Financial Consolidation and Close

February 10, 2025
Brovanture Practice Manager Sarah Dow shares exciting new features in the 25/02 Oracle Cloud EPM February update
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Fastest Growing

Brovanture Named in Fastest Growing 200 Tech Suppliers in the UK

February 4, 2025
Malcolm Brock, Managing Director - Brovanture named in list of 200 fastest growing UK public sector tech suppliers
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Brovanture @ UKOUG

Brovanture @ UKOUG Discover 2024 Conference

December 12, 2024
Brovanture Senior Consultant Lydia Maksoud shares some of her highlights from the UKOUG Discover 2024 Conference
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brovanture UKOUG

Brovanture Team at UKOUG Conference 2024

November 27, 2024
Malcolm Brock, Brovanture Managing Director - the Brovanture team are at UKOUG Conference 2024 in Birmingham next week and will present 6 Oracle Cloud EPM and Oracle Essbase sessions.
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Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel – 40 years of #REF! #VALUE! #NAME? …

November 6, 2024
Malcolm Brock, Brovanture Managing Director discusses the good the bad and the ugly of Microsoft Excel at 40!
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G-Cloud 14

G-Cloud 14 – Brovanture is approved by Crown Commercial Services

October 29, 2024
Malcolm Brock, Brovanture Managing Director – announces UK Government approval of Brovanture Cloud services for Oracle and NetSuite EPM and ERP continues with G-Cloud 14.
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Treasury Management

treasury management – 5 financial processes to automate and optimise

October 9, 2024
Toni Berga - Co-CEO & Co-Founder @ Embat - Access to cloud platforms makes it possible to optimise treasury management processes in a previously unknown way using AI algorithms.
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Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP

Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP – now I get it!

September 26, 2024
Brovanture Director Roger Cressey shares his investigation at Oracle CloudWorld of the 'transformative platform' that is Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP
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Oracle Cloud EPM Forms

Enabling Oracle Cloud EPM Forms 2.0 for Financial Consolidation and Close (FCC)

August 5, 2024
Sarah Dow, Brovanture Practice Leader – discusses Enabling Oracle Cloud EPM Forms 2.0 for Financial Consolidation and Close (FCC) and the implications.
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Oracle Cloud EPM Update Aug 2024

Oracle Cloud EPM Update Aug 2024 – Highlights

August 2, 2024
Sarah Dow, Brovanture practice leader, explains the changes implemented in the Oracle Cloud EPM Update August 2024
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Brovanture Kscope24

Brovanture at Kscope24 – review and wrap-up

August 1, 2024
Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Senior EPM Consultant, reviews her, Sarah Dow and Roger Cressey’s attendance and sessions at Kscope24
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Oracle Cloud EPM Pipelines

Oracle Cloud EPM Pipelines – Batch Timeout in Minutes

July 23, 2024
Lydia Maksoud, Senior EPM Consultant, highlights a potential issue with Oracle Cloud EPM Pipelines timeout setting and how to solve this.
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Brovanture KScope

The Brovanture Team Perform in Nashville (KScope)!

July 18, 2024
Malcolm Brock Managing Director - three members of the Brovanture team presented at four well attended Kscope24 expert sessions
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Brovanture team at Kscope

Brovanture Team at Kscope24

July 12, 2024
Malcom Brock, Managing Director - Meet members of the Brovanture team at Kscope24 Broanture where they will be presenting four expert sessions
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Oracle Cloud EPM Redwood

The Future is Oracle Cloud EPM Redwood!

July 10, 2024
Lydia Maksoud, Senior EPM Consultant - makes sure users are aware that the Oracle Cloud EPM July 24.07 patch will only support the Oracle Cloud EPM Redwood theme.
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Brovanture retains the Gold UKOUG EPM Partner of the Year Award in 2024

July 2, 2024
Malcolm Brock, Managing Director - The UKOUG Community Awards 2024 results are in and Brovanture is again #1 Oracle EPM Partner in the UK and IRE having been awarded the GOLD UKOUG EPM Partner of the Year Award
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UKOUG Awards Brovanture

Brovanture Consultant Lydia Maksoud Shortlisted for the 2024 UKOUG Women in Tech Award

June 18, 2024
Malcolm Brock, Managing Director, announces that our Brovanture colleague Lydia Maksoud has been shortlisted for the 2024 UKOUG Women in Tech Award
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Oracle ACEs - Brovanture

Oracle ACEs – Brovanture now holds a pair!

June 11, 2024
Malcolm Brock, Managing Director - I am delighted to announce Sarah Dow has been appointed an Oracle Ace so now Brovanture now holds a pair!
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UKOUG Awards Brovanture

Brovanture Nominated for UKOUG EPM Partner Award 2024

May 30, 2024
Malcolm Brock Managing Director - Brovanture has been nominated for the UKOUG EPM Partner of the Year Award for 2024
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Brovanture Oracle Cloud EPM

Tips for using REST API and Groovy to run jobs in Oracle Cloud EPM Planning

May 15, 2024
Sarah Ansell, Brovanture Senior EPM Consultant, shares tips for using REST API and Groovy to run jobs in Oracle Cloud EPM Planning
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Brovanture UKOUG Shine

Brovanture Practice Leader Sarah Dow joins UKOUG Shine Mentoring Programme

May 8, 2024
Malcolm Brock, Managing Director, I am delighted to announce Sarah Dow has been accepted into the UKOUG Shine mentoring programme.
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Oracle Cloud EPM Business Rules Custom Error Messages

Oracle Cloud EPM Business Rules Custom Error Messages

April 25, 2024
Brovanture Consultant Richard Jeffries details how you can provide useful additional information when generating Oracle Cloud EPM Business Rules Custom Error Messages
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Kscope24 Brovanture Team

Kscope24 Brovanture Team Sessions have been Selected

April 17, 2024
Malcolm Brock, Brovanture Managing Director, announces four Kscope24 Brovanture team expert sessions have been selected for the conference
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Brovanture Oracle Cloud EPM

Oracle Cloud EPM transaction matching tip for period mapping

April 4, 2024
Sarah Dow, Brovanture Practice Leader - Financial Close, shares a solution for pulling data from Oracle Cloud Fusion ERP for Oracle Cloud EPM transaction matching.
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Oracle Cloud EPM Pipelines

Utilising Oracle Cloud EPM Platform Jobs in Pipelines

March 22, 2024
Brovanture Consultant Lydia Maksoud explains utilising Oracle Cloud EPM platform jobs in Pipelines to schedule jobs in the required order, including pre-processing rules, data load rules and post-processing rules.
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Oracle Cloud EPM Pipelines

Oracle Cloud EPM pipelines – using substitution variables

March 15, 2024
Brovanture Consultant Lydia Maksoud, explains how substitution variables can be used in Oracle Cloud EPM pipeline scheduled jobs.
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Brovanture work placement

Brovanture continues support of students with work placement

March 8, 2024
Brandon Forword, Senior Project Manager at Brovanture, provides an update on our latest scheme to support students considering a career in IT consultancy.
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Brovanture Oracle Cloud EPM

Oracle Cloud EPM Feb 2024 Update – Important Actions & Considerations

February 13, 2024
Sarah Dow, Brovanture Practice Leader - Financial Close highlights that Oracle Cloud EPM Feb 2024 Update has Important Actions & Considerations which shouldn't be overlooked as they may impact your applications!
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Brovanture SA Grads

Brovanture Extends its Graduate Training Scheme to South Africa

January 16, 2024
Kim Kannemeyer, South Africa Country Manager, announces that Brovanture has extended its Graduate Training Scheme in 2024 by appointing two outstanding graduates in South Africa.
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Brovanture Oracle Cloud EPM

Oracle Cloud EPM – setting user variable default values using Groovy

December 21, 2023
Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Senior Consultant - explains how to set user variable values in Oracle Cloud EPM using Groovy.
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Oracle Cloud EPM report formulas

Oracle Cloud EPM reports formulas – reference rows and columns

December 14, 2023
Sarah Ansell, Brovanture Consultant, explains how you can reference sub-rows and sub-columns within a formula in Oracle Cloud EPM reports
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Brovanture Oracle Partner

Why is Brovanture an Oracle EPM Partner?

November 16, 2023
Malcolm Brock, Brovanture Managing Director reveals the Ventana Research that confirms why Brovanture is an Oracle Partner and only sells Oracle EPM solutions
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Why Oracle Cloud EPM Pipelines have all the answers!

November 7, 2023
Lydis Maksoud, Brovanture Senior Consultant explains the new Oracle Cloud EPM Pipelines and why it’s worth making the switch to Pipelines as soon as possible.
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Brovanture Oracle Ace

Brovanture Senior Consultant Lydia Maksoud Oracle ACEs it!

October 24, 2023
Malcolm Brock, Managing Director - congratulations to Brovanture Senior Consultant Lydia Maksoud who has been officially awarded Oracle ACE status
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Brovanture - UKOIUG23

UKOUG Conference ‘23 – Brovanture team sessions announced

October 17, 2023
Malcolm Brock, Brovanture Managing Director reveals that two of the Brovanture team along with one of our clients, discoverIE, have been selected to present two sessions at the UKOUG Conference ’23
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Brovanture

Anam – My first month at Brovanture

September 6, 2023
Anam Liaqat, new Brovanture Graduate Consultant, shares the experience of her first month on the Brovanture Graduate Development Scheme.
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Brovanture Oracle Cloud EPM

Setting up seven day rolling artifact snapshot backups for Oracle Cloud EPM Planning

August 23, 2023
Brovanture Consultant, Sarah Ansell, explains how to set up 7 Day Rolling Artifact Snapshot Backups for Oracle Cloud EPM Planning using Groovy Script.
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Brovanture SA Womens Day

Celebrating South Africa Women’s Day

August 9, 2023
South African Brovanture Consultant Kim Kannemeyer, encourages you to seek out a worthy cause for South Africa Women's Day
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Brovanture Oracle C loud EPM

Oracle Cloud EPM Latest Features – out with the old and in with the new!

July 26, 2023
Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Consultant explains the Oracle Cloud EPM functionality that will no longer be available in the future and the new features that will be supported and enhanced.
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Oracle’s MFA policy for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

Oracle’s MFA policy for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) – Navigating Multi-Factor Authentication

July 21, 2023
Tej Bople, Brovanture Consultant delves into the details of Oracle's MFA policy for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and explores the available options for customers to navigate this change effectively
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Brovanture OCI

Unlock the power of OCI: Building a Windows VM Server from scratch in an hour

July 7, 2023
Brovanture Consultant Tej Bhople provides the detailed steps to unlock the power of OCI: Building a Windows VM Server from scratch in an hour
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Brovanture scenario plan

Have you got a scenario plan for your water supplier’s insolvency?

June 30, 2023
Malcolm Brock, Managing Director, discusses the need for flexible scenario plans for crisis and long-range planning, cash forecasting, and more.
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KScope23 Brovanture

Kscope23 – Brovanture team presentations hit the spot

June 29, 2023
Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Consultant - four members of the Brovanture team have been at KScope23 in Aurora, CO, USA this week giving presentations on Oracle Cloud EPM.
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Brovanture Oracle Cloud EPM

Oracle EPM Cloud Consolidation and Close – restricting viewing questions and comments in tasks

June 13, 2023
Emma Pawlyn, Brovanture Consultant, shows how attributes can be restricted from view when added to a task with the option “Do Not Display – Anywhere” set for a role type.
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Top Five Oracle Cloud EPM Report Text Functions

Top Five Oracle Cloud EPM Report Text Functions

June 7, 2023
Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Consultant, reveals and explains her Top Five Oracle Cloud EPM Report Text Functions
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Brovanture's Thames Moonlight 10 mile walk

Brovanture’s Thames Moonlight 10 Mile Walk for the Young Women’s Trust

May 30, 2023
Emma Pawlyn, Brovanture Consultant announces that Brovanture will be taking part in the Thames Moonlight 10 Walk on the evening of Friday 8th September raising money for Young Women's Trust
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Oracle Cloud EPM Redwood UX Design will be the only Theme Supported from 2024

May 25, 2023
Kim Kannemeyer, Brovanture Consultant, highlights the impending change to Oracle Cloud EPM Redwood UX Design in late 2023 when this theme will only be the only theme supported.
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Brovanture is UKOUG EPM Partner of the Year 2023

May 23, 2023
Malcolm Brock, Brovanture Managing Director announces that Brovanture has been awarded UKOUG EPM Partner of the Year 2023
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Automating Oracle Cloud EPM Data Integrations via Business Rules using REST API Commands

May 16, 2023
Sarah Ansell, Brovanture Consultant – explains automating Oracle Cloud EPM Data Integrations entirely within the cloud using Automate EPM Data Load Rules and without the need to install automation software on a server.
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Oracle Cloud EPM Consolidation and Close – Changing the prompts for On-Demand rules

May 2, 2023
Emma Pawlyn, Brovanture Consultant - explains changing the prompts for on-demand rules in Oracle Cloud EPM Consolidation and Close
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Brovanture listed at #2 in FeedSpot 25 Best Oracle EPM Blogs and Websites

April 27, 2023
Malcolm Brock, Managing Director – Brovanture has been listed at #2 in FeedSpot 25 Best Oracle EPM Blogs and Websites
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Brovanture Nominated for UKOUG Partner Award 2023

April 25, 2023
Malcolm Brock, Managing Director - announces that this week Brovanture has been nominated for the UKOUG EPM Partner of the Year Award for 2023.
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Loading Oracle Cloud ERP GL Balances to Oracle Cloud EPM Account Reconciliation

April 10, 2023
Brovanture Consultant, Lydia Maksoud explains the detailed steps for loading Oracle Cloud ERP GL balances to Oracle Cloud EPM account reconciliation
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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Gen2 Migration for Oracle Cloud EPM

April 4, 2023
Tej Bhople, Brovanture Consultant, explains Oracle's plans to migrate all Oracle Cloud EPM instances in Classic commercial data centres to OCI. This will affect all Oracle Cloud EPM instances.
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Brovanture Shortlisted for Three Women in Tech Employer Awards 2023

March 23, 2023
Brovanture Managing Director, Malcolm Brock, announces that Brovanture has been shortlisted for three Women in Tech Employer Awards 2023
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Kscope23 – Brovanture Team Have Been Selected to Present

March 20, 2023
Malcolm Brock, Managing Director, reveals the Kscope23 - Brovanture presentations on Oracle Cloud EPM which have been accepted
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Utilising the Out-of-the-Box Oracle Cloud ERP Chart of Accounts integration

March 15, 2023
Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Consultant, shows how to utilise the out-of-the-box Oracle Cloud ERP Chart of Accounts integration in Oracle Cloud EPM
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Oracle Cloud EPM Account Reconciliations – Changing the Preparer on multiple profiles/reconciliations

March 10, 2023
Emma Pawlyn, Brovanture Consultant, explains how to change the preparer to a new or current employee in Oracle Cloud EPM Account Reconciliations
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Streamlining adjustment period data load in Oracle Cloud – ERP to EPM

March 2, 2023
Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Consultant – gives the inside track on how to streamline adjustment period data load from Oracle Cloud ERP to Oracle Cloud EPM
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Oracle Hyperion to Oracle Cloud EPM – right change, right time?

February 28, 2023
Malcolm Brock, Brovanture Managing Director discusses when is the right time to transition from Oracle Hyperion on-premises EPM to the newer Oracle Cloud EPM solutions
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Oracle Cloud EPM Consolidation and Close Audit Log Purge Enhancement

Oracle Cloud EPM Audit Log Purge Enhancement

February 22, 2023
Sarah Dow, Brovanture Consultant – explains the Audit Log Purge road map enhancement item for Oracle Cloud EPM which is expected in the 2023 March release (23.03)
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We are recruiting for the 2023 Brovanture Graduate Training Programme

February 15, 2023
Richard Jeffries, Graduate and Student Placement Manager, explains the Brovanture Graduate Training Programme and opens applications for the 2023 programme.
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My First Week at Brovanture

February 7, 2023
Tej Bhople, Brovanture Consultant, shares the experience of her first week in her new role and new company at Brovanture. #wearebrovanture
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Oracle Cloud EPM Consolidation and Close – Data Validations

January 26, 2023
Sarah Dow, Brovanture Consultant – answers ‘How do we add validations into the close process?’ when moving from Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) to Oracle Cloud EPM Consolidation.
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Life at Brovanture

January 18, 2023
Sarah Ansell, Brovanture Consultant - shares what ‘Life at Brovanture’ has been like since her student placement in 2014 and subsequent employment as a business consultant.
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Oracle EPM Cloud Planning: Hidden Member Property UDAs

January 11, 2023
Richard Jeffries, Brovanture Consultant, reveals hidden member property UDAs in Oracle EPM Cloud Planning and how they can be used to test for specific member properties.
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Oracle Cloud EPM Data Management Multi Currency Load

November 17, 2022
Sarah Ansell, Brovature Consultant - reveals the simple steps within Oracle Data Management or Oracle Data Exchange to upload a data file that contains multiple currencies
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Top 5 Oracle Cloud EPM Report Member Functions

November 1, 2022
Brovanture Consultant, Lydia Maksoud shares her top 5 Oracle Cloud EPM Report Member Functions that make reports more dynamic and reduce report maintenance going forward.
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A Week is a Long Time in Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting!

October 27, 2022
Malcolm Brock, Brovanture Managing Director takes a look at how your organisation could get on the front foot with its planning, budgeting and forecasting
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Brovanture Approved by Crown Commercial Services for G-Cloud 13

October 20, 2022
Malcolm Brock, Brovanture Managing Director - announces that Brovanture continues our UK Government approval with G-Cloud 13.
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Oracle Cloud EPM Planning – UDA vs Attribute Dimensions vs Alternate Hierarchies

September 28, 2022
Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Consultant – provides a comprehensive cheat sheet to help deciding between using a UDA, attribute dimension or an alternate hierarchy in Oracle Cloud EPM Planning.
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Exploding the Myth Around Oracle Cloud EPM Integration

September 23, 2022
Malcolm Brock, Brovanture Managing Director explodes the myth circulating about Oracle Cloud EPM Integration
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UPDATED – Loading valid intersections in bulk to Oracle EPM Cloud Planning

August 17, 2022
Mike Falconer, Brovanture Consultant – updates his explanation of loading valid intersections in bulk to Oracle EPM Cloud Planning
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Customise Oracle Cloud EPM tooltips using Groovy

June 30, 2022
Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Consultant –shows how to use groovy scripting to generate user Oracle Cloud EPM tooltips, depending on the cell being referenced.
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Inflation, Stagflation, Recession – there has never been a greater need for driver-based financial planning and analysis

June 1, 2022
Brovanture MD, Malcolm Brock - discusses the need for driver-based financial planning and analysis
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How to Create an Oracle Wallet SSL Certificate Request Containing Subject Alternative Name?

May 5, 2022
Guillaume Slee, Brovanture Services Director – shares his solution to creating an Oracle wallet SSL Certificate request containing subject alternative name
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Oracle Hyperion FDMEE Integration to Oracle Cloud Financials with a Web Proxy

April 20, 2022
Ben Derrick, Brovanture Consultant - Shows how to integrate Oracle Hyperion FDMEE to Oracle Cloud Financials if your web traffic is routed through a proxy.
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Oracle Hyperion EPM 11.2.8 FDMEE ODI Upgrade Issue

April 12, 2022
Guillaume Slee, Brovanture Services Director - provides the solution to an issue when upgrading an Oracle Hyperion 11.2.2 EPM environment to version 11.2.8
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Finance Automation – Account Reconciliation Offers a Quick and Significant Win

March 17, 2022
Brovanture MD, Malcolm Brock - highlights the potential for a financial automation quick win with account reconciliation.
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Marmite and the Case for Connected Enterprise Planning

February 28, 2022
Malcolm Brock, Managing Director - discusses why connected enterprise planning will be the key to an organisation’s ability to respond to the rate of change expected in 2022 and beyond
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Solving the Computer Application Documentation Dilemma

February 3, 2022
Malcolm Brock, Brovanture MD - discusses the Brovanture solution to the software application ‘documentation dilemma’
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Oracle renews Brovanture expertise Certifications for Oracle Cloud EPM solutions for 2022

February 1, 2022
Malcolm Brock, Managing Director - announces the renewal of Brovanture's NEW Oracle PartnerNetwork expertise certifications for Oracle Cloud EPM for 2022 for Western Europe
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Integrating Oracle Cloud EPM Planning with Power BI Pro

December 8, 2021
Mike Falconer, Brovanture Consultant - explains how to integrate Oracle Cloud EPM with Power BI
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Oracle Analytics Cloud – Using CLI to Automate Starting-Stopping of Instances

December 2, 2021
Guillaume Slee, Services Director - explains the use of Oracle Command Line Interface to control instances in the new Gen2 Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) architecture
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Intelligent Performance Management (IPM) in the November 2021 release of Oracle Cloud EPM

November 24, 2021
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Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Consultant – reveals the exciting new Intelligent Performance Management (IPM) functionality released as part of the November 2021 Oracle Cloud EPM update
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Sustainability disclosure announcements at COP26 – will your reporting processes deliver?

November 15, 2021
Malcolm Brock, Managing Director - discusses the #IFRS Foundation announcement of the Climate Disclosure Standards Board (#CDSB) at #COP26 and asks will your reporting processes deliver?
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Climate Scenario Planning – At COP26 Government Reveals Legislation for UK Organisations?

November 8, 2021
Malcolm Brock, Managing Director - discusses the COP26 announcement of UK Legislation for large UK Organisations to have Net-Zero climate scenario plans by 2023
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Import a Hybrid Snapshot into Non-Hybrid Pod in Oracle EPM Cloud

November 2, 2021
Guillaume Slee, Brovanture Services Director - explains how to Import a Hybrid Snapshot into Non-Hybrid Pod in Oracle EPM Cloud without hitting an unsupported migration issue
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FP&A teams – are you Climate Scenario Planning?

October 28, 2021
Malcolm Brock, Managing Director - discusses the requirement for integrating climate scenario planning into standard FP&A processes
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Oracle Cloud ERP Segment updates your Oracle Cloud EPM Dimension with this simple integration

October 8, 2021
Mike Falconer, Brovanture Consultant - takes you through the process of creating a connection between your Oracle Cloud ERP and your Oracle Cloud EPM
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Using Target Expressions in Oracle Cloud EPM Data Exchange

September 30, 2021
Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Consultant - explains how to use Target Expressions in Oracle Cloud EPM Data Exchange as they are more efficient than data load mappings, especially for loading large data sets
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Brovanture 2021 Graduate and Intern Cohort – Two Weeks In…

September 7, 2021
Brovanture 2021 Graduate and Intern Cohort – provide an update on their first two weeks
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Brovanture Welcomes its New Graduate and Intern Cohort of 2021

August 26, 2021
Richard Jeffries, Brovanture Consultant - announces a record intake of new Brovanture graduate and intern participants in 2021 to its Oracle Cloud EPM training programme
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Oracle EPM Cloud – Make the User Experience Simple & Intuitive with Direct Links

August 23, 2021
Guillaume Slee, Brovanture EPM Services Director – explains the new feature Oracle Cloud EPM, the ability to download direct links to any Oracle Cloud EPM navigation flow card or cluster.
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Standard vs Native Oracle Smart View for Office Ad Hoc Behaviour

July 15, 2021
Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Consultant - explains how to enable the additional enhanced ad hoc features in Oracle Smart View for Microsoft Office Standard Mode in the latest July (21.07) Oracle Cloud EPM patch
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Spreadsheets and Tyranny!

July 5, 2021
Malcolm Brock, Brovanture Managing Director - discusses the ‘tyranny’ of spreadsheets and when organisations should be looking for Cloud application alternatives
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Clear Target Data in Oracle Cloud EPM – ERP Integration Using a Data Exchange Clear Region

June 4, 2021
Sarah Ansell, Brovanture Consultant – shows how to use a Clear Region to wipe data from Oracle Cloud EPM Planning and Oracle Cloud ERP General Ledger for data integration via Data Exchange or Data Management.
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Plan for the NEW Normal – 4 Essentials for Finance Departments

May 19, 2021
Malcolm Brock, Managing Director - discusses 4 essentials to consider as Finance departments start to think about 2021 H2 Planning
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Oracle Cloud EPM - Integrating Consolidation and Close with Planning

Oracle Cloud EPM – Integrating Consolidation and Close with Planning

April 27, 2021
Jazmin Ribeiro, Brovanture Consultant - takes you through setting up an Oracle Cloud EPM integration with Consolidation and Close as the source and Planning as the target
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FAQs answered for the new Clone Snapshot Oracle Cloud EPM Planning feature

FAQs answered for the new Clone Snapshot Oracle Cloud EPM Planning feature

April 22, 2021
Sarah Ansell, Brovanture Consultant – provides a 'what you need to know' blog about the latest new Oracle Cloud EPM Planning feature: Clone Snapshot
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Drill-through from Oracle Cloud EPM Planning to Oracle EBS

Drill-through from Oracle Cloud EPM Planning to Oracle EBS

April 14, 2021
Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Consultant – shows how to setup the drill-through component for a specific data intersection in Oracle Cloud EPM Planning opening the relevant balances in Oracle EBS.
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Connecting Oracle Cloud EPM Planning to Apex with Rest API: Running Jobs from Apex Part 2 of 2

April 8, 2021
Richard Jeffries, Brovanture Consultant – completes his explanation of how to run jobs in Oracle Cloud EPM Planning from Apex
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Brovanture’s investment in our workforce continues to deliver for clients and staff

March 25, 2021
Malcolm Brock, Managing Director – celebrates the achievement of Brovanture consultant Jazmin Ribeiro ACMA, CGMA
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Connecting Oracle Cloud EPM Planning to Apex with Rest API

Connecting Oracle Cloud EPM Planning to Apex with Rest API: Running Jobs from Apex Part 1 of 2

March 17, 2021
Richard Jeffries, Brovanture Consultant – explains how to run jobs in Oracle Cloud EPM Planning from Apex
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Oracle Cloud EPM Planning – Cell-Level Security Definitions & Testing

March 12, 2021
Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Consultant - explains the new cell-level security feature introduced as part of the March 2021 Oracle Cloud EPM update
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Customising the Oracle EBS GL Balances to Oracle Cloud EPM Connection

March 10, 2021
Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Consultant - solves the difficulty of updating multiple historic periods and multiple ledgers balances in Oracle EBS with an Oracle Cloud #EPM connection
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Brovanture achieves Oracle Expertise Certifications for Oracle Cloud EPM Solutions

March 4, 2021
Malcolm Brock, Managing Director - announces that Brovanture has been awarded the NEW Oracle PartnerNetwork Certifications for Oracle Cloud EPM Solutions
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Oracle Hyperion EPM 11.2 - How to Start OHS Remotely

Oracle Hyperion EPM 11.2 – How to Start OHS Remotely

March 2, 2021
Guillaume Slee, Brovanture EPM Services Director - explains how, in a clustered EPM 11.2.x environment, to start a second instance of OHS from a primary Foundation server?
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Brovanture Ltd Announces UK Partnership with AMANA Consulting GmbH

February 26, 2021
Malcolm Brock, Managing Director - announces the signing of a partnership with AMANA Consulting GmbH to sell, implement and support their IFRS16 and XBRL software solutions in the UK.
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Connecting Oracle Cloud EPM Planning to Apex with Rest API: Separating Substitution Variable access by User

February 23, 2021
Richard Jeffries, Brovanture Consultant – explains out how to apply granular security to your Oracle Cloud EPM Planning application's substitution variables within Apex.
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‘Reports’ – Next Generation Reporting in Oracle Cloud EPM

February 18, 2021
Cristina Arzuza, Brovanture Consultant - shares with you the capabilities and potential of the new generation reporting tool, 'Reports', in Oracle Cloud EPM.
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Oracle Smart View for Office drill-through to Microsoft Excel in Oracle EPM Cloud

February 9, 2021
Mike Falconer, Brovanture Consultant, highlights a new feature in Oracle EPM Cloud to use Microsoft Excel in Oracle Smart View for Office to directly drill-through to source data.
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Connecting Oracle EPM Cloud Planning to Apex with Rest API: POST Substitution Variables ‘Extras’

February 2, 2021
Richard Jeffries, Brovanture Consultant – completes his series of blogs on how to build the connector between the web source modules and an Oracle Cloud EPM Planning application
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Oracle Hyperion EPM 11.2.x – Where did my Oracle Wallet Manager Go?

January 19, 2021
Guillaume Slee, EPM Services Director – warns of the problem of the missing Oracle Wallet Manager when installing Oracle Hyperion EPM 11.2.x
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Loading Oracle EBS GL Balances to Oracle Cloud EPM using the EPM Integration Agent Adapter

January 13, 2021
Lydia Maksoud – Brovanture consultant, gives a step by step guide to using EPM Integration Agent Adapter
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Oracle EPM Data Management update – Another Solution!

January 11, 2021
Malcolm Brock, Managing Director – UPDATED POST to a change in Oracle EPM Data Management that could create issues for Oracle EPM Cloud users.
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Connecting Oracle Cloud EPM Planning to Apex with Rest API – Part 2: Running Jobs in Oracle Cloud EPM Planning from Apex

January 7, 2021
Richard Jeffries, Brovanture Consultant - outlines how to build the connector between the web source modules and an Oracle Cloud EPM Planning application
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Don’t let an Oracle EPM Data Management update spoil your New Year!!

January 4, 2021
Malcolm Brock, Managing Director – reveals a change in Oracle EPM Data Management that could create issues for Oracle EPM Cloud users.
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Brovanture Support – Why you Should ‘Lean on Us’

December 22, 2020
Malcolm Brock, Managing Director – why should you ‘lean on Brovanture’ for your support for Oracle EPM Cloud and Oracle Hyperion on-premises software applications.
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Connecting Oracle Cloud EPM Planning to Oracle Apex with Rest API – Part 1: GET Substitution Variables

December 16, 2020
Richard Jeffries, Brovanture Consultant - outlines how to create a table in Oracle Apex that dynamically pulls through the substitution variables from an Oracle Cloud EPM Planning
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Finance ‘Just in Time’!

February 27, 2020
Malcolm Brock, Managing Director – Finance and Manufacturing have many similarities so what could Finance learn from modern manufacturing techniques?
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Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) Remote Data Gateway Part 2: The RPD

February 14, 2020
Guillaume Slee, EPM Services Director – shows how to get the Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) RPD semantic layer to connect to on-premises applications using the Data Gateway facility
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Clear a GL Accounting Scenario in the Oracle Cloud ERP Essbase database

February 4, 2020
Lydia Maksoud – Brovanture consultant, provides insight into handling Accounting Scenario in Oracle Cloud ERP
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Lydia’s Story – Brovanture Six Years On

November 28, 2019
Lydia Maksoud – Brovanture consultant, looks back on six years at Brovanture
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Loading multi-period row data in Oracle EPM Cloud Data Management

October 21, 2019
Lydia Maksoud – Brovanture consultant, explains the process for loading multi-period row data in Oracle EPM Cloud Data Management
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EPM Automate Migrating large Snapshots using: copysnapshotfrominstance

October 14, 2019
Sarah Ansell, Brovanture Consultant - Shows how to create a simple script to manage your migration process between environments that works no matter how large your Snapshots grow
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Getting Started with REST API’s using Python

October 8, 2019
Duncan Brock, Brovanture EPM consultant - REST APIs open the door to a whole world of additional programming languages, but the Oracle documentation only scratches the surface of what is possible...
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UK government reaffirms commitment to using Oracle with Cloud Memorandum of Understanding

October 4, 2019
Malcolm Brock, Managing Director - Oracle and UK Government agreement is good news for all parties delivering Oracle Cloud Services to UK Government organisations
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Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) – Starting and stopping instances using the REST API (Autonomous/Oracle Managed)

September 25, 2019
Guillaume Slee, EPM Services Director - shows how REST API calls can be used with Oracle Managed OAC instances to allow you to stop and start your instances
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Connecting to multiple Oracle Cloud Environments

September 18, 2019
Sarah Ansell, Brovanture Consultant shows you how to save valuable time by creating a Smart View environments short-cut to connect to multiple EPBCS environments
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Setting up a Direct Link to a ‘Planning in the Oracle EPM Cloud’ Form or Dashboard

September 13, 2019
Lydia Maksoud – Brovanture consultant, explains how to construct the URL to ensure it works
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Robotic Process Automation (RPA) – Why does it matter to Finance?

August 29, 2019
Malcolm Brock, Managing Director - discusses how RPI can improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your finance organisation
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OAC Remote Data Gateway: Connecting to MS SQL Server

August 1, 2019
Guillaume Slee, EPM Services Director - how to use OAC Remote Data Gateway to connect an OAC instance to an on-premises MS SQL Server database
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Brovanture Rises to G-Cloud 11!

July 26, 2019
Malcolm Brock, Managing Director - Brovanture announces approval of eight of its services, covering hosting, software and support, through the UK Government G-Cloud 11 framework
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Write Back Budgets from PBCS to Oracle Fusion ERP Cloud

July 24, 2019
Lydia Maksoud - Brovanture consultant, extends how to integrate Oracle Cloud ERP and EPM with the inside track on writing back plans, budgets and forecasts to ERP
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Integrating PBCS with Oracle Fusion ERP Cloud

July 23, 2019
Lydia Maksoud - Brovanture consultant, gives the low down on how to integrate Oracle Cloud ERP and EPM plus tips on what can go wrong and how to fix it
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Setting up a Custom Role for a NetSuite to PBCS Integration

July 19, 2019
Mike Falconer - EPM Consultant, gives the inside track on setting up a custom role for an Oracle NetSuite to PBCS integration
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Significant changes to the Oracle EPM Cloud offering

July 15, 2019
Jazmin Ribeiro, Brovanture Consultant - explains the significant changes to the way Oracle are packaging and pricing their EPM Cloud solutions
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ODTUG KScope19 – Deep-Dive into Data Integration

July 11, 2019
Mike Falconer - EPM Consultant, takes a detailed look into the future of data integration
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ODTUG KScope19 – Deep-Dive into the future of Oracle Cloud Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting

July 10, 2019
Mike Falconer - EPM Consultant, takes a detailed look into the future of Oracle Cloud planning
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ODTUG KScope19 – Thoughts on the EPM Strategy Symposium

July 9, 2019
Mike Falconer - EPM Consultant, my review of the EPM Strategy Symposium at ODTUG kscope19
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Brovanture Wins Best Speaker Award at Premiere Oracle Conference

July 4, 2019
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Guillaume Slee - EPM Services Director, last week members of the Brovanture team attended the @ODTUG #Kscope19 conference in Seattle
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Brovanture sees Cyber Essentials Certification as ‘Essential’

June 20, 2019
At Brovanture we are committed to the wellbeing of our customers’…
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Jazmin breaks 4 hour marathon

May 3, 2019
Malcolm Brock, Managing Director - Jazmin Ribeiro one of our consultants raises over £1000 pounds for charity and runs the London Marathon in under 4 hours
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Brovanture Session at ODTUG Kscope19 Highlighted

April 26, 2019
Malcolm Brock, Managing Director - the Brovanture session 'Integrating EPBCS with the Oracle Cloud’ at ODTUG Kscope19 is highlighted by Oracle Ace, Jon Harvey, conference EPM Data Integration Track lead
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OAC – Essbase Streaming Dataload from SQL Server Database

April 8, 2019
Guillaume Slee EPM Services Director, Brovanture - In my latest blog post I take a look at streaming to the OAC Essbase cloud from a MS SQL Server source.
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OAC – Scripted Backups on Autonomous

April 3, 2019
Guillaume Slee EPM Services Director, Brovanture - In this blog post I explain how to schedule a backup of your BI and Essbase applications using the esscs/esscli command line REST API wrapper to perform an LCM backup, as well as using the MaxL client to perform data exports.
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OAC – Bulk Importing Users & Groups via IDCS REST API

March 28, 2019
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Guillaume Slee EPM Services Director, Brovanture - In my previous post we saw how it's possible to bulk import users using a CSV file. Here we look at how we can automate creating/importing users using the IDCS REST API.
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OAC – Bulk Importing Users & Groups via the IDCS UI

March 26, 2019
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Guillaume Slee, EPM Services Director at Brovanture - A key part of Cloud SaaS is integrating it with your existing systems. This blog will show you how to bulk import users manually via the IDCS UI.
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Connecting two Clouds – NetSuite to Oracle PBCS Cloud-to-Cloud Integration

March 20, 2019
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Mike Falconer, Brovanture Consultant - Connecting a source system to a forecasting system is rarely straightforward. Therefore, when an opportunity arises to ditch the shackles of extract-based integrations and migrate entirely through the cloud, one must grasp that opportunity with both hands - And I will show you how.
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Cloud Automation Helps Finance Teams Save Time and Refocus On Strategy

March 13, 2019
Gary Boniface, Brovanture Consultant - forward-thinking business leaders are automating financial processes end to end
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OAC – How to Create Oracle Autonomous Essbase and OBI Analytics Cloud Instances

March 6, 2019
Guillaume Slee, EPM Services Director at Brovanture - Here I will show how easy it is to spin up new OAC instances, create an Essbase instance and a Business Intelligence Enterprise instance.
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Guide to building a Financial Dashboard in FCCS.

February 28, 2019
Sarah Dow, Brovanture Consultant - creating your own dashboards in FCCS is easy when you know how, with each graph facilitating drill down to explore the data in more detail
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FDMEE System Maintenance Tasks: Maintain Setup Data

February 12, 2019
Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Consultant - As well as staging table data, Data Management/FDMEE stores various setup components in SQL tables behind the scenes. There are a number of ‘System Maintenance Tasks’ within data management which can be used to update and maintain these hidden tables.
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Moira Jacques Nominated for an Oracle Change Agents of Finance Award

February 7, 2019
Malcolm Brock, Managing Director Brovanture - Moira Jacques, Commercial Finance Controller at Edrington-Beam Suntory UK Distribution Limited is nominated for the Crystal Ball Award in the 2019 Oracle Change Agents of Finance Awards.
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Creating an Infolet in Oracle FCCS

February 4, 2019
Sarah Dow, Brovanture Consultant - Oracle FCCS Infolets are a great way to display key high-level static information this blog explains how to set them up
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Brexit – Do you have a plan B, C, D, E, F, G, H…?

January 24, 2019
Malcolm Brock, Managing Director - Dealing with a complex set of scenarios like this and maintaining control, plus really understanding the variables and their implications, is a big task and vitally important right now.
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PBCS Cheap Tricks – Quick and Easy Backup Process

January 2, 2019
Mike Falconer, Brovanture Consultant - the November 2018 PBCS update for EPM Automate has come with a neat new command that can really streamline your rolling backup process
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PBCS Cheap Tricks – Dealing with Dates and Depreciation

November 21, 2018
Mike Falconer, Brovanture Consultant - dates have been the bane of many a Hyperion Administrator’s life for about 20 years now and this is mostly due to the inconsistency in the business rule formulae surrounding them
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UKOUG EPM Partner of the Year – Brovanture win gold!

November 12, 2018
Mike Fitzgibbon, Marketing Manager - Brovanture WON GOLD at the 2018/19 UKOUG Partner of the Year awards in London on 4 October 2018
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Integrating Oracle PBCS with Power BI Pro

November 6, 2018
Mike Falconer, Brovanture Consultant - Have you ever wanted to visualise your forecast using state of the art tools? - here's how...
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how automation is changing the finance function

November 5, 2018
Gary Boniface, Brovanture Consultant - While the implementation of automation in accounting in most businesses is still in the early stages, the future is coming faster than you might think...
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Customise and Simplify Drill-Through Regions in PBCS

August 27, 2018
Mike Falconer, Brovanture Consultant - Setting up a demanding FDMEE schedule for a global business who required half-hourly updates from their source system
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My Placement Year at Brovanture

August 6, 2018
Richard Jefferies, Brovanture placement student - The role turned out to be a perfect mixture between technology and finance, building and fixing financial systems without the repetitive tasks involved in actually using them
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Brovanture Ascends from G-Cloud 9 to G-Cloud 10!

July 12, 2018
Malcolm Brock, Managing Director Brovanture - We were on Cloud 9 but now we are Cloud 10!, literally, with the approval of eight of the services Brovanture provides, covering hosting, software and support, through the UK Government G-Cloud 10 framework
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Brovanture is Nominated for UKOUG EPM Partner of the Year Award

June 29, 2018
Malcolm Brock, Managing Director Brovanture - Whatever the result, we will carry on delivering great service and most importantly putting our customers first in everything we do
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PBCS: Financial Report Bursting to the File System

June 22, 2018
Guillaume Slee, Brovanture Director - many users in the EPM on-prem world use the Financial Reporting bursting feature to burst out 100s of reports but what about EPM Cloud?
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EPM Market Consolidation Time Again? Should you be Considering Your Options?

June 14, 2018
Malcolm Brock, Managing Director Brovanture - Out of the blue this week, Workday announced its acquisition of the Cloud planning vendor Adaptive Insights, just before a planned IPO
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Transfer of Smart List Values to Members in Calculation Manager

May 31, 2018
Sarah Ansell, Brovanture Consultant - Retrieving and transforming a Smart List entry (stored against a dimension member) into a member name to be used within a calculation script
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Could Your Next IT Project Drive You to Your Knees?

May 2, 2018
Malcolm Brock, Managing Director Brovanture - For over a week now, the UK ‘High Street’ bank TSB has been reeling under bad press and customer pressure because its switch over to new IT systems
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Loading Metadata using PBCS Data Management

April 22, 2018
Lydia Maksoud, brovanture consultant - After much anticipation, the ability to load metadata from a flat file into (e)PBCS is now supported using the inbuilt data loading ETL tool Data Management
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How Close Are You to a Spreadsheet Disaster?

April 17, 2018
Malcolm Brock, Managing Director Brovanture - Monday morning (9 April 2018), reading The Times newspaper Business Section I was struck by the headline ‘Spreadsheets plus human error can add up to disaster’
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Are You Prepared for A Cyber Attack?

March 16, 2018
Malcolm Brock, Managing Director Brovanture - Reading the news this week I was struck by an expert discussing the implications of the current Sergei Skripal poisoning incident in Salisbury in the UK
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The ‘Beast from the East’ and Month End

March 1, 2018
Malcolm Brock, Managing Director Brovanture - Without the right systems and technology, the result will be that month end processes cannot be completed so dates will be missed and vital information needed to plan and make decisions will be late
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The ‘Ultimate Question’ for FP&A

February 22, 2018
Malcolm Brock, Managing Director Brovanture - For FP&A, Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting and the ‘ultimate question’, in my experience it has to be...
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Taking Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service Beyond Finance

February 7, 2018
Malcolm Brock, Managing Director Brovanture - Much is talked about broadening the horizons of planning, budgeting and forecasting and how organisations should adopt a truly ‘enterprise’ approach...
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Our Focus is on Customer Success

February 1, 2018
Malcolm Brock, Managing Director Brovanture - On the 15 January 2018 Brovanture became the 1st Oracle Fully Certified Cloud Excellence Implementer (CEI) for EPM...
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New 2018 UK Growth Optimism – Are You Prepared?

January 23, 2018
Malcolm Brock, Managing Director Brovanture - Last week I wrote about gloomy predictions for the UK hotel sector in 2018. What a difference a week can make!
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2018 UK Hotel Market – Bull to Bear?

January 15, 2018
Malcolm Brock, Managing Director Brovanture - We don’t expect the growth in 2018 to match 2017, even though the outlook is broadly positive for the UK hotels sector...
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Maximising the Return on Public Sector IT Investment

January 11, 2018
Malcolm Brock, Managing Director Brovanture - For Public Sector organisations there is significant relevance in this. Austerity has put great pressure on their budgets and is driving a ‘doing more for less’ revolution
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Smart Lists as Run Time Prompts

December 1, 2017
Sarah Ansell, Brovanture Consultant - Smart Lists are very powerful tools within Planning Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS) software
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When it comes to financial software, Darwin has a point!

October 12, 2017
Malcolm Brock, Managing Director Brovanture - Good financial software solutions are designed based on current best practice and end to end processes. What organisation would not want to adopt these best practices?
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FDMEE Tips: Using Factors in Import Formats

July 7, 2017
Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Consultant - Import expressions can be added to an FDMEE import format to alter the data being imported from a file in several valuable ways
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An introduction to Predictive Planning

June 20, 2017
Sarah Ansell, Brovanture Consultant - Predictive Planning is an extension to Oracle Hyperion Smart View for Office that can be used to display predictions based on historical data
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FDMEE Automation – Automatically Identifying the process ID

June 14, 2017
Mike Falconer, EPM Consultant - here is another neat way of identifying what can often be a useful variable in your data load, the process ID
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FDMEE Automation – automatically identifying the load period

June 5, 2017
Mike Falconer, EPM Consultant - a couple of tips and tricks for this blog related to how to identify key inputs into the data load process!
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PBCS workflow approvals via iPhone and Android

June 2, 2017
Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Consultant - Workflow processes can be set up in PBCS applications to manage the progress and approval of a specific work task
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FDMEE Automation – send email notification reports automagically!

May 17, 2017
Mike Falconer, EPM Consultant - This is the first of a multi-part series exploring techniques that can be used in an automated data load into PBCS using FDMEE
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SharePoint quietly shifts to OneDrive for a week

May 10, 2017
Mike Falconer, EPM Consultant - For those unacquainted with OneDrive, it essentially functions as Microsoft’s answer to Dropbox, or similar cloud storage solutions
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PBCS Stealth Update – reports won’t prompt for input

May 9, 2017
Mike Falconer, EPM Consultant - As we all know, PBCS is being updated all the time. This adaptability is one of PBCS’s greatest strengths but can also be a weakness.
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What’s going on with my business rule security?

May 3, 2017
Mike Falconer, EPM Consultant - All my standard checks came up empty. In desperation I turned to another cheap support trick, creating a user with similar access.
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Branding your Cloud and FCCS

April 26, 2017
Mike Falconer, EPM Consultant - How do I brand my own interface? The Branding options are found under Tools > Appearance.
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Using SQL to map null values to ignore

April 25, 2017
Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Consultant - there is a way around this using a custom SQL mapping script to define your own mappings and this blog is here to show you how
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Loading valid intersections in bulk to Oracle PBCS

April 19, 2017
Mike Falconer, EPM Consultant - A very useful feature of PBCS over traditional Oracle Hyperion Planning is the ability to define Valid Intersections of your dimension members. This means you can restrict your users to only enter data into specific intersections of several dimensions which you define.
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Data copy in an ASO Application

April 18, 2017
Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Consultant - One of the main problems with ASO databases in the past was finding a way to perform calculations such as a standard data copy from one member to another
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Using EPM Automate to back up your PBCS application

April 12, 2017
Lydia Maksoud, Brovanture Consultant - EPM Automate is a utility which enables service administrators to remotely perform a selection of routine tasks on their PBCS system
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Sneaky new PBCS features

April 6, 2017
Jazmin Ribeiro, Brovanture Consultant - new admin features in PBCS that we can’t recall being mentioned in the monthly update documents
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It’s new & it works!

January 31, 2017
Jazmin Riberio, Brovanture Consultant - the October 2016 PBCS update saw the release of the “Enhanced Data Integration with Fusion Financials Cloud”
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