Building a Snowflake REST API Connector for OneStream

How to build a OneStream Connector business rule that queries Snowflake via the SQL REST API. Covers key-pair authentication with CAT Secrets, async polling, token substitution, and production-ready patterns.

Serverless Backup & Restore operations in EPM Cloud

Running serverless backup and restore operations to migrate EPM cloud environments.

Setup & Configuration of EPM Integration Agent as a Windows service

How-to guide on configuring the EPM Integration Agent to run as a Windows service.

Understanding PGP Encryption in OneStream

Step-by-step guide to implementing PGP encryption in OneStream for secure data transfers. Covers key generation, configuration, and best practices for CPM data security.

AI in Oracle EPM and ERP: What’s Real in 2026

Oracle is delivering AI as part of the Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications Suite quarterly updates, and that means exciting changes are in store for Oracle Cloud EPM and ERP.

Managing Your Risk: Why You Need a Financial Consolidation System in 2026

Company Directors have a duty to exercise due care and diligence under the Corporations Act 2001. This extends to financial reporting obligations. Financial statements and notes to accounts must comply with accounting standards and give a true and fair view of a company’s consolidated financial position and performance. Too many organisations rely on Excel as a primary tool to assist with the preparation of Statutory consolidated financial Statements. While Excel is a great tool, it is often not the most ideal system to use to produce consolidated financial reports. Excel is not a robust option and there are many well documented cases, both in Australia and overseas, where Excel errors have been the cause of major financial reporting errors. Dedicated applications to assist with the preparation of consolidated financial accounts include standard features and functionality to assist the financial accounting team prepare the accounts with confidence.

EPM Data Integration – Pipeline

The Pipeline feature enables you orchestrate a series of jobs as a single process. In addition, you can orchestrate Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud jobs across instances from one location. Using the Pipeline, you have better control and visibility of the full extended data integration process for preprocessing, data loading and post processing jobs.

Enterprise Data Management Series – Part 2

Welcome to our initial post in a series of about the world of Metadata Management, Enterprise Data management provides a new way to manage your data assets. You can manage application artefacts that include properties such as Master data (members that represent data and includes dimensions, hierarchies), Reference Data (such as page drop-downs for ease of filtering in frontend), and Mappings (master data member relationships). Using these pre-built functions, you will be able to track master data changes with ease.

Oracle Narrative Reporting – Part 2

Oracle Enterprise Performance Reporting Cloud (EPRCS) is a powerful regulatory data and narrative reporting tool. EPRCS helps integrate from both Oracle and non-Oracle data sources and enables reporting on the multi-dimensional analysis of financial and management data. Contributors can leverage intuitive and flexible authoring environment, document lifecycle management with commentary among others thereby helping provide trust and reliability that data and information are accurate.

Oracle Data Integrator Cloud Service (ODICS) – PART 2

Oracle is one of the prominent leaders in providing comprehensive data integration solutions that includes Oracle Data Integrator Cloud Service (ODICS), Oracle Data Integration Platform Cloud, Oracle Golden Gate, Oracle Enterprise Data Quality, Oracle Enterprise Metadata Management, and Oracle Stream Analytics.  ODICS provides continuous access to timely, reliable and heterogeneous data from both on-site and cloud solutions to support analytical and operational business needs.

Oracle Data Integrator Cloud Service (ODICS) – PART 1

Oracle is one of the prominent leaders in providing comprehensive data integration solutions that includes Oracle Data Integrator Cloud Service (ODICS), Oracle Data Integration Platform Cloud, Oracle Golden Gate, Oracle Enterprise Data Quality, Oracle Enterprise Metadata Management, and Oracle Stream Analytics.  ODICS provides continuous access to timely, reliable and heterogeneous data from both on-site and cloud solutions to support analytical and operational business needs.

Introduction to Oracle Tax Reporting Cloud

The tax reporting solution provides tax departments with the ability to meet global tax reporting requirements on an ongoing basis and ensure compliance with changing tax regulations. We can help with implementing Oracle’s tax reporting solution for your organization and provide guidance on how to get the maximum value out of it.

Oracle Narrative Reporting – Part 1

Oracle Enterprise Performance Reporting Cloud (EPRCS) is a powerful regulatory data and narrative reporting tool. EPRCS helps integrate from both Oracle and non-Oracle data sources and enables reporting on the multi-dimensional analysis of financial and management data. Contributors can leverage intuitive and flexible authoring environment, document lifecycle management with commentary among others thereby helping provide trust and reliability that data and information are accurate.

Enterprise Data Management Series – Part 1

Welcome to our initial post in a series of about the world of Metadata Management, Enterprise Data management provides a new way to manage your data assets. You can manage application artefacts that include properties such as Master data (members that represent data and includes dimensions, hierarchies), Reference Data (such as page drop-downs for ease of filtering in frontend), and Mappings (master data member relationships). Using these pre-built functions, you will be able to track master data changes with ease.

Complete and Connected EPM Cloud: What It Means for Finance in 2026

In the latest Open World, Larry Ellison (founder of Oracle) restated the mission statement of oracle to "help people see data in new ways, discover insights, unlock endless possibilities". This shows the importance of data and its usage from the visionary technology leader. Oracle is changing from on-premise software provider to the cloud-oriented company.

Little Known EPM tools: Using JHAT

JHAT tool is another way to automate HFM tasks using a batch file and the HFM API. It is the former HAT updated to be compliant with the last HFM release. JHAT offers the opportunity to use any scheduler to launch HFM tasks and provide better flexibility than Task Flows.

Automating Account Reconciliation with Oracle ARCS: A 2026 Guide

In this world of cloud computing and mobile applications, we have software applications to increase the efficiency of our personal and official tasks. It is interesting to know that more than 60% of organizations are still performing manual reconciliations between systems and subsystems. The approval process is managed using emails and there is limited visibility on the accountability. Lack of governance in the account reconciliation process cause problems in the audit. Accountants are not leveraging technology to decrease the burden during the monthly close process.

IFRS-16

​​The earlier you begin to understand what impact the new IFRS-16 standard may have on your organisation the better prepared you will be to iron out potential issues and reduce implementation costs and compliance risk. ​​With the IFRS-16 compliance deadline fast approaching of from 1st January 2019, we will be answering the following burning questions. •​​What is IFRS16? •​​Is it relevant to our business? •​​Do we need to comply?