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EDMCS is Here!!!

For all those folks who worked / working in DRM and have been waiting to see the EDMCS in the cloud. It's here

Every time, I look at cloud.oracle.com I always see the "COMING SOON". See below


I don't see it today. I believe it's officially launched. I am not the first one to spot. I would like to give Juan the credit for his tweet. Click on the "Quick Tour" on the right side to see a few slides of what EDMCS is all about


There is no Pricing tab along with "Overview", "Features" and "Learn More". I would expect that this is available for the very few privileged and may be open for everyone in due course of time (I have no idea when that is going to me)

I don't see the documentation link under "Learn More". Thankfully, I was able to dig a little and able to find the documentation here. This will be your starting point

Oracle is doing a great job providing lot of video tutorials and EDMCS is no exception. I personally learned a lot about Oracle EPM cloud tools though I do not have access to many of them. "Get Started" will be your starting point.
If you are unsure of how you would get more out of the videos and documents, follow my instructions below


Overview : Take a look at the overview / tour of EDMCS (link here) to get a view of what EDMCS is and what you can do with EDMCS

The document is organized in a way that you can navigate based on the list of tasks that you will be performing in EDMCS. Below is the order of tasks that you would be performing with EDMCS and it is worth to explore each step one by one


Click on "Configure Applications" and take a look at the Getting Started section

In contrast to DRM, EDMCS follow an application based approach

You have to create an application first followed by dimensions, nodes and required properties
Thanks to Oracle EPM cloud team for adding the PBCS and EPBCS directly (Can't ) as the application type. You can also select the "Custom" and define a custom application.

I would have to explore more to understand the terminology that is used here
Information Model, Data Chain, Viewpoints are few things which came across while looking at the document
I am not a DRM expert and have to connect back with my folks to get a more deeper understanding of how it works in EDMCS

If you have already explored EDMCS, I would appreciate if you can give more information about it. Till then, Happy Learning!!!

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