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Oracle EPM Cloud Updates & Patches

Oracle EPM Cloud Feb 2018 updates are out
If you are unsure of where and when this information would be available, take a look at "Oracle Proactive Support EPM". As this is a blog, it will include a post for each Cloud EPM update. If you are interested to look for previous patch updates, you can look at older posts and you will be able to find it

You can also refer to "Cloud Readiness", select the appropriate tool. Watch out for "What's New" document. But remember that this will only include the latest update


PATCH UPDATE SCHEDULE (Information collected from the patch documents)

Oracle will apply the the latest updates to your test environment on first Friday of the month and to your production environment on third Friday of the month


I have took some time and liberty and collated direct link for the Feb 2018 Updates for you

PS: You can also see Jan 2018 updates as well in the same link

Note of appreciation

I appreciate Oracle for doing a really great work in terms of documentation. The patch documentation is well documented


  1. EDMCS February 2018 Updates
  2. PBCS/EPBCS February 2018 Updates
  3. FCCS February 2018 Updates
  4. EPRCS February 2018 Updates
  5. ARCS February 2018 Updates
  6. TRCS February 2018 Updates
  7. PCMCS February 2018 Updates


The first cloud product was released on Feb 14th 2014 and was PBCS.

And there are different timelines for each product releases. Considering that, what if you would like to know about the past patch updates

Oracle team is following a standard nomenclature for the patch updates


{base link}/{product short code}/{year}-{product short code}-wn.htm


Let's understand the above nomenclature with the EDMCS example

http://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/tutorials/tutorial/cloud/edmcs/2018-edmcs-wn.htm is the link for EDMCS

{base link}http://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/tutorials/tutorial/cloud

This is the starting point of the link that is constant

{product short codes}: edmcs, pbcs, fccs, eprcs, arcs, trcs, pcmcs are all the product short codes. I hope you know what those short names are


{year}: 2018, 2017,2016 and so on


If you want 2017 for any product that was released in FY17 or before you can use the above format and be able to get all the patch updates of that particular product for that year (all periods)


Try out this for PBCS: http://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/tutorials/tutorial/cloud/pbcs/2017-pbcs-wn.htm


The above link approach will only work for Oracle EPM SaaS based applications. For Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) which is PaaS, use this link 


That's all for today. Now with all the EPM products live in Cloud, I am trying to collate and collect the data across all the Cloud EPM products in terms of features, defects, enhancements, workarounds and build some visualizations around it


As mentioned in my previous posts, though I am pursuing my interests in Machine Learning, AI and NLP, my primary skill set is still Oracle EPM for now


Happy Learning!!!

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