Keeping up with EPM Cloud

In November 2021, Oracle released Intelligent Performance Management (IPM), which integrates directly into your EPM applications to provide automated predictions, data analysis and insight into anomalies or patterns which may otherwise go unnoticed. Then in the August 2023 EPM patch, Oracle released new Calendars & Events functionality to IPM, which allows admins to setup regional calendars containing events. These events can then be taken into account for the predictions and insights generated, helping to add context that IPM may not be aware of from the data. Calendars and events can be setup in the Configure card, under IPM. Configuring Calendars Calendars can be setup to allow for different events to be assigned depending on the region or time. For example, an event for Christmas may only apply to EMEA/US, so we’d need a different calendar for those regions. Calendars can also be defined for a range of time series, e.g. Daily, Weekly, Monthly or Quarterly, depending on ...

Recently I came across an issue with Pipelines where if a job was taking longer than around 30 mins in a pipeline, the pipeline would move onto the next job before letting the job finish. The job would also show as "RUNNING" in the pipeline email notification, and the email would say the pipeline has failed, even though when we check the job console, none of the jobs in the pipeline had failed. For example below, the pipeline moves on even though the aggregation is still running which then means the remaining jobs are not running in the correct order and the pipeline status shows as FAILED: After asking on Customer Connect, a helpful user (thank you Ija Vidaurri!) gave us the solution, which is to set the Batch Timeout In Minutes setting to a higher value (by default this is empty so I’m not sure of the exact default timeout). This can be done by going to Data Exchange -> System Settings and entering a minute value into the Batch Timeout In Minutes setting....