The EPM Post

The same real-world entity shows up under three different names, two spellings, and a typo nobody caught. Here's how Oracle EDM's matching, merging, and deduplication machinery — match types, scoring, thresholds, and survivorship — keeps your single source of truth from quietly forking into three.

EDMCS has shipped a steady stream of governance, compare, and automation features since 2023 — most of them easy to miss if your implementation has been stable since go-live. Here are ten worth a second look, with the release timing to match.

There are five licensing paths for Oracle EDMCS. Choosing the wrong one costs more than you think. Here is how to think through it properly before it becomes a mid-project problem.

The Oracle DRM Migration Utility handles the move — but reading the back-end schema directly is what gives you the full picture fast. A practical SQL toolkit that's just as useful if you're new to DRM as it is if you've been running it for years.

The AI model was the easy part. Part 2 is about the real foundation: a flexible REST API, clean metadata, and why Oracle EDM's real job goes well beyond EPM.

I connected an AI agent to Oracle's EDM REST API to see what would happen. Part 1 covers why I built it, what Oracle EDM really is, and how the thing actually works.

A multi-banner retail client was finally moving off EBS onto Oracle Cloud ERP and needed the entire legacy Chart of Accounts mapped to the new Fusion COA. Here's how the Legacy GL node type kept that mapping exercise from inflating the EDM subscription.

Oracle EDM is exceptional at governing dimension data across EPM, ERP, and beyond. Here is the one specific thing it does not do natively — and the script I built to generate concatenated members for loading into downstream app viewpoints.

12 features shipped in the June 2026 EDM release. Beyond the technical notes, here's what each one actually means for the people who use EDM every day — from data stewards to finance teams to IT.

A blog for Oracle EPM professionals — covering Planning, Essbase, EDM, FDMEE, and the real-world challenges of implementing and maintaining EPM solutions.

Slow Essbase retrieval times? Before you start throwing hardware at the problem, try these five tuning tips that consistently make a difference.