Announcing the AutoEPM Patch Tracker

UPDATE: This service has been discontinued; this post is left as historical reference. If you need this sort of thing, contact me on LinkedIn.

With the recent release of EPM 11.2, I thought it would be a good time to make public a tool I've built and used "behind the scenes" for quite some time, the AutoEPM Patch Tracker.

It's a patch tracker focused on EPM products, automatically aggregating updates and pointing to readmes, hopefully a bit faster to peruse than My Oracle Support. It also recommends Critical Product Updates that can be applied to the EPM stack, and the most common "standard" updates (only for 11.1.2.4 at the moment). With a free account via LinkedIn sign-on, all lists can be downloaded in CSV, JSON, and XML (Atom).

It's only a small showcase of what we can do at AutoEPM by Targlet. If you'd like to find out how to integrate this level of automation and intelligence to your EPM enviroments, feel free to reach out! I'll be at OpenWorld London next week as well, always happy to have a chat.

Slides for "The EPM Diet" presentation at Infratects TopGun 2015

I usually have a lot of fun at our Top Gun event, which is basically the only conference in Europe entirely dedicated to Hyperion/EPM infrastructure topics. Infratects being the leading player in the European space for this particular niche, it makes sense to get the community together and have honest conversations about best practices.

In 2014 I presented a talk about securing EPM. In 2015, in keeping with the tradition of telling people to do stuff they'd rather not, I talked about keeping servers fit by following an EPM diet, aka a number of little maintenance tasks to be periodically repeated.

I guess next year it will have to be about paying your taxes on time, or calling your mum every week.