What is an Narrative Reporting Application?

An application is a storage container for data that you want to centrally store in the Cloud.

Note:

The Narrative Reporting application will no longer be available to Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management Narrative Reporting customers under the Standard and Enterprise licensing. (starting in June 2019). Legacy customers, pre-June 2019 licensing of Narrative Reporting (previously known as Enterprise Performance Reporting Cloud) will still have access to the application.

This is due to Cloud EPM introducing FreeForm Applications, which provide dimensional models without dimension type restrictions as well as fast performance and support for large dimensions. FreeForm Applications provide significantly more robust functionality than the legacy Narrative Reporting application and models, including read or write member formula, and procedural logic capabilities. Because of these new powerful capabilities, the Narrative Reporting application will no longer be available to new Cloud EPM Narrative Reporting customers. FreeForm Applications with its enhanced functionality can be used for custom cubes.

For Standard and Enterprise licensing customers, the Sample Application and Model will still be available for use with the report package and Management Reporting samples, however, the Application card will not be available for viewing or modifying the Application and Model. The Sample Application is deployed behind-the-scenes when performing a Get Sample Content action from the user, using the Download menu.