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 Enterprise Performance Management Cloud 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 EPM Cloud introducing Free Form Applications, which provide dimensional models without dimension type restrictions as well as fast performance and support for large dimensions. Free Form 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 EPM Cloud Narrative Reporting customers. Free Form 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.