Have you heard about the all new Oracle Cloud Console? It’s a very exciting development for all Oracle Cloud Customers, including ERP Cloud, EPM Cloud, HCM Cloud and OCI!

So what is Oracle Cloud Console?

It’s the new Service Management Platform from Oracle to improve the experience for your administrators. It incorporates Environment Management; Communications; Subscriptions and Costs; and Identity, Security and Compliance.

The roadmap for future features will also add in monitoring functionality, including environment availability, diagnostics, alerts and log files.

Why should I be excited? The Environment Management part of the Console is a massive step forward! We all have experienced the lead times on requesting an environment refresh (P2T copy). Sometimes we need a P2T quickly if we need to test something using Production data, but it can be up to a three week lead time. This is all changing!

So what does this mean for us? P2Ts are no longer copied directly from Production. Each evening Oracle takes a back up from your Production pod, so rather than taking a snapshot at the start of the P2T process, Oracle will now use this nightly backed up data. This means that there is no impact on your Production pod when the snapshot is taken, but more importantly, the lead time has gone! Once you’ve moved to Oracle Cloud Console, you can request your P2Ts yourself, without the need to raise an SR, but also it can start immediately!

There are a few points to be mindful of. If you’re going to select a P2T immediately, is any inflight configuration or development in the non prod pod documented / backed up? If not, please back up before starting. Secondly, you cannot request a refresh 4 days before or after a scheduled patch (quarterly releases, CWBs etc).

So how do I get it? Oracle is rolling this out to all Cloud customers between Quarter 3 2023 — Quarter 3 2024, so everyone will have this in the next 6 months. Oracle will notify you 30 days prior to the transition to Cloud Console. Firstly it will be switched on for your non Production Cadence pods and then 2 weeks later for your Production Cadence pods.

So in summary, this is a very exciting development and we’ll all get to benefit from it soon, and I for one, cannot wait!

About the author:

Kate Mead is an Oracle-certified HCM Consultant and Solution Architect at Version 1 with 14 years of experience in Oracle HR and Payroll systems, including 7 years with Oracle HCM Cloud. She has worked across implementation projects and managed services, has a sound knowledge of UK Payroll legislation and — before becoming a consultant — was an HR Manager.

If you have any questions or would like more information on how Version 1 can help you realise the full potential of your Oracle Cloud instances, please contact her at kate.mead@version1.com

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