Saturday, March 13, 2021

Latest Windows Update Removes Abobe Flash

This is a follow-up about Adobe Flash Player EOL and On-Premises EPM 11.1.2.x.

As you may have heard, Adobe ended support for Flash Player on Jan 1, 2021.  This date has been known for some time, and as a result, Oracle released patches for EPM 11.1.2.4 in Summer 2020 that removes Flash dependency from Hyperion Planning, Hyperion Calculation Manager, and the Financial Close suite.

Some Oracle EPM / Hyperion customers may have deferred patching or upgrading.  Perhaps the thinking was "we can just leave it on end-user workstations as-is even though it is out of support."

Microsoft says "Not so fast!"


If you're on EPM 11.1.2.4 and are using any of the 3 modules I mentioned above, please apply the patches right away.  They're listed in my link above, although newer ones might be available by  now.

If you're on EPM 11.1.2.3.500+, you need to upgrade.

As mentioned in my earlier post, Adobe removed the Flash Player download from their website.  They further stated that downloading it from any 3rd party site is a license violation.

The good news is EPM 11.2.x has the fix built-in.  As does the EPM Cloud.

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