Administering Cloud EPM: The Platform Beneath the Business Processes · Module 0 · Orientation
The platform administrator's job
Lesson 3 of 201 · 2 min
The job nobody wrote a description for. In most organizations the EPM service administrator is a functional consultant who happened to be there. The work is real, and largely invisible until it fails. What the job actually contains — and you will notice it is this course's own structure: the estate, access, security, the tools, automation, continuity, operations, monitoring, enablement, governance. The rhythm of the role. Daily: monitoring and job failures. Monthly: the patch cycle and access review. Quarterly: feature updates and capacity. Annually: the DR test, the security review, the role audit. Users do not think about the platform. That is the whole measure. If people are talking about the platform, something is wrong with it. That is an uncomfortable measure to be judged by, and it is the right one. And what the failures look like, because they are disproportionately expensive. A locked-out estate at close. A failed…
The full lesson is part of the course
The video, the complete written lesson and the module quiz are included in Administering Cloud EPM: The Platform Beneath the Business Processes, with a certificate on completion and a fourteen-day refund window.
In this module: Module 0 · Orientation
- 1How this course works
- 2What access you will need
- 3The platform administrator's job
- 4Your setup checklist