Enterprise Transformations, It's all About Performance Management

Here is one of the issues I have faced today, after applying few patches on one of our Hyperion Servers we were not able to run the EPM configurator, it was ending up in following error: We assumed that this may because of the patches we applied. Normally this error comes when you use a different user account for maintenance activities then the one which you have used during EPM installation. In that case we can modify the inventory file and change the user name in the file and re-run the configuration. The complete solution is well defined in the following Oracle's KM document: Enterprise Performance Management 11.x Configuration Utility Does Not Launch And Returns Error: "Inventory existence check failed for EpmSystem_username home was not found" [ID 1342764.1] For me, I was using the same OS user for all the activities, still was ending up in the same error and unfortunately EPM System Configurator was not even updating any logs at all. Every time we were runn