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Archive for October, 2012

Outlook 2013 and no Default Gateway

Recently I was setting up Exchange 2013 RTM in my lab and ran into an error when trying to configure my first mailbox with Outlook 2013 running on Windows 7.  While walking through the mailbox configuration wizard I was prompted with the following error while it was trying to search for my Outlook settings: Since […]

Big Data’s Challenges

Just returning from IBM’s Information On-Demand 2012 conference in Vegas last week, where there were just as many new questions created as ones that were answered. Among the usual Vegas question like; What happened to my money and Where am I, were some new ones. Most common was; What is Big Data? So it appears […]

Big Data Trends

Introduction My first blog in nearly 2 years with Perficient. I have been watching this space for a while and have been wondering for some time about potentials topics to blog. I have decided to initially focus my blogs on some interesting Business Analytics technologies which are discussed infrequently. ( Data mining, Predictive Analytics, Text […]

Cognos TM1 and SPSS Forecasting and Reporting

Author: Jim Miller, Senior Project Leader, Perficient In this post by Jim Miller, he highlights the business benefits from the forecasting and reporting systems implemented to Cognos TM1. Jim also goes into detail about how IBM SPSS can be leveraged to create a “continually learning time based predictive forecasting model.” View Jim’s full post here

Forecasting and Reporting with Cognos TM1 and SPSS

    Cognos TM1 Implemented forecasting and reporting systems have had many benefits to businesses. These benefits might include (by are not limited to): Improved consistency – a single source for forecasting and reporting.  Decreased overall “processing time” for reporting forecast and actual information.  Decreased manual intervention – fewer “touch points”.  Provide the ability to […]

Maybe You’ve Heard, Apple Released an iPad Mini

Unless you have been living “off the grid”, it was difficult not to know that the rumors which have been swirling for months were true and Apple released a 7” iPad Mini.  Despite the opposition of such a device by the late Steve Jobs, Apple has seen the success of Android-based 7” tablets such as […]

Best Banking Blog Awards – Cast Your Vote!

Although the Perficient brand has been around for more than 14 years serving customers, our Financial Services technology practice and blog are new this year. Today I came across a blog post from The Financial Brand for their “Editor’s Choice” Award. The Best Banking Blog nominees include more than 21 banking blogs – each with a different perspective […]

You talkin’ to me? Patients & Shared Decision Making

Even the most motivated patients do not always know how to better their health. The journey through personal health can be one wrought with anxiety and intimidation. The messaging is not always clear, and the direction provided by clinicians is not always easily understood. So, in a healthcare industry that is welcoming patients into the […]

Bridge the Gap between SharePoint and EMC Documentum

Microsoft’s SharePoint has become the de facto collaboration solution leveraged by most companies today. In fact Gartner states that 60% of companies are using SharePoint.  With its user-friendly interface and growing features SharePoint has grown into strong player in the ECM space, however in certain areas customers still need the power of a traditional ECM platform that […]

Fixed Price Contracts – An Agile Perspective

I was drawn into a conversation about fixed priced contracts on LinkedIn. Since many people might not be monitoring the associated group on LinkedIn I thought it might be useful for me to cross post here. The content of my LinkedIn post (slightly edited) follows:

Twenty Open Source iOS Frameworks You Should be Using

Objective-C on the iOS platform continues to rise in popularity. Between iOS and Android platforms, now there are close to 1.6 billion apps. This is a phenomenal number of apps. Given this explosion, it is but natural to see the proliferation of some excellent open source frameworks on social code repositories like Github and Google Code. This […]

Behind the scenes of R12 Intercompany and Intracompany

Have you been struggling to understand the inner workings of R12 Intercompany and Intracompany balancing? Well, this is the best Metalink article we have found that clearly explains the setups and examples of all scenarios (ID 604441.1). Setting Up Intracompany And Intercompany Accounting 604441 1 Keeping with the theme, have you discovered the new AGIS System Option […]

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