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Archive for May, 2012

Oracle Essbase boot camp – A deep dive in BI and EPM capabilities

Perficient prepares hundreds of people each year to use and manage applications with the Oracle EPM suite of products including Oracle Essbase.  Essbase is a multi-dimensional database that has an advanced calculation engine and provides a very rich user experience through its integration with Microsoft Office and Oracle BI tools. Oracle Essbase is the industry-leading […]

The New Bing Interface With Stefan Weitz

The new Bing interface is aimed at bringing you clean and decisive search results while helping you interact with your friends and network for a holistic search experience. In this interview, Stefan Weitz from Bing talks about the functionality of the new Bing, how it came about, and plans for its future. Key Points The […]

Manage Pages with IBM Experience Suite

Last week at the IBM Web Experience Conference, they announced the IBM Experience Suite as part of the the updated Portal 8 announcement.  There are some really cool features and one of them is the managed pages functions.  Here is a great video on it. Although, incredibly basic and with little real work work flow […]

Managing the Information Tsunami: Two Lists You Need

Peter Bregman has a great post at Harvard Business Review about managing the flood of information we see every day.  In it he sets up the problem of so much information available and the possible solution.  The short answer is focus.  However focus requires that we define not only what we will focus on but […]

Iterative BI Tips – The Project Directory

My project teams designate a project root via environment variable and then build a defined directory structure beneath.  This allows each developer to build their environments wherever it suits their needs and desires while providing a consistent path for project paths:   C:\ Users chris.grenz projects <- The projects root defined in PROJECTS_ROOT BI TEST_123 […]

Decreasing Healthcare Costs with BI – Can Your EHR Deliver?

The U.S. healthcare industry has come head-to-head with tremendous challenges that have the potential to cripple the industry and reap havoc on multiple stakeholders, whose different interests and incentives have made change and progress difficult. However, a new era of data-driven healthcare is emerging as players are starting to explore the power of “big data.” […]

Salesforce Best Practices: Portal Branding & Content Management

In a prior blog we talked about portal adoption strategies and suggested a combination of approaches that would improve adoption, including: Simplifying portal content Targeting compelling content to specific user tiers or geographies Reinforcing your brand by matching your portal with your corporate brand

Roambi Disrupts Mobile BI with an iFocus

Roambi was clearly built to bring some of the cool factor of Apple products to BI…or maybe it was the other way around. The downloadable Analytics app for Apple iPad and iPhone may be solely focused on these two products for delivery, but is also able to connect to a variety of data sources, as […]

What makes a good unit test?

We have team members who attended a Boot Camp where they learned skills such as how to write a unit test.  They are very smart and created a lot of unit tests for their code. We use unit test coverage rates to judge the quality of unit tests. The boot camp team got a 87.5% […]

WebSphere and IBM Cognos TM1 Career Opportunities

Our customers look to us as a trusted advisor with the technical expertise, business acumen and proven implementation  methodologies. We are looking for more Perficient colleagues to become additional experts and trusted advisors on behalf of Perficient’s national, award-winning IBM team. We have two excellent opportunities available that we’d like to share with our blog […]

Don’t Just Do Something: Sit There

I took a class in mindfulness meditation last Fall. I have always been very curious about both the practice and reported benefits of meditation: increased brain function, spiritual centeredness, greater capacity to go with the flow, despite life’s trials and tribulations. I had been drawn to the idea of it for many years, knowing deep […]

Iterative BI – Taking Control of Your Environment

In my previous post on iterative BI I talked about the need to adapt your BI systems to the storm of change that iterative development thrives on.  The first thing on my mind in light of this coming storm is taking control of how my teams package and build their environments. For most of my […]

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