Today Oracle and Salesforce.com unveiled the forging of a new partnership that will align their cloud operations and provide customers flexible application integrations and rapid low-cost implementations.

Both Companies Agree to Integrate Salesforce.com and Oracle Clouds

Salesforce.com [NYSE:CRM] and Oracle [NASDAQ:ORCL] announced today a comprehensive nine-year partnership encompassing all three tiers of cloud computing: Applications, Platform and Infrastructure.

Salesforce.com plans to standardize on the Oracle Linux operating system, Exadata engineered systems, the Oracle Database, and Java Middleware Platform. Oracle plans to integrate salesforce.com with Oracle’s Fusion HCM and Financial Cloud, and provide the core technology to power salesforce.com’s applications and platform. Salesforce.com will also implement Oracle’s Fusion HCM and Financial cloud applications throughout the company.

“Larry and I both agree that salesforce.com and Oracle need to integrate our clouds,” said Marc Benioff, Chairman and CEO, salesforce.com. “Salesforce.com’s CRM integrated with Oracle’s Fusion HCM and Financial Cloud is the best of both worlds: the simplicity of salesforce.com combined with the power of Oracle.”

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Perficient Oracle EPM team is in NOLA for the annual ODTUG Kscope13 conference, June 23-27.  The conference is tailored to developers, technical architects and business users to gain insights on Oracle technologies and applications including business intelligence, Oracle EPM, Fusion Middleware and Application Express.  The conference format and activities provide a vehicle for extensive networking and sharing content around Oracle tools and solution offerings.

Serving as an elite Silver Sponsor, Perficient Oracle EPM team will be exhibiting in booth #405 and be on-hand daily to discuss our Oracle Hyperion expertise and your financial business and reporting needs.  We understand that when making sound, financial business decisions that nimbleness and transparency are key elements and that many companies are still utilizing manual reporting processes to budget, forecast and report on key metrics.  Perficient partners with clients to implement key Oracle technologies and applications like Hyperion Financial Management and Essbase solutions to help automate processes and ensure financial data integrity, resulting in more accurate and timely information for business-decision making.

SHOWCASING OUR EXPERTISE
During Kscope13, Perficient Oracle EPM expert Matt Hopkins, (professional bio) will present the case study “Mid-Market Energy Co. Uses HFM with Essbase for Seamless Reporting” in which he will review how Carrizo worked with Perficient to implement Oracle technologies to perform their financial close and external reporting process, and detailed operating and management reporting. Matt also will highlight how, with Perficient, Carrizo addressed their needs of reporting their lease operating statements for gross and net dollar amounts, and reporting based on general ledger and production dates.  Check out this interactive Session 10 on June 25 from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. and meet Hopkins and the team.

Visit us at #405.  For more information on Perficient expertise in Oracle technologies, visit www.perficient.com/Partners/Oracle, or follow Perficient experts on Twitter @Perficient and @PRFT_Oracle.  Recent press release 6.2013

Visit Perficient in Denver next week at COLLABORATE13, April 7-11.   You’ll be joining us and fellow E-Business Suite, Agile, Hyperion, Siebel, Primavera and other Oracle applications users for a fast-paced week of interactive education sessions, engaging networking opportunities, groundbreaking keynotes and of course one of the main attractions – the Exhibitor Showcase.

Perficient team of experts will be available at COLLABORATE13 in exhibit booth #1255 to discuss your technology needs, overall strategy of Oracle applications through leadership, user experience and integration assessments that apply to all product lines, including E-Business Suite and Siebel.  You won’t want to miss expert insight as to how to stay ahead of the curve on Fusion applications, and receive the latest on Perficient’s R12 upgrades and re-implementation client successes and how we can assist with your current and future plans.

ENGAGE AND EXPERIENCE OUR CUSTOM DEMOS
In addition to the flurry of booth activities come join us for even more and experience two demonstrations:

• “Oracle EBS and Vertex Tax Integration Demo” – Perficient’s team of tax technology experts will provide an in-depth and hands-on demonstration of how Vertex can make sense of EBTax while eliminating EBTax headaches.
• “Siebel CRM with OpenUI” – Perficient CRM experts will introduce Siebel CRM’s new OpenUI on an iPad interface, and provide an overview of the process for implementing Siebel OpenUI in an organization.

SHOWCASING OUR EXPERTISE
During COLLABORATE 13, Perficient Oracle experts will present three sessions exploring various Oracle technologies and applications, including EPM and Hyperion, CRM and Customer Experience (CX) solutions.

• In the session “Case Study: Mid-Market Energy Company uses HFM with Essbase for Seamless Reporting” Perficient Senior Project Manager Matt Hopkins will discuss how Carrizo Oil and Gas implemented Oracle’s Hyperion Financial Management and Essbase solutions to perform their financial close and external reporting processes.Date/Time: Tuesday, April 9 from 8 – 9 a.m.

   

• Perficient Oracle CX Director Brent Buck will present “Use Siebel CRM with OpenUI to Take your CRM Experience to the Next Level.” In this presentation, Buck will discuss how the new Siebel OpenUI improves usability, demonstrate how it interfaces with desktops and mobile to increase user adoption, and provide an overview of the implementation process.Date/Time” Tuesday, April 9 from 8 – 9 a.m.

   

• In the session “Building a High-Performing Team as Part of your Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Solution” Perficient Solution Architect Courtney Parker will present best practices and approaches needed to develop a skilled and engaged Oracle Hyperion team.Date/Time: Thursday, April 11 from 9:45 – 10:45 a.m.

   

COLLABORATE13 provides a great opportunity for the entire technology community – Oracle representatives, partners and customers – to gain unique tips and get a better understanding of the value Oracle solutions can bring to an enterprise.

Visit us at #1255.  For more information on Perficient’s expertise in Oracle technologies, visit www.perficient.com/Partners/Oracle, or follow Perficient experts on Twitter @Perficient and @PRFT_Oracle.

We’re gearing up for our upcoming webinar “A Profitability and Cost Management Strategy for Healthcare Providers” co-hosted by our own Tony Coffman, Director Oracle EPM and William Bercik, Director of Healthcare at Oracle for the Provider industry, on Wednesday, March 27, at 11 a.m. CDT.

The webinar will highlight and discuss how leveraging advanced analytics to manage population health, develop risk models, and examine clinical outcomes based on cost will enable Accountable Care and improve the quality of care. 

Our experts will explain how to link strategies to plans and then execute and monitor financial and operational results against goals as we explore some of the following:

• How to apply analytics to drive enterprise-wide performance improvement
• An innovative approach to link costing, patient analytics, and variance analysis to productivity management in an Accountable Care Organization
• An overview of Hyperion Profitability & Cost Management (PCM) solution differentiators, including micro costing
• How the PCM solution relates to the Oracle enterprise performance management and enterprise health analytics platforms
• A demonstration of multiple reports and dashboards such as patient-level P&L and revenue and cost margin by payer

How important is strategy to Accountable Care and improving the quality of care? Find out when you join us and engage in Q&A with our experts, Tony Coffman and William Bercik for our webinar “A Profitability & Cost Management Strategy for Healthcare Providers.”

To register for the webinar, click here
A Profitability & Cost Management Strategy for Healthcare Providers
Wednesday, March 27, at 11 a.m. CDT.