Cloud

Our MicroStrategy and BI Expert Jim Butz spoke at the Gartner IT Expo today on the power of augmented analytics. In short, he pushed that data and insights only matter if you can easily access them and if you have the ability to act on the insight. To that end, your business intelligence (BI) tools must […]

While there are many reasons to push data integration projects forward, healthcare organizations are often held back from using their data by incompatible formats, limitations of databases and systems, and the inability to combine data from multiple sources. This is why cloud-based data lakes have replaced the enterprise data warehouse (EDW) as the core of a modern […]

We are proud to announce that Red Hat has chosen Perficient, a Red Hat Premier Partner, as the winner of its Rising Star Partner of the Year Award. The announcement was made yesterday at the Red Hat North America Partner Conference, taking place October 9-11 in National Harbor, Maryland. Red Hat is the world’s leading […]

We Predict Very Happy Health Cloud Users Salesforce is at it again! The Winter ’19 release is full of amazing new features and enhancements sure to delight any Health Cloud user. At least three times per year, Salesforce has a major release of new and updated functionality. Be sure to check out the Winter ’19 […]

In order to capture a Photo taken from a PowerApp, we are going to take advantage of the Camera control to capture an image and pass that to a Flow which will save it to SharePoint on OneDrive. The process relies on the workflow expression Base64ToBinary() which we will call within the Flow to convert […]

Self-Service Communities Used for Customer Service On the Rise Trends show that customers prefer self-service communities when it comes to accessing support. Customers demand fast service anywhere, anytime. Today, customers have more choice: more products to buy, more information to influence purchasing decisions, and more devices and channels over which to seek customer service. What […]

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is changing the technology we use for work, how we do business, and how ultimately we connect. At Dreamforce 2018, Trailblazers across the world learned about the latest innovations in the Salesforce ecosystem. Here are a few of the keynotes that caught our attention. Reimagine the Customer Experience with a 360° […]

Oracle Data Integration Platform Cloud (DIPC) DIPC is a unified, powerful, data-driven data integration platform on cloud which can accept data in any format from any source system either on premise or on cloud and process that data as per organization needs. With DIPC, you get all the capabilities of most popular E-LT (Extract – Load […]

In Part 1 of this blog post series, we covered the standard process to create, configure, and initialize Oracle HCM Cloud as a source application for Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (EPBCS). In Part 2, we’ll address the steps to take when the EPBCS application has customized dimensions. There is no Oracle documentation about […]

The OneStream XF Workflow Engine is one of my favorite design components in the platform. It leads the users to a centralized working panel and protects them from the complex technical concepts of the system through the entire work cycle. First of all, the workflow tasks are not limited to having users input and review […]

Within the cloud delivery models Platform as a Service (PaaS), the model providing the facilities for full life cycle application development, has a smaller overall market share than IaaS or SaaS. However, the PaaS growth rate is accelerating with Gartner predicting a 26% PaaS growth rate to reach $15 billion by the end of 2018. […]

When Salesforce acquired MuleSoft earlier in 2018, the Perficient team couldn’t help but smile. We not only have an expert Salesforce team, but also a dedicated API practice that specializes in MuleSoft that we’ve brought in for work with clients like this major leading beverage company, OneAmerica, and Ameren. Here are a few key articles […]

Everyone in the industry is talking about the differences between Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud and OneStream XF – the latter was created by the inventors of Oracle Hyperion Financial Management and Oracle Hyperion Financial Data Quality Management (formerly Upstream Software). The blog post will address the data integration options of each solution. Oracle Enterprise  […]

This is a little story about nothing ventured; nothing gained. One day, I got a LinkedIn message asking if I would like to teach a Big Data Bootcamp at an event for the Universidad Abierta Para Adultos in Santiago de Caballeros, República Dominicana. Luis didn’t know me; he just saw my profile and saw that I’ve been […]

Oracle Human Capital Management (HCM) Cloud can be configured to be a Data Management source system as type “Oracle HCM Cloud.” This integration provides the user with an easy way to integrate data from the Oracle HCM Cloud application into the Workforce Planning or Strategic Workforce Planning application without using flat files in the middle.  […]

“Excuse me. Do you know how much a polar bear weighs? Enough to break the ice! Hi, I’m [name]. Nice to meet you.” One of the hardest things about conferences (or any networking event) is getting a conversation going with someone — without being awkward about it. More people than you think have anxiety walking […]

The Period End Close Challenge As an EBS consultant for the last 20 years, one of the hardest parts of my job has been explaining the period end process. The reconciliation reports, roll forwards, the disparate screens, lack of consistency across the modules. Don’t get me started on inventory, with its archaic requirement to close […]

Pricing Highlights Pricing in the cloud has significantly changed from the Oracle E-business Advanced Pricing. During my initial OM Cloud implementation, I quickly realized elements such as qualifiers and pricing attributes no longer exist to derive the list price for a sales order. Pricing in Oracle Order Management Cloud is mainly driven by pricing strategy […]

We frequently see projects these days with a requirement for mobile access to corporate technology platforms. For clarity, I am limiting my definition of “mobile” to cell phones. We hear three common drivers behind this requirement. The first driver is remote access (outside the office) to these platforms. Second is a changing employee population which […]

Denver Startup Week is a continuous celebration of everything entrepreneurial and innovative in Denver. This 5-day experience is one of the largest free events of its kind in the world. While here, people come together at numerous sessions and events to celebrate Denver’s thriving pioneering environment. This alone enforces the city’s culture of innovation. The […]