Users ask, “Why do the asset and lines coming into Assets from Projects look off?” The straightforward answer is the screen layout is confusing. After Projects interfaces summarized asset lines to Assets, the Assets team must analyze and then post asset costs. A question we’re faced with at some point in every project where PPM […]
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Meet Perficient’s Chief Strategists: Scott Albahary
Thrilling our clients with innovation and impact – it’s not just rhetoric. This belief is instrumental for our clients’ success. In 2018 we announced the first class of Chief Strategists, who provide vision and leadership to help our clients remain competitive. Get to know each of our strategists as they share their unique insights on […]
Trends in Financial Services: A Look Back—and Ahead
Every day, we sit at our computers and read the constant flow of headlines that cross the wires. In our meetings, we hear about our competitors, from what they are working on to how they are getting it done. It is these stories that drive organizations to innovate and perform better. It is these conversations […]
IBM BAW Transforms and Improves Financial Group
IBM’s flagship technology conference, Think, is taking place this week in San Francisco. Perficient is proud to be a Gold sponsor of the event and will have several industry and technology thought leaders there presenting on how we have helped solve customer challenges leveraging IBM solutions. In one of the sessions, Tarek El Shamy (Perficient […]
Can Individuals Be Trusted With Their Own Healthcare Data?
This week in Orlando, FL, #HIMSS19 brings together more than 45,000 health information and technology professionals, clinicians, executives and vendors from around the world. Agency over your own healthcare data was a running theme in the HIMSS 2019 panel session titled “Personalized Patient Relationships and Connect Care Journeys.” Ashwini Zenooz, Senior Vice President and General […]
Need BI? Get Trusted Analytics Advice by Experts, for Experts
When it comes to business intelligence, where do the experts go to learn? The answer is Perficient. Since the SIMON app launched, Perficient has been on the road with AllianceBernstein and MicroStrategy sharing how to turn analytics into action. At conferences and private events all around the country, the past few months have been full […]
FCCS: Locking Data
It is always a good idea to lock data after completing period end-processing tasks. In HFM, we create the status grid that we use to lock or unlock data for the period and entity hierarchy intersections. The procedure to lock data in FCCS is different as follows: In Manage Approvals we need to make sure […]
MicroStrategy World Customer Sessions You Don’t Want to Miss
The MicroStrategy World 2019 agenda is out and it’s time to start planning your conference schedule (it’s easy with the MicroStrategy mobile app). Among the many can’t-miss sessions, there are two customer sessions you should make time for: AllianceBernstein and UBS. These two key customers will share the innovative ways they have transformed their organizations […]
FCCS Translation Rates and Movement
In Hyperion Financial Management (HFM), we know that Assets and Liabilities are Balance Accounts where we assign Ending Rates while Revenues and Expenses are Flow Accounts where we assign Average Rates. In Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud (FCCS), Balance Sheet and P&L Accounts are assigned the same Time Balance and Exchange Rate Type. For […]
The Four Custom Dimensions of FCCS
Although Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud (FCCS) offers enhanced functionalities such as multi-currency consolidation, pre-built Movement and Data Source dimensions, pre-seeded dimensions with corresponding consolidation, translation and FX calculation rules, the hesitation to take advantage of these FCCS enhancements were mostly due to the restrictive two custom dimensions. For some companies, two custom dimensions […]
iReceivables Blog Series – Part 1
In my iReceivables blog series, I’ll give a high level overview of iReceivables, its pros and cons and will also provide some tips for a successful implementation based on experience I’ve gained over the years. Overview iReceivables, is part of Oracle’s Credit to Cash software solution, its main purpose is to provide a portal where […]
Digital Intelligence and the Role of Data in Personalization
Welcome to 2019 where things take an interesting turn, or, materialize as predicated for so long. In a data-driven environment, it is no surprise that this year Information Executives (CIO, CDO, CTO, CAO) focus on the following topics according to IDG, Gartner, CIO, and Forrester: Trying to figure out ways to increase IT Budget to […]