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If your organization is either currently on, or considering a move to, Oracle Cloud EPM Financial Consolidation and Close, we have assembled an outstanding panel of finance leaders from various industries who will share their experience implementing and deploying Financial Consolidation and Close, as well as tangible business outcomes. Join us for a live virtual […]

A recent question came to me about how to make a custom OTBI report available so a user can run the custom OTBI report from the Scheduled Processes user interface. From that screen, we want a user to be able to click on the Schedule New Process button and be able to call up the […]

“A picture is worth a thousand words” is an adage that rings very true to those of us who are vision-driven learners. Simply hearing and reading about a solution is usually not enough. Many of us “need to see to believe” the benefits being promised by any solution. Oracle and Perficient understand this concept very […]

Managing Leases, Deposits, and Advances in Oracle Cloud As is customary with contracts, legal fees, rentals, and construction projects, there is a need to pay deposits and retainers that may be deducted against future invoices.  There are two types of prepayments and they are temporary (i.e. advancement for employee expenses) or permanent (i.e. lease deposit).  […]

The Oracle team didn’t slow down in 2021. Our subject matter experts worked diligently to publish educational, engaging blog content throughout the year that collectively brought in over 27,000 page views. Below are the business unit’s top five blog posts of 2021. What is ADFdi and How do I Easily Download It? Financial Reporting in […]

Goal setting occurs every year for leaders and their respective teams across all areas of an organization. Technical enhancements, process improvements, training, etc. are all typical goal topics which definitely deserve their place on the priority list. However, special consideration should be given to goals that require collaboration between teams within the organization. Finance and […]

Let’s not kid ourselves. Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) implementations are not easy. The complexity surrounding EPM processes and requirements grows by the day (probably an understatement). We can probably all agree that this is the natural evolution of things for one reason or another. Luckily, Oracle’s suite of EPM solutions provide technical features to solve […]

Oracle has a long history of expanding into new markets by making strategic acquisitions – Siebel Systems, PeopleSoft, Hyperion, NetSuite, and Sun Microsystems come to mind. The latest move by Oracle, an agreement to purchase Cerner Corporation is one for the record books – literally. It surpasses any of the aforementioned acquisitions at a whopping […]

Oracle’s EPM Cloud December release contains some exciting new features for EDM. Many of the features are centered on enhancing the capabilities of building Expressions within the solution. For those not familiar with expressions in EDM… Expressions enable developers to define business logic to manage data. Expressions can be used within properties to transform data, […]

Free From Planning has been an application type available for a couple years now. However, it has not been as widely used as the other Planning types such as EPBCS. I suspect that may change with one of the recent features recently released by Oracle. Before we dive the key feature, it’s best to provide […]

Data Management is a flexible tool within Oracle EPBCS that allows the user to load data into the application via a flat file or source system. The first component of data management is setting up the target application, which defines what cube the data is getting loaded to as well as the dimensions and target […]

This past week, Mazen Manasseh, business analytics director, Perficient, presented Power Business Insights With Machine Learning and Oracle Analytics. Forward-thinking organizations are increasingly using machine learning (ML) to increase the level of predictive analytics that they can perform on datasets. The ML capabilities of Oracle Analytics are not only rich, but easy to use with […]