“CLOUD! CLOUD! CLOUD!” Oracle offers TWO Planning applications on the cloud: PBCS and EPBCS. The following blog will describe the differences between the two and how Perficient can demonstrate the differences by attending our Planning Create & Manage class in Houston. First off, I am sure most of you are wondering, what do those acronyms […]
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FCCS Multiple Reporting Currencies
How many times have you encountered clients who asked that their consolidated financial statements be in more than one currency? FCCS has a built in solution to meet this request. Currencies in FCCS have 2 major properties: Reporting Currency and Triangulation Currency. These properties play a major role in translation and consolidation. Reporting Currency For […]
Day by Day: An Oracle Personal Assistant for Enterprise Analytics
You are in a hurry and away from your office desk but really need an important piece of information before your next call or meeting. If only Siri or Google Voice can help. These personal assistants can’t answer questions related to your secure enterprise data, at least not without some serious amount of programming. Last […]
Archive PBCS Snapshots to Amazon S3 Cloud Storage
Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) low-cost S3 cloud storage provides a cost-efficient solution to archive snapshot files extracted from Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS). In the following paragraphs, I will use the AWS Command Line interface (CLI) to upload to the Amazon S3 bucket to archive backup files pulled down from a PBCS instance. […]
Data Relationship Management Versioning (Part 1)
The ability to create different versions of hierarchies within Oracle Data Relationship Management (DRM) is one of the tool’s biggest benefits. The definition of a version is simply the grouping of hierarchies. This simple, yet effective, function allows organizations to create versions for several different types of scenarios: Grouping of hierarchies based on time periods […]
Oracle Integration Cloud Service
Oracle Integration Cloud Service is a PaaS offering from Oracle. Since its introduction in 2014, the Oracle Integration Cloud Service has gained its position in the Gartner Magic Quadrant. Oracle Integration Cloud Service lets you connect to both cloud, and on-premises applications. With Oracle Integration Cloud Service, you can connect to all of the Oracle […]
Practical Application of Oracle HFM Consolidation Options
There are three consolidation options in Oracle Hyperion Financial Management (HFM): Consolidate All Consolidate All with Data Consolidate What each option does has been appropriately discussed in many articles, which also properly suggest to use the Consolidate All option sparingly. I wanted to share our experience on these consolidation methods. If the application design use […]
Improve Your Essbase Calculation Capability
The Essbase Block Storage (BSO) database is a powerful calculation engine capable of executing oodles of formulae with very few lines of code. But there’s a catch. You need to learn how to do it right. A poorly written calculation in an Essbase BSO cube can yield some pretty spectacular results. Here are a few […]
Data Security in Oracle BI: Are You Prepared?
It seems a good time to talk about security as the WannaCry ransomware attack outbreak two weeks ago is spreading like a wildfire and leaving the world helpless with the kidnapped documents, images, and videos. Although the Data Security I am going to speak to is different from the File Security, there is one thing […]
VMware Workstation 11 – Host Unable to Ping Guest VM
I recently ran into an issue in which I was unable to ping a guest VM from a host machine. Let me explain my scenario before jumping into how I resolved the issue. I built a Linux VM running on Windows 7. This VM included all the Oracle BI related products such as database, DAC […]
Wanna[Cry|Scream|Belch] Ransomware
I breathed a sigh of relief last Friday when I learned that Microsoft had patched a vulnerability in March that was recently exploited by the WannaCrypt0r ransomware. I opt to have Windows OS updates installed automatically on my workstation so I was protected before the ransomware poked through the crust from the bowels of its […]
Kscope17 Highlight: How to Model Complex Oracle BI Data Security
Kscope17, ODTUG’s user conference known for providing a rich opportunity for networking and education on Oracle technologies, is quickly approaching and we’re excited to connect with you at the event. Perficient is proud to be a silver sponsor of Kscope17, which is being held June 25-29 in San Antonio. Visit us at booth #211 to […]