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Closing the Receivables period is as simple as closing the Payables period. Some may even say it’s simpler. The following steps are best practice for performing this monthly process: Open the new Receivables period. Run the Create Accounting process. This ensures that everything that is outstanding is accounted for and ready to close out. Be […]

In a previous post, I described how the Oracle BI Cloud Service (BICS) integrates with Oracle Cloud (Fusion) Apps.  For users of on premise Oracle BI, there are other methods of integrating with Fusion Apps.  The easiest of which is Oracle BI Applications 11g as it comes with prebuilt content, data warehouse and ODI ETL […]

Modern Marketing Experience – April 25-27, 2017 It’s that time of year again, looking forward to 2017. Get excited, it is going to be a great year! Oracle has come out with the dates for Modern Marketing Experience, April 25-27 in Las Vegas at the Mandalay Bay Resort. What better place than Las Vegas in […]

Most Eloqua users know about the Data tools available in Eloqua.  However, do you know how they work or what they do?  I’ve discovered, that the answer is often no.  If you are a technical resource for your marketing team you may know this but the general marketing population know they exist but really don’t […]

Perficient recently held a webinar on Oracle Project Financials Cloud, part of the Oracle Project Portfolio Management Cloud solution. At the close of the event we had some great questions posed by the attendees that Stuart Massey, General Manager Oracle ERP at Perficient, fielded that are worth sharing. Is Oracle Project Financials Cloud integrated with […]

  What, Why, When, Where…   What is a sandbox? A sandbox is a shallow box of sand built for kids in playgrounds to play with sand. The software industry started using this terminology in computer security and software development. In computer security, a sandbox is used to test some non-reliable or un-tested program. Why […]

When closing the Payables period, there are some helpful reports to run that help in the reconciliation process. Even though there are plenty of other reports that can be used during period close, the Payables to Ledger Reconciliation report is the most helpful reconciliation tool available because it allows the user to drill into the […]

In the last few years, there has been a lot of talk about Sales and Marketing alignment, but sometimes these buzz words go in one ear and out the other.  There is so much to be read about it that the volume of noise is overwhelming at times.  It’s also hard to understand what it […]

Most people are familiar with lead scoring, but do you feel confident that you are maximizing it’s potential?  If you are using Eloqua, the ease of setting up lead scoring is phenomenal!  The key to success in Lead Scoring, is continual review, which is where the issues come into play.  In this short post, I […]

I attended the final 2016 session with Oracle Product Management today.  The focus was Content Marketing and what is happening in that section of the Oracle Marketing Cloud.  If you are unfamiliar with Content Marketing, think Compendium.  Content Marketing is a way for marketers to plan, create, and distribute content to the right person at […]

Today I attended a briefing on an overview of the sales tools for Eloqua as well as a what’s coming.  Love the road map pieces, so fun to see what enhancements are planned. The session was presented by Taha Skeikh who is the Director of Product Management and Nard Linders who is part of the […]

Even with the extraordinary popularity of Cloud Services, many clients still need to figure out how to get their hands on their data sets store into these services. There is no exception with Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS). Even with the reporting capabilities offered on this cloud service, there is still the need […]