Oracle

Oracle Integration Cloud Service (ICS) is a cloud-based integration application designed to perform integrations between cloud-based applications – but also has capabilities that extend beyond that, to performing integrations with your on premises applications. Based on the great Oracle Service Bus application, ICS is designed to be more non-developer friendly and takes a different approach to creating integrations. […]

The Period Close process can be a tedious and time-consuming task that can be the biggest headache for many. I have compiled a list of each subledger/module, along with the order of which to close them, as well as suggested reports to use to make the closing process a breeze. After all, it’s hard to […]

Over the last two years, I have seen an increasing number of clients using Siebel CRM exploring a Siebel upgrade, only to delay until “next year”.  This reasoning usually makes sense from a business perspective based on the commonly touted benefits.  Lets look a the commonly touted benefits, and the common business (or budgeting) response. […]

I bet you thought, wow is she really going to go into the whole Presidential Race ‘thing’…nope, not touching it!  I’ll touch on another campaign that most marketers stress or think about on occasion.  To Nurture or not to Nurture! If you have a nurture campaign, congrats! If you don’t, why not? When I’m talking […]

  Unable to attend Oracle OpenWorld to learn about the latest developments in Oracle EPM Cloud? It can be difficult to keep abreast of all the changes in this evolving landscape, but we’ve got you covered. In this on-demand event, Perficient’s Oracle EPM leadership explores the current cloud offerings and what’s around the corner. Whether […]

It was my first Oracle rodeo. Recently, I was fortunate to attend Oracle OpenWorld in downtown San Francisco. For those who have not attended, 50,000+ people descend on the city for 5 days of hard learning, idea sharing and relationship building. More caffeine is consumed in this 5-day period than any other event on earth.* […]

As we all know P2T (production to test) copies happen frequently within a project timeline and after Go Live. Some files tend to ‘disappear’ or lose important data after a P2T. There are some simple fixes to this issue, with the first being that you need to start saving these files locally. If they are […]

As I have discussed before, FBDI is the best tool for loading mass amounts of data. When you’ve got a client that has thousands of suppliers – which let’s be honest, they all do – then FBDI is your best friend. Instead of manually entering the data into the system one click at a time, […]

Yes, it’s only September.  If you are in the financial industry – you know that tax season is looming just around the corner.  In Oracle Cloud ERP Payables, generating 1099-MISC forms is a great feature that makes one part of tax reporting an easy task!  In this blog are steps you can do now to […]

My last post on BICS and Cloud (Fusion) Apps Integration Architecture described how BICS Data Sync 2.2 can read the OTBI metadata to allow for near real time trickle feeds from Oracle Cloud Applications. As I described in that post, there are multiple ways to load data from the Oracle Cloud Applications into BICS.  The […]

OBIEE 12c has seamless integration with the EPM 11.1.2.4.  The OBIEE BI Admin tool can read EPM metadata and import it into the OBIEE RPD which allows you to quickly incorporate Hyperion data sources.  When you integrate the EPM datasources, the full features of the OBIEE 12c platform are available to you.  This includes OBIEE […]

Integrated Cloud is the new buzz word at Oracle Open World 2016.  Integrated Cloud was all you heard on the streets.  The beauty of the suite of products Oracle has available in the Cloud in many cases integration is not needed.  The Cloud (or sometimes referred to as Fusion) architecture share the same database.  It […]