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In this 20-minute demo, watch how Perficient can accelerate your adoption of a state-of-the-art Sales Analytics solution leveraging Oracle’s BI Cloud Service and Perficient’s long history of implementing BI solutions for the Sales Line of Business. If you are a VP of Sales, a Sales Manager or an individual Sales Rep, you will find this BI solution valuable for staying on […]

According to a 2015 Oracle survey of CFOs, the need for cloud-based performance management solutions continues to grow. Sixty-five percent of the finance executives surveyed listed the primary motivation for choosing a cloud-based EPM solution was to get up and running quickly. Fifty-three percent respondents said their primary motivation was to avoid large upfront investments […]

In this post, I will review some formatting tricks with Obiee reporting. I recently got this opportunity to work on a project where reporting needs were quite different than usual. More than the reporting data, there were more challenges while it came to formatting the report in the required format. For Obiee reporting, Mozilla Firefox […]

The 2015 Midwest Business & IT Executive Summit is underway, and this year’s speakers are focused on analytics, big data, cloud, cybersecurity, ERP, HCM, and customer experience. The summit, hosted by the Central States Oracle Applications User Group (CSOAUG), brings together executives, managers and business leaders to share information on business and technology best practices, […]

“The CPM suite market is shifting toward cloud-based solutions that deliver a shorter time to value and improved ease of use.” – Gartner If there’s any doubt that corporate performance management (AKA enterprise performance management, or EPM) has a future in the cloud, think again. Most of the buzz from industry and corporate events has […]

At a recent user conference, I was asked, “why do I need DRM in my organization?” A very interesting question with both a short and long answer. Let’s cover the short answer first… DRM (Data Relationship Management) provides organizations the ability to centralize the governance of enterprise dimensional master data while ensuring the data is […]

Several years back, the IT research and advisory firm Gartner came up with the phrase “Lean Portal.” The term was invented to draw contrast to the traditional portals of the time, which were generally regarded as complex, expensive, and bloated with unnecessary features. Lean portals, by contrast, are those that are quick to implement, utilize modern web […]

WebCenter 11g (11.1.1.8 and earlier) provides two distinct ways to build portals – portal builder and portal framework. The first approach relies on the pre-build “portal builder” application to construct portals (previously called “spaces”) primarily through a web-based administrative interface, while the latter relies on developers to design, configure and deploy their own custom Oracle ADF portal […]

This year’s 2015 Midwest Business & IT Executive Summit will be held on Thursday, November 19th at the Chase Park Plaza hotel in St. Louis, MO.  This annual conference features the latest Business & IT solutions including Analytics, Big Data, Cloud, Cybersecurity, ERP, HCM & Customer Experience. Regional business leaders and government organizations will be […]

Research firm IDC forecasts that the worldwide public platform as a service (PaaS) market is expected to grow to more than $14 billion in 2017. As part of this move to the cloud, companies are no longer only looking for SaaS (applications) or IaaS (Infrastructure), but are instead considering application platforms and workloads to gain […]

Mazen just previewed What to Expect Next on BICS and now it is in the process of being released.  The first thing you’ll notice is the new clean and concise consumer-style user experience.  Site navigation and the Home page has changed dramatically as you can see in the screen shot below (the compass next to the user’s name brings up […]

In the coming few days, Oracle will be rolling out an upgrade of their Business Intelligence Cloud Service. There are a couple of main things to expect: First, the UI will look different but function in the same way. It is basically a new skin to BICS, with a slightly different way of navigation. Second, […]