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“Customer Experience is the New Marketing.” -Steve Cannon, CEO of Mercedes Benz USA In our recent CX guide, we noted how difficult it can be for an organization to recover from a negative interaction with a consumer or other stakeholder. As customer satisfaction relies more heavily than ever on a reliably effective digital experience, business […]

Whether it’s internal changes based on re-organization or business lines, or external requirements including new regulations, corporate finance teams need robust solutions that delivering information more quickly and accurately than ever. Employing up-to-date applications, including cloud-based solutions, can be the most effective way for companies to leverage functionality that meets the latest financial reporting challenges. […]

Recently, a client had the need to run two instances of OHS on the same host. This typically wouldn’t be a problem except for the fact that they wanted to use the same port number for both instances. Why did they want to do this you ask? Well, this was for one of their development […]

Social media might get more attention, but both B2B and B2C firms are using cloud-based sales and marketing tools for more than just direct sales: they’re looking to build bonds with customers long before and after a purchase takes place. For a portfolio of offerings designed to build and strengthen relationships, it’s appropriate that business […]

If you’ve attended a recent Oracle EPM conference, you are likely aware that Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS) has been the most successful cloud launch in Oracle’s history. That success has been fueled by many factors, including perceived difficulties with the predecessor to PBCS, Hyperion Planning. As of this writing, Oracle claims over […]

Result set caching allows Oracle Service Bus to return a cached version of a service response based on particular elements for a request message. That is, if the same request is passed in, the cached response will be returned in milliseconds, assuming that the TTL (Time to Live) has not expired. If the entry is […]

Recovery of data in Essbase is sometimes confusing and time consuming depending on the type and frequency of backups previously taken. In this short article, I’ll give you an idea of how you can restore a slice of data based on the most famous Essbase backup, THE DATA EXPORT.  I’m assuming that you know how […]

This week there’s a short, excellent article on the Forbes site about Boise State University and its transition to a cloud-based Enterprise Resource Planning solution. Even though one of the advantages of cloud is the relatively quick rollout time (compared to customized software), the school’s leaders knew that employees aren’t always eager to embrace a […]

Many folks have a bit of trouble getting their arms around the Essbase Block Storage Calculation Script syntax – especially if they have spent time previously working in relational databases. Essbase BSO calculation syntax looks nothing like structured query language. In the Essbase Bootcamp and the Essbase Calculations for Block Storage Databases classes, I will […]

This is the third and final post in a series related to the implementation of Oracle WebCenter in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. In the first two I covered the setup of a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Instances that reside in it. In this post, I’ll cover the […]

Usually the Enterprise Scheduler Service (ESS) Health Check fails if the Application Stripe ESSAPP is missing. To know, if the Application Stripe does exist, please do the following: 1. Go to EM 2. Go to Domain > Security > Application Roles Click on Application Stripe drop down list If the ESSAPP is missing in the […]

“Gone are the days of the corporate brand being controlled by the C-suite or marketing ivory tower. Today your brand is what your audience says it is.” – Mark Sunday, CIO, Oracle It’s been nearly two decades since Cuba Gooding Jr. convinced Tom Cruise to scream “Show Me the Money” in Jerry Maguire. That exact […]