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The current issue of HFMA’s Healthcare Cost Containment newsletter reports that “Labor Cost Transparency” has surpassed “Healthcare Legislation and Mandates” as the biggest driver of healthcare costs according to more than 40% of CEO, CFO and other C-suite executives from more than 112 hospitals and health systems – a shift from six months ago.1 Costing […]

OOW 2014 has finally arrived and Perficient will have a truly dynamic presence at this year’s conference. Our firm will be well represented by 30+ BDEs and practice leaders from the Oracle National Business Unit and its various pillar practices, as well as from a host of national practices within the firm, including: Healthcare Life […]

In a recent blog post I discussed how nearly 90 percent of companies are still using spreadsheets and outdated technology for financial planning, budgeting and forecasting, which exposes them to unnecessary risks. Fortunately, as more and more technology solutions are being pushed to the cloud, finance departments and CFOs can elevate their budgeting and forecasting […]

Your customer has changed.  Customers don’t trust business to provide guidance. They trust friends.  You want to be able to interact with your customers where they are and with what they are doing. 97% of execs say customer experience is critical 30% say that are just getting starting with CX 20% consider their customer experience […]

After attending the Keynote sessions yesterday at  #OOW14, I walked away with three key product directions for customers to consider: Cloud Strategy Big Data Strategy Insights on your data ( Analytics) This is a very exciting time for us as a leading Oracle BI Implementation Partner to be able to take our expertise of leading […]

Sunday’s keynote focused on the hybrid cloud and on where Oracle stands with SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS.  This keynote comes with the title, “The Business Value of The Cloud.”  It should be interesting to hear Mark Hurd and the CTO of Intel talk about it. Recap from last night’s keynote: Introduced 173 new SaaS apps […]

The Perficient High-Performance Costing Expressway is powered by Oracle’s Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management as the costing engine and includes key data integrations to the Oracle Enterprise Health Analytics data model for data acquisition from the data warehouse.  We also equip the solution with baseline cost mappings to get started.   See the recent costing webinar […]

Oracle WebCenter Portal is a web platform for creating intranets, extranets, composite applications, and self-service portals. One of its main strengths is its ability to allow administrators to decentralized much of the site built-out and maintenance, pushing it out to business users. One of the tools used to enable this business-executed administration is the Resource Catalog, […]

Intel’s preliminary presentation gave us a lot of information on the optimization of software and silicon and the trend to use a hybrid approach to cloud. (public and private). Larry Ellison, now the Executive Chairman and Chief Technology Officer, came onto the stage. 2014 has been an important year. Oracle gained a lot of momentum […]

So far Oracle Open World is full of pomp and circumstance with a lot of messaging around how a combined set of platforms with database, cloud, hardware, and software on all of it positions Oracle better than anyone else.   We can’t play cloud bingo because EVERYTHING is moving to the cloud but as Oracle […]

In part two of my conversation with JP Morgenthal, director of Perficient’s cloud computing & devops practice, we focused on the technical characteristics of cloud and the five essential characteristics that are broadly adopted for what technically comprises a cloud solution. The following five characteristics are further grouped into three service models Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service […]

In HIMSS14, I wrote about the Healthcare Treasure Map.  Not any treasure map, but an end to end all Clinical and Research PATIENT CENTERED Healthcare domain data model – the Enterprise Healthcare Analytics (EHA).  Colleagues refer to it as THE healthcare data model – similar to how NFL players announce their universities, “THE University of […]