Data + Intelligence

We had an inspiring start to Adobe Summit today. Our team at Perficient was honored to take part in the Women in Tech Breakfast. A round of introductions kicked off the event and highlighted the many powerful women leaders joined together at one table. Attendees included representatives of Cardinal Health, Cedars-Sinai, Finning, GM Financial, Kaiser […]

I recently implemented an Informatica Lifecycle Management (ILM) project at a national auto financing company and I would like to share some details about what I learned about ILM and the benefits my client received.  ILM is a mature and robust data archiving tool used by many organizations to manage and archive large sets of […]

Adobe kicked off Adobe Summit 2017 with a Business Partner Day. Several Adobe executives spoke about Adobe’s growth over the past few years, the strategies they have in place and recent performance numbers. Adobe embarked on their cloud strategy back in 2011 and in 2016 Adobe had 20% YoY increase in revenue. In their Marketing […]

As you know, for test case design we have methods such as Decision Table, Equivalence Partitioning, Boundary Value Analysis and Pairwise Testing etc. But ETL testing is a little different. It mostly refers to huge volumes of data and it will apply different tools and usually against one database. To design an ETL test case, […]

There are several analytical capabilities that Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) products, whether Hyperion on-premises or Cloud EPM, have to offer. Financial reports and ad-hoc analysis in Excel are all great. However, in general EPM reporting capabilities remain restricted to whatever data you have in EPM. Are you looking to do one or more of […]

Oracle Business Intelligence Suite provides comprehensive capabilities for business intelligence, including enterprise reporting, dashboards, ad-hoc analysis, multi-dimensional OLAP, scorecards, and predictive analytics on an integrated platform. It is also a core component of Oracle Exalytics, the industry’s first engineered in-memory analytics machine designed to deliver extreme performance. A majority of healthcare providers to some extent or […]

Oracle is aggressively re-engineering all of their popular suite of products over to cloud. Among several cloud offerings that Oracle announced at Oracle OpenWorld 2016 is Oracle Data Integration. Many of you may already be familiar with Oracle Data Integrator. Now, the same product is re-engineered to work in the cloud with several additional capabilities to fully leverage […]

According to information technology research and advisory company Gartner, there is a market shift towards hybrid approaches to data management, as companies look to solve complex challenges with a mix of alternative and traditional deployments. Healthcare providers and health plans are asking the question, “Do we need an enterprise data warehouse, a data lake, or […]

During closing statements at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, Alibaba’s Jack Ma made the following recommendations: Focus on the next 30 years where the technology invented is going to help people Focus on people less than 30 (Internet Generation) since they will dominate the world Focus on companies less than 30 employees (small business) […]

Many times, I have felt it would be good if I could have a bird’s eye view of all the components available in my project, along with details about how and where they are used. Fortunately, AEM has provided us with out-of-the-box (OOTB) components under /libs/cq/reporting/components and corresponding templates under /libs/cq/reporting/templates. We can customize/extend the OOTB […]

Money20/20, the world’s largest conference geared towards the financial services industry, brought big announcements from heavy hitters at its 2016 event. Bank of America’s head of digital banking, Michelle Moore, introduced Erica (a play on the company’s name), a digital assistant driven by artificial intelligence, predictive analytics, and cognitive messaging. The technology, which can also […]

What are Late Arriving Facts? In data warehouses, dimensions are processed first and the facts are loaded later, with the assumption that all required dimension data is already available in the system and a Parent fact is already available before a child fact. But, this scenario may not always be the case because the nature […]