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We were honored to announce in February that Perficient won the 2017 IBM Beacon Award for Outstanding Watson Solution, presented during IBM’s PartnerWorld Leadership Conference. The Beacon Awards recognize select business partners who deliver exceptional IBM-based solutions that drive business value and transform the way clients and industries do business in the cognitive era. At […]

Now that we have three different approaches to extract Oracle ERP Cloud data from OTBI, there comes the question – what’s the best practice, or which one should you recommend? Before answering the question, let’s take a look at the feature list of each approach so we can understand what they are best at. Feature List […]

MongoDB is an open-source non structured query language database that provides high performance, high availability and automatic scaling. In this blog, let’s see how to load data into MongoDB through the IBM Datastage tool by using the Java Integration stage.   Pre-Requisites: Install Eclipse tool MongoDB requires a java jar file with the below code Jar […]

In my last blog, I presented a brief overview on Informatica Data Quality (IDQ) tools, the significance of Data Profiling and how to use the Analyst tool to profile data. In this second blog, I will introduce a few commonly used Informatica Developer tool Data Transformations. But, Why Data Transformations? Long story short, Data Quality […]

1.What is Power BI? Power BI is a collection of software services, apps, and connectors that work together to turn your unrelated sources of data into coherent, visually immersive, and interactive insights. Whether your data is a simple Excel spreadsheet, or a collection of cloud-based and on-premises hybrid data warehouses, Power BI lets you easily connect to your […]

Custom SQLs work differently than logical and physical SQLs.  Instead of going through the OBTI subject areas and the Fusion PVOs in the RPD physical layer, custom SQLs are used to create custom data models in BI Publisher to extract ERP Cloud data directly from the Fusion database tables.  The built-in Data Sync Oracle BI Connector does not support […]

From the moment they were introduced to IBM Watson, Perficient technical consultants Andrew and Brandan have been intrigued by the endless possibilities the technology presents. They have been helping our clients understand and implement the scope of Watson’s capabilities for the past several years, and they’ve enjoyed the constant discoveries along the way. “Watson is […]

Another HIMSS conference has concluded. It was estimated that more than 45,000 people were at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, talking about the latest in health IT, industry trends, and challenges and opportunities. I am always amazed at how social the health IT world is – and it is always great to meet […]

This approach is officially recommended by Oracle. Data Sync comes with a built-in Oracle BI Content connector, which can be used to extract ERP Cloud data from OTBI. The connector supports three data extraction modes. SQL – used to extract data from logical SQL queries Report – used to extract data from BI analyses reports Subject Area.Table – used  for extracting […]

Recently I led a comprehensive analysis and POC for lift and shift of on-premises 11g to Oracle BI Cloud Service (BICS). The lift and shift approach is gaining popularity as it offers a hybrid BI Cloud without having to worry about data security and recreating metadata in the cloud. BICS can leverage the on-premises repository […]

In previous posts we have taken a look at healthcare provider trends for 2017. Our first 4 trends, Handing the Patient Portal Reins to the Patient; Connecting Patients to Connected Health; Increased Demand for Mobile Creates Connectivity Challenges; Retail Health Clinics Increase Access to Affordable Care. In our last trend, Integrating Non-Traditional data to Achieve […]

Whether your organization is currently evaluating cloud platforms and primarily storing data on-premises or you’ve made the journey to cloud and are adopting a hybrid model, accurate and timely access to data should be a focus. Regardless of where you are on your cloud journey, a flexible data management platform helps you to deliver what […]