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Molecular medicine is a broad field, where physical, chemical, biological and medical techniques are used to describe molecular structures and mechanisms, identify fundamental molecular and genetic errors of disease, and to develop molecular interventions to correct them. The molecular medicine perspective emphasizes cellular and molecular phenomena and interventions rather than the previous conceptual and observational […]

IBM Insight, the premier big data and analytics user conference, is quickly approaching and we’re excited to connect with you at the event. Perficient is proud to be a Gold Plus Sponsor of IBM Insight 2015, which is being held October 25-29 in Las Vegas. Visit us at booth #751 in the EXPO Hall, where […]

October 1st marked the beginning of the United States’ National Cyber Security Awareness month.  Three days into the month, awareness is exactly what we have. Last week, Experian and T-Mobile announced a significant data breach.  What’s worse is that the hackers were able to maintain the breach for over two years.  T-Mobile CEO John Legere, […]

Interested to get a closer look at how quick-to-deploy and scale-able Oracle BI Cloud Service is? Meet us at Oracle Open World on Oct 29th, for a best practices and case study of CPI Card Group, a leading provider in payment card production and services. Tyler Wilson of CPI Card Group will join me in telling […]

So, the already convoluted Open Source Hadoop ecosystem just got a little more complicated with a Kudu joining the Elephant at #StrataHadoop. Advocates of Fast Analytics on Fast Data at Scale also just got more excited regarding the potential of fast writes, fast updates, fast reads, fast everything – all with Kudu! Cloudera’s Kudu is […]

Recovery of data in Essbase is sometimes confusing and time consuming depending on the type and frequency of backups previously taken. In this article, I’ll give you an idea of how you can back up your Essbase data for the purpose of restoring a slice of the database. Scenario: I am running a daily export […]

Essbase does its best to be friendly to us system admin types, but sometimes I just want to scratch my head in bewilderment. In 11.1.2.3 and later, Essbase performs a backup of the Essbase.sec file every 300 seconds and retains a default of two backups. This means that at any given time, you have two […]

At some point in working in Smart View, you might have received an “invalid session” error. This is a generic error, and it may occur due to any of the following reasons: Timeout issues with Internet Explorer EXCEL incompatibility with smart view versions.  This is becoming increasingly more common for organizations upgrading Office to 2013. […]

In Essbase 11.1.2.2, Oracle added a configuration option to improve the performance of Essbase Block Storage database restructures. RESTRUCTURETHREADS is a setting you can add to your Essbase.cfg file to enable parallel restructure of BSO databases. The proper syntax taken from the Essbase Technical Reference is: RESTRUCTURETHREADS [ appname [ dbname] ] n Application and […]

Occasionally, I see a friendly error when attempting to refresh or deploy a Planning application that indicates there are active users on the Essbase application. This error is often adjacent to the error, “Date &Time]Starting Cube Create/Refresh…[Date &time]: Cannot restructure. There are other active users on database [%s] [Date&tim]: An Exception occurred during Application deployment.: […]

The realization of competitive advantage has changed significantly over time. In the early days of IT automation, custom-built systems that handled the transactions of accounting or sales were a tremendous competitive advantage. Over time, building custom systems that handled all the transactions of a business provided competitive advantages to the leading companies who were able […]

While poking around the infoverse early this AM, I came across several little gems of information for Oracle EPM folks that you may be interested in. The Oracle Learning Library is pretty vast. One recent addition is a video titled, “Exporting Financial Management Data into Essbase Using Data Management.” Here’s a URL that “shortcuts” to […]