Cloud

Though high school was more than a decade ago, I still maintain contact with many of my teachers through Facebook. Around this time of the year, many of them begin ramping up for the school year, commenting on the assigning of homework, the personalities of their classes, and the hopes the term will bring. A […]

The use cases for cloud, DevOps, and application development continue to grow and transform all industries. With the arrival of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), big data, and the Internet of Things (IoT), technology leaders are exploring the art of possible. The possibilities of the future come together this Fall with the Amazon re:Invent, […]

Business intelligence (BI) technologies enable wealth management firms to analyze raw data, with the goal of improving decision making, enhancing client relationships, increasing operational efficiency, and adhering to legal and regulatory compliance mandates. A properly designed BI framework can provide financial services companies with a rich, intuitive user interface that enables business users to run […]

Yesterday, we held a webinar featuring Christine Livingston (Perficient, IBM Watson Director) and Dean Upton (Blueworx, Product Management) around the delivery of customer service using IBM Watson. With self-service platforms becoming popular among global organizations, our webinar served as an informative dialogue around information and best practices. Check out our summary below: Our webinar also […]

Yesterday, at the Pierre Hotel in New York City, the 2017 Delivering Alpha Conference gathered the most important players in asset management. At 3:00 Eastern Time, Jamie Dimon, CEO of J.P. Morgan Chase took the microphone…and Wall Street reacted quickly. By 3:01 ET, bitcoin was down 2 percent. So, what exactly did he say about […]

Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud Service (FCCS) is one of the latest cloud solutions offered by Oracle.  Doga Pamir, Solutions Architect at Perficient, was selected by ODTUG to present at Kscope17 on this topic. His session, HFM to FCCS – A Customer Success Story, landed Doga not one, but two awards! The session was so well […]

Goal Seek is one of the most commonly used spreadsheet features. The Goal Seek feature back calculates the source value or the input value based on a target value. Using Goal Seek, you can adjust a value used in a formula to achieve a specific goal. This is an incredibly powerful tool when it comes […]

There are many considerations when it comes to the development and operation of a business intelligence (BI) program, especially when it is specific to certain sectors of the financial industry like wealth management. Nonetheless, there are several fundamental beliefs wealth management firms should embrace as they pursue their BI efforts: BI is a powerful tool […]

Many believe that once an asset is placed in service that is the end of the story. However, there is more to the Oracle Project and Oracle Assets relationship after capitalization. A project can hang around until the asset is retired to capture the retirement costs, resulting in the full cradle-to-grave cost and activity of […]

ARCS (Account Reconciliation Cloud Service) is the cloud counterpart for Oracle’s Account Reconciliation Manager (ARM). A complete and detailed account reconciliation is part of a month end financial close process in an organization. Typically, the finance department needs to identify any/all fraudulent, improper and excessively aged transactions as part of the process. Oracle’s Account Reconciliation […]

This month, millions of Americans will flock to cavernous stadiums around the country to take part in the annual ritual of football games. Attracted by the sounds of bone-crushing hits and unmatched athletic feat, football has been in the American consciousness for the past half-century, bringing together everyone from Midwestern small towns to large metropolises. […]

IT cost and resource visibility is a challenge shared by all organizations. According to RightScale’s 2017 State of the Cloud Survey, 53% of cloud users and 64% of mature cloud adopters cited cost focusing as one of their strategic initiatives. With wasted cloud spend accounting for nearly a third of cloud investments, having the right […]