Cloud

Technology is a constantly changing, from the latest mobile devices to the emergence of big data in automotive, education, and digital marketing. If you blink, you could miss the next big thing. At Perficient, we often talk about technology in the present. After all, upgrading to the cloud, adopting digital transformation, and being customer obsessed […]

The ideal candidate for a business intelligence (BI) program is a firm that is seeking greater operational efficiency, increased flexibility and interoperability, better management reporting, mitigation of regulatory or other risks, enhanced transparency, access and support, and the ability to make informed business decisions. It is a firm that believes the investment in operational efficiency, […]

This article covers the implementation of the IN clause using DBAdapter in Oracle Service Bus. Normally the IN clause is used to filter the records from database based on multiple values given as input. For example, consider a CustomerDetails table that has the following records: Suppose you want to display the customer’s detail whose city […]

Salesforce.com is no stranger to releasing industry-specific solutions, from financial services to healthcare. And their dual-focus on industries and communities this year makes perfect sense. After all, solutions built with an understanding of business process and industry-specific methodology are typically at the top of the list for implementation. In fact, Sundog has taken the same […]

For many old-schoolers, we are very familiar with having text displayed for common buttons (Query, New, Edit, Delete, etc.) instead of icons. ‘Iconization’ was introduced in later versions of Siebel OUI, and for many existing clients, text was a better fit. Changing the applet level vanilla buttons from icons to text is a very simple […]

The dog days of summer have arrived, which mean longer days, warm sun, and relaxation. While you might be taking some days off, your technology infrastructure will not. Research firm Gartner recently indicated a revision in their worldwide IT spending prediction for 2017, pinning the number at $3.5 trillion, a 2.4% increase from near flat […]

Cloud computing has helped many enterprises transform their IT practices over the past decade, turning an otherwise nuanced way of computing into a normalized strategy. With cloud having shown its strength, there are still other trends driving long-term adoption. According to a Forrester Research survey, 38 percent of enterprise decision-makers said they are building private […]

The business intelligence (BI) industry has been plagued with poor user adoption for years and has a huge failure rate among companies. Here are some of the reasons why. Product is challenging to use: When a BI tool is not designed for business users, such as financial advisors and client associates who are primarily non-technical […]

A recent Perficient webinar, Oracle FCCS: A Deep Dive, held a captive audience for the Q&A session well beyond the top of the hour. In the second of a two-part blog post, I share the highlights of questions asked by attendees and answered by both Tony Coffman, Oracle EPM Practice Director at Perficient, and Rajesh Bhatia, […]

A recent Perficient webinar, Oracle FCCS: A Deep Dive, held a captive audience for the Q&A session well beyond the top of the hour. In this two-part blog post, I’ll share the highlights of questions asked by attendees and answered by both Tony Coffman, Oracle EPM Practice Director at Perficient and Rajesh Bhatia, VP of […]

Oracle/Hyperion has long been the standard-bearer for ease-of-use with financial reporting and analytics. Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (EPBCS) carries on this legacy with three main presentation components: Reports Print-quality reports are designed using Financial Reporting (FR) Web Studio. It is a web-based design tool that looks much like the current Financial Reporting […]

The main public cloud providers have demonstrated success at keeping their services resilient and available, showing no signs of buckling under attack. Nonetheless, the risk of attacks and downtime are always present and costly. Moreover, the cloud reduces the scope of required traditional security work, but doesn’t eliminate it. Moving workloads to the cloud doesn’t […]