The Perficient Microsoft team is at Microsoft Inspire this week in Washington, D.C. Formerly known as the Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft Inspire brings together Microsoft executives, employees, and industry experts with the company’s vast network of partner organizations. We love taking part in the keynotes and networking opportunities that Inspire offers, but one of our […]
Cloud
FCCS – An Introduction
For companies contemplating implementing FCCS, here is an insight of what you can expect. Oracle’s new product FCCS (Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud) was designed to replace HFM (Hyperion Financial Management). Since it is cloud based, subscribers eliminate the need for server maintenance and software upgrades and patches. FCCS incorporates pre-built out of the box […]
Are Adoption-Focused Features Driving CRM Success?
Low user adoption is often cited as a top reason why CRM projects are failing. This isn’t anything new; low user adoption has been referenced as a top reason why CRM projects fail for over a decade. In response to this, CRM vendors have added in new features such as gamification, visualizations, and adoption dashboards […]
Perficient Launches Microsoft Dynamics 365 Practice
We are thrilled to announce the launch of our Microsoft Dynamics 365 practice, continuing our efforts to grow our portfolio of cloud-based Microsoft solutions offerings. As a Gold-Certified, award-winning Microsoft partner and one of just a handful of Microsoft National Solution Providers, this addition allows us to help our clients successfully plan, deploy, and manage […]
How to Choose an IaaS Provider
Infrastructure is a key part of every IT department before cloud or DevOps is even considered. Serving as the backbone of IT, it’s these components that keep every system running. In recent years, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) has become a competitive and popular space, led by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and their affordable and reliable offerings. Nonethelss, […]
IBM Adds Blockchain Integration for Financial Innovation
Finance trends are always making the media rounds, which of late lies in cryptocurrency. With uncertainty in the financial markets, the latest news has been around topics including blockchain and bitcoin, discussed among experts for its benefits of decentralization, security, and transparency. Blockchain is a shared, immutable ledger for recording the history of transactions in […]
Perficient Joins Microsoft’s Customer Engagement Alliance
We’re excited and honored to be a founding member of Microsoft’s Customer Engagement Alliance! This select group features partners with broad digital agency skills and deep expertise in customer-facing technology working together with Microsoft to help organizations transform. Check out the news below!
Data Relationship Management Versioning (Part 2)
In the first part of this series we covered the purpose of versioning and how easy it is to create new versions to provide periodic snapshots of hierarchies. Today, we’re going to discuss the typical life cycle of a version. The following image will help illustrate the concept. When a version is first created, it […]
IBM Cloud Identified as Visionary by Gartner
IBM’s transition to the cloud continues to pay dividends. Since acquiring Softlayer in 2013 and introducing Bluemix, customers have enjoyed a complement of cloud infrastructure solutions for their business needs. Additionally, the rise of cognitive solutions through IBM Watson has further bolstered cloud credibility, notably with the partnership that surfaced with tax preparer H&R Block […]
Having Trouble with Enable Sandboxes Option in PBCS Application?
Yes, it is a nuance while creating application in PBCS. Here is what you need to know about it: If you are creating a new application, you may choose the obvious solution (like me) of clicking ‘Create Application’ from Planning and Budgeting Service. Beware! When you choose to create application from above menu– You cannot ‘Enable […]
Growing Our Microsoft Practice: Looking Ahead
Now that the dust is setting on last week’s news of our acquisition of Clarity Consulting, we’re excited to look ahead at what this means for our customers and our partnership with Microsoft. Our chairman and CEO, Jeff Davis, spoke with CRN about the acquisition and how we plan to continue our growth: “We’re super […]
Leverage Salesforce Ideas in Your Community
One of the greatest features you can offer your customer or partner base as a product-driven company is an idea engine. It allows those who use your product regularly to offer suggestions on how to improve it, features to add, or what new products to create. Giving the power to your customers to help make […]