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Oracle Big Data Discovery Cloud Service

Oracle Big Data Discovery Cloud service is a single-tenant Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering in Oracle Public Cloud. It is a part of Oracle’s complete Big Data solution, available on-premises and in the Cloud for seamless Big Data management and analysis in any environment. Oracle Big Data Discovery Cloud Service is a set of […]

How to Restore PBCS Application Artifacts and Data from Snapshot

I recently wrote a blog post describing the process to create and download Oracle PBCS application SnapShots to local disks. Now I’m sharing a step-by-step look at the process of importing an application onto PBCS. In this article, I will describe how to remotely execute predefined commands to upload files and migrated Artifacts SnapShot. To […]

5 Ways the Cloud is Evolving This Spring

Over the past year, we’ve seen how cloud computing has driven new and innovative business models, from the popularization of artificial intelligence to the arrival of virtual reality in the consumer market. For businesses of all sizes, cloud enables greater collaboration, faster innovation to market, and lower operating costs. Cloud has allowed for the maturation […]

5 Key Points from the Innovation Panel at #g2i2017

Executives from Boeing, Express Scripts, and MasterCard came together today to share their insights on bringing innovation into their organization through technologies like cloud and DevOps at Gateway to Innovation in St. Louis. In the 45-minute session, the panelists shared best practices, tips, and, of course, challenges. How do you move massive, established organizations like […]

A Better Way to Analyze Your Logs

At Perficient, our SupportNet team uses a variety of tools for analyzing logs across the Oracle applications. There are a number of different file formats, which often makes parsing logs troublesome. We have adopted use of regular expressions to help parse the variety of formats that we have to routinely analyze. “A regular expression (regex […]

Changing Dense vs Sparse Settings for an Essbase/Planning App

As soon as a planning application is created or a BSO Essbase cube, dimensions are tagged as either dense or sparse. The dimension of the type Account and period are tagged as dense by default and all others are sparse. A sparse dimension is one with a low percentage of available data positions filled. A […]

Oracle Big Data SQL Cloud Service

In my previous post, I talked about Oracle Big Data Cloud Service. Then, what is Oracle Big Data SQL Cloud Service? Like Oracle Big Data Cloud Service, Oracle Big Data SQL Cloud Service is a PaaS subscription model. Oracle Big Data SQL Cloud Service is Oracle’s breakthrough approach to simplifying access to big data sources. […]

How to Empower Your Business Users with Oracle Data Visualization

Many shifts are happening today, with technology changing at such a pace, business users are relying on data to keep up with the industry and beat the competition. Business users are expecting more than dashboards and reports. They don’t want to be handed off with a set of reports and dashboards which are pre-built by […]

Connecting the Dots with AI and Salesforce

Why Artificial Intelligence Matters AI, or Artificial Intelligence, is a buzzword these days. People like Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk say that an advanced artificial intelligence will lead to the end of humanity, but the march continues for ever more advanced algorithms seemingly in spite of the warnings. Salesforce has even jumped into the fray […]

Need to Upload BAI2 Bank Statements? (Pt. 3)

In my previous blog posts (Part 1 and Part 2), I reviewed the steps to configure the system, so it will read the bank transaction codes. Now I will review the import and upload process, which is the final step in manually loading your bank statements. The process is very simple because it is similar […]

Oracle Big Data Cloud Service

Oracle Big Data Cloud Service is a PaaS subscription model with a pre-configured Oracle Big Data environment. This includes a complete installation of the Cloudera Distribution including Apache Hadoop (CDH) and Apache Spark. When we talk about Big Data we are often talking about massive volumes of unstructured or semi-structured data such as web logs, […]

Oracle PBCS Application Instance Restart

After reviewing Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS) documentation, I found a EPMAUTOMATE command that I consider to be useful for all developers and administrators. The “resetservice” command will restart PBCS instance clearing memory and it will help improve application performance. Oracle PBCS documentation: “Restarts the service instance. Use this command only when you observe […]

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