With the recent launch of Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (EPBCS), Oracle adds yet another cloud-based application purposed to centralize and simplify your Planning application development and needs. EPBCS is uniquely positioned as being an out-of-the-box solution for your Financials, Workforce, Capital Expenditures, and Projects budgeting and forecasting requirements. Upon creating an Enterprise […]
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Robo-advisors [Trend To Watch]
The benefits of robo-advisors are clear: trustworthy and affordable financial advice for everyone, regardless of net worth. Although some may debate what role robo-advising will play in wealth management, it’s hard to imagine a world without it. Ever since the evolution of the internet and the widespread adoption of digital devices, customer expectations have changed […]
What Mobile Salesforce Solution is Right for You?
Take a quick trip down memory lane with me…the year is 2007 and you’re at your desk. You’re using your desktop computer to surf websites that were built with HTML tables and Flash, the user experience clunky and the styles an abomination in today’s standards. Your cell phone beside you; you don’t think twice about using it for anything […]
Smart View 11.1.2.5.700 Released
Smart View 11.1.2.5.700 was released on Friday and brings a few new anticipated features. Here is a recap from the patch readme: You can now insert Planning forms as charts into Microsoft PowerPoint, giving you a graphical display of the information in the form. The Oracle Journals extension now supports opening Oracle Hyperion Financial Management […]
Gartner Projects Overall Worldwide IT Spending To Increase
Gartner, a leading information technology research and advisory company, released the findings of its Worldwide IT Spending Forecast. The report, which is released quarterly, is an indicator of trends across a variety of markets, including data center systems, enterprise software, devices, IT services, and communication services. According to its latest forecast, Gartner projects that overall worldwide IT spending […]
8 Questions to Ask for Salesforce Classic to Lightning Migrations
From our experience in helping clients migrate from Salesforce Classic (Aloha experience) to Salesforce Lightning Experience, we have found that the change can require significant business process evaluation and adjustments to user workflows. It is not just a change in the way Salesforce looks, but also a core change in the way users interact with […]
Business Analytics Cloud at Collaborate 17 #C17LV
At the Collaborate 17 conference, I attended the official announcement of the release of Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC), delivered by John Hagerty, VP of Product Management. It was a clear message from Oracle BI Product Management that Oracle’s Cloud BI offerings are positioned to provide a solution for “Everyone”. “Everyone” here is primarily twofold: First, BI […]
Orthofix Implements ARCS and FCCS [Webinar Q&A – Part 2]
In this second post, of a two-part blog post highlighting the Q&A session of a recent Perficient webinar, Orthofix Improves its Financial Close and Consolidations with Oracle Cloud (ARCS & FCCS), we learn a little bit more about the Orthofix environment and implementation. Can you automate the load of GL data into Account Reconciliation Cloud […]
Coveo Named a Leader in Gartner MQ for Insight Engines
Research firm Gartner has given Coveo its highest placement in the 2017 Magic Quadrant for Insight Engines – ranking the enterprise search organization well ahead of its competitors in both “Ability to Execute” and “Completeness of Vision.” Gartner analyzed 13 enterprise search engines for the 2017 Magic Quadrant for Insight Engines. The firm defines “insight […]
Using ODI to Load an Essbase Exported File to an Oracle Table
Here, we’ll cover the ability to use ODI for one its basic features: extracting data from Essbase and using the exported file to load to a table. It turns out that ODI was not recognizing the file generated by Essbase. Let’s see what we were missing: We have a calc script exporting level 0 data from […]
The Best of Both Worlds – Smart View and Financial Reporting
Clients often ask the question: Is it better to use Oracle Hyperion Smart View or Financial Reporting? The short answer is, why not use both? By understanding both Smart View and Financial Reporting, you can present the same data and the same financial reports. However, each bring a unique set of capabilities to the user. […]
Modernizing Healthcare Workflows with AWS
Technology refreshes in the era of the cloud are a perfect time to modernize technology applications, particularly in high impact industries including healthcare, finance, and education. However, technology refreshes have generally been a headache given the options and commitment, the cloud has significantly reduced stress levels for technology leaders. This was the challenge of one […]