Cloud

The need exists for the ability to read and extract data from BICS, especially when the ETL strategy involves a Staging approach, as written about in Best Practice to ETL with Data Sync (BICS). But Data Sync does not support the direct data read from BICS. The built-in Oracle (BICS) connection in Data Sync only supports a data write to BICS. […]

Cost reduction remains a priority among financial institutions. Aside from re-negotiating contracts with vendors, consolidating IT applications is an ongoing trend in the industry. When speaking on the topic of expense reductions, Ralph W. Babb, chairman and CEO of Comerica, said, “We will enhance our technology capabilities, while reducing our overall spend by optimizing our […]

There are many articles and blog posts written about the benefits of Siebel Open UI. So, rather than discussing that topic, I will focus on a new approach and methods and tools to leveraging the best that Siebel Open UI has to offer. Most Siebel implementations generally follow the traditional implementation approach, we get the requirements […]

Organizations adopting the cloud are beginning to notice the maturity of their investments, particularly as use cases begin to surface throughout their business. Growth in cloud spending is also moving in line with these realizations: Research firm Gartner predicts nearly $1 trillion dollars in spending on cloud-related IT spending through 2022. The increase in cloud […]

According to Pew Research, nearly three-quarters of Americans now own a smartphone, double from just six years ago. Among the younger 18-to-29 demographic, nearly nine in ten own a smartphone, signifying its ubiquity. No matter the age group, smartphones have become a key communication device, used for everything from capturing life’s most important moments to […]

Common dimensions are required for cross-facts reporting, and are oftentimes referred to as conformed dimensions. A dimension can be conformed through its data consolidation, or its logical data model. Data consolidation is useful for conforming the dimension data which has the same hierarchy level, and happens in MDM and ETL processes. A logical dimension is very useful for conforming the […]

I am often asked by clients to create reports that display alternating shaded rows. We’ve all been there, squinting away trying to view those tiny numbers crammed onto a single report. Too often we find ourselves relying upon a ruler to help follow the values across the row as the columns continue to grow across […]

SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) is a XML-based open standard format to exchange authentication and authorization data between an identity provider (IdP) and a service provider (SP). A SAML-enabled web application allows browser single sign-on (SSO). We have had success implementing SSO for our clients with Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) as the identity provider […]

A recent Perficient webinar, Orthofix Improves its Financial Close and Consolidations with Oracle Cloud (ARCS & FCCS), held a captive audience for a solid 20 minute Q&A session. In this two-part blog post, I’ll share the highlights of questions asked by attendees and answered by both Perficient and Orthofix. Why did you choose the Cloud […]

In an Oracle Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) implementation, we always use the historical rate to translate the subsidiary’s equity. Historical rate means the actual exchange rate used when the transaction was consummated. For me, the most practical way of achieving this is by using equity overrides. This gives the client full control of the actual translated […]

The Perficient team is at Adobe Summit this week, and we couldn’t be more excited about the expanding partnership between Adobe and Microsoft. On our Adobe blog today, Rich Wood, Perficient’s National Director of Digital Content Platforms, recaps the conference, including next steps for the partnership and what it means to critics and fans alike: […]

Enterprise Search Trends to Watch The enterprise search market is changing as technology providers take advantage of emerging data-related capabilities, such as predictive analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence (AI), and build them into their cloud-based enterprise search solutions. AI-powered search opens up a world of possibilities to modernize the search experience for end users, helps a workforce be more […]