Cloud

Cisco recently released their Annual Cybersecurity report for 2017, which revealed several statistics I thought were real eye openers. You can pick up a copy here: http://b2me.cisco.com/en-us-annual-cybersecurity-report-2017. Of the major findings in this document, I consider a few quite concerning, in particular: “Spam accounts for nearly two-thirds (65 percent) of total email volume… about 8 percent […]

  For any organization to run and grow either organically or even seamlessly merge/ acquire with another entity and continue promoting growth, digital transformation plays a vital role. Regardless of the industry, to reach your customer base with maximum potential, you need to have the digital means that can be personalized based on individual customers, geographical […]

  With the rising trend to move the infrastructure into the cloud, more enterprises are looking forward to building or migrating their IT hub into the cloud space. There are several obvious advantages of cloud computing that explain its wide-spread popularity: 1. Cost of infrastructure– Having to build an entire network for data storage, processing units, clustered-network […]

InterConnect officially kicked off this morning with an opening keynote full of powerhouse companies like Twitter, American Airlines, IndieGoGo, and Delos. Throughout the many and varied speakers, a few key themes emerged: 1. The data explosion is an imminent crisis – one that IBM is tackling. Between the Internet of Things and the ever-increasing velocity of […]

There are several analytical capabilities that Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) products, whether Hyperion on-premises or Cloud EPM, have to offer. Financial reports and ad-hoc analysis in Excel are all great. However, in general EPM reporting capabilities remain restricted to whatever data you have in EPM. Are you looking to do one or more of […]

Oracle Business Intelligence Suite provides comprehensive capabilities for business intelligence, including enterprise reporting, dashboards, ad-hoc analysis, multi-dimensional OLAP, scorecards, and predictive analytics on an integrated platform. It is also a core component of Oracle Exalytics, the industry’s first engineered in-memory analytics machine designed to deliver extreme performance. A majority of healthcare providers to some extent or […]

While some organizations are still exploring the viability of a cloud strategy, others have moved to scale up on their deployments and create multi-cloud environments. The breadth of services, cost savings, business agility, and innovation opportunities drive technology leaders, which offer increased opportunities to compete in crowded markets. That said, moving to a multi-cloud model […]

If your organization is running on SharePoint Server 2010, you may be operating at risk. With mainstream support of SharePoint Server 2010 unavailable and extended support from Microsoft only available through October of 2020, it is a perfect time to begin planning to migrate to SharePoint Online. The SharePoint Migration assessment tool (SMAT) is a tool […]

InterConnect starts on Sunday, and I’m sure many of you are planning how to make the most of your time with over 2000 sessions to choose from as part of the curriculum this year. While Perficient will be leading some great sessions, in many cases, the best way to learn is by the example of […]

The purpose of this blog post is to share how to setup/customize the Oracle Drop Ship process to automatically create Purchase Orders originating from the Drop Ship Sales order lines. Standard Process: Oracle’s out-of-the-box functionality involves creation of a sales order in Oracle Order Management with sales order lines set to source type as External. Once […]

One of the main technology trends, as reported by the press for 2017, are containers, a form of serverless computing that enable the isolation of software processes. Research firm Forrester corroborates these claims, stating that Linux containers will be available in every major public and private cloud platform by the middle of the year. Advocates […]

We’re excited to announce that our client Acuity Brands was awarded honorable mention for their recent intranet redesign! Ragan Communications presented Acuity Brands with an honorable mention in the “Intranet Usability” category of their annual Intranet Awards. Check out the story below for how we helped Acuity create a modern intranet with Rise. Background When […]