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Orthofix International, a global medical device company and a legacy Hyperion Financial Management customer, needed to improve its overall close process, providing better tools to employees, and minimizing its infrastructure footprint. They partnered with Perficient to implement Oracle Hyperion Account Reconciliation Cloud Service (ARCS) and Financial Close Cloud Service (FCCS) to perform account reconciliations and […]

Intercompany elimination report is a very useful tool in analyzing intercompany balances. Plug Accounts play a major role as they store differences in intercompany balances and they group accounts with the same Plug Account in the Report. This allows HFM to match balances between Entities and the related Intercompany Partner. How do we get rid […]

It is about time that we all face a hard truth: Many traditional intranet projects fail to achieve their stated business objectives. There, I said it, and I’m already starting to feel better. According to one recent Gartner report, “Since the emergence of the intranet in the mid-1990s, organizations have seen wave after wave of […]

We recently published a whitepaper titled “Leveraging the Microsoft Platform for DevOps.” In it, we describe our DevOps maturity model. How mature is your DevOps practice? Some organizations are so mature, they are able to blow away and overwrite their production environment up to 1,600 times a day. That’s right; destroy the environment with no […]

We’ve been developing Xamarin.Forms apps since the framework’s inception and have watched the tool mature into a solid tool for building native, cross-platform experiences. More than once we’ve heard hesitations about using Xamarin.Forms because “it doesn’t feel as polished.” We understand where that idea comes from (many are basing that opinion on early iterations of […]

The cloud continues to generate a lot of buzz in the IT world, and for good reason: According to Gartner, 50% of enterprises will be using hybrid cloud solutions this year. But making the move to the cloud can be intimidating. There are many things to consider: What are the best practices? Who are the […]

The first weekend of February is an exciting one for people worldwide, especially those who enjoy football as the National Football League (NFL) plays its annual championship game. Now in its 51st edition, the game drives attention in all areas of popular culture and media, from the national anthem to prop bets to the cost […]

We have all heard how having CRM integrated with Eloqua is a huge step in the overall thought process of data-driven marketing. I wholly agree with that, but what if you could integrate with more than your CRM to gather the data necessary to impact a customer buying without sales involvement? What would that look […]

“What’s new?” is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless parade of trivia and fashion, the silt of tomorrow. I would like, instead, to be concerned with the question “What is best?”, a question which cuts deeply rather than broadly, a question whose answers tend […]

We had a client where, by nature of their business, base entities may move from one parent to another. However, all historical data must stay with their previous parent. Only prospective data will belong to the new parent. There may be several ways of complying with this client requirement, but for me, the simplest way […]

A few weeks ago I found myself at the bank after my debit card was the unfortunate victim of a data breach. After signing in at the teller, I was directed to a personal banking employee who then walked me through the process of signing up for a new card. Unlike in years past where […]

Cloud is now ubiquitous in many organizations and is leveraged in many ways. With integration of on-premises legacy systems and public cloud solutions becoming the norm, many leaders are now asking whether a Chief Integration Officer is necessary to manage all of the solutions and technologies at hand. The answer to this question may lie […]