Cloud

Gartner recently put out a press release that is quite memorable. It begins with: “By 2020, a corporate “no-cloud” policy will be as rare as a “no-internet” policy is today.” While I personally have never encountered a company that has such a success-hindering policy, I’m sure there are companies out there who are ultra-slow adopters, […]

Earlier this week, Oracle upgraded its BI Cloud Service platform as well as DataSync (now version 2.2) for cloud integrations. With those 2 upgrades come great benefits if you have any of the following and looking to do consolidated business analytics from multiple source systems and allow for cross-functional insights: Salesforce: There is no need […]

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, we’ve reached a point where it’s hard to imagine a world without it. Ever since the evolution of the internet and the widespread adoption of digital […]

Having arrived home from Pivotal SpringOne, I’ve given some thought over the past few weeks around what I heard at the conference. From listening to breakout sessions to speaking with fellow attendees, I felt that I was able to get a fairly solid grasp on where cloud computing, as well as application development is heading. […]

The intent of this document is provide the reader with a fundamental understanding of Oracle Ledger Sets and Data Access Sets, enriched with lessons learned from actual implementations.  Matt Makowsky is an Oracle Financial Applications Consultant with 17 years experience and a Senior Solutions Architect with Perficient.   In Oracle EBS Release 12, two new concepts were […]

This article covers the implementation of the LDAP Adapter in Oracle Service Bus (12c). The LDAP Adapter provides an easy way to integrate with LDAP Servers. In this article we are going to use Apache Directory Studio as the LDAP server and Apache Directory Studio as the LDAP browser. First, you will need to download […]

The Oracle Internet Expenses application has quickly become one of the most intuitive products in the Financials suite. Not only have I previously discussed how simple it is to use the mobile app or how simple it is to create an expense report in the instance, but the seamless flow to Payables is definitely worth […]

Java Cloud Service (JCS) is a PaaS offering from Oracle. It supports all the PaaS requirements like – elasticity, scaling, automated patching, backup/recovery, etc. It’s an environment running on cloud hardware on which you can build, deploy, and manage Java applications just as you would in an ordinary virtual or physical server running on your […]

Often times companies that rely on Oracle’s EPM products, whether these are on-premises like Hyperion Financial Planning or in Cloud like PBCS, lack a robust approach of navigating to transactional details within the context of an EPM summary view. This becomes a bigger challenge when there are multiple transaction systems involved in financial consolidation. Watch […]

As head into the fall, industry-watchers will begin releasing market predictions and trends that will define the rest of this year and the year ahead. As cloud adoption and migration continues to grow, so do the industries that depend on cloud technologies including business intelligence and big data. For enterprises, business intelligence and big data […]

While your clients may have never obtained advice from traditional wealth management companies, the times are changing through the introduction of robo-advisors. Unlike traditional human-to-human financial advice, robo-advisors provide personalized, automated financial advice based on algorithms. They work without the need for human intervention, making such advice cost-friendly and ultimately eliminating common high-net-worth membership figures. […]

Silicon Valley has long been the upstart entrepreneur who builds the next big thing in their garage. Whether it was Steve Jobs building the first personal computer in his garage to the development of Pinterest at a co-working space, the ingenuity, creativity, and agility are the motivating factors towards driving change and innovation. In the […]