Platforms and Technology

In a recent Perficient webinar, How Western Alliance Bank is Innovating with Oracle Cloud, attendees were treated to not one, but two speakers from Western Alliance Bank! Andrew Boucher, vice president market risk management, and Valentino Hafalia, vice president of FP&A discussed the challenges with the legacy environment and benefits realized with consolidated analytics as […]

In 1929, Hollywood held its very first Academy Awards ceremony. With no broadcast and a room of just 270 guests, the event was a calm affair and low-key, complete with dinner and a few awards. For the average American who could afford to go to the theaters to see a movie, they found an industry […]

This Time it’s in the Contact Center with Amazon Connect. Contact Centers are complex, expensive, and require time from small pool of expensive engineers who have a unique set of skills on a specific platform. Right?  Wrong. A few weeks ago, we produced a video demonstrating the self-service capabilities of Amazon Connect using Amazon Lex, […]

Oracle Integration Cloud Service is a cloud-based integration platform designed to perform integrations between cloud-based and on premise applications.  It is packaged with a growing list of application adapters which can be leveraged to greatly reduce the development effort and time.  These adapters are pre-built interfaces that can connect to different applications without coding. Perficient […]

“CIOs expect to shift 21% of their company’s applications to a public cloud this year, and 46% by 2020, according to a report by Morgan Stanley.” Intro Recently, I attended a webinar on “Cloud Migration”. It was a joint presentation by folks from AWS and Chef. It touched on two key areas – “migration to […]

If you haven’t heard, Salesforce Shield is a bundle of products that Salesforce has put together to help customers meet strict regulatory requirements concerning their data. Salesforce Shield Components Salesforce Shield Event Monitoring Salesforce Shield Field Audit Trail Salesforce Shield Platform Encryption Most successful businesses are not built on a hunch. That’s where data comes […]

As a CRM consultant that has been working with Oracle Sales Cloud since 2015 and has been actively involved in 8+ projects, here are the top 6 tips that I have learned in driving a successful Oracle Sales Cloud implementation: Requirements – With every project, it is critical to capture the business requirements that the […]

In the most recent RightScale State of the Cloud Report, the technology provider shed light on the popularization of containers in the enterprise, especially as more organizations move towards public cloud solutions like IBM. Concurrently, organizations are also dealing with a plethora of new content and need ways to manage, interpret, and make decisions to […]

At Perficient, we’re all about having our pulse on the state of technology and the trends impacting business. Around this time of the year, we look out for surveys, including RightScale’s State of the Cloud Report. A regular fixture in the technology community, this particular survey answers burning questions around cloud adoption, usage, and anticipated […]

This is a continuation of my special blog series. You can read Part 1 here. Groovy script is basically split into four sections. We previously covered a short description of the sections, so we are getting directly into the script here. Code Section 1 This section imports the java libraries which help in formatting the payload […]

In Part 1 of my Oracle Projects Considerations series, I discussed Project Centric vs. GL Centric. This post, Part 2, will cover Project Type Classes. The three Project Type Classes seeded within Projects are: Capital Contract Indirect They drive how Project Types will collect and track expenditures on projects. The Capital Project Type Class collects […]

What is IT Debt? The term IT debt became a very popular talking point in the selling and marketing of cloud-based solutions after Gartner promoted it in 2010. IT debt refers to the investment a company would have to make to eliminate its IT backlog and bring their current application portfolio up to a fully […]