Platforms and Technology

Yesterday, at the Pierre Hotel in New York City, the 2017 Delivering Alpha Conference gathered the most important players in asset management. At 3:00 Eastern Time, Jamie Dimon, CEO of J.P. Morgan Chase took the microphone…and Wall Street reacted quickly. By 3:01 ET, bitcoin was down 2 percent. So, what exactly did he say about […]

Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud Service (FCCS) is one of the latest cloud solutions offered by Oracle.  Doga Pamir, Solutions Architect at Perficient, was selected by ODTUG to present at Kscope17 on this topic. His session, HFM to FCCS – A Customer Success Story, landed Doga not one, but two awards! The session was so well […]

Today during its keynote address, Apple announced some big changes to its product line. If you weren’t able to watch the event yourself you may be wondering how this will impact your mobile initiatives immediately, throughout 2017, and into 2018. Here are the biggest changes coming to Apple products in the back half of 2017. […]

Goal Seek is one of the most commonly used spreadsheet features. The Goal Seek feature back calculates the source value or the input value based on a target value. Using Goal Seek, you can adjust a value used in a formula to achieve a specific goal. This is an incredibly powerful tool when it comes […]

There are many considerations when it comes to the development and operation of a business intelligence (BI) program, especially when it is specific to certain sectors of the financial industry like wealth management. Nonetheless, there are several fundamental beliefs wealth management firms should embrace as they pursue their BI efforts: BI is a powerful tool […]

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being heralded as a game-changer – and rightly so. The combination of Big Data with improved processing power and machine-learning (algorithms that can learn from experience rather than explicit human programming) has the potential to affect every corner of our lives. From retail and healthcare to transportation and the internet-of-things, AI […]

Many believe that once an asset is placed in service that is the end of the story. However, there is more to the Oracle Project and Oracle Assets relationship after capitalization. A project can hang around until the asset is retired to capture the retirement costs, resulting in the full cradle-to-grave cost and activity of […]

ARCS (Account Reconciliation Cloud Service) is the cloud counterpart for Oracle’s Account Reconciliation Manager (ARM). A complete and detailed account reconciliation is part of a month end financial close process in an organization. Typically, the finance department needs to identify any/all fraudulent, improper and excessively aged transactions as part of the process. Oracle’s Account Reconciliation […]

This month, millions of Americans will flock to cavernous stadiums around the country to take part in the annual ritual of football games. Attracted by the sounds of bone-crushing hits and unmatched athletic feat, football has been in the American consciousness for the past half-century, bringing together everyone from Midwestern small towns to large metropolises. […]

IT cost and resource visibility is a challenge shared by all organizations. According to RightScale’s 2017 State of the Cloud Survey, 53% of cloud users and 64% of mature cloud adopters cited cost focusing as one of their strategic initiatives. With wasted cloud spend accounting for nearly a third of cloud investments, having the right […]

Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (EPBCS) is a significant differentiator for Oracle. Lacking the challenges inherent in on-premises software and building on best practices in the industry, EPBCS offers companies a head start on finance transformation like no other. One clear lesson from the field is that a good financial planning process is […]

Global organizations and IT professionals are embracing the vision of a connected world that bridges the physical and digital worlds. IoT solutions support this by helping ingest information and context through sensors from the physical world and taking actions in the physical world via actuators based on digital insights. According to a survey from research […]