Platforms and Technology

According to research conducted by Silicon Valley venture firm Accel and Black Duck Software, 78% of enterprises run on open source software, with 3% indicating that their workloads are absent of open source altogether. It’s only natural to assume that as the industry moves, so will its players as they scramble to compete and stay […]

It’s 2017 – now is the time for your business to undergo a digital transformation. Whether B2B or B2C, consumers have come to expect a high level of engagement and great customer experiences. When you consider your company’s customer interactions, ask yourself these questions: Are you using digital channels to explain, execute, and differentiate your […]

As businesses expand into new areas of marketing they’re adopting hybrid applications, both on-premises and cloud, to support their growing needs. But multiple applications silo customer information across the business, limiting a 360-degree view of the customer and the ability to analyze different marketing initiatives. Join us for this encore presentation delivered at Oracle OpenWorld […]

Closing the General Ledger is the final step in the period close process. Now that we have reviewed the close process for the Financials subledgers (see previous blogs), you will now see how it all comes together in the ledger. Steps that are not included in this review are those involving the Procurement and Project […]

When closing Cash Management, the steps can slightly vary depending on whether or not your business has automatic or manual bank statements and reconciliations. The overall process is as follows for either process being used: Load bank statements as your business process requires, whether this be manual or automatically from your bank. Reconcile the statements. […]

In December, Oracle released an update to ICS. Here I call out some new features worth noting: Integrations can now be scheduled to run and accept iCal expressions Expression Builder XPath enhancements support XPath axis and wildcard expressions REST 1.2 support Custom adapter upload and registration for those who create their own adapters Mapping errors […]

While working with ICS, I’ve seen the following issues come up very occasionally: Integrations fail to activate with large stack traces Connection test fails with a general error immediately, without a timeout What works for me in these cases is to log out of the browser session and restart the browser.

Policies are a very powerful component in Azure API Management (APIM) that allows to customize API input and output. By using policies in APIM it’s possible, for example: – Set call rate limits and quotas – Modify request/response bodies – Add/remove HTTP headers – Validate JWT – Configure CORS and so on. Most policies could […]

As we wrap up 2016, let’s take a look at the top 10 cloud blog posts from our thought leaders. These blogs were published on Perficient’s Integrate Blog. If you missed any of these posts, you may want to take a look. #1 – 2 Choices for Big Data Analytics on AWS: Amazon EMR or Hadoop […]

Closing the Fixed Assets module should be a quick and painless process each month. As most Oracle ERP users know, the module only allows for one period to be opened at a time, and once you close the period you can never re-open it again. I guess this can be both a good and bad […]

As we wrap up 2016, let’s take a look at the top 10 cloud blog posts from our thought leaders. These blogs were published on Perficient’s IBM blog. If you missed these you may want to take a look: #1 – Perficient Named 2016 IBM Beacon Award Winner for Cloud  By Alexandra Haefele | February […]

“On the twelfth day of Christmas my IT guy gave to me, 12 scaled cloud deployments” At Amazon Re:Invent last month, Amazon Chief Technology Officer Werner Vogels declared the importance of cloud as a mindset for the modern enterprise. Looking towards an audience of thousands, it was markedly clear that despite claims of being a […]