Platforms and Technology

Perficient recently held a webinar on Oracle Project Financials Cloud, part of the Oracle Project Portfolio Management Cloud solution. At the close of the event we had some great questions posed by the attendees that Stuart Massey, General Manager Oracle ERP at Perficient, fielded that are worth sharing. Is Oracle Project Financials Cloud integrated with […]

  What, Why, When, Where…   What is a sandbox? A sandbox is a shallow box of sand built for kids in playgrounds to play with sand. The software industry started using this terminology in computer security and software development. In computer security, a sandbox is used to test some non-reliable or un-tested program. Why […]

When closing the Payables period, there are some helpful reports to run that help in the reconciliation process. Even though there are plenty of other reports that can be used during period close, the Payables to Ledger Reconciliation report is the most helpful reconciliation tool available because it allows the user to drill into the […]

“On the fifth day of Christmas, my IT guy gave to me, 5 cloud-native instances” Though technology has always driven flexibility, its development has been another story. Bogged down by a variety of platforms, developers have always sought ways to accelerate creation, quality assurance, and deployment. We understand these challenges and sought to support the […]

In the last few years, there has been a lot of talk about Sales and Marketing alignment, but sometimes these buzz words go in one ear and out the other.  There is so much to be read about it that the volume of noise is overwhelming at times.  It’s also hard to understand what it […]

Metro Bank, a financial institution that has over 40 “stores” in Britain, has officially migrated its core banking IT infrastructure to a private cloud that will be managed by Rackspace. While the bank is only six years old, it has relied heavily on systems that were on-premises. The cost of running the applications in-house were […]

Most people are familiar with lead scoring, but do you feel confident that you are maximizing it’s potential?  If you are using Eloqua, the ease of setting up lead scoring is phenomenal!  The key to success in Lead Scoring, is continual review, which is where the issues come into play.  In this short post, I […]

Several years ago, Citigroup formed a FinTech group that is dedicated to developing new offerings that bleed with innovation. One of the first solutions to come out of Citi FinTech happens to be a mobile app for its Citigold credit card members. Citigold is a pure wealth management offering that targets affluent and emerging affluent […]

I attended the final 2016 session with Oracle Product Management today.  The focus was Content Marketing and what is happening in that section of the Oracle Marketing Cloud.  If you are unfamiliar with Content Marketing, think Compendium.  Content Marketing is a way for marketers to plan, create, and distribute content to the right person at […]

By far, the most convenient way to configure Azure Application Gateway is to use ARM template. The reasons are: – Application gateway configuration could be really complex, it may have multiple backend server pools, listeners and complicated routing rules – Application gateway is generally slow to configure. It’s not uncommon to wait 10-15 minutes for […]

MAS (Mobile Application Services) is a new product released by CA available at http://mas.ca.com. This release enables mobile apps to be developed faster, and offers robust out of the box features. Written in Objective-C and available for both Android and iOS, MAS becomes a great solution to add to your mobile strategy. I created my […]

Today I attended a briefing on an overview of the sales tools for Eloqua as well as a what’s coming.  Love the road map pieces, so fun to see what enhancements are planned. The session was presented by Taha Skeikh who is the Director of Product Management and Nard Linders who is part of the […]