Platforms and Technology

Cloud has become the platform for innovation that market leaders are leveraging to create new customer value, build ecosystems to gain insights, and transform business models. As we accelerate towards the end of 2016, it’s imperative for those still sitting on the fence to truly consider how cloud technologies can positively impact their organizations. Perficient […]

Pivotal and Perficient partnered up several months ago to deliver cloud-native solutions for DevOps teams. As we move into the fourth quarter of the year, we wanted to take our relationship further and introduce the Pivotal Cloud Foundry platform to our community, including the concepts of Spring application development platform. If you’re a developer or […]

This week, marketers, sales professionals, technology buffs, and everyone in between will descend on San Francisco for Dreamforce. Last year we live blogged a number of sessions from Dreamforce, but this year is going to be bigger and — need we say it — even better, so we’ve pulled together some session recommendations and tips from our team of […]

Hopefully by know you have heard the term “blockchain” multiple times and have come across multiple definitions. For example, Wikipedia defines it as – “a blockchain — originally, block chain — is a distributed database that maintains a continuously-growing list of records called blocks secured from tampering and revision. Each block contains a timestamp and a link to a previous block.” The Wall Street Journal […]

As we all know P2T (production to test) copies happen frequently within a project timeline and after Go Live. Some files tend to ‘disappear’ or lose important data after a P2T. There are some simple fixes to this issue, with the first being that you need to start saving these files locally. If they are […]

As I have discussed before, FBDI is the best tool for loading mass amounts of data. When you’ve got a client that has thousands of suppliers – which let’s be honest, they all do – then FBDI is your best friend. Instead of manually entering the data into the system one click at a time, […]

Welcome from the Microsoft Ignite Conference. It’s been a great conference this week. We’ve had lots of great conversation with customers, partners, and our friends at Microsoft. The conference is huge, both in number of people and the area. I’ve definitely got my steps in for this week 🙂 It’s never been a more exciting time to […]

Yes, it’s only September.  If you are in the financial industry – you know that tax season is looming just around the corner.  In Oracle Cloud ERP Payables, generating 1099-MISC forms is a great feature that makes one part of tax reporting an easy task!  In this blog are steps you can do now to […]

In my last post, we explored how Agile, DevOps, and the Immersive Intervention approach were key to ensuring productivity, collaboration, and communication in the modern enterprise. Though controversial, its implementation has been shown to work and foster more cohesive working environments. I spent a great deal of time examining the human elements of the Immersive […]

My last post on BICS and Cloud (Fusion) Apps Integration Architecture described how BICS Data Sync 2.2 can read the OTBI metadata to allow for near real time trickle feeds from Oracle Cloud Applications. As I described in that post, there are multiple ways to load data from the Oracle Cloud Applications into BICS.  The […]

Continuous deployment and release are key components of the DevOps process, offering technology teams the opportunity to provide customers with the necessary updates and innovations to maintain customer satisfaction and interest. As this process becomes more rushed, organizations have become more interested in solutions that automate the entire process. Having worked with numerous clients, we […]

Spend any time on this blog and you’ll read about how I believe in the cultural transformation cloud has to offer. From the increased financial flexibility to the more innovative development teams, the customizable approach to cloud results in positive outcomes that prepare organizations for the future. Culture is a fuzzy concept that takes an […]