Platforms and Technology

Driving Forces Impact CRM Investments Cloud is now seen as mainstream in all areas of customer relationship management (CRM). In fact, Gartner forecasts that software-as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud-based deployments will dominate the CRM market in 2016. What’s the driving force behind this rapidly growing trend? Organizations of all sizes are moving toward easier deployments and faster-ROI alternatives to modernizing legacy […]

Google has been shouting at you for a while now to get mobile friendly. Are you paying attention? In this episode of Here’s Why, we’ll explain why the second mobile ranking update from Google is a loud and clear message that you should. Don’t miss a single episode of Here’s Why. Click the subscribe button […]

In regard to the example I gave of AR transactions not functioning in last week’s blog, there is a simple fix. This is not something that my team discovered on Oracle Support or through Google, but it’s something that was discovered when looking at roles. The AR roles on the role template for the “Receivables […]

The intent of this document is provide the reader with a fundamental understanding of Oracle Loans, enriched with lessons learned from actual implementations.  Matt Makowsky is an Oracle Financial Applications Consultant with 17 years experience and a Senior Solutions Architect with Perficient.   Oracle’s EBS Financials offerings include many “niche” products that are not considered “Core” […]

More and more organizations are adopting native cloud platforms to assist with their development efforts. As customers demand more from the technologies they use, developers experience the pressure of innovation at a faster rate. A few weeks ago, we announced our partnership with Pivotal alongside other vendors to bolster our expertise in the cloud-native space […]

Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc., a legacy Oracle Hyperion Planning customer, needed to refine its finance and labor planning models, as well as provide end users a platform that was simpler and more intuitive to use, and that provided a real-time look into their budgeted bottom line throughout the […]

Turning subledger transactions into subledger journal entries is easy in the Subledger Accounting section of Oracle Cloud R11.  Users can generate accounting for legal and corporate reporting, and reconcile accounting using predefined functionalities. Users can define custom formulas and use subledger accounting rule definitions from the Manage Formulas Payables page found under Setup and Maintenance. […]

C# 5.0 introduced two new keywords: async and await. These keywords have a very powerful effect that can be used without fully understanding them. This is a double-edged sword. It’s great to have a language feature that doesn’t take much time to implement, but at the same time, if there isn’t at least a basic understanding, […]

Critical Rendering Path is a sequence of steps the browser needs to go through to convert the most important HTML, CSS and Javascript into actual pixels on the screen. This also means we make the most important visual parts of our site load first instead of loading everything at once. In order to set up the appropriate […]

At the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2016, Perficient was awarded Microsoft’s East Region National Solution Provider (NSP) Partner of the Year and Cloud Partner of the Year, Central Region NSP Partner of the Year, and West Region NSP Partner of the Year – all for the second year in a row. This blog series takes […]

A while back, I wrote a blog post that shared ways in which the financial services industry can leverage social tools to win over existing customers, cultivate new ones, and become more efficient in their business operations. One example was how Barclays created a new product called Barclaycard Ring, which gives cardmembers the opportunity to […]

In the United States alone, experts estimate that the physician shortage will reach 130,000 by 2018. Worldwide, 1.3 billion people do not currently have sufficient access to healthcare services. But the advancement of telehealth technology is breaking down barriers around the world, and can reduce rising medical costs as a result. Microsoft’s Skype for Business […]