Operations

In recent months, you’ve probably heard a thing or two about Power BI, the new cloud-centric BI front end tool set from Microsoft. Available to Office 365 SharePoint Online users, Power BI is a compelling new offering with advanced collaborative BI capabilities. Power BI includes PowerPivot, PowerView, Power Map, and Power Query. While these tools […]

Where is this Hyperion product located in the Oracle stack? Though it had been years now since the Oracle Hyperion acquisition, it is very hard for me to keep up and understand the oracle stack with respect to Hyperion.  Yes I admit I  have a very poor memory; I revisit Oracle websites many times to […]

A lot has happened in the banking and financial services world this year. From the debates over a potential digital wallet revolution to the proliferation of mobile devices and big data – there was a lot to discuss! Here’s a look back at five of our top posts covering financial services technology trends and challenges.  […]

After your purchase of Oracle Hyperion Planning, you are now ready to follow a curriculum geared towards your job role: business user, administrator, or IT support. Each learning path is tailored to meet your specific training needs. Planning Business Users are responsible for making accurate, timely decisions that require an in-depth look at business operations. […]

Currently, we have a long time running issue for a data warehouse job, so we decided to optimize some stored procedures. After analyzing the stored procedures. we have some findings regarding the sql optimization. 1. Use the temporary table to minimize disk access. From the sql tuning view, the main concern for the database applications is to minimize disk access. Try […]

Introduction Over the years as a consultant in the IT field, I’ve worked on quite a few health care related projects.  None have been as large or interesting as my current engagement. I am part of a team working with ProHealth to stand up and extend a new third party data warehouse offering called Cogito.  […]

CMSWire and a peer from our Portals and Social Business practice both shared a pretty cool infographic from Gartner that illustrates the need for CMO and CIO collaboration to define an organization’s digital direction. I thought I’d put it into context though for the financial services industry with a brief post. The topic of customer […]

This past Wednesday, we hosted a webinar, “Using Yammer and SharePoint Intranets to Drive Employee Engagement.” During the session, Rich Wood, Director of Web & Social Collaboration at Perficient, first gave a quick overview on the enterprise social network and Yammer, and then went on discuss user adoption and engagement. He covered what exactly a […]

In many Hyperion Essbase projects, getting user acceptance testing complete on time for all the Essbase calculations is an onerous task. It becomes even more complicated while metadata sign off is still on its way for perfection. This is often because the end users are so used to sign off after looking at the reports as a […]

After your purchase of Oracle Essbase, you are now ready to follow a curriculum geared towards your job role: business user, developer, or IT support. Each learning path is tailored to meet your specific training needs. Business Users models and test complex business scenarios to rapidly discover trends and to analyze business issues hidden within […]

A Perficient colleague in our Portals and Social practice, Brendon Jones, posted a blog yesterday, “Re-energizing the retail banking experience” which talked about the shift in retail banking towards the use of social technologies to deliver value in mobile services for money management. As the McKinsey Quarterly source he mentioned referenced, social networks have become mainstream with […]

It is mid-November and the holiday season is almost upon us. With the Thanksgiving holiday only a week away, my mailbox is already starting to fill up with store catalogs, coupons, and flyers for Black Friday shopping deals. There is also one other thing I am increasingly seeing in my mailbox of late – credit […]