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This session was full of mobile and online banking statistics, strategic direction and insights from two of the top retail banks in the U.S.  Accompanied by Fiserv and Backbase, banking leaders from U.S. Bank and USAA shared stories of customer adoption and penetration of mobile, tablet and online channels.  USAA has been in the news […]

The “Best Practices in Organizational Innovation” session was loaded with great quotes, content and covered a lot of ground. Led by Matt Wilcox, Harry Bandicourt and Sam Maule, conversation moved from Sam’s bright socks (P.S. I see this trending at next year’s Bank Innovation conference) to his definition of organizational innovation, “Getting Sh*t Done”.  Innovation […]

Our financial services team spent the past few days at Bank Innovation 2013.  The conference was jam-packed with some great information, some amazing people, and some awesome conversations.  Over the course of the next few days, Perficient’s blog will feature our thoughts and highlights from a number of the panels.   First up, a recap […]

Hyperion Planning comes pre-packaged with two Utilities that are quite beneficial when the following situations arise: You are creating security for Planning objects in a new application Large quantities of security changes need to be made to an existing application You need a quick way to view security settings for all objects in your Planning […]

1.       In Table Comparison component   1.1.    Use ‘Row-by-row select’ if a.       Target table is nearly or more than 1GB b.      The daily loaded row count is stable and small (less than 5%)           Note: should create index for columns in ‘Input primary key columns’ section   1.2.    Use ‘ Cached comparison table’ if a.       […]

Microsoft’s direction for enterprise social is a little more clear this morning.  And I’ll be honest, the roadmap for organizations willing to move this workload to the cloud—in whole or in part—is pretty exciting.  Questions still remain around just how well this approach covers on-premise deployments, however, and I’d like to spend a little time […]

Finally, a little clarity.  Yesterday’s roadmap post by Jared Spataro on the official SharePoint blog shed some much-sought-after public light on the question of how Microsoft intends to rationalize the Yammer and SharePoint 2013 newsfeeds. “Which newsfeed do we use for enterprise social?  The native SharePoint 2013 feed, or Yammer?”  It’s a question Microsoft customers […]

A while back, I blogged about both the driving factors and a recommended process for automated installation of SharePoint 2010 (see Automating Sharepoint 2010 Installs). As more and more of our clients are deploying SharePoint 2013, I’ve had a chance to revisit and revise the process for SharePoint 2013. The good news for those of […]

Today, Perficient announced that we’ve partnered with analyst firm Forrester Research, Inc. to host the webinar, “SharePoint as a Social Business Platform,” next week, on Wednesday, March 27, at 1 p.m. CDT. From the press release: The webinar will explore Microsoft’s recent investments in social enterprise platforms, and the power SharePoint 2013 has in helping […]

So I was getting some unexpected behavior (as in just not working!) when I tried to apply sorting to people search from the peopleresults.aspx page through the query builder. I hadn’t had any issues sorting on my other result sources but people results were proving to be stubborn. To reproduce, try going to your People […]

Last time we talked about three possible areas of improving SharePoint Search:   Define Content Authority Sources – allowing users to concentrate their search Content Promotion – managing content and where it goes Content Metadata and Ratings – aspects that allow users to refine search results Now let’s dig a little deeper into the three areas. […]

Just found that Oracle has released the bundle patch (11.1.1.6.9) for OBIEE. The details of the patch are posted on the Oracle blog and the details are below: Bundled Patch Details (1 of 7) Oracle Business Intelligence Installer. Tracking Bug  16287811 (2 of 7) Oracle Real Time Decisions. Tracking Bug 16287778 (3 of 7) Oracle Business […]