The complexity of enterprise systems, especially platform agnostic system, makes change management of those systems a little more frustrating than less complex client – server type applications. The Oracle EPM suite of applications is no exception to this rule. Don’t Inflict Change I could not write about change management without out taking a moment to […]
Operations
How to Migrate an Oracle Hyperion Planning Application
The purpose of this document is to provide a high level overview of the process for migrating EPMA enabled Planning applications between two completely separated environments. I have made a couple assumptions while writing this that I mention below. All of this information is available in the references mentions. I have just tried to provide a […]
Why are BI projects so difficult to implement? part 2
In a previous post (here) I posed the question regarding the difficulty we experience when implementing a BI project, and promised to address mitigating the pain that our project teams and clients typically experience. But before we can do that, we need to explore where the pain and difficulty comes from. Difficulties: – Unfamiliar technologies, […]
IBM Connect: Social CMO
Michael Porter (@porteronportal) and Saren Sakurai (@saren) of Perficient spoke at the last day of IBM Connect 2013. The title of the talk is the Social CMO: Engaging the Consumer. The goal of digital marketing is the right message to the right audience at the right time on the right device. 4 primary objectives of […]
Top 5 Technology Trends in Financial Services – January 2013
Trying to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to IT issues is a challenging task. Emerging technology forces in the financial services industry are already impacting business. The convergence of these forces does present challenges; however, it also provides a window of opportunity for financial institutions to elevate business performance and gain a […]
Webinar: Creating a ‘Customer 360’ with Master Data Mgmt.
Technology has challenged the financial services industry and will continue to play a vital role in supporting business growth and change. With change comes new challenges for financial institutions. Mobile, social and analytics strategies give the promise of improved customer service, reduced costs, effective marketing and banking innovation. However, these strategies require a trusted view of their data – something […]
Case Study: Given Imaging Redesigns Website on SharePoint 2010
Perficient recently worked with Given Imaging to redesign its corporate website, GivenImaging.com, on SharePoint 2010. Given Imaging had first partnered with Perficient to improve its CapsuleEndoscopy.org website, which is dedicated to advancing PillCam® capsule endoscopy and built on the SharePoint platform. Here is an excerpt from the case study describing the challenge: Built on the […]
IBM Connect: Designing and Developing Portal Themes
IBM Connect had a great session on implementing portal themes in WebSphere Portal 8. Stephan Hesmer, Portal Frontend and Design Lead from IBM presented a technical session on implementing themes and skins. Portal themes are an extremely powerful, efficient and effective way to implement user experiences in WebSphere Portal. Key points that resonated from the […]
New Year’s Data Resolutions
It’s 2013! Will this year be the Year of Self-Service BI? Or the Year of Mobile BI? Or perhaps (for the second year running) the Year of Big Data? Trend-watching is fun, but what does it tell you about making real business decisions with respect to your growing Enterprise Reporting or BI needs? Maybe not […]
What Tablet Growth Means for Your 2013 Banking Services Strategy
Believe it or not, an astounding 19 percent of Americans over the age of 18 now own a tablet of some sort. This is double the number Forrester noted in 2011. It’s true that tech penetration is lower among adults over 47, but not by much. This demographic is now at 14 percent ownership, which is […]
Teradata Temporal Feature in Data Warehouse Design
If you have read books or articles written by Ralph Kimball, you should know about basic components and process to complete a dimensional modeling for enterprise data warehouse (EDW). When an architect is designing on DW, he would have to think about the slowly change dimension (SCD) approach that will best suit the business need […]
Cross Charging Options – An Alternative Approach
In my last posting we discussed the various options for cross charging within Oracle Projects. Today I would like to focus on the options of Inter-Project Billing and Inter-Company Billing and the issues with utilizing either one. As stated in my last blog, the cross charging options were broken down as follows Cross Charge Option […]