Operations

The Cloud is all around us – and a hot topic of conversation from the water cooler to the boardroom. Everywhere you turn, you hear about how everyone is moving to the Cloud and that you too should make the move. Generic benefits are thrown around like it is the best thing since the internet, […]

Hyperion Account Reconciliation Cloud Services (ARCS) is the cloud counterpart to Hyperion on-premise Account Reconciliation Manager (ARM). While they share the same purpose, ARCS has additional functionality and has proven to be a flexible tool that can be used with other on premise or cloud-based systems to perform reconciliation activities. ARCS provides two tools to […]

In my role over the past number of years, I’ve had many great ideological DevOps conversations with many people from various organizations.  I often explain that to me, DevOps is an approach and a mindset.  Whether it’s implementing a deployment automation tool for the first time, strengthening a continuous integration (CI) implementation, or writing infrastructure as code, my approach […]

One of the mysteries of blockchain lies in its industry applications. While many understand its usage in banking for secure, untampered transactions, innovators are looking to other industries for practical use too, particularly in recording and verifying a high volume of transactions. Here are some less common areas that stand to gain from the influence […]

A new utility was provided with Siebel version 16.0 (i.e., IP2016) that is quite useful. OracleXEConfig allows you, as a developer, to have multiple Oracle XE instances on your computer and enables you to quickly switch to one that is active. It also allows you to create empty local databases. This is extremely useful if […]

The Financial Office is under constant pressure to shorten the close cycle and deliver accurate results. A potential source of improvement is streamlining the Account Reconciliation Process. Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud Service (ARCS) provides the tools to manage and monitor the account reconciliation process providing a faster, more organized and accurate reconciliation process. Account Reconciliation […]

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) are two major storage services for AWS. S3 is more lightweight and provides the capability to store data. EC2, on the other hand, is a web service that provides secure, resizable computing capacity in the cloud. As we know, backup and recovery are becoming […]

  Introduction: Oracle EPM cloud has set of EPM Automate commands which are used to automate administration process for EPBCS. Admins can write batch scripts on MS-Dos, PowerShell or other batch scripting program to call the EPM Automate commands. Batch scripts can also be scheduled using Task Scheduler in Windows. This blog is for the […]

Global companies face a common challenge balancing intercompany accounts across ledgers. Failure to balance intercompany accounts and identify and eliminate intercompany transactions may put the company at audit risk. I spoke about this issue at last year’s Collaborate conference, and I’m looking forward to returning this year to tackle it again. If you’re attending Collaborate […]

I recently started working on a project where I am using Siebel IP2016. IP2016 uses Oracle XE for local development and requires a lot of free disk space to create and initialize the local database. I use Oracle’s excellent (and free!) VirtualBox version 5.2.8. The specific virtual machine that I was using was a Windows […]

I am the bad PMO guy! Why Am I the Bad PMO Guy? I was assigned the responsibility to monitor the PMO dashboard to avoid content gaps. I take this responsibility very seriously and always try to improve the process flow with help of my self made statistics reports to keep the tracking process smoother. One day […]

Everything is data and everyone is data! Everybody says we live in the technology age, the age of the internet, the age of space and cosmos, the age of the digital world etc. But all of these developments and advancements have been made possible by the Holy Grail called Data. We learned how to store […]