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When it left the House of Representatives in December 2017, the Tax Reform and Jobs Act carried several changes to the limits that should be placed on hardship withdrawals. While those changes never made it to the final version, many of them are included in the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018. These include: Plans may […]

Five Tips for Creating New Oracle Analytics Cloud Services (OACS) Instances Recently, I have been assisting customers with creating new Oracle PaaS instances – specifically OACS – and I have come up with a few tips for those new to the process. Tip #1:  Keep a copy of the certificate pair you generate. PaaS instances […]

In order to support the initial and ongoing response to Part 370, most organizations will need to implement new processes around data and account management, reporting, and file generation. While each of these process updates can happen individually under those projects, it would be beneficial for a company to take a holistic approach to process […]

In Siebel IP2016, the Sybase database was replaced with Oracle’s own XE database. The switch has presented some advantages and some drawbacks. One of the advantages is that you can have multiple instances. In my case, I have one instance for each IP2016 project that I am working on. This is the blog that I […]

Enterprise Performance Reporting Cloud Service (EPRCS) is the tool for authoring, reviewing and collaborating on management and statutory report packages. Recent releases have introduced powerful, new features that you should consider deploying in your environment. If you have heard about this product, but never seen it up close and personal, now’s your chance! I will […]

The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 addresses relief for the California wildfires of 2017, including, but not limited to: “Qualified individuals” whose primary residences were in specific wildlife disaster zones between October 8 and December 31, 2017 have several new opportunities to access plan benefits that are not otherwise available, including not being hit with […]

Dynamics 365 provides amazingly powerful tools for tracking business processes step-by-step, initiating stage-dependent actions, and maintaining strong relationships with clients. Dynamics 365 even comes with a handy drag-and-drop interface for creating and changing Business Process Flows, allowing enormous control over a business’s moving parts. Like any program, this process-creating function places some boundaries on what […]

Microservices continue to gain popularity for its potential to deliver scalability, resilience, and agility that isn’t possible with service-oriented architecture. Nearly 70% of businesses are either using or currently investigating microservices adoption. However, many companies encounter implementation challenges that include a strain on IT to be more agile, adopt new technology, and embrace DevOps. These […]

Atlassian JIRA is an extremely powerful tool straight out of the box.  One thing that makes it so powerful is the ability to extend it in endless ways.  One easy way to extent your JIRA instance is to use addons from the Atlassian Marketplace. Over the years, I’ve tried many different addons for JIRA – […]

Now that April is here, I thought it would be neat to look back at what our readers found most interesting last month. Below are the top five blog posts Perficient’s life sciences practice wrote in March – they’re ranked in order of popularity, with number one being the most viewed piece. Collaboration In Pharma Is Surging […]

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 […]