Operations

First, a little bit of a personal story: I grew up in a family of great storytellers: My mom could bring alive comic characters with descriptions and add the sounds of them falling, crying or laughing. My dad could lead you to the moon with his drawn maps and landmarks. He would even add details, […]

Sometimes, two great tools need some help to work together. Microsoft Bookings is a relatively new appointment-booking app in Office 365 focused on small, appointment-oriented businesses. Dynamics 365 is Microsoft’s enterprise-level app focused on helping sales-oriented businesses create and track business relationships from leads to opportunities to clients. As of now, getting these two helpful […]

DevOps pushes organizations to accelerate innovation, leveraging automation in the face of rapidly changing customer tastes and expectations. Some organizations leverage Test Data Management in DevOps, which is the ability to create targeted, right-size databases rather than cloning entire production environments. This enables easier test environments to test realistic data sets in advance of going to production. […]

When writing financial reports, it is common to have one that needs comparative numbers from a prior month. In Oracle HFM Financial Reporting Studio, we designed the columns of this report as follows: In FCCS Reporting Web Studio the parameters above work if the current month is not January as shown below: However, if the […]

Everyone expects for a theory or an Apple in a BLINK! When Newton’s head was bonked by an apple, his bulb just got brightened in a BLINK. He discovered the law of gravity which still exists in every school textbook. “Apple” came to Steve Jobs’ mind in a blink when he was returning from an […]

Are you looking at replacing the Google Search Appliance? With Google’s upcoming sunset of the hardware-based enterprise search product, organizations dependent on it for public website search and secure internal search need to evaluate potential replacements. License renewals end in 2018, leaving customers with limited time to develop a replacement plan going forward. Customers evaluating […]

Read Part 1 Read Part 2 Read Part 3 In parts 1, 2 and 3 of this blog I discussed what I think are the keys to choosing a DevOps tool that works best for your organization and how to ensure that the tool adoption and subsequent process changes will be successful.  In this final […]

Now that February 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 January – they’re ranked in order of popularity, with number one being the most viewed piece. [Guide] 2018 Pharmaceutical And Medical […]

Machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), and cognitive computing are all hot topics in the industry. When discussing these subjects, questions revolving around the impact of AI on human labor typically come up. Vikram Pandit, the former CEO of Citigroup, was recently asked what the banking sector might look like in the future. He said that […]

Despite the popularity of the cloud in other industries, healthcare adoption has been slower. Healthcare professionals identify security and privacy concerns as reasons for low adoption rates. Among the reasons is the disproportionately higher cost of investigating data breaches. According to Ponemon Institute, the average cost-per-record in a healthcare breach is $402 – 80% higher […]

EPBCS REST API REST (Representational state transfer) API is a method to interact with the server using an HTTP request. The user sends an HTTP request and the server responds to the request in JSON Format. Before the REST API, the server used to send an xml response, which is processed on the client side, […]

Whether you are a consultant building reports for a client, or you are a report builder for your own company, chances are you will be asked to create a rolling three-month report. In this blog, I will discuss how to create a rolling three-month report for Planning using FR Studio. As you are probably aware, Planning […]