Operations

The business intelligence (BI) industry has been plagued with poor user adoption for years and has a huge failure rate among companies. Here are some of the reasons why. Product is challenging to use: When a BI tool is not designed for business users, such as financial advisors and client associates who are primarily non-technical […]

A recent Perficient webinar, Oracle FCCS: A Deep Dive, held a captive audience for the Q&A session well beyond the top of the hour. In the second of a two-part blog post, I share the highlights of questions asked by attendees and answered by both Tony Coffman, Oracle EPM Practice Director at Perficient, and Rajesh Bhatia, […]

A recent Perficient webinar, Oracle FCCS: A Deep Dive, held a captive audience for the Q&A session well beyond the top of the hour. In this two-part blog post, I’ll share the highlights of questions asked by attendees and answered by both Tony Coffman, Oracle EPM Practice Director at Perficient and Rajesh Bhatia, VP of […]

Oracle/Hyperion has long been the standard-bearer for ease-of-use with financial reporting and analytics. Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (EPBCS) carries on this legacy with three main presentation components: Reports Print-quality reports are designed using Financial Reporting (FR) Web Studio. It is a web-based design tool that looks much like the current Financial Reporting […]

Wealth management firms that have embraced a comprehensive business intelligence (BI) program can: mitigate operational and regulatory challenges across the firm; gain visibility into investment analytics, client relationship management, performance reporting, compliance, and contact management; and generate more comprehensive management and client reports. On the other hand, wealth management firms with a more limited set […]

Last week Tesla launched the long awaited Model 3 sedan. Tesla has revolutionized the automotive industry with electric powered vehicles that includes self-driving technology. Self-driving is made possible with “collaborative robots”, making use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). How does this exciting launch by Tesla relate to Digital Transformation? What is RPA? Robotic Process Automation (RPA), […]

With the globalization of products and services in today’s business environment, many project teams find themselves in a decentralized execution model with their counterparts located in multiple locations worldwide. To ensure a smooth process from start to finish, there needs to be established guidance at the beginning of a project for all parties involved – […]

DevOps has come a long way in the past few years, evolving from a buzzword to a technical philosophy possessing a great deal of thought leadership. According to a recent survey of 300 enterprises by DigCert, adoption is occurring at an accelerated rate, finding that almost half (49 percent) of the respondents says they have […]

I thought it would be good idea to cover a new task I took on recently. SharePoint modern experience is a cool new end user experience update. With this new modern experience, we inherit a responsive SharePoint site, slick features and webparts that will cover your business use cases. And if not, SharePoint Framework has […]

Good day and greetings from the Financial Services area. For those who have read my previous blog entries, I would like to communicate a warm thank you and I hope to keep engaging your interest. Even though I post under the category of Financial Services, I try to find a balance between business sensibilities but […]

Mastering the digital customer experience remains top-of-mind for companies across all industries. According to Forrester, nine of 10 organizations work with outside vendors to implement (i.e., strategy, design, technology) their digital experience programs. Fortunately for you, and us, Forrester recently released its list of “the biggest and most important digital experience service providers.” Perficient, along […]

The Project module of Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (EPBCS) is designed to support financial planning and forecasting for contract, capital, and indirect projects. The platform integrates project management systems and financial planning to support the complete project planning lifecycle. It has four components: Projects Summary Provides a full project view – both […]