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As a Perficienite, I have been involved in ISO27001, SSAE-16 and HIPAA assessments and have learned the need for information security. I would like to give back my knowledge and awareness to all in a more palatable form without the jargon. This blog is the result. This blog is intended to develop awareness on general […]

Traditional technology platforms are experiencing massive upheaval with the arrival of new platforms around cloud, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. With monolithic infrastructure falling out of favor, traditional vendors have been forced to pivot and adjust, or face the prospect of going obsolete. One of the areas facing great change is business process management (BPM). […]

This morning, Perficient announced that it acquired Clarity Consulting, a $27 million Microsoft Gold partner and the developer of Clarity Connect. The company offers premier products and services that leverage Skype for Business as a communication platform, which allow companies to significantly reduce costs and complexities within their IT environments. Clarity has deep expertise in […]

Office 365 is an outstanding enterprise platform with multiple best-of-breed solutions such as Office, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, Exchange Online, Skype for Business, Yammer, Delve, Microsoft Teams, Flow, PowerApps and more. Office 365 is our go-to platform for the modern intranet due to the wide variety of tools and broad capabilities that it offers. There is […]

Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud Service (FCCS) is the latest evolution of Oracle’s market-leading Financial Close Suite. What makes it different than Hyperion Financial Management (HFM)? A lot! Join us for a side-by-side review of FCCS and HFM. If you’re a customer of Hyperion Enterprise, HFM, or non-Oracle financial reporting packages evaluating alternative solutions, […]

Last week, our own Ronda Kiser-Oakes and IBM’s Greg Wunderle sat down to discuss how DevOps helps innovative enterprises accelerate their time to deployment. As more enterprises plan to adopt by the end of the year, many executives are exploring migration, collaboration, and business plans to create the most successful outcomes. Below is a brief […]

Routine internal and independent audits can provide insight into sales trends and unusual activity, ensure that the right risk management checks are in place, and provide an opportunity for process improvement. Internal teams can be comprised of individuals from various committees in the company, such as regulatory and compliance, corporate responsibility, employee relations, human resources, […]

Even though my father had been a software engineer for nearly three decades, he still ignored the need to own a smartphone. “I want to be contacted on my own terms”, he’d tell me, preferring that friends and associates call him on my family’s home line. He was adamant about his disinterest in jumping over […]

Financial Statements – Balance Sheet, Income Statement, and Cash Flow Statement – are generated after completing the accounting period end close process. Proper design of Account hierarchy has always been the effective means of creating Balance Sheets and Income Statements. In Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud Service (FCCS), Movement dimension was designed to facilitate […]

Don’t you wish you had data to evaluate the efficiency of your period-end close process? Wouldn’t it be nice to know where the bottlenecks are? We live in a high-tech world, but it is not surprising to see large companies still using whiteboards to monitor progress of their accounting close process. Period-end close tasks are […]

When planning an out-of-town vacation, do you diligently ensure that you have someone lined up to water your plants, feed your goldfish, and keep an eye on your home?   What about your Hyperion environment? Do you hire a managed services provider to take care of your systems and watch over your applications while you are […]

Oracle has announced some exciting changes coming to the EPM Cloud in the July to August time frame. If you are headed to Kscope 17 in San Antonio, Texas, be sure to attend the Sunday Symposium to catch Oracle’s live demo of cross-pod integration. What Is Cross-Pod Integration? When I use the term “pod,” I […]