Operations

In a time in which research and development costs are at an all-time high, The Wall Street Journal just shared how pharmaceutical companies are starting to look for outside help to fund trials: everything from phase II all the way through the commercial phase. Partnering with private equity firms, such as NovaQuest and Avillion, is […]

At Perficient, our SupportNet team uses a variety of tools for analyzing logs across the Oracle applications. There are a number of different file formats, which often makes parsing logs troublesome. We have adopted use of regular expressions to help parse the variety of formats that we have to routinely analyze. “A regular expression (regex […]

As soon as a planning application is created or a BSO Essbase cube, dimensions are tagged as either dense or sparse. The dimension of the type Account and period are tagged as dense by default and all others are sparse. A sparse dimension is one with a low percentage of available data positions filled. A […]

For too long, digital transformation initiatives have focused solely on customer experience. But customer experience is just one half of a successful digital transformation strategy. Yes, external experiences must change to deliver new channels and personalized service, but internal operations and systems must also be transformed. Effective, modern, and digitized internal operations have countless internal […]

Few things encapsulate the growth of humanity as that of the modern home. Even though the building of homes hasn’t changed on the outside, the rise of IoT, mobile, and the cloud have transformed what happens on the inside. Even the ability to gauge your home’s air conditioning when you aren’t inside is an innovation […]

By now, it’s imperative that organizations who want to accelerate their innovation should be leveraging DevOps solutions in their toolchain. With a robust ecosystem that grows by the day however, choosing the right tools has become difficult. Notably, with each vendor offering their own messaging and intentions, IT leaders may be hard pressed to find […]

Financial services organizations such as banks, insurance organizations, and credit card issuers, are creating mobile applications that are not just focused on the products or services they’re selling. Instead, they’re using mobile as a way to get in front of customers and non-customers alike. At the end of the day, their belief, and rightly so, is that […]

Happy May Day! Now that May 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 April – they’re ranked in order of popularity, with number one being the most viewed piece. My Colleagues […]

In my previous blog posts (Part 1 and Part 2), I reviewed the steps to configure the system, so it will read the bank transaction codes. Now I will review the import and upload process, which is the final step in manually loading your bank statements. The process is very simple because it is similar […]

After reviewing Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS) documentation, I found a EPMAUTOMATE command that I consider to be useful for all developers and administrators. The “resetservice” command will restart PBCS instance clearing memory and it will help improve application performance. Oracle PBCS documentation: “Restarts the service instance. Use this command only when you observe […]

Every organization has a process for managing its data. It’s a must in today’s digital world. We all know this, but we also know that many organizations struggle with their data management processes. Especially those organizations that rely on common, multipurpose tools to do so. Email, phone calls, Excel spreadsheets, and ticketing systems can help facilitate the […]

Transformation initiatives require the development and implementation of strategies and technologies capable of delivering operational efficiency, reducing expenses, and increasing revenue. As an organization, you can commit to putting initiatives similar to the ones discussed here in place. It will require everyone, all the way to the CEO, to be on board and contribute where […]