Operations

Today’s cybersecurity climate necessitates a sound understanding of security risks across your enterprise IT infrastructure from threats both outside and inside your organization. While outside threats seem to be the most worrisome and probably account for the majority of attempted attacks, according to SpectorSoft insider attacks cost companies a combined $40 billion in 2013. Most organizations […]

As a marketing manager at Perficient, I have the unique opportunity to work on the latest and greatest in technologies. For my role specifically, I straddle the latest innovations in Cloud and DevOps in addition to portal and collaboration technologies. Both industries are uniquely positioned to support each other to enable organizations to work collaboratively […]

I remember the first time I developed a website during the dot-com boom in the late 1990s. I was a fourth grader at Williams Elementary School, going to school among many fellow classmates who had parents in the technology industry. Sensing that their students might one day be part of this wave, our teachers put […]

Lloyds Banking Group, a company with 30 million customers under several brands including Lloyds Bank, Bank of Scotland, and Halifax, has put forth additional cost-saving measures to help the company weather poor economic conditions and better meet customer expectations. On top of the 9,000 jobs and 200 retail branches the bank outlined to eliminate in […]

Here, we’ll cover the ability to use ODI for one its basic features: extracting data from Essbase and using the exported file to load to a table. It turns out that ODI was not recognizing the file generated by Essbase. Let’s see what we were missing: We have a calc script exporting level 0 data from […]

Clients often ask the question: Is it better to use Oracle Hyperion Smart View or Financial Reporting? The short answer is, why not use both? By understanding both Smart View and Financial Reporting, you can present the same data and the same financial reports. However, each bring a unique set of capabilities to the user. […]

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. Oh My, Where Has The Time Gone? […]

Cost reduction remains a priority among financial institutions. Aside from re-negotiating contracts with vendors, consolidating IT applications is an ongoing trend in the industry. When speaking on the topic of expense reductions, Ralph W. Babb, chairman and CEO of Comerica, said, “We will enhance our technology capabilities, while reducing our overall spend by optimizing our […]

Results from the National Financial Capability Study (NFCS) were released in July, 2016 by the FINRA Investor Education Foundation (FINRA Foundation). The findings, which include data from more than 27,000 U.S. adults, reiterate the importance of providing people with financial education to help them better manage their money. According to an infographic that depicts the study’s results, “Absolute levels […]

I am often asked by clients to create reports that display alternating shaded rows. We’ve all been there, squinting away trying to view those tiny numbers crammed onto a single report. Too often we find ourselves relying upon a ruler to help follow the values across the row as the columns continue to grow across […]

SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) is a XML-based open standard format to exchange authentication and authorization data between an identity provider (IdP) and a service provider (SP). A SAML-enabled web application allows browser single sign-on (SSO). We have had success implementing SSO for our clients with Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) as the identity provider […]

A recent Perficient webinar, Orthofix Improves its Financial Close and Consolidations with Oracle Cloud (ARCS & FCCS), held a captive audience for a solid 20 minute Q&A session. In this two-part blog post, I’ll share the highlights of questions asked by attendees and answered by both Perficient and Orthofix. Why did you choose the Cloud […]