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If you talk to Governance practitioners, you will find that most believe or have realized that Governance is predominately a communication discipline. That is what I want to talk about in this blog entry. I touched on it in previous entries as we talked about what Governance is and ideas for how to go about […]

One of my most favorite traditions of Christmas is the singing of carols. Nothing brings out the joy of the season like music that inspires happiness, giving, and gratitude for the year that has been. My favorite song during the season is the “12 Days of Christmas” because of it’s fun approach to the holiday. […]

While it means different things to different people, digital transformation is a movement. According to the research firm Altimeter, the definition of digital transformation boils down to this: “The realignment of, or new investment in, technology and business models to more effectively engage digital customers at every touchpoint in the customer experience lifecycle.” Digital transformation […]

Even with the extraordinary popularity of Cloud Services, many clients still need to figure out how to get their hands on their data sets store into these services. There is no exception with Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS). Even with the reporting capabilities offered on this cloud service, there is still the need […]

In this blog series we examine BPM from multiple perspectives and you can find my last post Part 3 – The Perficient Approach here. Part 4 of our series looks at specific challenges faced by investor services firms in the client onboarding process. Unique Challenges in the Investor Services Industry Did you know that a […]

Now that December 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 November – they’re ranked in order of popularity, with number one being the most viewed piece. 10 Headlines That Suggest Donald Trump […]

We have become a digital society. We use mobile devices to guide us through rush hour traffic, to find a great new spot for lunch, to research recipes for dinner, to do our shopping, to track our exercise, to entertain, to connect with friends and family, and to wake us up the next morning to […]

A new report published by Ipsos MORI, a market research company, and VocaLink, a global payments partner to financial institutions and governments, indicates that European millennials are struggling to adopt mobile payment technology. While more than half of the ~4,000 millennials from Germany, Italy, UK, and the Netherlands that took part in the study exhibit deep […]

This week, we released Rise 2.1, the latest version upgrade of our Intranet-as-a-Service platform. This build is full of new features that improve architecture, administration, and the front-end experience, including:

One of the sessions which I attended at the Vertex Exchange Conference covered the upgrade of Oracle EBS from version 11i to version R12 – mostly from a tax perspective.  Some very good points were made, comparing and contrasting the differences in how tax is processed between 11i and R12, the design and limitations of […]

In my previous post, I wrote about things to consider when deciding whether to pursue Project Management Professional (PMP) certification. In today’s post, I’m going to share my approach to studying for the PMP exam and the challenges I faced in the process. Get Motivated The biggest challenge that I had in preparing for the […]

This Oracle Hyperion Smart View 11.1.2 for Planning (11.1.2.3) training teaches you how to use Smart View to enter, adjust and analyze Planning data. You learn how to annotate and predict data and use ad hoc tools to analyze data. Learn To: Navigate the Smart View interface. Connect to data sources. Enter, calculate and analyze […]