A recent survey of 1,900 finance leaders released by Oracle and Intel reveals that the CFO/CIO alignment is more important than ever as cloud is viewed as a key strategy to transform their business. The survey, included in a report titled Modern Finance: Driving Transformation from Within, found that: “45% of finance leaders say they’re […]
Operations
Spring Boot Actuator – Application Monitoring Made Easy
Spring Boot Actuator helps you manage and monitor your applications using various way like HTTP, JMX and SSH. It allows you to monitor various aspects of your application. Actuator exposes various endpoint to provides different details about environment and application. Following are the endpoints exposed. All the endpoint can be accessed using <host>:port/endpoint for e.g. […]
FBDI: AutoInvoice
The use of the AutoInvoice FBDI is helpful for Accounts Receivable personnel that want to import invoices in mass quantities and/or want the system to validate the data they are importing. One key thing to remember in regards to the FBDI tool is that the data won’t be imported to the desired subledger unless all […]
3 Ways To Bank On Your Phone (And How They Compare)
There are many ways to bank. You can call your financial institution on the phone, go to the nearest brick-and-mortar branch, or hop online. While these are the most traditional ways of banking, there’s another option that’s quickly growing in popularity: mobile apps. As we mention in one of our guides, mobile banking raked in […]
FBDI: Helpful Tips
Oracle has provided Fusion users and consultants with the File Based Data Import (FBDI) tool, which allows them to key in mass quantities of information at once. This is a handy tool because even though there are integrated spreadsheets available within each subledger application, none allow for uploading of more than 100 lines. Sometimes, as […]
5 Keys to Intranet Adoption
If you build an intranet, they will come. You’ve done everything right when building your company’s new intranet: You’ve delivered on time and under budget. It has all the right content. But no one is using it. How do you make sure that your investment in your company’s intranet is worth it?
Protecting You And Your Clients Through Technology And Strategy
Every industry experiences cybercrime, but probably none more than financial services, at an average annualized cost of $13.5 million. If you look at the Breach Level Index, you will notice that some type of security breach occurs at financial institutions almost daily. These breaches can involve anywhere from a handful of records to tens of […]
How Vanguard Wins Over Customers Without Even Meeting Them
As a long-time customer of Vanguard, I can attest to their great way of doing business. While I’ve never set foot into an office of theirs, the financial services company – one of the world’s largest investment management companies – was able to gain my trust and, without much effort, convince me to enlist them […]
Pharmas And CROs: Collaborate In The Cloud With SharePoint 2016
While patients continue to need life-saving drugs and devices, pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers, and contract research organizations (CROs) are under immense pressure to develop products quickly without sacrificing quality, efficacy, or safety. Not only are these companies expected to deliver therapies faster than ever, they are expected to make them more affordable. Faced with […]
Bank With High CX Score Mentions “Customers” More
As I mentioned in a previous blog post, Michael Porter, a colleague of mine, was live-blogging at last week’s Forrester CXNYC event, a conference for customer experience leaders, innovators, and practitioners. During one of the presentations he attended, George F. Colony, the CEO of Forrester, discussed how customer experience has become the most critical barrier […]
Top 5 Life Sciences Blog Posts From June 2016
Now that July 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 June – they’re ranked in order of popularity, with number one being the most viewed piece. Pfizer Says “Yes” To Oracle What Is […]
Fusion Expenses R11 – Booking Trips with Ease
Booking trips through the Oracle Internet Expenses is a quick and efficient process for just about anyone that uses it. Oracle has partnered with the GetThere travel booking partner to ensure that users have a simplified experience. When companies purchase this feature, they inform the implementation team of the travel agency or site they prefer […]