Technical

CIOs and technology teams play critical roles in driving organizational success by providing guidance around infrastructure acquisition, product innovation, and process flow. As the market evolves in response to changing customer tastes, leaders must respond accordingly to remain relevant in the market. As digital transformation initiatives take priority in boardrooms, one area that is growing […]

Earlier this year Amazon announced Connect, a new contact center service available within AWS. Amazon Connect offers the ability to set up a cloud based call center and start routing calls within minutes. Making use of configurable hours of operation, queue capacity settings and custom routing profiles Connect makes it easy to ensure callers will […]

Over on our Twitter handle, we have compiled a list of DevOps influencers, professionals who document, comment, and lead the charge on transforming innovation. Here’s what a few of them have been saying this summer.   Insights from DevOps Days Excellent working environments with minimal process: @duretti tells us about truths about team dynamics. #devopsdays […]

The dog days of summer have arrived, which mean longer days, warm sun, and relaxation. While you might be taking some days off, your technology infrastructure will not. Research firm Gartner recently indicated a revision in their worldwide IT spending prediction for 2017, pinning the number at $3.5 trillion, a 2.4% increase from near flat […]

The business intelligence (BI) industry has been plagued with poor user adoption for years and has a huge failure rate among companies. Here are some of the reasons why. Product is challenging to use: When a BI tool is not designed for business users, such as financial advisors and client associates who are primarily non-technical […]

A recent Perficient webinar, Oracle FCCS: A Deep Dive, held a captive audience for the Q&A session well beyond the top of the hour. In the second of a two-part blog post, I share the highlights of questions asked by attendees and answered by both Tony Coffman, Oracle EPM Practice Director at Perficient, and Rajesh Bhatia, […]

A recent Perficient webinar, Oracle FCCS: A Deep Dive, held a captive audience for the Q&A session well beyond the top of the hour. In this two-part blog post, I’ll share the highlights of questions asked by attendees and answered by both Tony Coffman, Oracle EPM Practice Director at Perficient and Rajesh Bhatia, VP of […]

The other day a client asked me how they could exclude specific user-related pages (e.g. login, registration, and change password pages) from being indexed and showing up in search results. The No Index Field in the Content Editor is a great way to accomplish this without slowing down your indexing operations.

Oracle/Hyperion has long been the standard-bearer for ease-of-use with financial reporting and analytics. Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (EPBCS) carries on this legacy with three main presentation components: Reports Print-quality reports are designed using Financial Reporting (FR) Web Studio. It is a web-based design tool that looks much like the current Financial Reporting […]

  CIOs and technology teams play critical roles in driving organizational success by providing guidance around infrastructure acquisition, product innovation, and process flow. As the market evolves in response to changing customer tastes, leaders must respond accordingly to remain relevant in the market. As digital transformation initiatives take priority in boardrooms, one area that is […]

The main public cloud providers have demonstrated success at keeping their services resilient and available, showing no signs of buckling under attack. Nonetheless, the risk of attacks and downtime are always present and costly. Moreover, the cloud reduces the scope of required traditional security work, but doesn’t eliminate it. Moving workloads to the cloud doesn’t […]

While cloud computing is an accepted strategy for most organizations, many have still not made the move due to the sheer number of applications and data that require migration. Additionally, there are more tools than ever that make the migration process possible, creating additional difficulties for platform selection. One of the leading cloud migration platforms […]