Technical

A theme commonly supported and increasing in characteristic for many of our partners is that of open source. A movement started in the late 1990s, open source software originally began with the intent of software developers learning from each other and ultimately the release of the Netscape Browser (and eventually others including Mozilla Firefox). Today, […]

This guest blog post was authored by Alfresco’s Raphael Allegre Complying with regulations and acquiring new customers were identified as the top 2 challenges facing the retail banking industry in a recent global survey  conducted by PwC.  Regulatory Compliance Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Basel II, Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOx), OMB A-123, Data Privacy, Consumer Privacy, Check 21, SAS […]

Cyber attacks are increasing at an alarming rate and like any other piece of software, APIs can also be compromised by these hack attacks. Since we use APIs to integrate our applications with third-parties, and APIs expose valuable back end services and applications, the applications can also come under security threats. If your gateway is […]

Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud Service (FCCS) is the latest evolution of Oracle’s market-leading Financial Close Suite. What makes it different than Hyperion Financial Management (HFM)? A lot! Join us for a side-by-side review of FCCS and HFM. If you’re a customer of Hyperion Enterprise, HFM, or non-Oracle financial reporting packages evaluating alternative solutions, […]

Last week, our own Ronda Kiser-Oakes and IBM’s Greg Wunderle sat down to discuss how DevOps helps innovative enterprises accelerate their time to deployment. As more enterprises plan to adopt by the end of the year, many executives are exploring migration, collaboration, and business plans to create the most successful outcomes. Below is a brief […]

In the age of smartphones, self-driving cars, SQL-less databases and marketing driven by artificial intelligence, it’s easy to forget how old some of the tried-and-true software we interact with every day really is. You may be able to pay your credit card bill from your phone, but somewhere along the line, there’s a good chance […]

Routine internal and independent audits can provide insight into sales trends and unusual activity, ensure that the right risk management checks are in place, and provide an opportunity for process improvement. Internal teams can be comprised of individuals from various committees in the company, such as regulatory and compliance, corporate responsibility, employee relations, human resources, […]

Even though my father had been a software engineer for nearly three decades, he still ignored the need to own a smartphone. “I want to be contacted on my own terms”, he’d tell me, preferring that friends and associates call him on my family’s home line. He was adamant about his disinterest in jumping over […]

Fresh of its $13.7 billion dollar acquisition of grocery chain Whole Foods, Amazon received some more good news over the weekend: Amazon Web Services (AWS) was once again named a visionary in research firm Gartner’s Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Magic Quadrant. A leader and a pioneer in the cloud space, Amazon’s recognition is its 10th consecutive, fresh […]

Financial Statements – Balance Sheet, Income Statement, and Cash Flow Statement – are generated after completing the accounting period end close process. Proper design of Account hierarchy has always been the effective means of creating Balance Sheets and Income Statements. In Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close Cloud Service (FCCS), Movement dimension was designed to facilitate […]

Don’t you wish you had data to evaluate the efficiency of your period-end close process? Wouldn’t it be nice to know where the bottlenecks are? We live in a high-tech world, but it is not surprising to see large companies still using whiteboards to monitor progress of their accounting close process. Period-end close tasks are […]

In this article we will examine the rationale and steps to assess your integration architecture using industry analysts’ perspectives. If you question the need for a robust integration architecture, consider that both Gartner and Forrester stress integration as critical to a digital transformation and the running of a digital business. According to the Gartner report […]