Technical

In the early 2000s, a car that could diagnose itself and send real-time data to the manufacturer or to emergency services seemed far-fetched. So was a home device that could play music or order virtually anything online based on your voice commands. Also on that list of “crazy” ideas: an alarm clock that could notify […]

Properly trained employees can help keep companies regulatory-compliant, increase sales, and gain the trust of customers and prospects. Financial services companies should have established standard operating procedures and training materials for all levels of employees, with oversight by managers. These training materials should stress the importance of ethical practices and provide employees with clear details […]

Taking an application from innovation to idea can result in numerous hours of downloading, compiling, installing, configuring, and connecting all types of components – all on a single server instance. Not only can this be a waste of time, but it also takes away from innovating and taking the application to market. Instead of downloading […]

A new report released by eMarketer highlights the digital ad spending outlook and trends among financial services companies, including insurance, commercial banks, credit agencies, consumer finance companies, business credit institutions, and credit card agencies. It also includes companies engaged in the underwriting, purchase, sale or brokerage of securities and other financial contracts. The US Financial […]

To start testing Salesforce SOAP API with SoapUI, follow the quick steps below: Register a Salesforce developer account. Make sure to register a developer edition account from https://developer.salesforce.com/signup   Do not register from www.salesforce.com, as you won’t be able to ‘generate wsdls’ which will be needed in the next step. Reset Salesforce Security Token Login to the developer […]

Customer onboarding is one of the most important and scrutinized processes in financial services. Companies continuously refine their processes in an attempt to make customer acquisition more effective. How can they enroll customers fast enough to avoid application abandonment, while having enough safety measures in place to minimize potential risk? Enhanced new account opening processes […]

Gartner introduced the term Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) as “a suite of cloud services enabling development, execution and governance of integration flows connecting any combination of on premises and cloud-based processes, services, applications and data within individual or across multiple organizations”. iPaaS includes many of the following features: Integration flows that connect applications […]

Human civilization has experienced upheaval throughout history, from the Industrial Revolution to the Iron, Stone, and Bronze Ages. In each of these eras, human productivity and living changed drastically, influencing how humans work, live, and play. As we head towards the first quarter of the 21st century, the new revolution on hand exists in the […]

Our past blogs have discussed the importance of culture transformation in DevOps. After all, organizations looking to change the direction of innovation also must take their employees with them. Being able to do so requires a general mastery of soft skills in communication and collaboration. There are numerous ways to facilitate soft skills within a […]

HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) sets the standard for protecting sensitive patient data.  HIPAA and PHI (Protected Health Information) have a number of guidelines to ensure that the sensitive information is protected and secured, which is very crucial for the healthcare industry. AWS is a secured cloud service platform. It offers computing power, […]

“CLOUD! CLOUD! CLOUD!” Oracle offers TWO Planning applications on the cloud: PBCS and EPBCS. The following blog will describe the differences between the two and how Perficient can demonstrate the differences by attending our Planning Create & Manage class in Houston. First off, I am sure most of you are wondering, what do those acronyms […]

How many times have you encountered clients who asked that their consolidated financial statements be in more than one currency? FCCS has a built in solution to meet this request. Currencies in FCCS have 2 major properties: Reporting Currency and Triangulation Currency. These properties play a major role in translation and consolidation. Reporting Currency For […]