Technical

Smart View 11.1.2.5.700 was released on Friday and brings a few new anticipated features. Here is a recap from the patch readme: You can now insert Planning forms as charts into Microsoft PowerPoint, giving you a graphical display of the information in the form. The Oracle Journals extension now supports opening Oracle Hyperion Financial Management […]

Gartner, a leading information technology research and advisory company, released the findings of its Worldwide IT Spending Forecast. The report, which is released quarterly, is an indicator of trends across a variety of markets, including data center systems, enterprise software, devices, IT services, and communication services. According to its latest forecast, Gartner projects that overall worldwide IT spending […]

Most of us know that the Informatica Normalizer transformation is being used to convert columns into multiple rows. But one of the limitations is that the occur clause in the Normalizer transformation is fixed for all the input rows from the source. For example, if the requirement is to generate n number of rows for […]

A recognition, especially among the practitioners themselves, is that effective change management is the key to successful governance. It is still an elusive and challenging function, but its placement as the critical success factor of a governance program is becoming more and more apparent. While all of the data-as-information points so far are relevant, the […]

The United States is known for massive innovation across sectors, especially in the pharmaceutical arena. According to the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, in 2015 member companies of the advocacy organization invested more than $58 billion in research and development, making the pharmaceutical industry the largest investor in research and development of any sector. […]

The average user creates more data through their social media usage and buying habits, offering organizations a critical opportunity in delivering better customer experiences. According to Forbes contributor Bernard Marr, every human will create 1.7 megabytes of data per second by 2020, representing a significant challenge for organizations unsure about customer data today. For many […]

In this second post, of a two-part blog post highlighting the Q&A session of a recent Perficient webinar, Orthofix Improves its Financial Close and Consolidations with Oracle Cloud (ARCS & FCCS), we learn a little bit more about the Orthofix environment and implementation. Can you automate the load of GL data into Account Reconciliation Cloud […]

Integration is the most critical and painful piece of achieving technology goals, whether those focus on customer experience, business operations, or mobile functionality. And according to Matt Calkins, founder and CEO of Appian, in his keynote this morning as Appian World 2017 kicked off, we’re on the verge of a “renaissance of integration.” An age […]

Robotic automations can be used to automate the routine tasks which are repeated in a workflow. Pega robotics adds the ability to automate tasks using the user interface of existing applications. It can help speed up manual tasks by automating user actions. Automations are created in Pega Robotic Studio. The latest version available is 8.0 […]

Today’s cybersecurity climate necessitates a sound understanding of security risks across your enterprise IT infrastructure from threats both outside and inside your organization. While outside threats seem to be the most worrisome and probably account for the majority of attempted attacks, according to SpectorSoft insider attacks cost companies a combined $40 billion in 2013. Most organizations […]

As a marketing manager at Perficient, I have the unique opportunity to work on the latest and greatest in technologies. For my role specifically, I straddle the latest innovations in Cloud and DevOps in addition to portal and collaboration technologies. Both industries are uniquely positioned to support each other to enable organizations to work collaboratively […]

I remember the first time I developed a website during the dot-com boom in the late 1990s. I was a fourth grader at Williams Elementary School, going to school among many fellow classmates who had parents in the technology industry. Sensing that their students might one day be part of this wave, our teachers put […]