Technical

Lloyds Banking Group, a company with 30 million customers under several brands including Lloyds Bank, Bank of Scotland, and Halifax, has put forth additional cost-saving measures to help the company weather poor economic conditions and better meet customer expectations. On top of the 9,000 jobs and 200 retail branches the bank outlined to eliminate in […]

Here, we’ll cover the ability to use ODI for one its basic features: extracting data from Essbase and using the exported file to load to a table. It turns out that ODI was not recognizing the file generated by Essbase. Let’s see what we were missing: We have a calc script exporting level 0 data from […]

Clients often ask the question: Is it better to use Oracle Hyperion Smart View or Financial Reporting? The short answer is, why not use both? By understanding both Smart View and Financial Reporting, you can present the same data and the same financial reports. However, each bring a unique set of capabilities to the user. […]

Now that April 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 March – they’re ranked in order of popularity, with number one being the most viewed piece. Oh My, Where Has The Time Gone? […]

(What is it?) Mapping Architect for Visio is an Informatica power center client which is used to create mapping templates using Microsoft office Visio. (Why?) Mapping templates created using Visio work  as a sketch of PowerCenter mapping which offers reliability and improves efficiency in: Defining principles or rules that determines how specific procedures or methods can […]

Technology refreshes in the era of the cloud are a perfect time to modernize technology applications, particularly in high impact industries including healthcare, finance, and education. However, technology refreshes have generally been a headache given the options and commitment, the cloud has significantly reduced stress levels for technology leaders. This was the challenge of one […]

Cost reduction remains a priority among financial institutions. Aside from re-negotiating contracts with vendors, consolidating IT applications is an ongoing trend in the industry. When speaking on the topic of expense reductions, Ralph W. Babb, chairman and CEO of Comerica, said, “We will enhance our technology capabilities, while reducing our overall spend by optimizing our […]

In many businesses, customers are using IBM Integration Bus which is required to be integrated with different technologies/platform like TIBCO, Java, Mainframe and etc. These customers need MQ server with non-IBM messaging platforms to provide messaging solution for enterprise applications. This blog explains how TIBCO Business works application communicates with IBM Integration Bus. Scenario: TIBCO […]

According to Pew Research, nearly three-quarters of Americans now own a smartphone, double from just six years ago. Among the younger 18-to-29 demographic, nearly nine in ten own a smartphone, signifying its ubiquity. No matter the age group, smartphones have become a key communication device, used for everything from capturing life’s most important moments to […]

Results from the National Financial Capability Study (NFCS) were released in July, 2016 by the FINRA Investor Education Foundation (FINRA Foundation). The findings, which include data from more than 27,000 U.S. adults, reiterate the importance of providing people with financial education to help them better manage their money. According to an infographic that depicts the study’s results, “Absolute levels […]

I am often asked by clients to create reports that display alternating shaded rows. We’ve all been there, squinting away trying to view those tiny numbers crammed onto a single report. Too often we find ourselves relying upon a ruler to help follow the values across the row as the columns continue to grow across […]

How to Connect UI to a Salesforce Backend Working with a Visualforce page and its MVC pattern is very powerful when it comes to bind the data from the standard and custom Salesforce objects, but for creating a single page application that provides a better UX and kind of and app look and feel rather […]