Technical

BPM traditionally has been a whiteboard where you can build your solutions with a pallet of tools to map out your process, but as Digital Transformation is evolving how companies conduct business, BPM is evolving too. So how do you reap benefits of BPM to expedite your digital transformation vision?  This post will briefly explain […]

Gathering requirements is crucial for a project to succeed; therefore, documents must be precise, measurable, clear, and understandable. Gathering requirements for developers is a process that will determine the success of the project. In order to achieve the goal of any IT project, every team must be on the same page. Teams that usually are […]

The popularization of DevOps in 2017 opened a completely new world for technology companies looking to innovate. The wide availability of microservices, APIs, and cloud automation technologies not only accelerates the path to innovation but also creates numerous opportunities to capitalize on industries that have long stayed stagnant. Though many of our customers reside in […]

In part one and part two of this series I addressed two of the three methods I identified that can be used on PBCS to extract data from the command line and scheduled to run without user interaction. In this third and final post of the series, I will explain how to extract data using […]

The first blog post in this series, How to Extract Data from Planning Budget Cloud Service (PBCS), covered data extraction using the native data export PBCS functionality. Continuing with this series, I’ll describe the second method to extract data from an Oracle PBCS instance. Each method has its advantages and disadvantages. This post will focus on […]

For years, I have used either Oracle Virtual Box or VMWare Workstation for creating test servers so I could spend quality time with new versions of the Oracle EPM software.  This has required me to maintain a rather expensive and bulky workstation class laptop.  A high-end laptop capable of running a virtual machine with 4 […]

As you ramp up your development activities for the year, you may notice that there are numerous platforms to choose from as far as development capabilities are concerned. Though each may tout the cloud as their value proposition, there are also other considerations to have in mind including uptime, storage, and security. One of the […]

The issue: Index not updating properly A while back I ran into an issue where the index on the CD server was not updating correctly.   I checked the EventQueue table and the event existed to update the index but it just wasn’t happening.   I cleared the EventQueue table and tried again but in some cases […]

HFM/FDMEE have been successfully replacing spreadsheets to achieve efficiency and accuracy during month end close. It is rarely discussed that HFM/FDMEE have also successfully replaced other systems used for consolidation and reporting. In one of our recent implementations, our client previously acquired a large group of companies based in Asia Pacific which had been using […]

Integration is king; long live integration. In some ways, this may be one of the more obvious trends. If you want to deliver a great customer experience, you have to both know something about this person interacting with you and provide key transaction(s). Both of these elements drive the need for integration. Let me give you […]

When building an HFM application, one of the application settings is Node Security which is either Parent or Entity. What is the difference between these two choices? Selecting “Entity” means that user access is defined strictly by entity security while “Parent” means that user access considers Parent security. To illustrate assume the following: The user […]

The pomp and circumstance of the New Year has worn off and many of us are back at work. As we look to the year ahead, excitement abounds with the expectations and hopes for what technology and innovation will bring us including predictions. Last year was a banner year for DevOps as the philosophy gained […]