Posts Tagged ‘cloud’

In release 11, Oracle delivers Manufacturing Cloud. This is a huge release for Oracle at Oracle OpenWorld 2015, and all of the functionality will be revealed during conference sessions. In this video, Samantha German, Practice Leader, Cloud ERP at Perficient, delivers a 30,000-foot view of Cloud SCM, the applications that will be available, the product […]

Gone are the days when several spreadsheets, pen and paper, and calculators are needed to reconcile financial reports. A common challenge in financial reporting is validating that what gets reported on executive dashboards matches with more detailed financial statements and transaction level reporting. What aggravates this endeavor is the fact that executive level dashboards are […]

  Last week, Perficient announced that it purchased Rise Foundation, a pre-configured and enhanced version of Microsoft SharePoint, from Blue Rooster. Rise Foundation provides companies with an intranet solution that has the look and feel users expect in today’s digital world. In addition to the impressive UI, the solution enables companies to be more productive […]

Moving your data to the cloud is not a trivial task, not only from technical standpoint but even from user adoption and business justification. Every organization deal with their challenges in different ways, some take the route of implementing least disruptive workload like exchange (mail) and some go with higher business impact workload like SharePoint Online. Which ever route […]

  I recently read an article from McKinsey & Company about the digital revolution that needs to occur in order for the life sciences industry to be successful in today’s age. This is the same digital revolution that helped transform other industries, such as financial and retail. Like I mentioned in one of my previous blog […]

Interested to get a closer look at how quick-to-deploy and scale-able Oracle BI Cloud Service is? Meet us at Oracle Open World on Oct 29th, for a best practices and case study of CPI Card Group, a leading provider in payment card production and services. Tyler Wilson of CPI Card Group will join me in telling […]

In this six-minute video, Perficient’s Cloud ERP practice leader, Samantha German, covers the critical five steps to begin a successful cloud implementation. The first of a five-part weekly series. Watch it and share.

“The Future ain’t What It Used to be.” – Yogi Berra 70% of all computing workloads will take place in the cloud by 2025, according to Oracle CEO Mark Hurd, who was speaking at a CFO Summit in Paris earlier this week. Cloud computing, he said, represents “a more material change for this industry than […]

  These days, it appears as if most of the big contract research organizations (CROs) are using Siebel CTMS, Oracle’s clinical trial management system. In June of this year, I wrote about Quintiles’ use of Oracle Health Sciences applications, including Siebel CTMS. Now we’re talking about PPD, another top-5 CRO. 

Business optimization is all about making investments that will reduce costs while driving efficiency and productivity, and the cloud is a big part of that, because it enables organizations to move quickly and achieve more, while spending less. 42% of IT decision makers planned to increase spending on cloud computing this year, according to Computerworld. […]

You already collect data on your prospects and customers. Your prospects and customers expect you to use this data. In today’s digital marketing world, you don’t need to be afraid to use the data you collect to personalize a message to your audience. You need to think of your audience list as a collection of […]

When will we see a significant footprint established by Oracle in the Production-Server hosting realm for Cloud Services? Not anytime soon. However, Oracle, albeit recently, has realized the potential of an almost non-existent market in the Cloud Services division. The integration of Hyperion Financial Management on Cloud Services has the potential to become the next […]