Posts Tagged ‘enterprise performance management’

The management reporting processes at various companies have significant limitations in meeting key expectations. Typical shortcomings are across three areas: * Impactful and timely reporting that forms the basis for proper decision making * Advanced analysis of the latest business metrics and future trends * Accurate business forecast to allow for effective planning This is […]

In today’s corporate America few executives and finance leaders fully grasp the benefits of developing an effective and streamlined corporate cost allocation process. Corporate allocations, when implemented correctly, can provide tremendous insights into the profitability of business segments, customers, and products. This knowledge can then help business unit leaders realign resources within the company, thereby […]

On Monday afternoon, comedian Don McMillian addressed the crowd of developers and other Oracle users at the 2015 Kscope conference. Focusing on technology’s extremes and absurdities (real or not) has become McMillian’s brand, as seen in this post from earlier this year. In personal communications, especially online, most people aren’t very concerned about sound grammar […]

That image makes budgeting even seem fun, right? I can think of myself perched up on a thick fluffy cloud crunching numbers. Well honestly … I’m not sure that budgeting is ever fun but we now have the combination of the industry leading budgeting solution, Oracle Hyperion Planning, available in the cloud. As I mentioned […]

As Oracle customers, partners, and developers head to Hollywood (Florida, that is) for ODTUG’s 2015 Kscope conference, the key topics include strategic approaches to analytics and equity management, with two sessions featuring Perficient experts. “When it comes to enterprise intelligence, there are numerous data sources to oversee. The challenge lies in sifting through what’s significant […]

Some of the most common questions we get from customers considering a move to PBCS is how interfaces will work.  For example: Can the Cloud Service be deployed with another on-premises application? How can the Oracle PBCS interfaces be automated? The answers to these questions lie within the EPM File Transfer Utility and the EPM […]

Streamlining data to meet a multitude of challenges, from regulatory compliance and reimbursement management to delivering quality care to their patients across the care continuum is a constant priority within hospitals today. As an Oracle PartnerNetwork member, Perficient is among the initial partners participating in Oracle Validated Integration with Oracle Enterprise Healthcare Analytics delivering advanced […]

With an increase in the adoption of cloud applications by large corporations, most organizations today are in some form of hybrid state i.e. they are using a combination of both on-premise as well as cloud applications to run their business. Regardless of where the applications maintain their data, organizations need the ability to see a […]

With the recent release of EPM suite 11.1.2.4, it’s no big surprise that Data Relationship Management (DRM) becomes an integration tool used with Planning and Budget Cloud Service (PBCS) as Oracle continues to push cloud computing. Hierarchies, nodes and properties can now be shared between DRM and PBCS by using Web interface or the EPM […]

Many companies struggle with creating effective, insightful budgets and forecasts. The existing processes for creating budgets and forecasts are often highly inefficient and outdated. Throughout my consulting career, I have come across several consistent mistakes that most companies make when setting up their planning, budgeting and forecasting processes. What I am sharing in this blog […]

Like many of us, I have run into several essbase errors while creating/testing/implementing new applications and scripts.   Some of the errors have useful information in the log files or the error code’s description clearly reveals where the error lies, but there are those codes which provide little to no information or the accompanying error message […]

Help! My Menus in Hyperion Workspace are crammed on top of one another!! Disclaimer – If stacked menus don’t bug you, this blog is not for you.  True story – the other day I logged into a client’s workspace and my drop down menus were all on top of each other! My colleague was […]