The current issue of HFMA’s Healthcare Cost Containment newsletter reports that “Labor Cost Transparency” has surpassed “Healthcare Legislation and Mandates” as the biggest driver of healthcare costs according to more than 40% of CEO, CFO and other C-suite executives from more than 112 hospitals and health systems – a shift from six months ago.1 Costing […]
Posts Tagged ‘enterprise performance management’
Perficient High-Performance Costing Expressway at #OOW14
The Perficient High-Performance Costing Expressway is powered by Oracle’s Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management as the costing engine and includes key data integrations to the Oracle Enterprise Health Analytics data model for data acquisition from the data warehouse. We also equip the solution with baseline cost mappings to get started. See the recent costing webinar […]
Modern Budgeting & Forecasting Has Arrived – Are you Ready?
The recent departure of Walgreen’s CFO due to a large forecasting variance error, is a drastic reminder to all of us who have dedicated their careers to financial transformation, of the intense criticality of mastering the entire cycle of planning, budgeting, forecasting and reporting. 15 years ago when I started consulting with finance and accounting […]
De-mystifying the budgeting process #OOW14
This week, my colleagues within the Perficient Enterprise Performance Management team will be discussing Rapidly Deploying Budgeting and Forecasting with Oracle and Perficient on Wednesday, September 17, 2014 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT. Join the webinar to listen in! As I mentioned in my Blog: The good ‘ole budgeting days are back!, this solution […]
The good ‘ole budgeting days are back!
My … how times are changing … back to what they once were! I guess it has something to do with living long enough to experience things, but budgeting with Oracle’s exceptional world class platform Hyperion Planning solution is now available in the cloud. This means that both new and existing Hyperion Planning customers of […]
Combining Clinical and Financial Data for Cost Management
Terie McClintock, Director at Perficient, wrote an interesting blog post about the importance of merging clinical and financial data. Assembling this data requires a robust technical architecture that easily stores the data relationships with contextual integrity along with the ability to resolve patient or person identity. Once the data is assembled, leaders of the organization […]
Workforce Budgeting via Oracle’s Public Sector Planning
Many public sector planning organizations struggle with common challenges during their planning and budgeting process. Inadequate tools for tracking expenses by Fund, Program, Project, or Activity Existing systems prone to mistakes No process control Fragile, easy to break Difficult to generate reports Oracle’s Hyperion Public Sector planning application is a great fit for preparing workforce […]
Cross Dimension Validation
Or…How do I assure my users pick the correct Entity / Cost Center combination? The Situation: Planning 11.1.2.1 Client has an Entity and a Cost Center dimension End users primarily use Data Forms for data entry The Cost Centers are setup such that they begin with the Entity and then have a 6 digit code. […]
Where is this Hyperion product located in the Oracle stack?
Where is this Hyperion product located in the Oracle stack? Though it had been years now since the Oracle Hyperion acquisition, it is very hard for me to keep up and understand the oracle stack with respect to Hyperion. Yes I admit I have a very poor memory; I revisit Oracle websites many times to […]
Oracle Hyperion Planning – Learning Path
After your purchase of Oracle Hyperion Planning, you are now ready to follow a curriculum geared towards your job role: business user, administrator, or IT support. Each learning path is tailored to meet your specific training needs. Planning Business Users are responsible for making accurate, timely decisions that require an in-depth look at business operations. […]
Essbase calculations sign off made very easy NOW!
In many Hyperion Essbase projects, getting user acceptance testing complete on time for all the Essbase calculations is an onerous task. It becomes even more complicated while metadata sign off is still on its way for perfection. This is often because the end users are so used to sign off after looking at the reports as a […]
Oracle Essbase Learning Path
After your purchase of Oracle Essbase, you are now ready to follow a curriculum geared towards your job role: business user, developer, or IT support. Each learning path is tailored to meet your specific training needs. Business Users models and test complex business scenarios to rapidly discover trends and to analyze business issues hidden within […]