Posts Tagged ‘Oracle EPM’

Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (EPBCS) is a subscription-based service released in May 2016. There are numerous reasons why you should consider EPBCS, but I’ve outlined my top five reasons below. Value Out-of-the-Box: Oracle’s R&D spend is second to none as it competes with other SaaS vendors in this space. Customers are benefiting […]

At the end of this month, I’ll be teaching the Planning 11.1.2 Install and Configuration Oracle University course in the near future. In this course, you learn about the processes involved in installing, configuring, testing, and maintaining Planning. You learn about the layers in the Enterprise Performance Management System infrastructure. Discussions include planning the installation, […]

Cloud implementations bring a new set of challenges due to the fundamental difference in how applications and their supporting infrastructure are delivered and managed. It should be noted that none of these challenges should be seen as a reason to delay moving an application to the cloud. Instead, you should embrace the challenges and understand […]

Oracle shared an incredible amount of rich content during the show, but don’t worry if you weren’t able to make it, you can view all the OpenWorld keynotes on-demand. There were more than 1800 sessions available to attend and although not every session was recorded, there are some great general sessions worth checking out featuring […]

Houston, TX, October 2016 – Oracle University is pleased to announce that Perficient has received the FY16 North America Oracle University awards for Sales Excellence, OAEC Delivery Excellence and Outstanding Instructor Quality. These awards were revealed in September 2016 by Jason Schiedemeyer, Senior Director for Oracle University. These awards recognizes Perficient for their ability to […]

The rewards of moving from on-premises to cloud are many and although some folks may still have reservations, the benefits are hard to deny. Time to Value Cloud applications are designed to provide a rapid return on investment, with less risk than a traditional implementation. For example, a planning system can be fully developed and […]

In spite of the push by vendors to move to cloud based applications, many organizations are still installing software in their own data centers. Oracle University offers a couple great classes on the Oracle Hyperion infrastructure, specifically for installation and configuration of Oracle Hyperion Financial Management and Oracle Hyperion Planning.  Both of these classes provide […]

Over the last few years, we’ve learned that one of the greatest appeals of the move to the cloud is that the providers’ capital expenditures enable users to focus their budgets on operational expenses. After all, a standard on-premise approach can require you to purchase, install and maintain the software and hardware, while also spending […]

At this week’s Oracle Industry Connect, much of the buzz is coming from the healthcare sessions, under the theme of “Transforming Clinical Research and Clinical Care with Data-Driven Intelligence .… showcasing innovation and transformation of clinical R&D, value-based healthcare, and personalized medicine.” Oracle CEO Marc Hurd delivered Wednesday’s Keynote address. Among the experts in attendance […]

  Are you currently thinking about migrating your existing on-premises Hyperion Planning application to the Cloud? Are you having reservations about what this process may entail? Well put your reservations aside! Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS) makes the migration easy as it essentially has the same code base as on-premises Hyperion Planning release […]

The Oracle Education department has made some changes this year. We have installed 34 machines with dual monitors for our students. So far, Perficient Inc. is the only Oracle Education Facility in Texas which offers this convenience for students being able to work with their eKit and programs running side by side. Our intensive, hands-on […]

On rare occasion, I encounter an EPMA application that will not offer an option to delete because the process that created it did not complete properly or the application was deleted from the Shared Service registry prior to removing it in the Application Library. This short article describes the process to remove an application from […]