Posts Tagged ‘Oracle’

In my 14+ Siebel CRM projects, the one question that I’ve heard most is “Does it work on Chrome (or Firefox, or Safari)?”  I’ve always been a disappointed to have to say, “No, it only works on IE.” In the days of the old bandwidth-limited web, Siebel’s web architecture was great. Considering the standard experience […]

There has been a lot going in the BI world and Oracle had a bevy of announcements in the last Oracle Openworld 2012. Its been 3 months since the events, but the trends and announcements would have lasting impact on the BI world. The BI specific topics that were covered in the event were about […]

My colleague Seth Broweleit shared with me news that Yammer has been integrated with Microsoft SharePoint.  If you are a Yammer Enterprise customer, you can download the installation package that includes some very nice features.  The video here shows many of the features I’ve listed below:  Primary Yammer Web Part – Add Yammer feeds, private messages, […]

Willy Loman was in a quandary. He had made the decision to utilize Customer Experience (CX) technology to help him achieve his sales goals. But the business was not developing the way that he thought it would, and the revenue that he needed to produce was not growing as fast as he thought it might. […]

While reading Selling CX Style – Parts 1 and 2 of this blog, you’ll recall that Willy Loman was working hard to find a better way to sell and help his clients maintain the products that he sold them, and he was definitely leaning towards Perficient to help him with that task! Here at Perficient, led […]

I recently attended an Oracle partner meeting in Denver.  Upon entering I noticed how few of the partner firms I recognized. Twelve years of attending these kinds of meetings and all of sudden, not only did I not see those who usually attend, I didn’t recognize the ones who were there.  Was I the only […]

In the throes of a big ERP implementation of Oracle R12 and evaluating business processes and key features, it is easy to overlook the importance of valid addresses for customer sites, supplier sites, and internal locations. Obviously, a valid address is important for physical logistics when identifying a location for delivery or shipment of goods […]

First of all Oracle Fusion CRM is part of a full suite of Oracle Fusion Applications that is designed from ground up to be complete, open and integrated. It will be next generation CRM product and would be evolved path of current CRM product (Siebel CRM and CRM On Demand) of Oracle. The version 1 […]

The latest vendor who recognizes the significance of the mobile environment is Oracle who announced a version of their Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) for mobile applications called appropriately, ADF Mobile.  This cross-platform framework is not targeted at the general mobile programmer but instead Oracle is focusing on the enterprise Java developer who is familiar […]

With Oracle R12 applications, indirect tax (sales, use, VAT) functionality has been transformed from independent and simplistic setups within a few applications to a centralized tax service or engine. Initially, that sounds great! Especially to those of us who have tried to implement tax complexities with limited features in 11i. Dig in and what you […]

Gartner has recently published the 2012 version of their Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals.  So far, I haven’t found the Gartner report on their reprint site and none of the vendors have provided links to it yet.  Here is the link to the report on Gartner’s site, but you’ll have to be a Gartner subscriber […]

So it’s Open World time and CRN is reporting on some key announcements.  They note that Oracle is pushing almost all of their key services online including. Oracle Planning and Budgeting in the cloud (Hyperion) Oracle Financial Reporting (Not sure) Oracle Data and Insight (OBIEE???) Oracle Developer Cloud Service (could be part of Fusion and […]