This is the first in a series of visits to Perficient’s many office locations. Located in Butler Square, Perficient’s Minneapolis office maximizes every last bit of the 10,700-square-foot-space to foster a culture of teamwork and collaboration. The environment is one where the ideas are welcomed and encouraged, and employees work hard and play hard. The […]
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The 20 Most In-Demand IT Skills
In our ever-increasing digital society, IT jobs are in high demand. The technology industry is hot and there’s never been a better time to carve out a career in it. According to U.S. News & World Report, job growth and salaries in the tech industry are increasing as more employers have complex infrastructure needs.[1] There’s […]
The Perfect Time of Year to Consider Work-Life Balance
This week, we officially said “goodbye” to summer and ushered in the beginning of fall. We’re entering the season when cooler temps and shorter days send us increasingly indoors, and we start to turn more of our attention toward home. This time of year, perhaps more than any other, is the time when we strive […]
What It Means To Be #3633
Inc. magazine recently released its list of the 5,000 fastest-growing private companies in the United States for 2014, ranking companies by overall revenue growth over a three-year period. For the fifth year in a row, BioPharm Systems, a life sciences IT consulting company that Perficient acquired in April 2014, made the list. This accolade is […]
An Architectural Approach to Cognos TM1 Design
Overtime, I’ve written about keeping your TM1 model design “architecturally pure”. What this means is that you should strive to keep a models “areas of functionality” distinct within your design. Common Components I believe that all TM1 applications, for example, are made of only 4 distinct “areas of functionality”. They are absorption (of key information […]
A Practice Vision
Vision Most organizations today have had successes implementing technology and they are happy to tell you about it. From a tactical perspective, they understand how to install, configure and use whatever software you are interested in. They are “practitioners”. But, how may can bring a “strategic vision” to a project or to your organization in […]
IBM OpenPages GRC Platform –modular methodology
The OpenPages GRC platform includes 5 main “operational modules”. These modules are each designed to address specific organizational needs around Governance, Risk, and Compliance. Operational Risk Management module “ORM” The Operational Risk Management module is a document and process management tool which includes a monitoring and decision support system enabling an organization to analyze, manage, […]
The installation Process – IBM OpenPages GRC Platform
When preparing to deploy the OpenPages platform, you’ll need to follow these steps: Determine which server environment you will deploy to – Windows or AIX. Determine your topology – how many servers will you include as part of the environment? Multiple application servers? 1 or more reporting servers? Perform the installation of the OpenPages prerequisite […]
IBM OpenPages Start-up
In the beginning… OpenPages was a company “born” in Massachusetts, providing Governance, Risk, and Compliancesoftware and services to customers. Founded in 1996, OpenPages had more than 200 customers worldwide including Barclays, Duke Energy, and TIAA-CREF. On October 21, 2010, OpenPages was officially acquired by IBM: http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/32808.wss What is it? OpenPages provides a technology driven way […]
Configuring Cognos TM1 Web with Cognos Security
Recently I completed upgrading a client’s IBM Cognos environment – both TM1 and BI. It was a “jump” from Cognos 8 to version 10.2, and TM1 9.5 to version 10.2.2. In this environment, we had multiple virtual servers (Cognos lives on one, TM1 on one and the third is the gateway/webserver). Once the software was […]
Perficient takes Cognos TM1 to the Cloud
IBM Cognos TM1 is well-known as the planning, analysis, and forecasting software that delivers flexible solutions to address requirements across an enterprise, as well as provide real-time analytics, reporting, and what-if scenario modeling and Perficient is well-known for delivering expertly designed TM1 based solutions. Analytic Projects Perhaps phase zero of a typical analytics project would […]
Exercising IBM Cognos Framework Manager
In Framework Manager, an expression is any combination of operators, constants, functions, and other components that evaluates to a single value. You can build expressions to create calculation and filter definitions. A calculation is an expression that you use to create a new value from existing values contained within a data item. A filter is […]