The Wonderful World of Oracle HFM Alternate Hierarchies
In an Oracle Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) application, you can always create alternate hierarchies. We have created them for Entity, Accounts, and any of the custom dimensions. The guideline is...
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Using Custom SQL (BIP) to Extract ERP Cloud Data from OTBI
Custom SQLs work differently than logical and physical SQLs. Instead of going through the OBTI subject areas and the Fusion PVOs in the RPD physical layer, custom SQLs are used to create custom data...
View ArticleOracle Sales Cloud: In-depth Look at Release 12 [Webinar]
Release 12 of Oracle Sales Cloud is just around the corner and with it comes some great improvements that make it an even more compelling solution for enabling modern sales in the cloud. Oracle...
View ArticleBest Practices in Reality for Extracting ERP Cloud Data from OTBI
Now that we have three different approaches to extract Oracle ERP Cloud data from OTBI, there comes the question – what’s the best practice, or which one should you recommend? Before answering the...
View Article6 Must-Attend Sessions at Collaborate 17 #C17LV
Perficient is proud to be a sponsor at Collaborate 17, which is being held April 2-6 in Las Vegas. It’s an opportunity for the Oracle user community to come together to share and learn through...
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Handle JSON Data Using JavaScript Expression in OSB 12c
Oracle Service Bus 12.2.1 provides a JavaScript action, which allows us to include snippets of JavaScript code to be executed during proxy pipeline processing. The most common case for using JavaScript...
View ArticleOracle Drop Ship Automation – A Technical Perspective #C17LV
The purpose of this blog post is to share how to setup/customize the Oracle Drop Ship process to automatically create Purchase Orders originating from the Drop Ship Sales order lines. Standard Process:...
View ArticleOracle Data Integrator Cloud Service
Oracle is aggressively re-engineering all of their popular suite of products over to cloud. Among several cloud offerings that Oracle announced at Oracle OpenWorld 2016 is Oracle Data Integration. Many...
View ArticleOBIEE 12c with Cache Database
Oracle Business Intelligence Suite provides comprehensive capabilities for business intelligence, including enterprise reporting, dashboards, ad-hoc analysis, multi-dimensional OLAP, scorecards, and...
View ArticleEmpower EPM Planning with Oracle Cloud Analytics #C17LV
There are several analytical capabilities that Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) products, whether Hyperion on-premises or Cloud EPM, have to offer. Financial reports and ad-hoc analysis...
View ArticleMulling Ransomware – Eye-Opening Cybersecurity Statistics
Cisco recently released their Annual Cybersecurity report for 2017, which revealed several statistics I thought were real eye openers. You can pick up a copy here:...
View ArticleEquity Overrides in HFM Implementations Give Clients Full Control
In an Oracle Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) implementation, we always use the historical rate to translate the subsidiary’s equity. Historical rate means the actual exchange rate used when the...
View ArticleOrthofix Implements ARCS and FCCS [Webinar Q&A – Part1]
A recent Perficient webinar, Orthofix Improves its Financial Close and Consolidations with Oracle Cloud (ARCS & FCCS), held a captive audience for a solid 20 minute Q&A session. In this...
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How to setup SAML v2 SSO on PBCS with ADFS as Identity Provider
SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) is a XML-based open standard format to exchange authentication and authorization data between an identity provider (IdP) and a service provider (SP). A...
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ODI Best Practices to Achieve Fast-Paced ETL (Part 2) #C17LV
Integrating data from non-Oracle source systems with an Oracle prepackage solution is a common practice that requires source to Target integration. While implementing BI Apps/Oracle EHA (Enterprise...
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Dynamically Alternate Row Shading in Financial Reporting Studio
I am often asked by clients to create reports that display alternating shaded rows. We’ve all been there, squinting away trying to view those tiny numbers crammed onto a single report. Too often we...
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BICS Best Practices for Modeling Conformed Logical Dimensions
Common dimensions are required for cross-facts reporting, and are often times referred to as conformed dimensions. A dimension can be conformed through its data consolidation, or its logical data...
View ArticleOracle Analytics Cloud: Essbase and Many Other Interesting Things
A couple weeks ago, Oracle released Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC). But there was already Oracle Cloud offerings for BI, mainly Business Intelligence Cloud Service (BICS) and Data Visualization Cloud...
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Siebel Innovation to Modernize the User Experience – #C17LV
There are many articles and blog posts written about the benefits of Siebel Open UI. So, rather than discussing that topic, I will focus on a new approach and methods and tools to leveraging the best...
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Best Practices for Extracting Data from BICS Using Data Sync
The need exists for the ability to read and extract data from BICS, especially when the ETL strategy involves a Staging approach, as written about in Best Practice to ETL with Data Sync (BICS). But...
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