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Archive for July, 2012

Google makes BI push with Cloud Platform Partner Program

One of the more notable announcements in the last month was that of Google’s Cloud Platform Partner Program. The platform currently offers Google Compute Engine, Google App Engine, Google BigQuery, and Google Cloud Storage. The partner program is designed to extend the use of these applications by allowing integration of other Technology Partner applications as well as expanding implementation options […]

SharePoint 2013 ‘Apps’

With SharePoint 2013, Microsoft introduced yet another paradigm for developing applications. Applications (or Apps)??!!! Yes. ‘Solutions’ are called Apps now! In fact everything in SharePoint including its primitive constructs such as Lists, Libraries are Apps in SharePoint 2013. However that doesn’t change how they behave and they continue function in same way. So what happened […]

Study: SERP Rankings Significantly Effect on Brand Equity

Written by Anthony Piwarun A recent study by Conductor showed that a brand’s search rankings have a significant effect on consumer trust, brand recognition, and purchase decisions. The study highlights the ever-growing importance of ensuring that your website is visible above the fold, in those coveted top four organic listings. The results show a clear advantage […]

Horizontal vs Vertical Portal: Backend Integration

You may be interested in my other posts in this series Kickoff UI In this post, I want to focus on the back end integration.  No portal can act on its own.  Most portals need to make calls to various backend systems.  Some do it better than other. Vertical Portals with Integration Vertical portals have […]

Perficient to Deliver New SOA-Based Services for NASCO

The Healthcare practice at Perficient continues to grow, this time by providing Service Oriented Architecture services to NASCO, a health plans solutions provider. With this solution in place, NASCO will continue to allow the Blue Cross and Blue Shield organizations to provide successful services to their members. From the press release which you can read […]

Iterative BI – Building with Gradle

We’ve chosen Gradle as our build system for our iterative BI environment.  It’s a powerful tool, but there’s a bunch of awesomeness in there. Gradle uses Groovy as its scripting language.  Groovy is just plain great.  You get the power of the Java platform in a scripting language and can do things like this: def […]

Mortgaging Customer Goodwill

Almost every week we see another story in the national press about how “unfeeling banks” are  foreclosing  on a homeowner over an 80 cent payment error, or foreclosing on a house the bank doesn’t even own. After several social media blogs, several thousand tweets and retweets (with fiery commentary) and various news networks report the […]

Apple to Buy Mobile Security Vendor AuthenTec

Proving that security remains a key part of any mobile conversation, it looks like Apple will buy AuthenTec for $355 million.  It’s interesting that this came up via a SEC filing rather than a press release. I guess something that only represents $8/share for a $595/share company isn’t all that big a deal. Seriously though, […]

Stefan Weitz Discusses the True Value of Social Signals

Key Points From The Interview Bing’s goal is to make social signals more valuable by presenting them in a way that actually augments the search experience. Previously, most social information was trapped in people’s heads. Now, they are publicly expressing this information in a way that machines are able to read it and make use […]

What’s New in SharePoint 2013? Let’s ask the experts…

SharePoint 2013 (or “Wave 15” as we unabashed Microsoft fanboys have been calling it) has been in public beta for a little over two weeks now, and we’re starting to see some more discussion of new features and functions around the web.  Our own Microsoft blog is no exception. A number of our customers have […]

Rules in JUnit

From version 4.7, JUnit introduced a new concept called Rules which really helpful. Rules allow very flexible addition or redefinition of the behavior of each test method in a test class.  Testers can reuse or extend one of the provided Rules below, or write their own. Here are some of the rules: TemporaryFolder Rule allows creation […]

Joined Reports: Don’t Be Intimidated [Part 1]

The Spring ’12 release of Salesforce bore tremendous benefit in reporting functionality with the launch of Enterprise Analytics. Available to Developer, Enterprise and Unlimited Edition customers at no additional charge, the Enterprise Analytics module provides enhanced features within the Report Builder permitting users to take Salesforce reporting to a whole new level. The 3 primary […]

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