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Archive for March, 2013

Elpar Vs. ATTRS: What is better?

At times, the “value” of the parent element needs to be referred to, to determine how a calculation applies to a specific element. A simple everyday example would be of Balance Sheet Vs. Income Statement across the time dimension. The QTD for Balance Sheet Accounts is the balance of the last completed month in the quarter […]

New Class of Prototyping Tools

If you believe you are a good software designer, the great news about creating mobile applications is that with mobile apps: design is everything. Time and time again, it has been show that users value good design and its impact on usability. As with everything else in life, we’re all individuals, with different preferences and […]

Dealing with exceptions in .NET applications

One of the more frustrating things to deal with when supporting a production application is “flying blind” when trying to determine what went wrong and how to fix it.  In today’s post, I will discuss some commonly used techniques for handling exceptions in .NET code that prevent visibility into the real source of error and […]

What is new in IBM Connections 4.5

In January, IBM announced an update to IBM Connections.  Now called IBM Connections 4.5, the major new feature is the addition of a document library.  The document library feature is based on IBM Filenet, and includes the standard features you would expect to see: check-in/out; upload documents; search; the ability to set document types, and […]

Big Data Cautions

As the volume of information that can be scrutinized and dissected grows, and the number of potential correlations abound, the potential for false information and false correlations increases, as well.  The fact that we have greater quantities and greater varieties of data does not in itself ensure that our conclusions or our analysis of that […]

Will It Play in Peoria?

If you read any blog post or article on cross-platform mobile development, one of the top arguments for going the cross-platform route is that it offers developers with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript skills the ability “to build innovative, device-neutral mobile apps that work on the iPhone, Android,” etc.  However, a funny thing happened over the […]

NewsGator announces Perficient as 2012 Partner of the Year

NewsGator has officially announced the great news – Perficient received their Partner of the Year Award for the second year in row! The award was given at the 2013 NewsGator Collective, where a record number of NewsGator customers and partners converged for a three day gathering with interactive workshops, networking events, success stories, and thought leadership […]

IBM Enterprise Content Management Platform – A Step Above

Enterprise Content Management Overview Enterprise Content Management (ECM) provides a structured approach for the governance of information management toward the goal of improving compliance, information reuse and sharing, and operational performance. ECM incorporates methods, policies, metrics, management practices and software tools to manage the lifecycle of both structured and unstructured content. With Big Data as […]

Maximizing Data Quality for Optimum EIM Results

In the planning phases of BI implementations and Big Data projects, it is not uncommon to overlook or underestimate the importance of data quality as a critical component in the success or failure of that program.  The lack of a strategy for ensuring the quality of the customer information that is being used for the analysis can […]

Email Design for a Smartphone Era

Smartphone penetration in the United States has reached 55% of the general population* and and the number of email opens on smartphones and tablets have increased 80% of the last six months**. These two facts have serious consequences for companies and organizations, and their communication platforms. Beyond the obvious need to build email to appear well-formed and structured […]

Moving to Service Cloud from Zendesk

As experts in innovative customer support, our team is knowledgeable about a wide range of support products (not just Service Cloud). In fact, we’ve worked with many fast growing companies who started out with a lightweight support tool like Zendesk when they only had a handful of agents. Many of those same companies have come […]

Social Madness During March Madness

Whether or not you’re a NCAA basketball fan, how can you not notice March Madness? How many of your colleagues pored over their brackets? How many commercials have you seen on television and online? How many headlines have you read? This annual sporting event is not just a basketball tournament, it’s an enormous national media […]

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