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Archive for April, 2013

Getting Social (Business) at Gartner’s Portal Summit

I’ve spent the last two days at Gartner’s Portals, Content and Collaboration Conference soaking up the wisdom of some very sharp analysts (and a very open customer base) about enterprise social.  There’s other tracks here, but with all of the focus Microsoft has placed on Yammer and its potential for transforming how we do business, […]

Ten Mobile Apps that are Changing the World

The Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit 2013 had a great session delivered by Ian Finely called “Ten Mobile Apps that are Changing the World.”  The session delibertly skips the common known apps such as Facebook and Twitter.  Here is the list – only 9 apps were presented but some were categories of apps: The […]

Using IBM SPSS Statistics to Analyze Your Data

No matter what the tool or technology used, data analysis always involves 4 simple steps: Pull together data, Pick the appropriate analysis process or procedure to be performed on that data, Point out (designate) the variables in the data that you are interested in and finally, after performing the selected process, you can Peruse the […]

Gartner Keynote: Don Norman on emotion

Don Norman is well known cognitive scientist who has spoken and written extensively on emotion and design in everyday things.  Today he is speaking at the Gartner Portal, Content and Collaboration Summit in San Diego.  He talked about how why and how emotions drive our decisions and our behaviors.  Something that we all know is […]

Open Sans, possibly the most popular font you don’t know about.

If you’ve never heard of it, the Google Font directory is an online repository of free, open-source fonts that have been web optimized and ready for your use.  There are hundreds of them from Display to Handwriting, Serif to Sans Serif.  The Sans Serif is the home of Open Sans by Steve Matteson. http://www.google.com/fonts#Analytics:total With the release […]

A Brand Shows Off Its Human Side

Okay, you have a great product: it’s innovative and unique, it works swell, it’s high quality, and purchasers and industry professionals love it. But it’s a premium purchase. So, the selling argument for this product had better be good. Built in the USA to last a lifetime, the product rightly just plain costs a bundle […]

IBM advances in mobile and DevOps with UrbanCode acquisition

IBM has acquired software deployment automation software firm, UrbanCode. Any company that requires frequent software updates, such as those in social, mobile, cloud and business analytics, will benefit. CRN covered this story in an article this week, for which they interviewed Vishal Rajpal, general manager of IBM BPMS at  Perficient. Vishal weighed in: “Consumers are rapidly becoming a […]

Gartner Portal, Content and Collaboration – Opening Session

Live blogging from the Gartner summit in San Diego, CA Engaging at the nexus of Social, Mobile, Information and Cloud.  Innovation supports a new reality. The threat to China is the 3D printer and the reality is innovation is around us that are trivial and some that are game changing.  They need to be in […]

The Cloud Covers All Industries, Every App—and Your Customers

Whatever industry you work in, whatever your department or area of expertise, cloud computing has established its presence. From retail to banking, from travel & hospitality to healthcare, organizations are using the cloud. And businesses are implementing cloud applications in functional areas from sales & marketing, to human resources, accounting, and enterprise resource management. Growth […]

Top 5 Technology Trends in Healthcare – April 2013

The healthcare IT field is rapidly developing and changing. Emerging technology and updated regulations put pressure on healthcare providers and health plans to stay ahead of the curve. Perficient creates a monthly list that explores some of the current topics and issues in health IT. This list examines the most talked about issues and technologies […]

Install GitLab on Amazon EC2 Cloud Server

There are plenty of web pages to guide you how to install GitLab on an Ubuntu server. The official document in GitHub is also using Ubuntu as example.  You may follow them to install GitLab on Amazon EC2 Cloud Server but you may meet various problems that stop you from moving forward. I feel it […]

Perficient & IBM – Making an Impact in 2013

Perficient is Showcasing Our Award-Winning IBM SOA, BPM, and Mobile Solutions & Services at IBM’s Impact 2013 Conference Perficient is a gold sponsor of Impact 2013, and our experts are available in Booth G9 to discuss how customers can implement impactful technology solutions including BPM, service-oriented architecture (SOA), cloud, mobile and WebSphere solutions for major […]

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