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Perficient to attend IBM’s IOD conference Oct 24-28

by on October 17th, 2010

Perficient has expertise in IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management ,ETL, Datawarehouse, Clinical Analytics, Cognos Business Intelligence, SPSS Predictive Analytics and FileNet ECM expertise.

Our team of experts will be at IBM’s renowned annual Information OnDemand conference, the premier forum for Information and Analytics, next week. Perficient is a gold sponsor and will be exhibiting at Booth G-604.

We are excited to follow this conference’s activity, which is already in full swing, online. You’ll find quite a lot of social media profiles active regarding this conference:

If you’ll be attending, please connect with us. We look forward to meeting you!

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AIIM Releases “State of Enterprise Content Management (ECM)” Survey Results

by on October 6th, 2010

AIIM recently released the survey results from their “State of Enterprise Content Management” survey. They interviewed 751 individuals with 31% representing organizations with over 5,000 employees, 43% representing organizations between 500-5,000 employees, and 26% representing organizations between 10-500 employees.

Some key takeaways:

  • 15% said they have not yet implemented an ECM system but plan to.
  • 25% said “improving efficiency” is their key business driver for ECM
  • The number one reason for implementing a CMS was the overwhelming amount of content being created and shared across the organization and an inability to keep it all organized.

The survey also questioned people on their use of collaboration across the organization.

You can read CMSWire’s thoughts on the survey here.

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Is mobile really the next frontier for Enterprise Content Management?

by on September 16th, 2010

Last week, in a meeting with many of our company’s practice leaders, consultant and sales team members, the topic of mobile came up. As a service offering that we currently provide, surfacing data to the mobile device has been a need from IT organizations desiring to further serve their users for years now. However, one of the questions in this meeting surrounded whether the industry is prepared to support both portability across platforms and scalability for the enterprise. Ultimately, does the user experience reside in the mobile browser or in a series of mobile applications that must be coded differently to suit each platform (Windows Mobile, iPhone, iPad, RIM/Blackberry etc.)? How efficient would that be?

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Managing privacy risk in the digital age (Webinar this week)

by on May 25th, 2010

One of the biggest challenges faced by IT leaders today is spending a lot of time, money and resources trying to comply with government regulations and internal requirements, but yet still experiencing repeated non-compliance issues. On top of that, IT leaders often cannot determine why this is the case. It typically comes down to “culture” because cultural norms that naturally exist and evolve within an organization will trump IT framework every time.

Usually, IT compliance is goverened by committee: HR, Legal, Internal Audit, and IT. Any leaders in these functions can join Perficient’s Amy Shavor, who leads the company’s governance and risk compliance practice, for a free webinar this week to find out how IT can leverage a framework for enhancing culture within their business so that it will mitigate risk of business ethics violations.
This Thursday, May 27th, at 12:00 CST, join us for Perficient’s free webinar on Managing Privacy Risk in the Digital Age.
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Perficient partners with FatWire Software

by on May 7th, 2010

Today, we’re announcing that we’ve partnered with FatWire Software, a leading provider of Web Experience Management (WEM) solutions.

We’re always trying to help our customers gain a better ROI from their web content management (“WCM”) initiatives by providing strategic WCM planning, design, implementation and migration consulting services through the use of our web content migration methodologies and WCM process lifecycle.

Ed Rawson, General Manager of Perficient ECM business unit, was asked about this partnership and what it will do to help our customers’ projects:

“Partnering with FatWire provides us another avenue for delivering quality, integrated Web Delivery Platforms for our customers. We’ve had a long tenure of success implementing Web User Experience and WCM solutions for Fortune 1000 companies and we believe implementing FatWire products as part of our proprietary processes will give us a competitive advantage over other implementers.”

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IBM’s ECM Regional UserNet Conference in Boston

by on April 26th, 2010

Tomorrow, Perficient’s ECM team will be at the Boston IBM UserNet Conference where we’ll be presenting our smarter solutions for case management and enterprise governance and risk compliance.

Amy Shavor from Perficient is speaking about Consumer Privacy Laws- What is IT’s Responsibility at 1pm at the IBM Boston UserNet Conference at 1pm. Register to Attend Here

Managing Privacy Risk and Promoting Ethical Culture in the Digital Age:

Businesses that responsibly manage privacy and educate their customers about their privacy practices benefit greatly – especially with regard to positive brand development. IT departments that combine frameworks with increased cultural awareness experience far fewer consumer privacy breaches.

Attendees can learn about GoPro Case Management Portal, a scalable, secure and user-friendly case management solution that supports open standards, guarantees effective and efficient processing and ensures regulation compliance that integrates with IBM FileNet P8 and IBM WebSphere Portal.

Perficient’s enterprise governance and risk compliance (EGRC) services support a client’s enterprise-wide EGRC needs such as audit management, operational risk management, IT and financial governance or policy management.

•        Policy and Controls Management: Document management, training and skills management

•        Risk Controls and Assessment: Risk assessment, audit and corrective actions management

•        Investigative Management: Meetings, incident, and issues management

•        Risk Analytics & Reporting: Graphical reporting and the compliance portal

Perficient also has an IBM Jump Start Program for compliance. The IBM Content Collector Discovery Analytics Starter Pack helps budget-conscious organizations jump start compliance projects and improve bottom-line ROI. With it, many organizations are able to intelligently collect, archive, search and analyze electronic content, helping them to better address legal discovery and regulatory compliance obligations. The solution can help reduce archiving and electronic discovery (eDiscovery) costs and risks build an infrastructure foundation for further development.

Perficient’s team provides eGRC and Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions that help clients respond specific requirements such as ISO, API, SCADA, HSPD, Sarbanes-Oxley and additional industry-specific regulations. Perficient’s eGRC Services support a client’s enterprise-wide eGRC needs such as audit management, operational risk management, IT and financial governance or policy management. Our solutions establish a framework to cover multiple areas of eGRC that handle today’s requirements and empower organizations to make the quick and easy adjustments needed to accommodate ever-changing eGRC requirements.

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Creating an information management strategy, an AIIM seminar on ECM

by on March 15th, 2010

Next week, Perficient will be participating in a free, one-day seminar in Houston hosted by AIIM. The seminar is focused on infrastructure and platform options and discussion of Sharepoint deployments.

We’ll have a Google Search Appliance box available to demonstrate its benefits and uses for the Enterprise.

Come out and see us:

March 25, 2010
Renaissance Houston Hotel Greenway Plaza
6 Greenway Plaza East
Houston, TX
8:30 am – 2:30 pm

Includes breakfast and luncheon.
Full agenda.

Register here.

Contact us to talk to someone about our ECM solutions.
Learn more about Perficient’s ECM practice here.

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Q and A with Chad Johnson about Google’s enterprise search solutions

by on February 10th, 2010

Chad Johnson

Chad Johnson

This Thursday, Chad Johnson of Perficient and Nathan Rader, Regional Manager for Google Enterprise products, will meet in St. Louis, MO for a breakfast with IT professionals and business owners to discuss “Realizing Greater Return on Information with Google Search Appliance.” I spoke with Chad about how the GSA can benefit any organization and about his personal experiences with clients.

  1. Why are Google’s Enterprise Search solutions beneficial to the Enterprise? How have you seen organizations use it to cut costs, drive efficiencies, etc.? Google provides a one-box solution that is very easy to install and maintain. It can be up and running, indexing your content in about an hour, but inside the bright yellow box in the same proprietary relevancy algorithms that make Google.com so successful. And even better, the GSA provides the ability to tweak and tune relevancy and add special content in a way that cannot be done with Google.com alone. The GSA brings all of these features inside the corporate firewall and lets you index your data, your way.The cost savings become very apparent as the size of the implementation increases. Google has a very unique technology that allows you to combine multiple GSA’s into larger and larger networks with ease. To accomplish the same thing with other vendors requires more and more complexity. With Google, the complexity stays low, no matter how big the installation.
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Colorado group will host Google enterprise search meeting with Perficient’s Chad Johnson

by on December 28th, 2009

sm_googleAs a follow up to my post last week about the benefits of using the Google Search Appliance for enterprise content and our enhanced partnership with Google, I wanted to let everyone know about an event in January at which Perficient’s GSA “guru” Chad Johnson will be speaking. It’s in about two weeks. On January 14th, the Colorado Software and Internet Association will feature a breakfast meeting called “Realize Greater Return-on-Information with Google.”

Chad is Google Practice Manager and Technical Director here, and he’ll be speaking with Newell Falkinburg, Regional Manager for Google’s enterprise applications team.

The level of detail available at this meeting about GSA looks pretty strong — plus, they plan to cover ROI estimation. If you live in or around Denver and you’re just getting into picking out an enterprise search solution, you won’t want to miss this one.  More details.

When: January 14, 2010
7:30am – 9:30am
Where: Holland and Hart
555 17th Street
Suite 3200
Denver, Colorado  80202

Register Here

Realize Greater Return-on-Information with Google

In today’s business environment, time and information are arguably our two most precious resources. Yet most businesses squander both on a daily basis.

Do you know:
  • How much time the average worker wastes just looking for the right information?
  • How much time is spent by IT professionals storing, organizing, and locating information?
  • How much time employees spend creating spread sheets and documents that will match the exact criteria of  high-overhead information retrieval systems?
  • The amount of information that cannot be found; especially when you need it right now?
  • The amount of information that stays locked in employees’ heads or on their desktops because the time it takes to publish where colleagues can find the information and use it?
  • And, most importantly, how much revenue is lost due to delays in time-to-market caused by all of the above?
The high costs to a company of not finding information, or of finding it too late, include faulty decisions, duplicated efforts, lost productivity, and missed opportunities. Their impact can cascade throughout an organization. The personal frustrations involved are also considerable – as anyone who has tried and failed to find a slide or a spreadsheet in time for a vital meeting can testify. The costs can be even higher in fields such as health care, the pharmaceutical industry, and life sciences, where up-to-date information and time-to-market are competitive essentials.
Yet, given the economy, organizations simply don’t want to spend an enormous amount of money deploying an enterprise search system.  And outside of procuring the system itself, the real cost in many cases can be in integrating the system to the various content repositories and business applications.

During this program you will:
  • Gain insight around the importance of search architecture to aid in quicker retrieval
  • Hear how due diligence steps are involved in deploying enterprise search
  • Learn about Google’s ‘ROI JumpStart’ program
  • Hear about Perficient customers achieving a greater ROI on their information

To address these issues, Google has a two-fold solution.  First, they’ve architected the Google Search Appliance in such a way that it is extremely easy to deploy, and brings Google’s internet search expertise to the enterprise.  Second, they’ve brought in key partners to quickly onboard organizations and provide a ‘JumpStart’ to their deployment and achieving an ROI.  One such partner is Perficient, a leading information technology consulting firm serving clients throughout the United States.  As a key Google partner, Perficient uses their expertise in designing and delivering enterprise search solutions to help customers gain competitive advantage, improve productivity, and reduce information technology costs.

Speakers:

Newell Falkinburg, Regional Manager, Google Enterprise
Newell’s primary focus is helping strategic customers, in the Pacific Northwest and Desert Mountain Regions, to optimize there technology investments, through search and collaboration solutions.  He has been an award winning member of the Enterprise Team for over 2 years.  Previous to Google, Newell was a Strategic Account Manager at Microsoft and a Director of Business Development at Hewlett Packard.  Originally an engineer, Newell has a degree in Physics and a Masters in Electrical Engineering, having worked as a software developer at Bell Laboratories.


Chad Johnson, Google Practice Manager, Perficient
Chad Johnson is Google Practice Manager and a Technical Director at Perficient.  As part of Perficient’s Enterprise Content Management (ECM) practice, he has designed and implemented a wide range of solutions, including content capture, scanning, search, and workflow.  In his seven years with Perficient, Chad has worked with numerous ECM software partners and has integrated these tools into complex business processes.  His clients span an array of industries, including IT, oil & gas, food services, shipping, healthcare and education.  Chad has a computer science degree from Rice University.  He currently resides in Houston, TX with his wife and has become a dad twice over in last year.
Ticket Information
$15 Members; Premium Members receive two complementary tickets
(Please contact Amy Beth Andrews for the promo code)
$55 Non Members
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Google Search Appliance: Benefits for enterprise content

by on December 21st, 2009

Enterprise Search Solutions: The Google Search Appliance (GSA)

Enterprise Search Solutions: The Google Search Appliance (GSA)

As we move into 2010, it may be a great time to evaluate what your team is doing to ensure your organization’s documents and data across the organization are as organized, indexed and searchable (retrievable) as possible for employees, customers and potential customers.  For many years now, companies have been implementing enterprise search solutions across applications and databases and have realized benefits in the form of saved time & resources, increased efficiencies, enhanced conversion rates (leading to revenue impact) and more.

“Enterprises that can manage, index, archive, locate and then react to seemingly overwhelming amounts of data are gaining real competitive advantage in today’s marketplace.” – Jeff Davis, chief executive officer and president at Perficient.

Perficient today announced that we have extended our partnership with  Google to resell and provide consulting services for the Google Search Appliance™ (GSA), an enterprise search solution.

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