Albert Qian

Continuous deployment and release are key components of the DevOps process, offering technology teams the opportunity to provide customers with the necessary updates and innovations to maintain customer satisfaction and interest. As this process becomes more rushed, organizations have become more interested in solutions that automate the entire process. Having worked with numerous clients, we […]

Over on our Integrate blog, we’ve been discussing the cultural impacts of cloud on an organization as researched by John R. Rymer, et al, of research firm Forrester. Titled Tackling the Cultural Challenges of Agile and DevOps Transformation, the white paper tackles the organizational challenges of adopting DevOps while also exploring salient resolutions. As you […]

The database has become a vital component of any enterprise’s IT structure. Databases continue to provide more and more sophisticated options than versions we have seen in previous years. IBM Datapower gateway is designed to connect to most of the popular databases. In his most recent post, Technical Consultant, Karthik Selvaraj walks you through the steps to […]

As your legacy infrastructure reaches its end-of-life, you might be thinking about what’s next. With so many choices on the market and strategic directions to take, sometimes you might feel like the next step to take is to throw up your hands and just upgrade what you have already. Knowing that your competitors are heading […]

How customers interact with their favorite brands has evolved over the past half-century. I know for me, the experience has been transformational in my lifetime alone. When I first started paying attention to branding and marketing at a young age, businesses who showed their phone numbers on their advertisements were savvy. Later on, that became […]

Building unique and memorable customer experiences is important in today’s noisy world. As consumers have more choices than ever and more messages heading their direction, it’s important for brands to develop the appropriate platforms where suggestions, complaints, and conversations can occur naturally and easily. To help organizations understand what’s at stake, we’ve developed our most […]

Every organization in every industry comes with a unique set of challenges. On one hand, there are technology professionals don’t need to manage as many complexities for a higher education or retail business while the other side sits financial and healthcare staff wrangling with the day-to-day challenges of regulation and compliance. As more organizations make […]

Digital transformation is the means of modernizing the systems that businesses use to create, deliver, and sustain meaningful customer experiences. This modernization ensures that businesses remain attuned to their most digitally savvy customers. Businesses that embrace mobile as a critical piece of a larger digital transformation plan will take the lead in their marketplace. In […]

Perficient Project Manager Karen Ouyang recently renewed her PMP (project management professional certification. Preparation for the PMP exam can be extensive, so if you are considering certification you need to first determine why you want to get certified. You can then determine whether or not certification makes sense for you. If you are considering obtaining […]

It’s awards season in the tech world and IBM is leading the way in public cloud. In their most recent study of available services, Forrester ranked IBM among the leaders in the public cloud space with specific regard to empowering enterprise developers with the tools they need to build applications. In their assessment, named “The […]

The ushering in of autumn means pumpkin spice everything, counting down to the holiday season, and classic movies on the silver screen. While summer is full of action flicks and superheroes, the latter half of the year is a mix of horror, feel-good, and holiday movies. One such film making its debut for the fall […]

As head into the fall, industry-watchers will begin releasing market predictions and trends that will define the rest of this year and the year ahead. As cloud adoption and migration continues to grow, so do the industries that depend on cloud technologies including business intelligence and big data. For enterprises, business intelligence and big data […]