Albert Qian

At Perficient, we’re all about having our pulse on the state of technology and the trends impacting business. Around this time of the year, we look out for surveys, including RightScale’s State of the Cloud Report. A regular fixture in the technology community, this particular survey answers burning questions around cloud adoption, usage, and anticipated […]

Romantics and poets have spent considerable amounts of time trying to quantify love over the past several centuries with very limited success. Scientists including Johannes Kepler (more famous for discovering law of planetary motion) even devised the Marriage (Secretary) Problem, a method using interviewing methods and analytics for increasing optimizing finding a mate. More recently, […]

Anyone who is single understands the exhaustion and frustration of modern dating, especially with so many different online platforms and mobile applications. Without the right strategy, finding love becomes an overwhelming and thankless experience. Developing a dating application is also a challenging endeavor, especially with the nuances of digital transformation. Akin to modern marketing challenges […]

A noticeable trend lately in enterprise technology is in the Platform-as-a-Service arena. PaaS is the middle layer of the cloud, above infrastructure and below applications, including software (SaaS). Middle layer technologies, or “middleware”, include 10 different categories including application servers, databases, portals, messaging, business process management (BPM), and middleware technologies. Over time, many of these […]

Retail media continues to announce the arrival of blockchain, but there is still work to do. Even though the decentralized ledger is the technology behind bitcoin, there are still many use cases stemming beyond financial transactions. Swiss bank Credit Suisse looked in depth at the growth of blockchain and collaborated with the World Economic Forum […]

Integration Platform-as-a-Service (iPaaS) initiatives are top of mind for IT executives looking to extend the value of existing on-premises applications by leveraging new cloud, mobile, and data applications, while also discovering new ways to engage with customers. However, IT leaders must consider implementation best practices in order to reap the benefits. We understand the integration […]

January is the busiest month of the year for hiring and restructuring, leading to busy human resources (HR) and recruiting departments across all organizations. Add a robust economy into the mix and you have the perfect recipe for an overwhelmed few weeks at work. Luckily, the digital transformation wave applies to HR, with a bevy […]

New Year – new data compliance. As analytics and big data continue to gain acceptance in the enterprise, governments are catching on and developing regulations to curtail abuse and monitor responses to data breaches. In particular, organizations doing business in Europe will need to comply with The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), set to go […]

Though many think the rise of cloud is a forgone conclusion, there is still tremendous room for growth especially as we head into 2018. Here are some of the top predictions we found combing the web for cloud predictions in the New Year. Prediction #1: Hybrid Cloud Continues to Accelerate Mixing and matching cloud services […]

With accelerated innovation top of mind for numerous organizations, the past few years have seen an influx of adoption in DevOps for automation, development, and collaboration. Much of this is response to competitive threats, requiring the quick addition of new code and services into applications. Perficient partner CloudBees understands the value of DevOps and recently […]

If you have ever stepped into the offices of a finance or accounting team, you may notice piles of invoices and documents concerning payments. Even though enterprise resource planning (ERP) and software systems do close the gap for month-end and year-end close, there remain inefficiencies resulting in delayed payments and incorrect payment amounts. Invoice processing […]

The New Year brings new hope for technology, especially as consumers and organizations anticipate continued growth in areas that will help increase productivity and innovation. Here are some of the top DevOps and cloud predictions we found around the web for the year ahead. Prediction 1: Serverless Overtakes Containers Containers gained prominence in 2017 but […]