David Price

Leo Tolstoy‘s book Anna Karenina, begins: Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. I believe that is also true with RFPs. One of my responsibilities within the Strategic Advisory Team is to respond to RFPs. I am a contributor and in some cases coordinate the responses. When coordinating, I need […]

Several months ago I wrote here that IBM and Box had partnered and what it could mean for customers. At almost every customer I visit, the discussion turns to cloud file sharing, even if it wasn’t on the agenda. At one hospital chain earlier in the year, the team was presenting our recommendations, and the topic came up. […]

Since the (seemingly) wondrous achievements of the Mechanical Turk in the 18th century, humans have been fascinated by robots. Today robots, either the physical or software, are becoming a part of all of our lives and this raises questions that we have not figured out how to answer. The week of OSCON, I saw a keynote and […]

 Although OSCON wrapped up Friday, I have a few more thoughts and observations that I will share this week. Danese Cooper, Arnold Goldberg and Manish Jain from PayPal gave a Key Note where they discussed InnerSource. This wasn’t a term I was familiar but as I watched the keynote, I thought how the concept, better code and craftsmanship, was applicable to […]

At OSCON the keynotes are interesting and influential speakers but not arranged around a specific yearly theme. In this post and a future one, I want to pull together this theme of using the concepts and principles of Open Source in new ways. Two speakers, from the US and UK governments, provided fascinating insights and the […]

I spent a half day with a very engaging speaker, Chris Richardson in his session “Introduction to Microservices”. I found the tutorial very useful because I have seen the challenges he discussed at our clients. I was at one of our healthcare clients, managing a team focused on the automation of test data. Other Perficient teams were responsible […]

You can’t be in technology without hearing about Docker. Docker mania is so sweeping I bet the local diner is about to announce a partnership. That being said, a company with over $1 billion valuation and partnerships with IBM, Google, RedHat, Rackspace, Microsoft and VMware and a host of customers is one that deserves attention. It is […]

Today the O’Reilly Open Source Convention, OSCON, kicks off in Portland, Oregon. Approximately 4,100 people are gathering this year to focus on open source solutions. If you are not here, you can still catch a number of the announcements and keynotes live using this link. I am here, along with some of my sales colleagues, because although Perficient […]

At Perficient, mobility isn’t something we add on to a project; it is something baked in from the beginning in almost every project. It is one of the reasons that our shift to User Experience and then to Digital Translation may have happened faster than other consulting firms. In our latest numbers, more than 75% […]

Last week IBM and Box announced a partnership that benefits a wide variety of customers. The IBM press release, found here, IBM and Box Press release detailed three areas that the companies will work together: IBM and Box will partner in three key areas: Transformation of Enterprise Work Content Management: Box will integrate IBM industry-leading enterprise content management including […]

Collaboration is a topic that near and dear to my heart, both as a practitioner as well as an employee. I spent my formative years working at an international bank company, 110,000+ employees, 72 countries, back when you could tell people you worked for a bank. One of the challenges we had on a grand scale […]

I recently wrote about my experience at the Internet Retailer Conference + Expo (IRCE) 2015 and a presentation on the Internet of Things (IoT). My posting discussed where I saw confirmation of his position, that consumers want experiences and are willing to participate in IoT for those experiences. If you haven’t read it, here is the […]