David Sheets

Many U.S. businesses still have miles to go on their digital transformation journeys, but Canadian businesses appear to lag even further behind. According to research by International Data Corp., just over 2 percent of Canadian businesses surveyed on digital transformation readiness considered themselves “digital disruptors” – aggressively exploiting digital technologies and innovating to create new […]

If you’re wondering what has been going wrong with the data retention capabilities of your Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications lately, look in the mirror. Recent survey findings regarding SaaS adoption, data protection, and compliance in the United States and the United Kingdom discovered that accidental deletion of information is the leading cause of SaaS data loss, […]

As more companies engage in digital transformation, expect to see robotics play a larger role. That’s the assessment by global market analyst International Data Corp., (IDC) which just published a Worldwide Commercial Robotics Spending Guide that measures regional purchases of robotic systems, system hardware, software, robotics-related services, and after-market robotics hardware across 13 industries. The […]

Agility in any marketplace requires a willingness to evolve. With the acquisition of Rise Foundation, Perficient’s Microsoft practice is positioned to create, market, and sell products of its own. Rise Foundation is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application that transforms SharePoint for Office 365 or SharePoint 2013/2016 on-premises into an easy-to-use intranet or portal for the business […]

Expect spending on the “Internet of Things” to soar over the next three years, with the majority of that spending to occur in Asia and the Pacific. That is the forecast from market researcher International Data Corp., which has announced the findings of its most recent Internet of Things Spending Guide. By 2019, IDC says, […]

Digital strategy services firms can expect both their business and the demand for their skills to grow rapidly through the rest of this decade, according to IDC Research. The global market research and analysis company released its findings from a study that predicts digital-related consulting will be central to 80 percent of all business and […]

Remember Google Glass? That head-mounted computer resembling a pair of glassless eyeglasses? You are forgiven if you have forgotten. Google’s first attempt at ubiquitous computing sure had cachet when it went to market in the spring of 2014 and was dubbed the natural next step in digital-first design. That cachet disappeared less than a year […]

Starbucks did not invent the coffeehouse. It only appears that way. The 44-year-old retailer and cultural touchstone that turned ordering a latte into a social statement grew fastest between 1987 and 2007, when it averaged two new stores daily. Then the Great Recession hit, people started cutting cappuccinos from their budgets as a first line […]

Take a guess: How many virtual communities exist online, right now? The answer is complex. If you count only those sites with 100 million members or more, the list is about a dozen names long. If you count those considered “major” and “active” at the same time, the list has about 400 members. But if […]

In Cook County, Ill., an estimated 800,000 Chicago-area residents are “food insecure” – uncertain as to when or from where their next meal will come. Perficient colleagues there are sensitive to the issue and so recently sponsored a trivia night in support of a nearby food pantry. The trivia night was only the latest philanthropic […]

Social media never sleeps, but it does take a breather once in a while. Usually, those rest periods are determined by our work schedules, not our social engagement, because business shapes social media usage now more than ever. For example, Facebook, the 800-pound gorilla of social media, emerges from repose as the workday begins and […]

My spouse was pounding on her iPad last night in frustration – rather more frustration than typical with technology – because a news site she helps edit kept crashing the tablet’s web browser. After a few minutes of listening to her curse, I steeled myself against her wrath (which was causing our dogs to cower) […]