Sharon Suchoval

The American Financial Technology Awards were announced on Monday evening in New York. A full-write up of the award winners will be forthcoming, but here is the list of the leaders in financial technology for 2015: Best Global Deployment – Nomura Securities Best Risk Management Initiative – Citadel Best Analytics Initiative – The Northern Trust […]

The online holiday shopping is well underway as demonstrated by a 9 percent gain in sales on Thanksgiving Day with $1.1 billion being handed over to retailers before the holiday dishes had even been washed. Black Friday sales also experienced a nice jump this year, increasing 10 percent to $1.7 Billion. According to a report by […]

Imagine if Disney had its very own version of Netflix, complete with movies, TV shows, music and books. This little piece of Disney magic is now a reality if you live in the UK. DisneyLife is a subscription based app, where for £9.99 a month, subscribers will get access to personalized profiles for up to six family members. […]

Imagine if Disney had its very own version of Netflix, complete with movies, TV shows, music and books. This little piece of Disney magic is now a reality if you live in the UK. DisneyLife is a subscription based app, where for £9.99 a month, subscribers will get access to personalized profiles for up to six family members. […]

This week, IBM released the IBM Watson Trend app that uses the power of IBM Watson to help you buy the hottest gifts for everyone  on your list. Watson isn’t programmed. It learns. It has been used for clinical trials, oncology and more and has the ability to learn a subject and then answer questions […]

As a consumer, I like electronic payments because they make my life easier and they save me an extraordinary amount of time. As a retailer, electronic payments make it easier for people to buy from you with the touch of a button, thus growing the bottom line. Electronic payments are designed to make the buying […]

Over the past few years, we have watched social advertising trying to find it’s feet. According to a recent study, social ads have moved out of the toddler phase and they are walking right onto the budget sheets of traditional advertising. 52 percent of companies now have a stand-alone Sponsored Social budget for their brand and […]

I am a big believer in goal setting. This year, I set a goal to read 120 books. In the past 10 1/2 months, I have learned, changed and questioned more than I have in most years of my life. Given that most people don’t have the interest in reading quite so much, I have […]

According to the new JDA 2015 Consumer Survey of more than 1,000 U.S. consumers, shoppers want what they want, when they want it, and they don’t want to pay. The bar is getting higher for retailers during the peak holiday shopping season. Those who can meet the demands of their online-savvy shoppers will be the winners […]

There are many ways to improve the health and longevity of humans, but one of the greatest transformations in public health could be in the form of an automobile. In a recent article in The Atlantic, researchers estimate that the driverless car could reduce traffic fatalities by up to 90 percent by the middle of […]

                        When the word “bank” is used as a noun, it is referring to either an institution that manages financial transactions or the building that houses the institution. As technology moves forward, the term bank is becoming less and less synonymous with an actual physical […]

A data governance plan begins with the acknowledgement that your organization needs a strategy to own and be responsible for data in order to make better decisions internally and externally. Without this in place, data can be misunderstood and misused, or worse, not used at all. As an Elite Informatica Partner, Perficient and Informatica work […]