Sharon Suchoval

  There are a plethora of gurus and ninjas in the social media space, aren’t there? They are early adopters of new social platforms and they can tweet, text and snap at the same time. But does your company need a ninja? Maybe…or maybe not. It’s important to be agile and to adapt to new […]

A colleague posted on the Saleforce blog recently a brief post exemplifying why Informatica is a leader in real-time data integration. He writes… No secret or surprise that Informatica and Salesforce have been closely aligned and work very well together. Both are cloud solutions which free you from having to manage on-premise networks and access […]

For a company like LinkedIn, data is at the core of their business. Externally, subscribers to their network are constantly seeing content updated by the seconds. But what about internally? Their data teams are non-stop behind the scenes working to keep up with all of this rapidly changing data so when their Financial, Planning, & […]

When we pick a burger from the drive-in, our thoughts are focused on filling our hunger. But there is a lot going on behind the scenes to bring that food to the table. Here is a snippet (or should I say tidBYTE) about one of the business processes that is far away from the smell […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOa9Eg9HeB8 System interoperability and integration is critical to healthcare organizations. Their ability to coordinate care across the continuum with integrated data solutions and streamlined data sharing supports population health management initiatives and makes accountable care a reality. Using Informatica Powercenter/ Powerexchange for Mainframes as an ETL tool, Perficient has helped healthcare organizations achieve enterprise-wide ODS’ […]

While TIBCO API Exchange is a relative new comer to TIBCO’s offerings, TIBCO has made great strides in embedding it into their Fast Data architecture (and message). This approach seems reasonable, since, according to Gartner, API Management and SOA Governance are converging into a consolidated space called “Application Services Governance.” It is even more reasonable […]

At an average cost of $4.5 million, ads for Super Bowl XLIX have sold out. But the game itself is the spark that many companies are hoping to transform into an inferno by leading consumers from their TVs to their mobile devices, with their Visa numbers at the ready. Katy Perry won’t just be using your […]

Oracle recently released it’s January 2015 Critical Patch Update that includes 169 new security fixes across the following product groups: Oracle Database Oracle Fusion Middleware Oracle Fusion Applications Oracle Enterprise Manager Oracle Applications – E-Business Suite Oracle Applications – Oracle Supply Chain, PeopleSoft Enterprise, JD Edwards Product Suite, Siebel and iLearning Oracle Communications Industry Suite Oracle Retail […]

Many of us in the marketing profession have been watching #saleforce.com and many others try to rationalize the use of all the different tools at our disposal to reach our markets better, while at the same time, gain more insights into what is trending, where and with whom so we can make better decisions. Not […]

On December 19th I published the results of a poll we conducted with our expert Salesforce consultants about the apps we like to use when implementing a solution for a customer. While it was a very close race, Informatica, DocuSign, Conga, DemandTools and FormsAssembly bubbled to the top. The next “favs” reported by our team […]

I found the following local egov infographic from Civic Plus somewhat relevant to understanding how to build and gain adoption of a customer or partner #Community in the private sector with a few important differences: With today’s technology from #salesforce.com, you can go from “emerging” to the “fully engaged” state in a matter of a […]

The official announcement about Salesforce connecting to files stored in Microsoft’s SharePoint Online was made official this morning. Rich Wood, Director at Perficient,  put together a synopsis of what this romance means for each of the involved partners: This is two giants connecting like to like– the dominant platforms for CRM and file-sharing, respectively– and […]