Functions

Leveraging Behavioral Economics to improve performance and user experience. This is first in our series co-authored by myself and Zach Gay exploring how understanding Behavioral Economics can- and should- inform your marketing strategies. With each blog post we’ll dig into an individual theory and show how an understanding of these principals can help you develop […]

If you’ve been a JavaScript developer for some time and heard about ECMAScript 6 (ES6) concepts, then you must have come across generator functions. You might be thinking, what are generator functions? Why do we need it? What problems do they solve? We can find the answer, but we have to take a step back […]

Well, we made it – Q2 is here and if you’re reading this article, that means you likely work in the ecommerce space and Q1 went from zero to one hundred real quick. When 2021 kicked off, customers and society as a whole hit the ground running as we slowly but surely start to move […]

As with many people, 2020 was a big year for me personally. In October, my wife and I welcomed our first child to the world. It was a C-Section, so that meant we had an extended stay at the hospital. With the COVID precautions in place, I can’t say it was a vacation-like stay. In […]

Data can give your business a competitive advantage and help enhance your organization’s digital experience. A good user experience can drive business and keep customers coming back. In season 1 episode 8 of the Intelligent Data Podcast, host Arvind Murali and his guest Jim Hertzfeld, Perficient’s Digital Strategy Chief Strategist and co-host of What If, […]

Over the past year, your enterprise has likely experienced a number of challenges, including impacts to your supply chain. Spotting and quickly mitigating risk can help determine the long-term success of your enterprise. Aaron Fromm (Senior Manager, Solution Consulting, Pega), Andrea Kruse (Solutions Consultant, Pega), Udayan Sharma (Pega Practice Director, Perficient), and Bob Vaneck (Chief […]

Managed service offerings (MSO) is the department in an organization responsible for all application support activities. These support engineers work on various technologies, take care of the numerous support issues, and provide resolutions. Here’s why support analysts are important members of any business. The Role of the Application Support Analyst Support analysts fix the application […]

Adobe Summit 2021 is fast approaching and promises to offer numerous sessions on products across the Adobe Experience Cloud suite. Perficient is excited to present this year with MonkeySports on its Magento 1 (M1) to Magento 2 (M2) migration process during the session Upgrading to Higher eCommerce Sales and Efficiency. Magento Commerce is a scalable […]

The customer is your business’ number one priority because they are your main source of revenue and drive you to the next step in your success. Customer expectations are frequently changing and more customers are relying on digital processes for their commerce efforts due to their fluidity. Businesses must digitally transform to keep up with […]

Previously, Magento was using MySQL adapters for messaging and cron jobs to ensure the delivery of messages. This wasn’t reliable and scalable. To combat this, you can integrate RabbitMQ, which adds asynchronous messaging capabilities to Magento and is also scalable and reliable. For example, RabbitMQ could be used where Magento needs to communicate with an […]

The database is a core part of any type of application. The database scheme is constantly changing during the application development phase. It is important to deploy the database changes while deploying the application code to a different instance, such as dev, QA, stage, or production.   However, manually deploying database changes is a tedious process. By […]

The most recent release of Magento Commerce, 2.4 included many new features and updates. The upgrade introduces support for PHP 7.4, Elasticsearch 7, and MySQL 8 versions. Not only that, but there is a significant security enhancement with two-factor authentication enabled by default for the Magento administrator. The release also introduces a default search engine […]