Today we announced the acquisition of ForwardThink Group, a consulting firm specializing in financial services industry services and solutions. ForwardThink Group brings meaningful expertise in compliance and risk management, business intelligence and master data management, and business process management across the banking, wealth management, asset management, capital markets and insurance sub-verticals. They have a solid […]
Financial Services
Bankers Get a Compliance Wake-up Call with Data Breach
While most of the mass media news about Target’s card data breach has focused on the direct effects on consumers, the forensics of the breach are starting to trickle out through specialists like Brian Krebs, and they’re really fascinating. At the highest level, it appears the attackers seem to have been able to enter the […]
Healthcare CIOs are carefully moving to the cloud
Recently our company has increased our focus on what healthcare organizations are looking for when it comes to cloud computing, in large part due to our acquisition last year of two fantastic Salesforce partners (ClearTask and CoreMatrix). I found this article in Healthcare Informatics to be very interesting. It’s titled “The Many Flavors of the […]
IBM Connect Features TD Ameritrade’s Social Business
There’s been a lot of buzz on Twitter this week around IBM Connect. The Perficient IBMers and Portals, Web Content and Social team are in attendance at IBM Connect and actively blogging about some of the sessions highlights at the show. One of the biggest stories out of the financial services and banking industry there […]
Coin: The Credit Card that Eliminates all Others
Brian O’Donnell, Senior Technical Consultant at Perficient, recently wrote a blog about Coin, the new all-in-one digital credit card that was recently announced. What is Coin? Coin is a brilliant new technology that allows users to consolidate all of their cards into a single Coin card. A Coin card is not your traditional credit card. It […]
Positive evidence that Health IT improves patient outcomes
This is a fascinating report on a study by RAND researchers about meaningful use. It shows strong evidence that Health IT improves patient outcomes, specifically quality, safety, and efficiency outcomes. Michael Furukawa Director at the ONC , and Meghan Gabriel, Economist at the ONC, presented the results from this study in a blog post on […]
Perficient’s Top 5 Fintech Posts of 2013
A lot has happened in the banking and financial services world this year. From the debates over a potential digital wallet revolution to the proliferation of mobile devices and big data – there was a lot to discuss! Here’s a look back at five of our top posts covering financial services technology trends and challenges. […]
Will Banking CMO and CIO Collaboration Be Critical in 2014?
CMSWire and a peer from our Portals and Social Business practice both shared a pretty cool infographic from Gartner that illustrates the need for CMO and CIO collaboration to define an organization’s digital direction. I thought I’d put it into context though for the financial services industry with a brief post. The topic of customer […]
The Value in Voice-Natural Language Processing in Healthcare
Guilty! I text while I drive…eek! I know, I know, it is really bad and those anti-texting and driving commercials get me too. That is why I am making a concentrated effort to ease up this one vice (stop laughing those that know me!) of mine. Instead, I am beginning to use the voice text […]
Top 5 Technology Trends in Healthcare – November 2013
The healthcare IT field is rapidly developing and changing. Emerging technology and updated regulations put pressure on healthcare providers and health plans to stay ahead of the curve. Perficient creates a monthly list that explores some of the current topics and issues in health IT. This list examines the most talked about issues and technologies […]
Exploring Social Connectivity in Retail Banking
A Perficient colleague in our Portals and Social practice, Brendon Jones, posted a blog yesterday, “Re-energizing the retail banking experience” which talked about the shift in retail banking towards the use of social technologies to deliver value in mobile services for money management. As the McKinsey Quarterly source he mentioned referenced, social networks have become mainstream with […]
Credit Cards: Recent Trends Show Demand for Value-add
It is mid-November and the holiday season is almost upon us. With the Thanksgiving holiday only a week away, my mailbox is already starting to fill up with store catalogs, coupons, and flyers for Black Friday shopping deals. There is also one other thing I am increasingly seeing in my mailbox of late – credit […]