In my last post, I shared the primary insights you need to pull together a Now/New/Next portfolio and get started on making sense of where you stand in the market. In this post, I’ll share how to use those insights to make sense of what to do about it. The Approach For most of us, […]
What Do My Customers Expect? Inside Perficient’s Now/New/Next
In my earlier post, I shared our motivation for Now/New/Next and why our clients are using it to rapidly make smart decisions to focus their Customer Experience attention. In this post, I’ll share what you need to know to build your Now/New/Next portfolio. The Approach At the center of Now/New/Next is knowing where you stand […]
Reopening has started. Is it too late to transform?
With many US cities emerging from lockdown, businesses are considering their next moves, but some fear their window to act has passed. Even with lockdown restrictions loosening, re-entry into the world isn’t going to happen overnight, and even when it does happen, how people make their way in the world has changed forever. Reopening has […]
3D Camera Movement in Three.js – I Learned the Hard Way So You Don’t Have To
Recently, I faced a situation where I needed to create a navigable 3D house within a website. In this house, a user would be able to look around a room by clicking and dragging their point of view, similar to street view on Google Maps. Additionally, there would be clickable hotspots that would allow the […]
Spring Around at the Speed of Sound: Using Springboot to Jumpstart Middleware
Introduction In our last post, we described the architecture for Handshake, Perficient’s Search Connector Framework. In this post, we’ll be diving into Spring and Springboot, the backbone of the Handshake application. Other colleagues have written great resources for to help get started with Spring. In this post, we discuss common use cases for Spring, when […]
4 Useful Features of Composum Browser
Composum Browser is an Open Source JCR Node browser for Apache Sling which bills itself as “the Swiss knife for the repository”. Composum Browser is included in Apache Sling since Sling 9 and is available in all versions of Apache Sling CMS. While Composum Browser certainly supports navigating the JCR repository structure in Apache Sling, it […]
Should Companies Invest in PIM or DAM?
Having spent a lot of time building custom software applications at the beginning of my career, there were many aspects of technology decisions that fascinate me. One of the subjects I’ve always enjoyed assisting companies with is the decision to “build vs buy” a software. Factors such as business needs, technical requirements, budget, access to talent, complexity, unique functionally, data privacy, and sometimes even […]
Elevating Digital Experience to Another Dimension with Interactive 3D
Raise your hand if you’ve watched a movie or played a video game in the past 20 years. Keep those hands up if you’ve ever been in a car, or a building, or used a smartphone. Most of the modern world we live in, from the entertainment we consume to the products and spaces we […]
Join Us for a Red Hat OpenShift on AWS Webinar
Digital transformation requires flexibility and efficiency along with confidence in the security, governance, and support structures of your public cloud strategy. Whether migrating legacy applications, modernizing apps via cloud-native development, or embracing container orchestration, AWS and Red Hat provide the platforms, services, and support required for trusted transformation at scale. Join us for a Red […]
CX COVID-nnovation: the Good, the Questionable, and the Not-So-Good So Far
One and a half months into lockdown and most organizations are now through the initial scramble to assess, address, and run in the best way they are able. But some have gone beyond just getting to a run state and pushed innovation to address new and evolving customer experience expectations. But are all these “COVID-nnovations” […]
Embed Intelligence in Microsoft Office 365
Provide zero-click, real-time analytics in the productivity tools, websites, devices, and screens you already use? Innovate: Zero-Click Insights We live in the Age of Experience! Users expect contextual insights delivered in real-time. They don’t want to interrupt their regular workflow to navigate multiple applications, and interfaces to access business intelligence reports to find answers – […]
Deploying Sling CMS Apps with GitHub Actions
I use Apache Sling CMS for my personal site, so I can easily author my blog posts from nearly anywhere. Unfortunately, since this is a personal site, I’m not exactly spending the dollars on building out a full Continuous Integration / Delivery process. Enter GitHub Actions GitHub provides Actions, a free for limited use solution […]