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What are the symptoms of tennis elbow? Where’s the nearest urgent care clinic? Who’s the best dermatologist in town? Is she in network? Why am I winded after a short walk? What will an X-ray cost me? How do I pay my bill? Consumers approach healthcare from multiple angles, which drives the need for delivering […]

The following is the eighth blog in a series about why businesses are moving to the cloud to modernize and improve business performance. So far in this series, we have covered topics such as the innovation cloud brings, cloud security, and disaster recovery in the cloud. In this blog, I want to address an issue […]

Dreamforce 2019 is officially underway! It’s always one of the biggest events of the year in San Francisco, packed with energy, innovation, announcements and plenty of parties (not to mention, thousands of people who should have worn more comfortable shoes).  So what’s all the buzz about anyway? To kick off this year’s event, Chairman and […]

Today, Amazon announced its release of chat functionality in Amazon Connect. Supported for both web and mobile, the latest feature extends Amazon’s cloud contact center omnichannel capabilities. This feature allows your customers to start a chat with an agent or Amazon Lex bot, step away from it, and resume it up to 24 hours later. […]

Take a look at how women in technology and science have been changing the landscape of the software development industry, both in Colombia and the rest of Latin America. This article was originally published on Nov. 14th to celebrate Colombian Women’s Day, which was created to honor the Colombian Policarpa Salavarrieta who was an integral part of the […]

Did you miss the HLTH 2019 conference?  HLTH is a great gathering of minds, companies, and governments in one place rallying around healthcare as a whole. With more than 6,000 attendees, over 300 speakers, and 950+ CEOs and founders, this conference centers around how to move healthcare forward. Kia Mousavi, from our Perficient Digital team, […]

Google is going to offer checking accounts next year. That’s big, and scary, for a lot of banks. A Reuters article provided these salient quotes: “Our approach is going to be to partner deeply with banks and the financial system,” sure thin, general manager and vice-president of payments at Google, told the Wall Street Journal […]

Change happens in the business world. The telecommunication industry is no different. In fact, this industry is a principal example of the fluid, dynamic and rapidly evolving business environment. These changes are breaking-down the dividers between communications, technology and entertainment. Creating an entirely new telecommunications industry. Moving forward, the ever-changing telecommunications industry needs to focus […]

  Perficient Presents at Oracle OpenWorld 2019 – Live from the show floor, a director in our analytics team delivers an overview of the machine learning capabilities of Oracle Analytics Cloud with its built-in ML algorithms. Machine Learning is a science that existed for several decades. However, it wasn’t until the last 10 years that […]

Previously, I outlined the how and why of server and endpoint protection. This blog will discuss the benefits of data encryption and application programming. Data Encryption All of a firm’s data should be encrypted both at rest (stored on media) and in flight (in transit on the network). This provides the best protection from a […]

As a security professional, I spend a considerable amount of time building awareness around good password hygiene, and I am starting to see forward progress in efforts like moving users away from short passwords to longer passphrases.  But even as we are moving towards better password selection, most people don’t know that their old passwords […]

The following is the seventh blog in a series about why businesses are moving to the cloud to modernize and improve business performance. In our last blog in this series, we examined how security improves with cloud. In this blog, we will look at how cloud enhances disaster recovery (DR) practices and provides a better […]