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We’re now well into the second half of 2017, with summer in full swing. As fast as the year has progressed, there’s still time to complete your innovation goals if you haven’t already. One goal of interest for many organizations is DevOps, an agile strategy focused on transforming organizational collaboration, communication, and go-to-market strategies. With […]

Sometimes, the best business ideas don’t come from within, but from your most engaged and raving fans. After all, since the customer is buying the product, shouldn’t they also have some say in what they are thinking about purchasing? Enter crowdsourcing, a term created by Jeff Howe back in 2006 to describe the act of […]

Yes, I blogged about this a couple months ago, but now we’re down to the wire. Maximo World is just around the corner and for some reason I keep thinking it’s next week, but we have one more week, it’s August 1-3, 2017. Now, why 55 reasons? Well, based on the emails I received this […]

IBM released Cumulative Fix (CF) 14 for WebSphere Portal and Web Content Manager (WCM) in early July, 2017.  This fix will apply to either version 8.5 or 9.0.  IBM has moved to a continuous delivery model where they release cumulative fixes every few months to not only fix defects but also to deliver new capabilities.  […]

Born in the cloud startups have a unique advantage of being able to avoid the pain of application migration into the cloud. With no complex infrastructure to hold them down, organizations can go global instantly and experience immediate business results. According to IBM, 65 to 75 percent of applications could benefit from moving to the […]

Buyer personas are a crucial component of the buyer’s journey. After all, the lack of proper targeting means that those whom you actually want to see your services and products will likely be seeing those of your competitors. Developing a buyer persona takes work and requires buy-in from your engineering to your sales team. In […]

As part of the Maximo Friday webinars, one of the next sessions will discuss the Industry add-on called Health, Safety & Environmental Manager (HSE). It’s not just for Oil & Gas clients, others can use it too.  This add-on can help you identify and manage operational risk within your organizational work. Previous versions of IBM […]

Microservices are top-of-mind for developers and innovators, especially in a connected world. With research firm Gartner predicting more than 20 billion connected things by 2020, being able to develop quickly and effectively will set organizations apart. Microservices are gaining traction for their ability to develop and deliver modern, lightweight and composable workloads. They achieve this […]

Over the years, customer experience has seen a gradual evolution, moving from static to dynamic experiences. What started as toll-free phone numbers, mail-in surveys, and customer insight groups has transformed into the world of social media, where anyone can share their opinion to a large audience. For some organizations, the emergence of new media has […]

Finance trends are always making the media rounds, which of late lies in cryptocurrency. With uncertainty in the financial markets, the latest news has been around topics including blockchain and bitcoin, discussed among experts for its benefits of decentralization, security, and transparency. Blockchain is a shared, immutable ledger for recording the history of transactions in […]

Conversion is the ultimate goal for any enterprise organization. After all, it’s what drives revenue and continuity in any industry. Depending on the industry however, conversion time can be anywhere from minutes to months. Converting any customer is hard work in the era of digital transformation, especially with the amount of noise and options available. […]

Last week, we sat down with IBM on a webinar to discuss the emergence of video in the enterprise and the various use-cases for organizations looking to innovate how they communicate to their audiences. Broadcast on Ustream, Perficient Technical Director Glenn Kline and Chris Zaloumis of IBM Cloud Video walked through the IBM Cloud Video […]