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The Internet of Things has taken the Life Sciences industry by storm, challenging norms, the status quo, standards, barriers, and most notably, regulated constraints. IoT solutions are already dramatically impacting and improving processes around clinical trials, biotech, and pharmaceutical and device manufacturing. To examine the evolving role of IoT in the industry, IBM’s Watson IoT […]

Last week, we hosted cloud professionals in the Charlotte, North Carolina area for a discussion around breaking down barriers to cloud adoption. The event was well-attended and complemented with a tour of Sugar Creek Brewery, one of the oldest and most well-known Belgian ale producers on the East coast. The Slideshare presentation is below: Breaking […]

Over at our Digital Transformation blog, we write about the effect that technology is having on organizations worldwide, from the nuances of the cloud to the ubiquity of mobile to the rise of connected consumer and enterprise experiences. Both of these two technologies alone have been enough to transform business priorities for the foreseeable future. As these […]

Global companies have a unique advantage, with the ability to span all continents while remaining personal in their service to clients. Though companies can implement communications technologies that bring employees closer together, sometimes it isn’t enough to truly connect everyone. Such a challenge was true of a global management consulting firm, who was challenged with […]

I started kindergarten back in 1993, a simpler time for technology. Today’s brand names like Amazon, Yahoo, and eBay were still very nascent, and Internet pioneer Netscape was 3 years away from going public. For elementary schools like mine, simply having computers was an accomplishment and mine displayed theirs proudly. Throughout elementary school, computer curriculum […]

It has been my experience that when applying the proper predictive tools strategies to critical assets, it gets confusing about where to apply capital expense, training, and people. Here are 3 factors to help determine which predictive maintenance tool to use first: Always start with the asset life cycle plan (6 months, 6 years, etc). […]

Today’s market challenges even the seasoned digital leader. In today’s digital era, organizations need to unify the customer experience from the web site to the traditional online store and transform uninspiring transactions into compelling commerce experiences. 80% of the companies believe they deliver a superior experience to their customers, but customers state only 8% of companies […]

According to research firm Gartner, 50% of enterprises will have a hybrid cloud deployment by 2017. Hybrid cloud is currently the most popular type of cloud right now, offering a mix of public and private cloud services while serving as a transition for enterprises who are warming up to the benefits of cloud computing. For […]

Ninad Minelkar from Perficient presented a case study at IBM Amplify about Omni-Channel Order Management at National Geographic.  National Geographic is a global organization which provides 11,000 grants to scientists and do global outreach to 450 million people in 171 countries.  They send out 25 million catalogs per year as part of their commerce. National […]

    Phani Kanakala, Florida Blue’s Web and Mobile Manager and Glenn Kline, Principal at Perficient spoke at IBM Amplify about Florida Blue’s transformation of their customer experience.  A dinosaur video clip started the talk and Glenn related how companies are either going to be a digital predator or digital prey.  If you are a […]

Moving from traditional monolithic architecture to microservice architecture is a journey. There are many challenges moving towards the microservice culture and design. Microservices is an architectural style where a system is divided into a set of small services. As Conway’s law suggests, architecture and teams structure go in pairs. Microservice design pattern expects some organizational […]

  At IBM Amplify, James McCormick, a Principal Analyst at Forrester discussed how to use Digital Intelligence to optimize your customer experiences. First, James defined what is Digital intelligence – its just digital analytics, which is really just web analytics. The age of the customer is upon us, brought on by the winds of digital […]