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If you’ve spent any time around a sports fan over the past two months, you’ll know that two things have been on their mind: NCAA March Madness and the Super Bowl. Both are premiere sporting events in the United States, offering advertisers a world stage and athletes the opportunity for their “one shining moment”. With […]

Everyone is spending money on marketing but are you connecting with your customers? Are you engaging them in the best manner and is your mix of advertising spend in line with your industry? To get answers to great question such as these and others, plan on attending the IBM Digital Marketing University 2016 Global Tour. IBM is […]

We’re now more than a week into Spring and the end of March has arrived, putting us at three months into 2016. As we move deeper into our Spring Cleaning routine, some of us will find interesting items. I know I sometimes find old receipts, used plane tickets, and the occasional USB cable I misplaced. […]

Several months ago I was in Boston for an IBM event that was under non-disclosure. One of the items previewed was plans for IBM Forms Experience Builder on Cloud. IBM has released the product and the link has a couple of important pieces of data. There is a demo from Marty Lechleider. I’ve had the opportunity to […]

I’ve written about blockchain, the technology that underpins Bitcoin on various occasions; having spent time working for a bank and supporting trading floor technology, I am interested in technologies that drive cost and complexity out of transaction. This article in the Wall Street Journal details how IBM is now the largest company support blockchain and […]

If you have attended any of our Digital Transformation webinars, this quote will be familiar. “The realignment of, or new investment in, technology and business models to more effectively engage digital customers at every touchpoint in the customer experience life cycle.” – Altimeter  In this Perficient webinar The Internal Impacts of a Digital Transformation: How to Effectively Manage Culture, Collaboration, […]

This article in the Wall Street Journal details how KPMG LLC plans on using IBM Watson to automate routine tasks in audits. The article explains that auditors today often take samples of a client’s transaction to validate financial statements. Sheer volume and time prevents auditors from looking at all of a company’s transactions. the goal is […]

There are as many ways to versioning, building, continuous integration and release management as there are development shops, however there are some best practices and luckily these best practices also have tool support. First the players Versioning Handles the source code versions, also includes branching. Could be an old one like CVS or a newer […]

Spring has finally arrived, which means two things: There are now less than three months to the arrival of summer. Now is a very good time to do some cleaning. While the traditional habits of the season have called for cleaning out closets and tidying up the backyard, our heavy reliance on technology also requires an […]

As a Californian, I’ve come to the conclusion that we are immune to the inclement weather received by the rest of the United States on a yearly basis. With an estimated 300 days of sun, incidences like snow days, hurricane watches, and unbearably hot heat are rare occurrences and offer many of us the opportunity […]

For energy and utilities organizations, power outages and related incidents are typically the cumulative impact of many small incidents spread over time. It’s rare that a major outage is reported without some prior indication of part or process failure. The difficulty lies in proactively uncovering those issues before a significant incident occurs. Energy and utilities […]

Beyond superior product offerings, a positive customer experience is an integral component of satisfaction and retention. This was the story of a regulated electric utility company in operation for over 100 years with almost a million customers in the southeastern region of the United States. Over time, the company had developed a network of separate […]