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At the IBM Digital Experience Conference in Atlanta, Doug Geiger made several announcements: A new lower-priced entry point for Digital Experience in Cloud New rich text editor using Ephox’s new JavaScript based editor eliminates any dependence on Java New Layout Editor is more graphical, supports multiple devices and includes better task flow Theme sync tool connects […]

IBM’s annual Digital Experience Conference got underway this morning. Gary Dolsen kicked off the conference by announce the future of Digital Experience is mobile, contextual, and cloud-hosted.  Engagement is a common need for partners, customers and employees.  This engagement can now be helped with a digital experience that is consistent, includes analytics, cloud based, and […]

An exceptional digital experience is empowering, compelling, relevant and consistent – it gives you instant access to what you need, it keeps you hooked because it’s highly engaging, it has analyzed who you are and what you want, and it reaches you no matter what device you’re on. We are excited to be a part […]

IBM delivers Mobile First in a series of Virtual Application Pattern(VAP). Mobile First VAPs are a great way to implement mission critical Infrastructure. A VAP encapsulates the details of the infrastructure topology. The details of the build out are hidden from users and administrators. Basically not much can be tampered with so failure is keep […]

This offering from IBM lets customers focus on what is best for them (solution, which solves their real-world problems) and tasks they are best at (developing solutions) while taking everything else away (managing operating systems, fine tuning, managing storage, upgrades, etc.) and putting it “in a box.” Wait a minute, to a extent, it is […]

This has been an exciting first half of the year with another IBM award announced at last week’s IBM Amplify Event. This award recognizes Perficient for groundbreaking solutions leveraging the IBM Commerce portfolio to help clients improve business operations, increase sales revenue, reduce cost of services, and help deliver the best customer experiences. It was […]

Many organizations have adopted solutions with descriptive and diagnostic analytics capabilities that provide static reports and dashboards. However, these reports only provide a snapshot of the existing environment, answering the “What” and “Why” behind historical data. Advanced analytics, the next phase of the analytics adoption lifecycle, deals with uncovering insights from trends and patterns to […]

Perficient is proud to be a sponsor of IBM Vision 2015, the premier business analytics and performance management conference for finance, risk management and sales compensation professionals.  Visit us next week at booth #3 in the EXPO Hall, where you can learn how we’ve leveraged our extensive expertise in business analytics and performance management to […]

Shannon Ahern from Varsity Spirit Fashion and Greg Schaller from Perficient spoke at IBM Amplify 2015 about how Varsity Spirit Fashion achieved a 100% adoption rate internally and transformed their business.   Varsity Spirit Fashion outfits more than 1 million athletes.  Previously Varsity Spirit’s 300 person sales team faced several challenges including a huge catalog […]

Greg Schaller of Perficient and Gretchen Crockford of Carhartt discussed how Carhartt successfully implemented B2C on the IBM iSeries.  Carhartt is a 126-year old work wear company.  Carhartt now has 17 new company owned stores, but also sales through retailers and their IBM Commerce website. Running on iSeries is not something you hear a lot about, […]

At Amplify 2015, IBM has formally announced their new IBM Marketing Cloud.  Throughout the day IBM is releasing more information about what is in the Marketing Cloud.  Here is what I learned just now. IBM Marketing Cloud is a combination of SilverPop Engage, Xtify and new features including Journey Designer, Journey Analytics, a single customer […]

Day 2’s opening session continued the theme of “A New Way to Engage” and started with Chris Wong, VP of strategy and Product Management in IBM’s Commerce group. IBM now has 30,000 users in their Marketing Cloud. Chris said that IBM thinks the way for marketers to move forward in the rapidly changing technology landscape […]