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Professional tennis amounts to more than serves and volleys these days. At the just-concluded Wimbledon championships, each match relied almost as much on gigabits and terabytes. Not far from the immaculate grass courts, dozens of tennis-savvy data gatherers scrutinized every point, every swing of the racquet, to give TV and online watchers precise, instantaneous analysis […]

IBM Cognos TM1 is well-known as an enterprise planning software platform that can transform your entire planning cycle, from target setting and budgeting to reporting, scorecarding, analysis and forecasting [1], and Perficient is well-known for delivering expertly designed TM1-based solutions. At Perficient, we are excited about solving our customers’ business needs. Every Cognos TM1 implementation […]

According to recent studies by Forrester Research and Gartner, application integration along with security, are the main reasons why IT executives resist cloud-based applications. However, fueled by today’s fiercely competitive business environment, IT managers must deliver rapid, innovative and low-cost solutions to stay ahead of the competition. Companies need a solution that can run anywhere, […]

Last week IBM and Box announced a partnership that benefits a wide variety of customers. The IBM press release, found here, IBM and Box Press release detailed three areas that the companies will work together: IBM and Box will partner in three key areas: Transformation of Enterprise Work Content Management: Box will integrate IBM industry-leading enterprise content management including […]

Exponential growth of data is a common trend across all industries, along with the need for insights from that data. We’re seeing a large portion of data growth and complexity from the prevalence of devices, mobile, Internet of Things and cloud. Data management and analysis is no longer a competitive advantage, it’s a business necessity […]

Last week I attended a conference with a great Forrester keynote speaker whose main topic was on Digital Transformation and the Age of the Customer. It is clear there is a new business cycle where the power has shifted back to the people and engagement will mean everything – in other words – companies must […]

  Right after I posted my blog on Spark and Hadoop, I came across this article. IBM made a big announcement that they are putting their weight behind Spark.  They are committing more than 3,500 developers and programmers to help move Spark forward. This combined with significant support from the Big 3 Hadoop distributors (HortonWorks, Cloudera, […]

Perficient was a Gold Sponsor of this year’s conference, which brought together experts in asset maintenance related processes, training, tools and machinery. The keynote speaker at the conference was Perficient’s David Reiber. As former owner of General Motors Global Maximo Deployment, David knows a thing or thousand about asset maintenance and reliability. What I found […]

John Boezeman with IBM talked at the last session of the IBM Digital Experience 2015 Conference about integration patterns using IBM Bluemix. Bluemix is a cloud based development and runtime environment that makes it easy to create and deliver services for the API economy. The services can be consumed by any system, including IBM Digital […]

When we talk about Omni-Channel Marketing, we want to integrate marketing automation tools – campaign management, segmentation, etc – with Digital Experience platforms.  IBM has a complete suite of tools in marketing automation, content analytics and digital experience.  In this session at the IBM Digital Experience Conference, Connie Triassi, Angela Caruso and Bryan Daniel talked […]

This year during the Digital Experience Conference the integration scenarios of Commerce Server has been a hot topic. When integrating with Commerce there are 3 suggested scenarios. Some advantages of utilizing Digital Experience for the Commerce server include: Single environment to author all content for either Portal or Commerce sites. Includes both e-spots and full pages […]

Phani Kanakala of Florida Blue and Charles Mahoney of Perficient presented a member portal case study at the 2015 IBM Digital Experience Conference.  Florida has continually evolved their digital experience since releasing their first member portal on the IBM Digital Experience platform in 2008.  Florida Blue is the largest health insurance provider in Florida with […]