Mark Polly, Director at Perficient, recently wrote a blog about the exciting new product from Kudos. Kudos is best known for providing add-ons to IBM Connections that help with and encourage adoption of the social media platform. Kudos Badges is a gamification system that includes missions, rewards, ranking and leaderboards. Just ahead of IBM Connect 2014, […]
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IBM Announces Better WebSphere Portal / EMM Product Integration
Mark Polly, Director at Perficient, recently wrote a blog post on IBM’s announcement of their new EMM Portlets. Today, though, IBM announced a much better integration between WebSphere Portal and IBM’s Enterprise Marketing Management (EMM) products. Through EMM products, marketers can create and manage campaigns, segments, etc. Now these new EMM Portlets will allow marketers […]
Why Should I Upgrade to IBM Content Manager 8.5?
The Big Picture: IBM has released Content Manager 8.5, CM8, (formerly DB2 Content Manager). This update brings a number of long awaited features and modifications to IBM’s home-grown ECM platform. It also brings some feature and component deprecations. I’m going to highlight three major improvements and then discuss the impact of some major feature deprecations. […]
Using SPSS to Leverage Predictive Analytics
Jim Miller, Senior Solutions Architect at Perficient, recently wrote a blog post outlining an example of how to use IBM SPSS to leverage predictive analytics to improve performance in every day business solutions. A technology company has literally participated in thousands of projects over the years. At some point the group decided it wants to […]
Which Modeling Approach Should You Use with SPSS Modeler?
Jim Miller, Senior Solutions Architect at Perficient, recently wrote a blog post explaining the many options when using IBM SPSS Modeler. Coming from a TM1 background (more business than statistics), it is easy to get started with modeling once you determine your modeling objective, and Modeler can help with that. IBM SPSS Modeler offers an intuitive […]
Using SPSS Modeler to Make Smarter Decisions
Jim Miller, Senior Solutions Architect at Perficient, recently wrote a blog on the importance of discovering relationships within data and how this can be achieved using SPSS Modeler. The discovering of relationships within data (between fields) is an important part of any data mining project (in the Crisp-DM methodology, this is described as part of the […]
IIBv9 – Introduction
Peers, it is time to embrace IBM’s Integration Bus v9 aka IIBv9. Many of us are comfortable developing solutions using WebSphere Message Broker [WMB] version 6, 7 and 8. To date, all the projects I’ve worked on at Perficient, clients still used WMB 6/7. However, IBM recently re-branded WMB as Integration Bus. Much of the […]
The Empowered Consumer Drives 2014 E-commerce Tech Priorities
When Gartner recently asked chief exectuives to identify their five-year technology investment priorities. They rated their top three as the following: Business analytics E-commerce Customer experience I was a bit surprised to see e-commerce ranked second, but not at all surprised to see it show up in the top ten answers. The New, More Empowered Consumer We […]
Engaging Enterprise Stakeholders with Social Business Patterns
Brendon Jones, Senior Solutions Architect at Perficient, recently wrote a blog post detailing the role of social business patterns in helping enterprises engage stakeholders. Companies at the forefront of social communication are doing more than developing a presence on major platforms. They are taking their external social tools and technologies and embedding them into core […]
Top 5 Technology Trends Predicted by IBM
IBM revealed predictions for the top 5 tech trends that will impact our lives over the next 5 years. Here they are: How does IBM know what the trends will be? According to VentureBeat: “IBM can already figure out your personality by deciphering 200 of your tweets, and its ability to read your wishes will only […]
Online Shopping Reaches Record-Breaking Volumes on Cyber Monday
According to recent reports released by comScore and the National Retail Federation, online shopping during Cyber Monday reached record-breaking levels while overall holiday spending was flat compared to previous years. Despite month-long online promotions that led many experts to predict declining revenues during Cyber Monday, e-commerce spending increased approximately 20% from 2012. Mobile shopping continued […]
Reduce Shopper Abandonment and Increase Conversion Rates
With an increasing amount of online purchases and transactions year-over-year and more than $80 billion lost in 2012 due to poor online shopping experiences, it has become too costly to neglect your customers’ user experience online. Retail organizations can alleviate these issues and optimize e-commerce sites through customer experience management solutions to dramatically improve profitability […]