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Perficient’s Information Integration & Master Data Hub solution impacts the entire information supply chain from data capture, integration, and analysis. The solution helps organizations consolidate disparate data sources, apply business rules, adhere to data governance policies, and provide analytics.  At the core of the solution is a data model that includes pre-built adapters to common […]

Jim Miller, a senior solutions architect here at Perficient provides some interesting tips and tricks on IBM’s predictive analytics application SPSS. Jim writes: Working your way through the SPSS Statistic menus gets old fast. This (very) simple tip is an example of the efficiency and control that Syntax provides. LEARN MORE

Jim Miller, a senior solutions architect here at Perficient, attended IBM’s conference Vision 2013 last week. Jim highlighted the sessions he attended during his three days at the conference, and as you can read, he enjoyed every minute of it! To read Jim’s full blog post, including overviews and take-aways of the sessions he attended, click […]

I really didn’t expect to see the day when Rational Application Developer would be supported on Mac OS, but it appears that RAD v9.0 will do just that. While tablets have been taking a big bite out of the laptop and desktop sales across the broader consumer market, developers still generally need some real horsepower […]

Perficient recently partnered with The Men’s Wearhouse, a leading men’s dress apparel retailer in the United States, to evolve their e-commerce strategy. The Men’s Wearhouse had long been a brick and mortar store, but recognized its customers’ growing use of digital channels during the shopping experience. To improve their competitive and customer experience, the retailer […]

Glenn Kline, Director here at Perficient, is attending IBM Exceptional Web Experience 2013 and listened in on the opening general session lead by Larry Bowden, Vice President of Portals and Digital Experience Software. Glenn said, “The session focused on IBM’s digital experience direction and how various technologies and concepts are converging today. Mobile, content and rich media, analytics, […]

As IBM’s Premier Partner delivering Smarter Commerce solutions Perficient knows how to create a seamless and unified omni-channel commerce experience that leverages commerce, social and mobile technologies to provide the operational excellence needed to deliver a consistent brand experience that deepens your client relationships. Perficient is one of a very small delivery partner that are […]

Perficient’s award-wining IBM Business Analytics practice is a Gold sponsor of Vision 2013. During the conference our subject matter and industry experts will be on-hand to discuss how Perficient helps our clients leverage accurate, timely and integrated information to transform information into actionable intelligence that provides insight, drives planning and improves performance. Our experience with […]

I recently had a unique integration requirement where an external service provider was expecting XML within the SOAP request. One automatically thinks CDATA but in this case the endpoint required the XML to be escaped within a SOAP request. <SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV=”http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/” xmlns:ns1=”http://exacttarget.com/wsdl/partnerAPI”> <SOAP-ENV:Body> <ns1:CreateRequest> <ns1:Name>XML_Data</ns1:Name> <ns1:Value>&lt;order&gt; &lt;ns1:Attributes&gt; &lt;ns1:Name&gt;Transaction_ID&lt;/ns1:Name&gt;&lt;ns1:Value&gt;Transaction_ID goes here&lt;/ns1:Value&gt; &lt;/ns1:Attributes&gt; &lt;/order&gt; </ns1:Value> </SOAP-ENV:Body> </SOAP-ENV:Envelope> […]

With Perficient’s help Mission Health is leveraging IBM’s master data management (MDM) to build a scalable, accurate foundation around its most critical data to support critical business processes across the enterprise – information about patients, providers, facilities, organizations, employees and more. Watch this webcast and learn how Mission Health is using Big Data and Analytics […]

Industry Challenges What is the biggest delay in closing a deal aside from the long sales cycle – getting through the contract process ! Contracts play a critical role in any vendor-client transaction, documenting terms such as dates, pricing, project duration, assumptions, etc. Not getting solid contracts in place can lead to penalties, overpayment for services, […]

Exciting News! Today, we announced the acquisition of TriTek Solutions, an enterprise content management and business process management consulting firm with significant IBM expertise, based in the northeastern United States. Like Perficient, TriTek is an IBM Premier Business Partner. They’re an excellent addition to our team,  bringing meaningful services expertise, important intellectual property assets and […]