Platforms and Technology

We are excited to announce the launch of our recent study, Get Supply Chain Right! Intelligent Fulfillment Boosts Customer Service And Return On Inventory Investment. This commissioned Forrester Consulting study includes the results from a survey of more than 200 supply chain professionals to gain insights on how intelligent order management and automated supply chains […]

Consumerism has reached critical mass in healthcare. Consumers expect technology to work intuitively, regardless of its underlying complexity. And in healthcare – an industry that tends to segment consumers into patient or member experience silos – consumers increasingly expect a seamless, holistic, digital health journey. Today, entire industries such as healthcare, banking, insurance, and business-to-business […]

In the past, ecommerce was believed to be the simple act of building a commerce website for your business and seeing how your customers used it. However, many B2B sites weren’t performing well or able to adapt to this approach because they lacked the specific resources and knowledge needed to be successful and even felt […]

Self-Service for data is not a new concept.  Even in the early 2000s, companies have struggled with giving “power users” or “information workers” access to data to develop value-based insights.   One of my past customers had a simple as a web page with hundreds of CSV formatted data extracts that people could “self-service data” based […]

Your digital transformation journey requires flexibility and efficiency while ensuring confidence in the security, governance, and support structures of your cloud strategy. Whether you’re migrating legacy applications, modernizing applications via cloud-native development, or embracing container orchestration, AWS and Red Hat have the platforms, services. They support you’ll need for transformation at scale. Containers at a […]

Are you looking to advance your Red Hat technical skills but aren’t sure what courses to take? Assess your skills today with a free Red Hat Skills Assessment. There are 17 training assessments available for everything from Red Had Enterprise Linux and security to OpenShift and microservices. You can take an individual assessment to evaluate […]

MuleSoft is one of the top integration and API management companies with a state-of-the-art approach for connecting various systems. MuleSoft promotes API-led connectivity through its three-layer architecture for connecting APIs. MuleSoft is also a Gartner Magic Quadrant leader for full lifecycle API management. MuleSoft provides a unified integration framework as well as API management capabilities […]

In a comment on my previous post Apache Sling JVM Performance, Gil Tene made an insightful comment about the potential possibility of performance impact from speed from the underlying environment or other tests. To accommodate for this possibility, I re-ran the tests inside a loop, randomizing order of the JVM execution for each iteration 25 times. […]

COVID-19 has completely changed the way B2B businesses sell products to customers. Traditionally a buyer would experience the product and its features first-hand, determine if the product will meet expectations, and make purchases in an office setting. Unfortunately, the ability to safely go through that process is not an option during these unprecedented times. Businesses […]

Sitecore 10.0 made its way into the world a few weeks back. While it wasn’t a dramatic user-facing major release, it was a massive release for Sitecore becoming more cloud-native and looking ahead to the future of the Sitecore development experience. Cloud-Native? You may be asking, what does “cloud-native” mean? Well, for that, we can turn […]

Hello all! Before you begin reading, keep in mind that this tutorial is designed for beginners. As such, it covers every step without skipping parts that might be obvious to some. This tutorial is made possible thanks to Josh Kostal, who taught me majority of what is covered in this post. The reason you have […]

Let’s say it has been ten years since you last implemented your self-service customer portal and it’s starting to show its age. A lot has changed in the portal space since that time and you want to consider a new platform to support your ongoing digital transformation efforts. As you start to research what’s available […]