Healthcare ecommerce has seen consistent growth over the past decade, and during the last couple of years, the Amazon effect within the healthcare space has caught everyone’s attention. Even though B2B healthcare companies have generally been quick to adapt to elevate digital and technological maturity, the involvement of marketplaces in the healthcare sector exposed the […]
DevSecOps – Canary Deployment Pattern
The Canary Deployment Pattern, or canary release, is a DevSecOps deployment strategy that minimizes risk by targeting a limited audience. As with all deployment patterns, the goal is to introduce the newly deployed system to the users with as least risk and in as secure a manner as possible. As noted below, the motivation of […]
Don’t Fall Short When Assessing Your Customer Experience Tech
Customer experience leaders continue to look for ways to improve their customer experience technologies. These leaders understand that as expectations evolve, competitors try to jump ahead, and other companies invent new capabilities, they must also evolve their capabilities. Assessing your technology stack with respect to customer experience is essential to making sure your technology is […]
Striking a New Chord of Career Success in Consulting
Some people are lucky enough to fall into a career they love and stick to it for their whole lives. However, many of us (myself included) have done complete 180s in search of finding a career we are not only good at, but enjoy. Here at Perficient, I’ve found that a lot of us have […]
Building Better B2B Commerce Experiences with CPQ
What is CPQ? In the B2B industry, complicated products and a large catalog can make providing a quote a lengthy process, often generating inaccurate product configurations and quotes. The same order may vary in price depending on factors like your relationship with the client, the promotions you’re offering, product bundles, accounts with recurring orders, and […]
Keep Your Fish Warm: Event-Driven Architecture on OpenShift
Typically, the idea of container orchestration is associated with DevOps, and while IT departments have quickly adopted the tech for OPS, the development part has been misunderstood and underrated. With the array of OpenShift tools at a developers’ disposal, it’s time to deliver on the premise of DevOps and bring power back to the developers. […]
Using Cloud to Solve Healthcare Pain Points
This is the second post in a series on Google healthcare capabilities. To read the first post, click here. With the healthcare industry having to quickly jump on the cloud bandwagon with telehealth recently, it is becoming apparent that a new norm is (in my millennial opinion, finally) emerging. This begs the question – how […]
Trust models in distributed ledgers
Consensus, getting distributed processes to agree on a single value, is a fundamental problem in computer science. Distributed processing is difficult. In fact, there are logical proofs that show pretty conclusively that there won’t be a single perfect algorithm for handling consensus in an asynchronous system made of imperfect nodes. As long as there is […]
AWS and Red Hat Team Up for Joint OpenShift Offering
I love cross-pollination among technology alliances. The announcement this week from AWS and Red Hat to bring managed OpenShift to AWS cloud has me thinking about other great combos such as chips and salsa, or the sun and moon, or Simon & Garfunkel. According to this Forrester article by Jay McBain, 73% of B2B buyers […]
14 Reasons Why You Should Grow Your Pega Career at Perficient
If you’ve driven a car, used a credit card, submitted a claim, or performed countless other everyday tasks, you’ve likely interacted with Pega. But what is it like to build those solutions, and better yet, why would someone want to build those solutions as part of the Pega team at Perficient? According to our clients, […]
3D Camera Movement in Three.js – I Learned the Hard Way So You Don’t Have To
Recently, I faced a situation where I needed to create a navigable 3D house within a website. In this house, a user would be able to look around a room by clicking and dragging their point of view, similar to street view on Google Maps. Additionally, there would be clickable hotspots that would allow the […]
Performance Optimization: Minify HTML in Znode 9.X Ecommerce Framework SDK
Speed is an important aspect of any website’s performance. Currently, there is a need for a solution to improve the upload speed of pages on ecommerce website. To address this, we created an elegant solution using asp.net MVC and C# language implemented (by removing the white space in our generated HTML) on the client of […]