Digital Experience

In mid-December, I attended the Adobe Worldwide Sales Conference in Las Vegas. It’s a time when Adobe invites its entire sales organization – along with Adobe’s key partners – to discuss the past year’s performance, celebrate the major sales successes, and layout the company’s sales and product strategies for the next year. As Forrester & […]

Just for curiosity’s sake and this blog, I looked up the definition of ‘cache’ [as used in computer science]. Most sources define it as “…a component that transparently stores data so that future requests for that data can be served faster “.  The part about served faster reminded me of an old adage. It goes like this. […]

Perficient’s Michael Porter and Mark Polly have been feverishly posting updates from the ground at IBM Connect in Orlando. There is a lot of information, so let’s jump into it: Successfully Piloting Social Business Software Tufts Health Plan – Creating a World Class Experience Digital Experiences Critical to Healthcare Industry Success Healthcare Portals: 5 Core […]

If you are fortunate to be attending IBM Connect right now, you know just how exciting some of sessions are. Mark Polly and Michael Porter have been the eyes and ears of Perficient at IBM Connect and have posted several articles about the buzz around social, cloud and data security. Follow these links to get […]

One of the most asked questions in a project from the client was how feasible is it to use Database as the intermediary transport layer for Websphere Message Broker. No doubt there is a long term benefit in using WMQ but the question is more short sighted as per the immediate benefits of leveraging the […]

Michael Porter, Principal at Perficient, is currently blogging his way through IBM Connect over on our Portals blog. Follow the links to learn about all of the sessions he’s attending: The Future of Enterprise Computing and trends in social Helping CMO’s Improve a Customer Digital Experience where he delves into a day in the life of a […]

Brendon Jones, Senior Solutions Architect at Perficient, recently wrote a blog post on some recent improvements to SmartCloud for Social Business: On Monday (13th December 2014) IBM released an update to SmartCloud for Social Business with a focus on improving the Meetings and Chat User Interface. The new capabilities are available to SmartCloud Engage and […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Adobe is making a name for itself in the area of digital marketing.  Marketers know that data is necessary to make key decisions and I’m glad to see Adobe providing leadership in this area. When it comes to data about mobile usage, Adobe has published their State of Mobile study on their website, available to […]