I grew up in the healthcare world watching my mother, a Black nurse for more than 50 years, as she worked in hospitals, nursing homes and other healthcare settings. Now, at 73, my mother works in an assisted living community close to patients at high risk for contracting COVID-19. Once a week, my mother undergoes […]
Digital Experience
AEM Customization: Show Unpublished Reference Alert for Content Path
Have you ever noticed that while authoring an AEM component, the component dialog box does not provide any hints or alerts for if the selected content path is published or not? This is a confusing scenario for AEM authors, especially when setting or choosing the content path in the component dialog for pathfield and xffield […]
Good Customer Service, Does it Create Good Customer Experiences?
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses have had to transform how they interact and assist their consumers completely. Many retail or consumer goods businesses have had to switch from traditional, in-person shopping experiences to digital buying. This transition is never the easiest for either party, but businesses must adapt and step up their game when accommodating […]
How Episerver B2B Commerce Cloud’s Quoting and Checkout Benefits Consumers During COVID-19
In these unprecedented times, B2B buyers want to be sure they are staying budget-conscious and aware of all the ways to get a better price on their orders. Companies need to adapt from outdated quoting methods such as in-person, door to door, and over the phone, and transition to sophisticated digital quoting and checkout. Implementing […]
Perficient Included in Gartner’s 2020 Marketing Technology Vendor Guide
Perficient was recently included as a marketing technology integrator in Gartner’s Marketing Technology Vendor Guide, 2020. This inclusion marks the second time Perficient has been listed as a sample martech integrator in the report. The Marketing Technology Vendor Guide helps marketing leaders traverse the current martech vendor landscape, identify the right marketing technology solutions to […]
How U.S. Demographic Trends Are Reshaping Healthcare Now and Forever – and Why That Matters
Among the many powerful lessons we’ve learned from the COVID-19 pandemic is the further unearthing of healthcare disparities, from the very old patient to the young and across ethnic, racial, and economic lines. No matter where you are in the United States, America’s citizenry is changing. Millennials are now the largest adult generation in the […]
Healthcare Distribution & Manufacturing Companies Will Have Another Record Year in 2021
An eMarketer article reported that “US B2B Digital Healthcare Ad Spend will grow by 41.2% in 2020 to reach $848.1 million. That is the highest growth rate out of all the sectors for which we track B2B digital ad spending.” Now, I can’t say I’m surprised by this statistic. As eMarketer accurately points out, not […]
Rise in Synthetic Experiences
As all marketers know, visual content creation can be a long and expensive process. Photo and video shoots require a big investment in time and budget and the end result may be just a single asset or a few shots for you to use. Stock footage and photography exists, but they don’t always quite fit […]
Empathy: The Business Value of Experience Design (Part 1 of 8)
This is the first in a series of blog posts sharing the results of our study on the business value of experience design. In this post, we explore the value of empathy: revealing how users think, perceive, and interact with digital products and how those product experiences help make their lives easier. The history of […]
Case Insensitive Queries with the AEM Query Builder
Recently, I needed to perform a query using the AEM Query Builder which was case insensitive. While I normally prefer using JCR SQL2 queries, in this case Query Builder was a better fit as I wanted consuming applications to be able to manipulate the query and doing so as a map is significantly easier than […]
Essential Question for Healthcare: Why Redesign Your Website?
For the vast majority of hospitals, a redesign is triggered by three events: An organizational-wide rebrand or rename Acquisition or merger with another entity Annual funding cycle catches — e.g. “it’s been too long” or “we’ve asked two budgets ago” However, this funding decision is just the starting place. Your website is the first — […]
Will Customer Experience Ever Rule the World?
I talk with a lot of companies who want to up their game in delivering a better customer experience. Yet, I’m always struck by the impediments companies always put in front of themselves that negatively affect that experience. “We can’t do that because…” is always the first part of a long set of internal issues […]