By now, the arrival of cloud computing is a foregone conclusion. Enterprises now faced with the changing information technology landscape have employed strategies to adjust, exploring public, private, and hybrid cloud solutions. Research from IDC corroborates these activities, with the firm reporting that by 2018, more than half of IT spending will be cloud-related. Leading […]
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(Re)defining Enterprise Search
Enterprise Search is changing. It used to be defined simply as finding documents in a large corporate repository or looking up specific information from some sea of data. But Enterprise Search is transitioning to something more broad and powerful. Enterprise Search now means reducing friction in your business operations. It means finding information you didn’t […]
AEM Infrastructure Series: Disaster Recovery Basics
As I woke up this morning and turned on the coffee maker, the buttons would not work. Trying the light switch, and the lights would not turn on. Sometime during the night my power went out. I realized this was the day to write about disaster recovery for Adobe Experience Manager, but in my case […]
Create Engaging Digital Commerce Experiences
Peoples’ interactions with digital media today are ubiquitous. While the majority of digital media interactions typically facilitating either an immediate need (e.g. weather & news updates), basic entertainment (e.g. pick your favorite social media service), or increasingly to research brands and purchase products used for both personal needs and for responsibilities related to our employment, […]
AEM Infrastructure Series: Making the Case for Consistency
The Adobe Deploying and Maintaining AEM documents are an invaluable reference for the new or experienced systems administrator installing and configuring Adobe Experience Manager on premise. Despite the wealth of references, I all too often see installations that were not well thought through and result in maintenance headaches that would have been easy to […]
4 New Invaluable Translation Features in AEM 6.2
With the coming release of AEM 6.2, Adobe has released a number of very interesting updates to AEM’s translation feature. These features improve the user experience for AEM’s Translation functionality, making it easier to translate and manage localized content. I recently attended a webinar on the new translation features coming as a part of the […]
IBM Digital Marketing University – sessions in 2016
Everyone is spending money on marketing but are you connecting with your customers? Are you engaging them in the best manner and is your mix of advertising spend in line with your industry? To get answers to great question such as these and others, plan on attending the IBM Digital Marketing University 2016 Global Tour. IBM is […]
Another IBM Cloud deployment options – Forms Experience Builder
Several months ago I was in Boston for an IBM event that was under non-disclosure. One of the items previewed was plans for IBM Forms Experience Builder on Cloud. IBM has released the product and the link has a couple of important pieces of data. There is a demo from Marty Lechleider. I’ve had the opportunity to […]
IBM contributes to the blockchain Hyperledger project
I’ve written about blockchain, the technology that underpins Bitcoin on various occasions; having spent time working for a bank and supporting trading floor technology, I am interested in technologies that drive cost and complexity out of transaction. This article in the Wall Street Journal details how IBM is now the largest company support blockchain and […]
Onboarding as Part of Digital Transformation
If you have attended any of our Digital Transformation webinars, this quote will be familiar. “The realignment of, or new investment in, technology and business models to more effectively engage digital customers at every touchpoint in the customer experience life cycle.” – Altimeter In this Perficient webinar The Internal Impacts of a Digital Transformation: How to Effectively Manage Culture, Collaboration, […]
IBM Watson use in business
This article in the Wall Street Journal details how KPMG LLC plans on using IBM Watson to automate routine tasks in audits. The article explains that auditors today often take samples of a client’s transaction to validate financial statements. Sheer volume and time prevents auditors from looking at all of a company’s transactions. the goal is […]
Overview of Java Continuous Integration and Release Management
There are as many ways to versioning, building, continuous integration and release management as there are development shops, however there are some best practices and luckily these best practices also have tool support. First the players Versioning Handles the source code versions, also includes branching. Could be an old one like CVS or a newer […]