Digital Experience

I am very excited to show Perficient’s demo for Adobe Summit. We have created a mobile app based on the Adobe Digital Marketing technologies outlined in my AEM Mobile blog post. This app brings together many parts of Adobe Experience Manager and the Adobe Marketing Cloud to produce a mobile app that can be easily authored […]

March Madness is in full swing. Completing your bracket probably involved some tough decisions. Did you pick the favorites over the underdogs? Big schools vs. small? How about taking into account injuries or the age of the players? Evaluating enterprise search platforms can be complicated, too. There are numerous products in the marketplace with a range […]

Beyond superior product offerings, a positive customer experience is an integral component of satisfaction and retention. This was the story of a regulated electric utility company in operation for over 100 years with almost a million customers in the southeastern region of the United States. Over time, the company had developed a network of separate […]

The webinar combines one of my favorite speakers, Luis Benitze, with a topic that has been core to me for some years now: business collaboration and specifically IBM Connections. Luis is teaming up with Badgeville, a business partner focused on gamification and driving additional user engagement. IBM has been focused how work is changing and […]

March is one of my favorite months. It’s a time of renewal, hope, and rejuvenation, with clocks being pushed forward an hour alongside the arrival of Spring. Being a sports fan, March is a great month for college basketball and March Madness, as well as the arrival of the professional baseball season. Around this time, the […]

For the first time, a computer has beaten a world champion in the game of Go.  Google’s DeepMind program defeated grandmaster Lee Sedol after a three and a half hour battle.  This accomplishment was once considered impossible, given the complexity of the game and the sheer number of permutations possible in the game. What I […]

Last year Google introduced groundbreaking image recognition technology as part of their release of Google Photos.  Deep neural networks could identify objects, people and places inside of photographs with astonishing accuracy, completely autonomously. As fascinating as this technology is, I was certain that Google would keep it locked away inside their own products like Google Photos and Google Drive […]

Last week I was starting to design a new demonstration environment for our Search and Knowledge Discovery practice. It would simulate a search application for a high tech call center, searching across a customer support case repository. I was having difficultly coming up with a scenario that would be applicable to a wide audience and include all of the diverse features that I […]

“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” – Henry Ford Perficient is built upon a foundation of successful collaboration with our partners. It is with great pride and excitement that we announce the elevation of Adobe to an Enterprise Partner. This distinction is reserved for our largest and strongest […]

When you think about the picture of a garage it often brings images of grease, oil, tools and cars. At the IBM Interconnect 2016 conference this week IBM released a new methodology called IBM Bluemix Garage. I had the pleasure of sitting in a session led by Rachel Reinitz – IBM Distinguished Engineer & CTO IBM Bluemix Garage. […]

The topic of migrating from one enterprise search platform to another has come up a few times in recent weeks because of the news discussed here. Migrations of any kind can be painful.  The new search platform will work differently, in unexpected ways, and it will take a while to fully understand those differences.  The new platform will have quirks […]

The IBM InterConnect 2016 energetic day 2 general session focused on IT transformation. The session discussed factors and real-life examples of how company’s culture and IT has and must transform. Some of the key messaging included data, security, APIs, cloud and application integration. Speakers included: Caleb Barlow, IBM VP WW Portfolio Marketing, IBM Security Harriet […]