Digital Experience

Last week, Google announced some astounding statistics about the success rate of their spam filtering technology in Google Mail.  Google says that less than 0.1% of email in the average user’s Gmail inbox is spam, and the rate for legitimate email ending up in the spam folder is even lower at less than %0.05. Despite these superb […]

Setting up a web crawler in the Google Search Appliance is a piece of cake — you enter a starting URL and some boundaries and let it rip.  The GSA will spider its way around until it finds every reachable page in the site.  For a well-structure site, this usually produces very good results, but not all sites […]

Maybe one day you’ll drive to work with your hands gripping a tablet instead of the steering wheel. And if Google has anything to say about it, that day will come sooner rather than later. A listing of new patents released this week from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office revealed that Google has secured […]

Since many users travel these days and want to use their down time in the airport or on the plane to read and manage their messages, one of the most requested questions I hear is, How do I setup Gmail for offline use?  To resolve this request and to kick off our weekly tips and […]

I am very pleased to announce that Chris Cook and Praveen Gullapalli have joined the elite team of Google Search Appliance (GSA) Qualified Deployment Specialists. They join existing GSA specialists Anu Pidaparti, Allen Han, Alok Gupta, Cody Coggins, Narbeh Yousefian, Shruti Sundaresh, Yogesh Dhavale, and myself. Chris and Praveen both have extensive project experience implementing some […]

How many times have you searched your corporate intranet to find a document that you know is “THERE” but you can’t find it? How many times have you searched the intranet, a shared drive, and ancillary support systems and still can’t find what you are looking for? How many times have you sent a note […]

According to recent studies by Forrester Research and Gartner, application integration along with security, are the main reasons why IT executives resist cloud-based applications. However, fueled by today’s fiercely competitive business environment, IT managers must deliver rapid, innovative and low-cost solutions to stay ahead of the competition. Companies need a solution that can run anywhere, […]

Collaboration is a topic that near and dear to my heart, both as a practitioner as well as an employee. I spent my formative years working at an international bank company, 110,000+ employees, 72 countries, back when you could tell people you worked for a bank. One of the challenges we had on a grand scale […]

Exponential growth of data is a common trend across all industries, along with the need for insights from that data. We’re seeing a large portion of data growth and complexity from the prevalence of devices, mobile, Internet of Things and cloud. Data management and analysis is no longer a competitive advantage, it’s a business necessity […]

Enlighten was acquired by Perficient Digital in December 2015 Enlighten (now Perficient Digital) today announced the launch of ThisisMichigan.com (http://thisismichigan.com), a first-of-its-kind athletics recruiting hub for the University of Michigan Athletics department. Perficient was retained by the esteemed college – which counts Google co-founder Larry Page and football great Tom Brady among its alumni – to execute […]

Last week I attended a conference with a great Forrester keynote speaker whose main topic was on Digital Transformation and the Age of the Customer. It is clear there is a new business cycle where the power has shifted back to the people and engagement will mean everything – in other words – companies must […]

John Boezeman with IBM talked at the last session of the IBM Digital Experience 2015 Conference about integration patterns using IBM Bluemix. Bluemix is a cloud based development and runtime environment that makes it easy to create and deliver services for the API economy. The services can be consumed by any system, including IBM Digital […]