Sean Dickson (Adobe) and Kathleen (Intuit) presented at Adobe Summit 2015 on identity management. This becomes increasingly important with the proliferation of both channels/devices and services (think all the services in the Adobe Marketing Cloud) Mapping the customer journey and marketing touchpoints in the cross-device ecosystem is critical to understanding the path to conversion. The data management […]
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Adobe Summit: Personalization and Profitability Adobe Target
Russell Lewis (Adobe) and Daniel Stubs (Conde Nast) spoke at Adobe Summit 2015 about how to combine a variety of tools for a personalized experience. A testing solution and personalization engine are only as effective as the quality of data fed to them. Combine the powerful data aggregation and audience mining capabilities of Adobe AudienceManager […]
Google Search Appliance Connector Development: Discovery Phase
Sorry… this post is not going to teach you how to build a connector. Maybe next time. Instead, I am going back a little earlier in the process. I want to describe the process for qualifying our ability to build a new connector in the first place. How do we estimate the level of effort? How do we […]
How to retrieve password for GSA connectors?
Sometimes you may need know the password used to configure a connector. Here is simple Java program that can be used to do that. Please note this only works for GSA 3.x connector. public class DecrpytConnectorPassword { private static String fullPahtToCMKeyStore = “connector_manager.keystore”; private static String fullPahtToConnectorPorperties = “myConnector.properties”; public static void main(String[] args) throws […]
Wooing the Connected consumer ….@IBMInterConnect 2015
It was a great week at IBM Interconnect with so many great sessions to choose from, activities to participate in, and networking to be had. I want to share my thoughts on one session in particular that was of interest – Carter’s “Creating a Smarter Shopping Experience”. During the session I was reflecting on all […]
Is Customer Experience the Top Digital Trend for 2015?
If you listen to over 6,000 business professionals, the answer would be YES! Econsultancy, in association with Adobe has produced a Digital Trends report every year for the last several years. This year’s report, Digital Trends 2015, says Customer Experience is the top, single most exciting opportunity in the digital marketing world. 22% of the survey […]
Moving to the Cloud, does it take a leap of faith?
Decision makers today are all about the bottom line, how can we increase productivity while still lowering operational costs? These are typically mutually exclusive goals, but does it have to be that way? Reducing costs may not maximize profits, if we consider technologies that increase production efficiency and we agree that greater productivity is a direct […]
Hearing from the UrbanCode Deploy adopters @IBMInterconnect
This was a Q&A with a panel of customer experts who deliver continuously, one of which was Perficient’s own JP Morgenthal! There were over a hundred folks in this session grilling the panel about implementation details including use cases, skill development, process improvements, reporting and governance, business benefits and more. JP explained among a lot of other […]
How-To: Using AD groups to manage Rational ClearCase VOB access
At the client I’m currently with, we use a very simple and straightforward mechanism to manage access to the various ClearCase VOB repositories. It only takes a minimal amount of work to implement for a particular VOB. I haven’t seen it documented anywhere, and I’m sure it would be useful at other shops that have the same setup. […]
IBM Interviews Perficient at PartnerWorld Leadership Conference
David Barnes, Program Director of IBM Strategy, chats with Perficient’s Rick Klein at the IBM PartnerWorld Leadership Conference. David and Rick discuss Perficient’s recent IBM Beacon Award win, our Health Analytics Gateway product and the importance of partners in creating comprehensive IBM software solutions for the marketplace.
Performance Testing Framework for Websphere Message Broker
With this post, I will cover performance testing framework for Websphere Message Broker. Tools Used: Tools used to do the performance testing of ESB interfaces: Jmeter SupportPac IS03 The following section will brief the tools that are used in the ESB Performance test plans. Jmeter: Jmeter is an open source Apache Software used for load […]
IBM Interconnect Preview
Next week is IBM’s InterConnect event in Las Vegas. With so many recent developments surrounding IBM’s efforts in cloud and DevOps, I’m looking forward to getting some clarity and the opportunity to get hands on with some of the technology. As a business partner I have the added opportunity to attend their Tech Academy prior […]