Data + Intelligence

Adobe Experience Platform (AEP) and Customer Journey Analytics (CJA) continue to emerge as the preferred solutions for organizations seeking a unified, 360‑degree view of customer behavior.  For organizations requiring HIPAA compliance, AEP and CJA is a necessity.  Many organizations are now having discussions about whether they should retool or retire their legacy Adobe Analytics implementations.  […]

For years, the Lakehouse paradigm has successfully collapsed the wall between Data Warehouses and Data Lakes. We have unified streaming and batch, structured and unstructured data, all under one roof. Yet we often find ourselves hitting a familiar, frustrating wall: the gap between the analytical plane (OLAP) and the transactional plane (OLTP). In my latest […]

Subtitle: From Critical Medical Hardware to the Apple Ecosystem, the future of mobile intelligence is local, instant, and unified. We are standing at a hardware tipping point. For the last decade, “AI” on mobile effectively meant one thing: sending data to the cloud and waiting for an answer. Especially for those chatbots, adding AI to […]

What is MCP? Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open-source standard for integrating AI applications to external systems. With AI use cases getting traction more and more, it becomes evident that AI applications tend to connect to multiple data sources to provide intelligent and relevant responses. Earlier AI systems interacted with users through Large language […]

If you’re knee-deep in building apps, you already know APIs are the backbone of everything. Testing them? That’s where the real magic happens. For years, we’ve relied on tools like Postman and Insomnia to send requests, debug issues, and keep things running smoothly. But lately, there’s a buzz about something new: Bruno. It’s popping up […]

We’re excited to announce that Perficient has been included in the “DEOT Services Provider with Other IT Services” category in the IDC Market Glance: Digital Engineering and Operational Technology Services, 4Q25 report (Doc# US53142225, December 2025). This segment includes service providers whose offerings and value proposition are focused primarily on Digital Engineering and OT services. […]

Reflecting on this year’s InsureTech Connect Conference 2025 in Las Vegas, one theme stood out above all others: the insurance industry has crossed a threshold from AI experimentation to AI expectation. With over 9,000 attendees and hundreds of sessions, the world’s largest insurance innovation gathering became a reflection of where the industry stands—and where it’s […]

As healthcare organizations accelerate toward value-based care, the ability to turn massive data volumes into actionable insights is no longer optional—it’s mission-critical. In a recent webinar, Improve Healthcare Quality with Data + AI, experts from Databricks, Excellus BlueCross BlueShield, and Perficient shared how leading organizations are using unified data and AI to improve outcomes, enhance […]

Automation has become a core part of modern work, allowing teams to reduce repetitive tasks, save time, and improve accuracy. Whether it’s generating weekly reports, organizing files, processing large amounts of data, or interacting with web applications, automation helps individuals and companies operate more efficiently. Among all programming languages used for automation, Python is one […]

I think about the early ATMs now and then. No one knew the “right” way to use them. I imagine a customer in the 1970s standing there, card in hand, squinting at this unfamiliar machine and hoping it would give something back; trying to decide if it really dispensed cash…or just ate cards for sport. […]

Sitecore has introduced the Content SDK for XM Cloud-now Sitecore AI to streamline the process of fetching content and rendering it on modern JavaScript front-end applications. If you’re building a website on Sitecore AI, the new Content SDK is the modern, recommended tool for your development team. Think of it as a specialized, lightweight toolkit […]

In the specialized field of Optical Character Recognition (OCR), a new open-source model from Datalab is setting a new benchmark for accuracy and versatility. Chandra OCR, released in October 2025, has rapidly ascended to the top of the leaderboards, outperforming even proprietary giants like GPT-4o and Gemini Pro on key benchmarks. Beyond Simple Text Extraction Chandra is not […]