Machine Intelligence

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. […]

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 […]

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere. Every month brings new features promising “deeper thinking” and “agentic processes.” Tech titans are locked in trillion-dollar battles. Headlines scream about business, economic, and societal concerns. Skim the news and you’re left excited and terrified! Here’s the thing: we’re still human – virtues, flaws, quirks, and all. We’ve always had […]

Turn on CNBC during almost any trading day and you’ll see and hear plenty of AI buzz that sounds great, and may look great in a deck, but falls short in regulated industries. For financial services firms, AI must do two things at once: unlock genuine business value and satisfy strict compliance, privacy, and audit […]

The Rise of AI in Banking AI adoption in banking has accelerated dramatically. Predictive analytics, generative AI, and autonomous agentic systems are now embedded in core banking functions such as loan underwriting, compliance including fraud detection and AML, and customer engagement.  A recent White Paper by Perficient affiliate Virtusa Agentic Architecture in Banking – White […]

Introduction Imagine just as you’re sipping your Monday morning coffee and looking forward to a hopefully quiet week in the office, your Outlook dings and you see that your bank’s primary federal regulator is demanding the full input – regulatory report lineage for dozens of numbers on both sides of the balance sheet and the […]

In this episode of “What If? So What?”, Jim Hertzfeld sits down with Wally Burchfield, former senior executive at GM, Nissan, and Nissan United, to explore what’s driving transformation in the automotive industry and beyond.   Wally’s perspective is clear: in a world obsessed with automation and data, the companies that win will be the ones that stay […]

The headlines are troubling but predictable. The Trump administration will launch a program next year to find out how much money an artificial intelligence algorithm could save the federal government by denying care to Medicare patients. Meanwhile, a survey of physicians published by the American Medical Association in February found that 61% think AI is […]

We’re proud to share that Perficient’s What If? So What? podcast has been named a Gold Stevie® Award winner in the Technology Podcast category at the 22nd Annual International Business Awards®. These awards are among the world’s top honors for business achievement, celebrating innovation, impact, and excellence across industries. Winners were selected by more than […]

Drupal 11’s AI Features: What They Actually Mean for Your Team If you’ve been following the Drupal community lately, you’ve probably heard about the excitement with AI in Drupal 11 and the new Drupal AI Initiative. With over $100,000 in funding and 290+ AI modules already available, this will be a game changer. But here’s […]

Empathy, Resilience, Innovation, and Speed: The Blueprint for Intelligent Healthcare Transformation Forrester’s recent report, Becoming An Intelligent Healthcare Organization Is An Attainable Goal, Not A Lost Cause, confirms what healthcare executives already know: transformation is no longer optional. Perficient is proud to be quoted in this research, which outlines a pragmatic framework for becoming an […]

Perficient has officially announced a groundbreaking partnership with WRITER, the leader in agentic AI for the enterprise. This 360-degree collaboration marks a pivotal moment in our AI-first journey, combining WRITER’s powerful end-to-end agent platform with Perficient’s deep consulting expertise to deliver scalable, secure, and transformative AI solutions to the Global 2000.  To explore the significance […]