An exciting start to Elastic{on} here in San Francisco, It started with a damp Pacific Northwest hug and a big thank you to the community of users and developers who make Elastic what it is. For elastic as a search company, all of these use cases are search… This is the twist you see us […]
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Western Alliance Bank Innovates with Oracle Cloud [Webinar Q&A]
In a recent Perficient webinar, How Western Alliance Bank is Innovating with Oracle Cloud, attendees were treated to not one, but two speakers from Western Alliance Bank! Andrew Boucher, vice president market risk management, and Valentino Hafalia, vice president of FP&A discussed the challenges with the legacy environment and benefits realized with consolidated analytics as […]
MongoDB 4.0 will Support Multiple Document Transactions
In the middle of February 2018 during the Chinese spring festival holiday, we received the following news from the MongoDB community: “MongoDB 4.0 will add support for multi-document transactions, making it the only database to combine the speed, flexibility, and power of the document model with ACID guarantees.” We know that ACID is a very […]
3 Key Considerations for Implementing IBM’s Unified Data Model
Healthcare organizations have been implementing the IBM UDMH (Unified Data Model for Healthcare) for the last seven years because they realize that connecting critical data helps gain insight into improving care, controlling risk, managing population health and providing accurate reporting both internally and externally. To reap these benefits, there is a critical need to plan […]
Recap: What’s Next After Google Search Appliance?
There have been numerous questions posed with the sunset of Google Search Appliance (GSA) at the end of 2018, especially for organizations who depend on the platform for enterprise search and for search functionality on their public-facing websites. Combined with the popularity of cloud-deployed solutions, this presents a unique challenge for organizations looking to replace […]
5 Reasons Why Nero is the Top Google Search Appliance Alternative
Nero is Perficient’s solution for customers looking for a Google Search Appliance (GSA) replacement. Built on open source technology by Perficient’s experienced enterprise search practice, Nero is positioned as the best product on the market for customers looking to rip and replace the GSA once it goes out of support in 2019. These five reasons […]
5 Reasons to Spend Time in Las Vegas and Attend IBM Think
Many of you may might recall a similar event, until so recently called Pulse or even InterConnect from previous years. This year IBM has enhanced the conference to include even more, but no mention of steak knives (sorry, I couldn’t resist). The date has changed a little since previous years, but it’s still most likely […]
Finding the Optimal Alternative to the Google Search Appliance
Google decided to sunset the Google Search Appliance over the next several years, leaving a gap in the enterprise search space for organizations dependent on it for their public website search and secure internal search. New hardware sales stopped in 2017, license renewals for Google Search Appliance customers phase out in 2018, and support ends […]
IBM Watson Improves Transitions of Care for High-Risk Patients
It is hard to believe we are less than a month away from #HIMSS18, where the world connects for health. This years conference will take place at the Sands Expo and Convention Center in Las Vegas, March 5-9. At this year’s event, I will be co-presenting a session with Jennifer Kotwicki, Director of Operations, BayCare […]
Top 3 Features for Health Plans Using IBM UDMH 9.3
Recently my colleague, Bill Dempsey published a blog post on the 3 best features for health plans using IBM UDMH 9.3. In his article Bill discusses claims, labor, and health plan enhancements. The IBM Unified Data Model for Healthcare (UDMH) v9.3, released in fall 2017, delivers a number of new or updated features for clinical […]
Predicting the Top 3 Trends at #HIMSS18
What happens in Vegas from March, 5-9, 2018, at the Venetian-Palazzo-Sands Expo Center, hopefully won’t stay in Vegas. The Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference has returned to Sin City! Roughly 45,000 health professional, from across the globe are expected to attend this year and given the current state of healthcare, we are […]
The Benefits of Using Cloud-Based Platforms for Data Science
As everything in this world matures and goes through the steps of evolution, Data Science is not much different. Even though it became more affordable for the companies to jump on the Data Science bandwagon and generate quick wins, Volume, Velocity, and Variety are still the bottleneck for most of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) projects. […]