Data + Intelligence

Attending MaximoWorld 2017? Drop by our booth #25 and say “hello.” We’re here and would love to talk with you about Maximo and your goals. Looking for integration help or other IBM Watson / IoT ideas? Let’s chat. We know there’s a lot to do in a short period of time and some fantastic sessions, […]

Introduction Organizations are usually posed with the challenge of turning data into valuable insights. They realize the need for utilizing increasing amounts of “Big Data” in order to compete with other organizations in terms of efficiency, speed and service. The incredible growth of event data poses new challenges. As event logs grow, data processing techniques […]

Health Data Compass supports a multi-pronged analytics initiative for breakthroughs in personalized medicine – tailored medical services based on an individual’s predicted response or risk of disease – and integrates data from two major hospital systems, a physician billing plan, and scientific laboratories at the University of Colorado Denver. Perficient helped redesign and re-platform Health […]

Wealth management firms, like many other financial services industry players, are under increased pressure to get ahead of the competition due to the increased availability of advanced analytics technology and regulatory pressure to effectively manage client portfolios. Data is rapidly becoming every company’s most valuable asset, creating a tremendous opportunity for firms that translate it […]

Introduction:   In general, the ETL (Extraction, Transformation and Loading) process is being implemented through ETL tools such as Datastage, Informatica, AbInitio, SSIS, and Talend to load data into the data warehouse. The same process can also be accomplished through programming such as Apache Spark to load the data into the database. Let’s see how it […]

Recently we published data that suggests that Google does NOT use Chrome data to discover new URLs for crawling. That surprised a lot of people because most assume that Google uses every possible source to find new content. Today, I’m publishing the results of a study that takes this process one step further. In this […]

At the recent Adobe Symposium in Chicago, I had the chance to attend a presentation by <a href=”https://twitter.com/drcedricalford?lang=en” target=”_blank” title=”Dr. Cedric D Alford, Adobe Microsoft partnership lead” rel=”noopener noreferrer”>Dr. Cedric D Alford</a>. Dr. Alford is leading the go to market strategy for the Adobe-Microsoft partnership. To this point, I have to admit, I’ve struggled to […]

Yes, I blogged about this a couple months ago, but now we’re down to the wire. Maximo World is just around the corner and for some reason I keep thinking it’s next week, but we have one more week, it’s August 1-3, 2017. Now, why 55 reasons? Well, based on the emails I received this […]

It has been a trend to employ NoSQL database in the modern application system development for either local or cloud platforms. We know that NoSQL stands for “Not the SQL relational database”, but more accurately, it is “Not only the SQL relational database.” NoSQL database can handle structured datasets well in the traditional way, but […]

Oracle Database Migration using Data Pump from an external server into an AWS EC2 instance or RDS You can use Oracle Data Pump for several scenarios in AWS: Import data from an Amazon EC2 instance with an Oracle database to an Oracle DB instance Import data from a database on an Oracle DB instance to […]

Poor Sir Laurence O’Bliviay! As an actor, he lives for press mentions, but his agent can’t find any. Are you tracking your brand mentions online? Do you know what others are saying about your company? Are you effective at getting media and influencers to talk about you? In this episode of the popular Here’s Why […]

Docker is an open platform that gives customers the ability to deploy multiple o/s containers on any give host. This allows for the deployment of multiple environments without having to incur the overhead of having a virtual machine for each environment. Docker uses Linux o/s facilities like namespaces, groups and union capable file systems to […]