An important aspect of our transformational success stories with our clients and the fantastic journey of forming the Data & Analytical Insights practice within Perficient is the collection of accelerators that Perficient has built over the years. As I am working with different departments within Perficient, I realized the incredible work that teams have done […]
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Wrapping up IMC 2016
Hope y’all had a great time at the conference this week and you were able to enjoy a little warmer weather too. How about the Casino night last night, what a great time, right? Oh and for those that stuck around for the karaoke and dancing; wow, there’s some talented people within our group. Let’s […]
Time for a Splunk Health Assessment?
Over time, a Splunk environment can become unstable due to environment complexity and configuration concerns. Common issues include distributed deployments, misconfigurations, configuration file creep, partially correct data on-boarding, poor query construction, improperly sized systems, log files containing multiple formats, date/time skew, user rights, and many other factors. Splunk environments should be reviewed on a periodic […]
Cloud Is Key To Metro Bank’s Growth Strategy
Metro Bank, a financial institution that has over 40 “stores” in Britain, has officially migrated its core banking IT infrastructure to a private cloud that will be managed by Rackspace. While the bank is only six years old, it has relied heavily on systems that were on-premises. The cost of running the applications in-house were […]
5 Ways to Build a Data Lake and not a Data Swamp
In the last 6 months, my customers and I have been on a journey with some of the largest cloud data lake vendors, open source Big Data vendors, and a team of the smartest Big Data architects that I’ve worked with in my career. As we explore this journey, often our clients are looking to […]
IMC 2016 – Day 1
It’s still early enough in the day, it’s almost like yesterday and as you can see, lots of great vendors to visit at the show. We’re here to help you with questions you might have about Maximo, Asset Management, Analytics and other business areas you might need. Stay tuned for booth setup and more pictures […]
Data Lakes vs Data Warehouses in Healthcare
In a recent post, Perficient’s Arvind Murali explained how the rise of Big Data and data lake technology is not an indication that traditional data warehousing is obsolete. There is a place for both solutions, since they address different challenges, and plenty of opportunities for integration as well. According to Gartner, there is a market […]
4 Reasons to Consider the IBM Maximo 7.6.06 Upgrade
IBM recently introduced the latest feature pack for Maximo 7.6.06. Here are the newly included items that might help you consider upgrading: Improved Workflow Designer, License Monitor, BIM, SR Work Center. The New Workflow Designer Ever had Java applet version conflicts with Maximo and other apps? Sure, we all have unfortunately. Thankfully IBM has updated […]
The Role of Data Lakes in Healthcare
According to information technology research and advisory company Gartner, there is a market shift towards hybrid approaches to data management, as companies look to solve complex challenges with a mix of alternative and traditional deployments. Healthcare providers and health plans are asking the question, “Do we need an enterprise data warehouse, a data lake, or […]
OBIEE Bundle Patch 12.2.1.0.161018 is Available
Oracle has released a new bundle patch for OBIEE 12c platforms, version 12.2.1.0.161018. The bundle patch can be found in the My Oracle Support Patches & Updates section, the direct link is here: https://support.oracle.com/rs?type=patch&id=24695761. It can be applied to OBIEE 12.2.1.1.0 and OBIEE 12.2.1.0.0. In addition to patching the OBIEE application server, developers and administrators need to […]
Governance Program Offerings – What “Stuff” Does it Produce?
If you’ve been following along with my blog series, you know that Governance is responsible for setting the framework within which information management decisions are made. This framework is not only clarifying who does what (decision rights, processes, etc.), but also the “bumpers” to keep everything under control (rules, policies, controls, etc.). All of these […]
The Great ECM Migration
Migrating content between disparate ECM systems can be a larger than expected challenge, are you ready? Enterprises today are often faced with multiple content platforms and repositories without a unifying strategy or technology to make the data actionable. They need the ability to quickly and easily access and repurpose information and make it available through […]