In a dynamic digital landscape, choosing the right Adobe service provider is paramount for businesses seeking to maximize their Adobe investments. The selection process can be daunting with a diverse set of providers that vary by size, type of offering, geography, and business scenario differentiation. So where do marketing leaders start? Forrester published The Adobe […]
Data & Intelligence
Data Lake Governance with Tagging in Databricks Unity Catalog
The goal of Databricks Unity Catalog is to provide centralized security and management to data and AI assets across the data lakehouse. Unity Catalog provides fine-grained access control for all the securable objects in the lakehouse; databases, tables, files and even models. Gone are the limitations of the Hive metadata store. The Unity Catalog metastore […]
Navigating AI in Business: Moving Beyond “Using AI”
In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, the role of artificial intelligence (AI) has shifted from being a mere buzzword to a strategic imperative. However, if the goal is simply to be “using AI”, we risk missing opportunities and wasting resources. To truly harness the power of AI, organizations must shift their mindset from vague aspirations […]
Feature Engineering with Databricks and Unity Catalog
Feature Engineering is the preprocessing step used to make raw data usable as input to an ML model through transformation, aggregation, enrichment, joining, normalization and other processes. Sometimes feature engineering is used against the output of another model rather than the raw data (transfer learning). At a high level, feature engineering has a lot in […]
Adobe AEMaaCS Integration with OpenAI Assistants API Demo
About the OpenAI Assistants API The OpenAI Assistants API allows you to build AI assistants within your own applications. An Assistant has instructions and can leverage models, tools, and knowledge to respond to user queries. The Assistants API is designed to help developers build powerful AI assistants capable of performing a variety of tasks. Different from […]
Perficient Listed Among Sample Vendors in Forrester Tech Tide™: Retail AI And Automation, Q1 2024
How AI and Automation are Changing the Retail Game As the digital landscape continues to evolve, retailers are increasingly turning to AI and automation to gain a competitive edge. Forrester interviewed Perficient for its recent report The Forrester Tech Tide™: Retail AI And Automation, Q1 2024 , and listed Perficient among sample vendors for Digital Experience Optimization. According to […]
Spark DataFrame: Writing to Tables and Creating Views
In this Blog Post we will see methods of writing Spark DataFrame into tables and creating views, for essential tasks for data processing and analysis. Before diving into this blog have a look at my other blog posts discussing about creating the DataFrame and manipulating the DataFrame. Creating DataFrame: https://blogs.perficient.com/2024/01/10/spark-scala-approaches-toward-creating-dataframe/ Manipulating DataFrame: https://blogs.perficient.com/2024/02/15/spark-dataframe-basic-methods/ Dataset: The […]
Data Virtualization with Oracle Enterprise Semantic Models
A common symptom of organizations operating at suboptimal performance is when there is a prevalent challenge of dealing with data fragmentation. The fact that enterprise data is siloed within disparate business and operational systems is not the crux to resolve, since there will always be multiple systems. In fact, businesses must adapt to an ever-growing […]
Perficient’s Thoughts on use of GenAI in Commerce Solutions
Revolutionizing B2C Commerce: The Impact of Generative AI In the dynamic landscape of commerce and consumer-driven markets, Business-to-Consumer (B2C) organizations are increasingly turning to generative AI to revolutionize their operations and enhance customer experiences. Generative AI, a subset of artificial intelligence, empowers these organizations to create content, personalize interactions, and optimize various aspects of their […]
Best Practices for Oracle Fusion HCM Analytics
Oracle Fusion HCM Analytics, a part of Oracle Fusion Data Intelligence Platform (DIP) (earlier known as Fusion Analytics Warehouse), equips various management levels with deep insights to effectively manage the workforce across the organization. DIP is to the most part a ready-to-use data and analytics solution that is typically implemented in a matter of weeks. […]
Exploring Databricks Dolly 2.0
What is Databricks? Databricks is a cloud-based data processing and data warehousing platform that has gained immense popularity in recent years. It was developed by the creators of Apache Spark, an open-source big data processing framework. Databricks provides a unified analytics platform that allows businesses to process and analyze large volumes of data efficiently and […]
Salesforce – Understanding the Overlap of Data Cloud and AI
In the wild world of artificial intelligence (AI), your vision of how to marry up systems and capabilities can get murky, quick. In fall of 2023, Salesforce hosted their annual expo, Dreamforce. At Dreamforce 2023, it was all about Data + AI + CRM. The team relaunched its Data Cloud platform and ensured exciting, trusted […]