Data & Intelligence

In the dynamic realm of investment management, maintaining a competitive edge is paramount. Our client, a dynamic, independent investment management and strategic advisory firm, recognized the rising significance of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) metrics in shaping investment decisions and reporting. ESG became a cornerstone in our client’s investor relations strategy. The firm needed to […]

In the fast-paced landscape of today’s business environment, organizations are constantly evolving to meet the ever-changing needs of their customers. However, the traditional Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems that once served as the backbone for managing customer data and interactions are now struggling to keep up. Recently, Perficient hosted a roundtable discussion with marketing leaders […]

Perficient is at the forefront of managing and developing applications for numerous clients in the healthcare sector. This article focuses on pharmacy benefits management (PBM) organizations, including: Challenges faced by PBMs Value PBMs provide How Perficient leverages its talent pool of business analysts, developers, architects, and process managers to provide technical solutions to address industry […]

The Essence of a Metric Store: A metric store is a centralized repository designed explicitly for managing metrics definitions and data. Sitting snugly between your upstream data warehouses and downstream business applications, this innovative layer fundamentally transforms how metrics are handled. It’s a pivotal component in a headless BI architecture, enabling metrics to be defined […]

Introduction  In this blog, we will show you how to build a conversational search application that can interact with Azure Cognitive Search (ACS) and retrieve relevant content from a web-scraped index by asking natural language questions, requesting for summary information, and using vector search. The application will also use OpenAI embeddings, which are pre-trained models […]

Introduction In the previous blog post, we showed you how to scrap a website, extract its content using Python, and store it in Azure Blob Storage. In this blog post, we will show you how to use the Azure Blob data and store it in Azure Cognitive Search (ACS) along with vectors. We will use […]

Introduction The web is a vast source of information, but it is not always easy to access and use for natural language applications. In this blog post, we will show you how to crawl and scrape the target URL, extract and clean the content, and store it in Azure Blob Storage. We will use Python […]

Last week, Google announced Gemini, its groundbreaking multimodal AI model designed to push the boundaries of performance and versatility in AI technology. This means it can generalize and understand; operate across platforms; and is trained across different types of information, including text, code, audio, image, and video. It’s also the most flexible AI model yet […]

Now that the dust has settled, the team has had the chance to Re:flect on the events and announcements of AWS re:Invent 2023. Dominating the conversation was the advancement and capabilities of Generative AI across several AWS Services, while not losing sight on the importance of application modernization and cloud migration. Perficient walked away with […]

In the rapidly evolving world of technology, one phenomenon has been capturing the imagination of creators across many fields – the magic of generative AI. In this blog, we explore the enchanting world of generative AI and learn how it can ignite the spark that fuels innovation and creativity. Generative AI is a type of […]

Getting started in the “Headless BI” (Business Intelligence) world can be an exciting and transformative journey for any organization. If you’re new to this concept, don’t worry! This post will guide you through the basics and offer practical steps to kickstart your Headless BI journey. Understanding Headless BI Firstly, let’s demystify the term. Headless BI […]

Introduction Automatic Speech recognition: In the world of artificial intelligence, one of the most fascinating advancements is the ability to convert spoken language into written text. This process, known as Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), has a wide range of applications, from transcription services and voice assistants to real-time captioning and more. In this blog post, […]