Introduction Coveo’s Content Recommendation Model is a machine learning feature that provides personalized content recommendations to users based on their behavior and preferences. It enhances user engagement and satisfaction by suggesting relevant information, products, or content. The model continuously learns and adapts, ensuring that recommendations remain accurate over time. Coveo’s solution integrates seamlessly, offers configuration […]
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Dreamforce Takeaways for Financial Services: Finance Top 5
Dreamforce 2023 is the largest and most anticipated Salesforce event of the year. It’s a place where Trailblazers from all over the world come together to learn, network, and be inspired. One of the key themes of this year’s conference was the future of finance. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and others talked about how AI […]
What is AI? — Learn AI Part 1
AI appears to have just been invented, looking at the buzz on socials and media. However, a keen eye would point out IBM’s Deep Blue, for example, which defeated the world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997. So what is AI? Strong Versus Weak AI Broadly classified, AI is strong or weak. Before the advent […]
Stay Agile with EPM Pipeline: Unleash Dynamic Substitution Variables
Pipeline variables are a way to feed runtime parameters to your Pipeline jobs. They can be selected from a predefined set of out-of-box variables or custom-defined. You can define values for these variables that are then used during run time by individual jobs (Read more about creating Pipeline variables in my recent blog). In this […]
AI Business Strategy: Low-Cost, High benefit
What should an AI business strategy be, and how should it implement AI tooling? Many entities struggle, finding cost, security, and benefits failing to square. Problems like the inability to collect and mobilize internal data, and cost/workflow hurdles with years of work hold companies back. If desiring a custom implementation leveraging the power of AI […]
Dreamforce Takeaways: DATA + AI + CRM for Manufacturers
Dreamforce 2023 was hyper-focused on generative AI and the ways Salesforce is making it easy to take advantage of the benefits – especially for manufacturers. Oftentimes, the thought of artificial intelligence (AI) is accompanied by fears of the unknown and insecurities around data sharing. Salesforce is helping demystify those notions and build trust with the […]
Data – The Lifeblood of Artificial Intelligence
With all the hype around artificial intelligence (AI), AI can feel complicated, distant, or foreign. But guess what? It’s not new news and it doesn’t need to be complicated; it’s just a revolution of how we leverage data! Let’s take a quick dive into the data-driven universe of AI. For the purposes of this article, […]
Nine Key Takeaways from Dreamforce 2023
Last week, Perficient attended the largest AI event in the world, Dreamforce, in San Francisco. During the three-day conference, 40,000 Salesforce partners, clients, and vendors got together to hear from Salesforce leadership, industry experts, clients, and a handful of celebrities, as well as get hands-on experience with the Salesforce platform. Fueled by generative AI, IDC […]
ITC 2023 in Vegas – Are You Ready, Insurers? (We Are!)
The world’s largest gathering of insurance innovation, InsureTech Connect (ITC), is right around the corner. And our team of industry experts is excited to connect, collaborate, and address the most pressing business needs of national and regional carriers. Following last year’s conference, Perficient Insurance Principal Brian Bell shared three key takeaways from the 2022 event: […]
Power BI & Excel Connectivity: Scenarios Which Can Break Dashboard
Background Excel is the most used spreadsheet software in today’s era, used by every level of organization. Quite a huge amount of unorganized data is maintained in Excel workbooks, owing to ease of quick creation, storage & sharing of Excel files over database. Resultant many of the Power BI reports / dashboards are based on […]
Overriding Optimizely’s Content Recommendations Block to Implement Custom Recommendations
Introduction The Content Recommendations add-on for Optimizely CMS dynamically recommends content from your site tailored to the interests of each user. Installing the NuGet Package will give you access to Optimizely’s Content Recommendations Block which uses Mustache Templating to render the data from the Content Recommendations API on a page. Although Mustache Templates provide a […]
Tackling Healthcare Staffing Shortages with Salesforce and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Aging populations and staff burnout combine to create a perfect storm for the U.S. healthcare staffing shortage The global population is top-heavy with more than 1 in every 6 Americans falling in the 65 or older age range (AARP, 2023). As the population ages and we see a continued increase in patients with more than […]