This article was first published in LATAM Tech by Arjun Harindranath, and an edited version appears below. Walking through the industrial district of Itagui in Medellín, you’d never imagine that behind the doors of Perficient Latin America’s new office spaces lies a modern, extravagant office bedecked with designer furniture, obligatory plant walls and tucked-away nap […]
Software Development
Data Science vs Data Analytics
Data seems to be on everyone’s mind these days from retail giants to healthcare professionals and travel agencies, organizations are looking for ways to collect and analyze data and apply insights to build more customer-responsive brands. It’s not hard to believe that there is such a strong focus on data considering that 90% of the […]
Featured Post: Hiring the Modern Programmer
This article first appeared in Entrepreneur.com written by Perficient Latin America’s Laura Navarro. With our ever-increasing technological dependence, modern society has placed a major premium on STEM careers and other technical backgrounds. This has rung especially true amidst the current talent shortage of programmers, data scientists and engineers. However, in focusing on developing software — […]
The Realities of Digital Transformation
?A new report by Alfresco, Digital Transformation: disrupt or be disrupted, casts an interesting light on the state of Digital Transformation at enterprises in the United States and the United Kingdom. Namely, that most IT stakeholder respondents believe organizations are taking too long to implement digital transformation initiatives, leaving the majority of small and medium […]
Blockchain Part 2: How It’s Being Used
Now that you have a better idea of what blockchain technology actually is, we want to outline how organizations and individuals are using it. The case studies below help to illustrate just how disruptive this technology can be to a number of industries, and how it’s providing greater security and control over exchanges. How is […]
Blockchain Part 1: An Intro to Blockchain Technologies
Before it completely changes the world around you, you need to better understand blockchain technology, what it is, and why it matters. Blockchain technology is essentially a digital, decentralized public ledger that will transform the world as we know it in many ways. And you will be forgiven for thinking this was nothing more than […]
Featured Post | Microservices – Unraveling the Mystery
More and more companies are looking to orient to a microservices architecture as their business processes and interactions become more complex and exist on a grand scale. For those of you that are new to the game, microservices provide a software architecture that organizes applications as modular services. A microservices-oriented architecture seeks to deploy applications […]
Colombia & IoT: Featuring Sebastian Velez, Head of Technology at Perficient Latin America
This article first appeared in Nearshore Americas, by Matt Kendall. Key technology stakeholders in Colombia are driven by the huge potential of IoT, developing a growing ecosystem that is positioning the country at the vanguard of IoT development in the region. At an estimated approximate value of US$170 billion in 2017, the global Internet of […]
Featured Post: The Importance of Outsourcing
This article first appeared in Gigastartups, written by Samuel Brake Guia. All business aim to add value in one way or another whether it is through marketing, finance, PR or by some other means this is their value proposition. But a company which strives to cover every area, either for their clients or for themselves, […]
Agile Best Practices: Interview with Perficient Latin America VP of Business Development
The Sociable’s editor in chief Tim Hinchliffe sat down with VP of Business Development, Alejandro Vasquez, to talk more about agile best practices. Perficient Latin America delivers high-quality software engineering solutions by mastering advanced processes and technologies, such as big data, machine learning, and DevOps, among others. Additionally, Perficient Latin America is currently Colombia’s leading IT outsourcing services […]
Cloud Delivery Models Explained
You’ve decided to work in the cloud, or you are moving your operations to a different cloud-provider and think you should change your strategy for using the cloud, either way, understanding cloud delivery models can go a long way in helping you make the most of your choice to commit to the cloud. The ways in […]
Want to Build Scable Applications in the Cloud? Use the Twelve-Factor App Methodology
You might not have heard of the twelve-factor app methodology, but for any developer that has had to construct an application that can be deployed on any cloud platform, twelve-factor app is a leading methodology for creating scalable, versatile apps. By developing applications with the 12 factors, you can create applications that can be deployed […]