? Blockchain is poised to transform the world of business, and here’s how you can leverage it. One of the amazing things about blockchain technology — and this is why there’s so much buzz surrounding it currently — is that it has so much potential to offer, and that’s true for any industry. On the […]
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Best Practices for Naming Your Company Intranet
Did you know Pepsi’s intranet name is “My PepsiCo?” Or that AT&T’s is “Access?” As a company grows, the employee base’s need to streamline communication, as well as share knowledge and consumer business information in a secure place, increases. Hence, the intranet: A single source or a destination where employees can login to connect and […]
What’s Next for Software Development Outsourcing in 2019?
Outsourcing has always been an economical solution for growing businesses looking for specialized, on-demand talent. For software development companies, being able to get products to market faster is essential to their business models, so it’s no wonder why having multiple outsourced team members and business services makes sense. With steady developments in advanced technologies and […]
The Evolution of UX and CX: Creating the Human Experience
If you’re reading this, chances are you’re a human being. You’re always human; 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. This is an indisputable fact. So why don’t companies market to you in a human way? Marketing to people as customers and users can be effective, but remembering that people […]
Leverage DevOps to Speed Up Your Digital Transformation
Improving your business processes is an important aspect of digital transformations, but so is speed and efficiency. Here’s how DevOps can help. Committing to a digital transformation is no longer an option for modern-day businesses – it’s a necessity. Being able to constantly innovate and make use of newer technology not only helps companies improve […]
eCommerce QA Testing: 5 Small Strategies for Big Quality Impact
Testing an eCommerce website before it launches is an important part of ensuring its success. Standard quality assurance (QA) processes include requirements gathering, developing test plans, executing test plans, etc., but incorporating these five strategies into your testing approach can produce big positive quality impacts without a lot of extra time or effort. 1. Require […]
User Experience: When Best Practices Are Just Bad Habits
In virtually every kickoff meeting or design review I’ve ever attended, the words “Best Practice” get brought up at least once. At their core, best practices are supposed to be the accepted rules that we as designers reference to make sure our work is the best it can be. Like minimum code in construction, best […]
Retain More Users With Chrome User Experience Report. Here’s Why.
Page speed is essential when it comes to SEO and user experience. Users expect pages to load quickly and if they don’t, they’re quick to click the “back” button. For eCommerce pages, a difference of a few seconds in load time can mean a loss of millions of dollars in revenue. Check out our recent […]
An Introduction to Sitecore 9 Forms: Creating Forms and Adding to Existing Pages
Welcome to the first installment of the Sitecore 9 Forms series. This series of articles will cover the use and customization of the new Forms module. We’ll begin with the basics and review how to create a form and add it to an existing page.
The Strategy Imperative; A Q&A With Our Commerce Chief Strategist
Perficient’s new Chief Strategist program is a way for our leading subject matter experts across Perficient and Perficient Digital to elevate client conversations – using their insights and vision to help our clients stay ahead of their competition. Mike Rabbior, our Commerce Chief Strategist, recently shared his thoughts on the new program, as well as […]
Featured Post: The Power of Autoscaling
This article first appeared in Devops.com, written by Senior Software Engineer Alejandro Calderon. Many years ago when I was interning as a software engineer, I made a mistake that could have ended my career just as it was getting started … It was my birthday, and I was given the task of loading queries to […]
Configuring Windows Services for OBIEE 11g
Introduction When Oracle Business Intelligence is started, few services will start. These are Node Manager, Admin Server, Managed Server. Starting all these services require manual effort. So these components will start once the server is restarted by a Developer or Admin person. To overcome this dependency on manual intervention, all the OBIEE services are created […]