Innovation and Product Development

When you hear a conversation happening in a language that you are not fluent in, you may catch a word or two but grasp enough to get an understanding of what is being discussed. A non-technical person may feel the same way during a technical discussion, even if the conversation is being held in their […]

At Perficient you are surrounded by supportive colleagues, but your first billable project as a new hire can still feel daunting. These are just a few essential tips and tricks learned from my first project experience and things to expect transitioning to a career as a consultant. Tip #1: Confidence is Key One of the […]

DataStage has several in-built macros and do not require any arguments. DataStage macros can be used to get information about current job, job control routines, filename and table names, and before/after subroutines and stages belonging to the current job. DataStage ETL Tool: – DataStage is a commonly used ETL tool in the current market. It […]

Imagine as a Quality Analyst, you begin your day of testing. You log into Sitecore Content Editor, create a page, name it, and open it in Experience Editor but receive a white screen “Our Services are unavailable.” You investigate and see a deployment happening to your environment, which is DEV. All this has taken 10 […]

Create Template: Click the Solution Center icon (plus sign) in the left navigation. Then, on the top left of the screen, you’ll see the different options. ex. Create and Import options. Click on Create option, and there you’ll see the eight options that are Grid, Project, Cards, Task List, Form, Report, and Dashboard/Portal. Select the […]

In part 1 of this series, we examined some considerations when looking to upgrade your Content Cloud instance to V12.  If you are reading this post, you have likely made up your mind it is something you want to do.  The #1 difficulty you will encounter in discussing with your stakeholders is cost.  Whether this […]

Nowadays, customers have high expectations; they want a fast, reliable, and smooth e-commerce experience across multiple devices, especially on mobile. Headless e-commerce solutions such as SAP Commerce Cloud Composable Storefront (also known as Spartacus) provide best-in-class technologies and practices to ease the creation of these experiences while supporting complex selling models. There are numerous reasons […]

Moving to version 12 is for most developers, architects, and key decision makers the largest upgrade undertaking you have had to take in your time on the platform.  Optimizely prides itself on continuous releases & the ability to upgrade a solution in an affordable and timely fashion.  In this 2-part series we will present the […]

Many projects need to import data. I have found it to be a painful process every time. Each import is custom and requires custom code. There are parts of the process that are the same each time (connecting with source data, reading data, creating a new item, avoiding duplicates, updating existing items). I wanted to […]

What is Facet Search? Facet search is a way to filter content dynamically. It comes with multiple filters at the same time for the various attributes of the content. Facets will also display the number of matched results next to them. It works with the Drupal core and search API. Facet 3.0.x works with drupal […]

Regarding Drupal projects, PHPStan is a great command line tool for seeing how your PHP code is doing without running it. It’s great for finding potential bugs other tools and unit tests couldn’t find. There is a small problem that PHPStan does not know how to interpret Drupal plugins, entities, controllers, or other Drupal architecture […]

Boomi Introduction Boomi is a cloud-based integration platform that allows businesses to easily and quickly connect their various applications, data, and systems. It offers a wide range of scalable and flexible integration capabilities, such as data integration, application integration, and API management, to integrate on-premises and cloud-based applications. Boomi is used for creating and deploying […]