Faced with rising patient volumes, care complexity, and financial and labor pressures, healthcare organizations are looking at new ways to deliver better outcomes more efficiently. Intelligent automation (IA) has emerged as a powerful solution for achieving operational excellence and enhancing decision-making. This is the first installment of our Intelligent Automation in Healthcare blog series, where […]
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Part 2 – Marketing Cloud Personalization and Mobile Apps: Tracking Items
In the first part of this series, we covered how to connect a mobile app to Marketing Cloud Personalization using Salesforce’s Mobile SDK. In this post, we’ll explore how to send catalog items from the mobile app to your dataset. What’s new on the DemoApp? Since the last post, I made some changes in the […]
Elevating API Automation: Exploring Karate as an Alternative to Rest-Assured
Karate, according to Karate Labs, is the only open-source tool that unifies API test automation, mocks, performance testing, and UI automation into a single framework. Using Behavior Driven Development (BDD) syntax enables easy scenario writing, even for non-programmers. With built-in assertions, a reporting mechanism, and parallel test execution, Karate streamlines project development and maintenance by […]
Transforming Your Data Strategy with Databricks Apps: A New Frontier
I’ve been coding in notebooks for so long, I forgot how much I missed a nice, deployed application. I also didn’t realize how this was limiting my solution space. Then I started working with Databricks Apps. Databricks Apps are designed to extend the functionality of the Databricks platform, providing users with enriched features and capabilities […]
Exploring the Free Edition of Databricks: A Risk-Free Approach to Enterprise AI
Databricks announced a full, free version of the platform at the Data and AI Summit. While the Free Edition is targeted to students and hobbyists, I also see opportunities where enterprise architects can effectively evangelize Databricks without going through Procurement for a license. Choosing the right platform to manage, analyze, and extract insights from massive […]
Advantages of Tokenization Documented with Apple Pay
This blog is offered to readers who may be interested in seeing how Apple Pay fits into their payment priorities. Whether executives of merchants or financial intuitions, Apple Pay is an ultra-secure global payment platform too large to ignore. I noted recently while paying for my morning coffee and donut (shh, don’t tell the wife) […]
AI-First Transformation Strategy Unfolds at the 3M Open
Perficient Leads with Strategy at the 3M Open AI may dominate the executive agenda—but for many organizations, it’s failing to deliver real transformation. While 84% of CIOs list AI as a top business priority, just 11% have achieved full-scale adoption, and only 12% of employees feel properly trained. The result? AI initiatives stall, internal skepticism […]
Reducing Barriers Across Industries Through Inclusive Design
Designing for accessibility doesn’t belong to one field—it spans every corner of our lives. From healthcare to education, tech to transportation, inclusive design solutions have the power to remove barriers industry by industry, improving outcomes, access, and engagement for everyone. Let’s explore how inclusive design is reshaping entire sectors by proactively breaking down barriers. Healthcare: […]
Solutions That Benefit Everyone – Why Inclusive Design Matters for All
Too often, accessibility is seen as something only for people with disabilities, but the reality is that inclusive design solutions make life easier for everyone. When we design with diversity in mind, we create features that enhance usability, improve convenience, and increase efficiency across different environments and industries. Instead of treating accessibility as a separate […]
Exploring Lakebase: Databricks’ Next-Gen AI-Native OLTP Database
Lakebase is Databricks‘ OLTP database and the latest member of its ML/AI offering. Databricks has incorporated various components to support its AI platform, including data components. The Feature Store has been available for some time as a governed, centralized repository that manages machine learning features throughout their lifecycle. Mosaic AI Vector Search is a vector […]
Lakeflow: Revolutionizing SCD2 Pipelines with Change Data Capture (CDC)
Several breakthrough announcements emerged at DAIS 2025, but the Lakeflow updates around building robust pipelines had the most immediate impact on my current code. Specifically, I can now see a clear path to persisting SCD2 (Slowly Changing Dimension Type 2) tables in the silver layer from mutable data sources. If this sentence resonates with you, […]
Unleashing the Power of AI Functions in Databricks SQL
By providing AI functions for SQL analysts, Databricks continues to integrate data, ML, and AI across its platform. AI Functions in Databricks SQL are pre-built, easy-to-use functions that incorporate machine learning models into SQL queries. These functions enable data analysts and engineers to leverage AI capabilities without the need for extensive machine learning expertise. By […]