Meena Verma, Global Digital Marketing Manager at Alpha Assembly Solutions, gave a presentation on localization with Digital Marketing. She takes an approach of meeting your customers’ needs. The following are my notes from the session: Your translation strategy should include: Internationalization: ensure source content is ready for multiple languages Localization: cultural adaptation of a target language […]
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Sitecore Symposium 2017: Journey to Customer Experience Success
A Sitecore Symposium 2017 speaker today addressed the journey to customer experience success. The following are my notes: The presentation started by imagining a day in 2027: Wake up early Coffee is ready and at the right temperature Looks at his family status His daughter has an increased temperature. Made changes to calendar Food algorithm […]
Sitecore Symposium 2017: Guest Keynote
Today’s Guest Keynote at the 2017 Sitecore Symposium featured Kenneth Cukier, author of Big Data. The following are my notes from the session: Question: Is AI overhyped, underhyped, or don’t know? Over: about 6% Under: about 7% Don’t know: Not enough to add up to 100% Story: Nascar racing has a couple key questions. One […]
Sitecore Symposium 2017 Kickoff
The 2017 Sitecore Symposium kicked off with a video highlighting multiple customers wanting to be free: To get the things they want To be understood Mark Frost, new CEO of Sitecore, kicked it off. He spoke about significant tech improvements that help brands connect with their customers. Stats: 2,900 attendees from 57 countries 600 companies […]
Siebel IP2017 What’s New: Siebel Enterprise & Development Tools
I have talked to many clients over the last month that are very interested in the new Siebel Innovation Pack 2017. There are new enhancement to Open UI functionality, Oracle continues to build on the mobile platform and vertical mobile applications, a new Open UI Test Automation suite has now been included, and many have […]
5 Technology Trends for 2018
The beginning of the holiday season also represents a time to look towards 2018 and the technology trends most pertinent for executives. Even though we continue to be in unprecedented growth around cloud and DevOps solutions, other areas are gaining steam and stand to dominate media attention in the years ahead. One area to look […]
Giving Back to Local Communities with Microsoft
Every year at Microsoft Inspire, we participate in the U.S. One Commercial Partner (OCP) community project. This is one of our favorite parts of Inspire – we love getting involved with the local community and sharing our time with them. This year, Perficient joined Microsoft at The Fishing School in Washington, D.C. to install a […]
4 Ways Digital Transformation Works with the Cloud
In today’s digital economy, enterprises face disruption by innovative business models and new players in the established industries. With multi-channel experiences the norm, many consumers have little patience for organizations who drop the ball on their customer service and product initiatives. More so, with more options on the market than ever and the search engine […]
Moving a Member in an OACS Essbase Outline
Moving members in an Oracle Analytic Cloud Essbase outline is not as easy as it is in EAS Console. Here’s an overview of a not-so-genius method I found. Scenario: An account moves to a different parent. There is no move method in the OACS outline editor and if the account is shared elsewhere, we cannot […]
What Is Machine Learning?
One of the buzzwords in the financial services industry is “machine learning.” While even among experts in the field there is no single accepted definition of machine learning, in simplest terms, machine learning focuses on the use of technology (often referred to as artificial intelligence or cognitive computing), to find solutions through continuous learning. It’s […]
Enabling Guest Access in Microsoft Teams
The Microsoft Ignite Conference took place last week (9/25/17 – 9/29/17) and to no surprise, we were flooded with a plethora of exciting news for Skype for Business and Teams. One of the exciting announcements regarding Microsoft Teams that came out just before the conference (and discussed further at Ignite) revolved around Guest Access. However, most admins that […]
Skype for Business Online – Enabling MFA for PowerShell Sessions
Back in April 2017, Microsoft announced the release of support for Modern Authentication for the Skype for Business Online PowerShell Module. Adding Modern Authentication introduces new scenarios where multi-factor authentication (MFA) can be used for authenticating remote PowerShell sessions out to Skype for Business Online. Using MFA for authentication for PowerShell sessions provides another layer […]