Latest update May 1, 2018 — This is the latest edition of our study on the state of the mobile web. In this study I’ll show you the level of usage of the mobile web last year (2017) as compared to desktop, and how 2017’s usage level compares to 2016. The stats in this and […]
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Why Voice Usage on Mobile Devices is Growing – Here’s Why #164
On a modern ship, the captain controls the vessel with voice commands to the engine room. Thanks to voice-enabled devices such as smartphones and smart speakers, we can control our homes, get information, and perform many tasks with voice, too. In this episode of the popular Here’s Why digital marketing video series, Perficient Digital’s Eric […]
Why Desktop vs Smartphone Matters for Your Marketing – Here’s Why #156
Mark insists on having different conversations on different devices, and it’s driving Eric nuts! But it’s true that each of your marketing audiences may have their own preferences for viewing your content. In this episode of our popular Here’s Why digital marketing video series, Perficient Digital’s Mark Traphagen shares recent research that shows people prefer […]
Mobile Highly Relevant to B2B Customers
We commonly think that B2B customers don’t really need mobile. After all, most B2B sales are highly driven by actual sales people, with web sites supporting them through content like white papers, product information, etc. B2B customers are also thought to be desk-bound, mainly accessing your B2B content through traditional desktop browsers. Recently, however, we […]
You’re Planning to Adopt IoT, But What Mobile Device Do You Use?
In today’s constantly changing and mobile world, the only constant is change, right… Within all these changes comes some cool new stuff. Well, IBM and Samsung have put together something very neat that many Maximo clients have asked me about. “What device should I use to go mobile?,” they ask. Well, the answer may just […]
Mobile Voice Usage Trends 2018
How comfortable are real people with using voice commands with their devices? We wanted to know, so for the second year in a row, we asked over 1,000 people how they use voice, when they use voice, and why. If you’re looking to get a snapshot of how voice is used by people today, then […]
Setting Up Around Me Feature in Mobile App
Oracle Sales Cloud Mobile Application has a nice feature in which you can select the Accounts, Opportunities and contacts that are located near your Location. Here are the quick steps to configure the Around Me Feature on your Mobile App: 1.Enable Geo-coding. Login to the Application and Navigate to set up and maintenance. Search for […]
But How Do It Know? Dissecting Regular Expressions
To truly understand regular expressions, you have to actually use them. A lot of people who use regular expressions (regex) don’t care to understand how they work; they just Google one that looks like it might work for them, throw it in there, and hope for the best. I don’t know how it works, it […]
The Magic of RegEx: An Intro to Regular Expressions
Despite its bad rap and its esoteric nature, the black-magic voodoo science of regular expressions intrigues me. Few things in web development grip me like regex does. And somehow, like magic, like the magic of regex itself; I become “the regex guy.” Weekly, sometimes daily, I get asked to help write a regex. I, of […]
Why The Mobile Revolution Has Only Just Begun – Here’s Why #145
It looks like mobile has already taken the biggest piece of the Internet pie. But according to some recent research by Perficient Digital, desktop still wins in some important categories. In this episode of our popular Here’s Why digital marketing video series, Perficient Digital’s Eric Enge explains why we shouldn’t ignore desktop visitors, while at […]
Perficient Digital Wins at W3 Awards for Mobile Work
Perficient Digital recently took home a Silver Award for mobile application, strategy, design, and development at the 2017 W 3 Awards for the work we did creating a self-service app for the Jackson Energy Authority (JEA) in western Tennessee. We designed and built JEA a cross-platform mobile app for iOS and Android. The app greets […]
Mobile First is Imperative for Healthcare Provider Intranets
Employees are using mobile devices more than ever before and are likely accessing important information from intranets via tablets and smart phones. This creates a number of challenges when intranets have been designed for optimal use with desktops resulting in a poor user experience and low adoption for employees accessing intranets via mobile devices. Mobile […]