Mobile

Over the last year, I talked to a lot of clients and potential clients about their enterprise mobile strategies. I also took part in creating some mobile apps for the consumer and internal staff of enterprises. During these conversations, some recurring themes arose. Here is a brief summary of the chief concerns of enterprise mobile app […]

The holidays and the downtime allowed me the opportunity to work on some side projects.  In this case, I wanted to update the user interface of some Android mobile applications I had published a year ago.  With the advent of the Android 4.x series of releases, one of the major user interface recommendations is the […]

Written by Luke Cerny When managing PPC campaigns, it’s easy to get caught up in optimizing things like keywords, bids, and ad copy while altogether forgetting about the multitude of easy targeting options we have to take advantage of. Obviously, these recommendations must be made with the client’s goals and objectives in mind, but something I’ve […]

If you’ve ever used social APIs in your mobile or Web apps, you know that managing the connections to multiple APIs as well as being able to make adjustments quickly when they change can be a challenge. To help combat those headaches, Singly has introduced AppFabric. With AppFabric, you get a single interface with access […]

My name is Abbey Smalley, and I’m a Lead User Experience and Visual Designer for Perficient’s XD team. I have had the opportunity to work with financial institutions on various projects. In my work, I find similar user experience needs often rise to the top. Whether you’ve decided it’s time to create a mobile experience […]

I mainly write this post to the designers of our team here at Perficient, but developers can read it, too.  I stumbled upon a random website by complete happenstance and not because I’ve ever been there before, and I was struck by its responsive layout. CSS Tricks This is the kind of design I feel […]

The last in the series discusses about the landscape of the mobile BI and key product offerings from major players. There are 2 types of mobile BI players 1. Major BI players These are the big guns who are typically slow in bringing their solution to market. They are focused on tightly integrating their offering with their […]

In this blog article, we look at the state of things with higher education mobile app ecosystem within the Sungard/Ellucian Banner digital campus family and how it will define the choices for the education institutes that rely on its services. The Banner by Ellucian product powers many higher education institutes throughout the world. Services such […]

The guys over at the Spark Blog seem to be on a roll lately with a number of nice posts.  I especially like Amit Malhotra’s post on Mobile App best practices.  Lots of companies are creating apps for the mobile web, android, iOS, Windows, and other platforms.  Most aren’t even worried about putting them on […]

It is no secret that the current mobile revolution is primarily consumer driven. iOS and Android devices made inroads in the consumer market first and consequently enterprises felt the push from their employees. However, the enterprise mobile apps present a huge opportunity to learn from the consumer app experience by focusing on making employees more […]

Let’s face it – getting an Ad-Hoc build to a client of their super-cool-new-app-in-progress can often be time intensive and cumbersome. While the advent of wireless distribution certainly was a huge improvement over having your client download the .ipa file, import it into iTunes, and physically sync their device via USB to get the application […]

Recently, David Hemphill and I gave a presentation at the Minnesota Government Information Technology Symposium on the issues that enterprises face when attempting to tie mobile applications (either consumer-facing or internal to the organization) to their existing service infrastructure. Enterprises are looking to extend access to corporate data through a mobile device, quite often looking […]