Last year I spoke about how COVID-19 would forever change B2B commerce and B2B ecommerce disaster planning. Thanks to the delta variant, much of what I wrote about in these previous blog posts will be needed once again to deal with the influx of product shortages and supply chain disruptions that businesses dealt with only […]
Platforms and Technology
Optimizely DXP Deployment API – Downloading Assets
The Optimizely Deployment API (Episerver.PaaS.EpiCloud) has helped immensely as I’ve been working on new projects, but there has always been something that has plagued me; copying down content/assets into my local environment. When I say “Copying down Content,” I mean two pieces; Database and the Assets. For the Database Export, I have created my ExportDatabase […]
Perficient Achieves Premier Platinum Partner Status with Optimizely
One thing is clear after the last year and a half – the overnight shift from in-person experiences to digital-first (or digital only) has prompted companies to double down on providing superb digital experiences. At the same time, they have to make sure that “every user interaction builds and delivers on business outcomes.” Planning, building, […]
Tools Used in Robotics Process Automation (RPA)
Robotic process automation (RPA) is a software technology that makes it easy to build, deploy, and manage software robots that emulate human actions interacting with digital systems and software. Just like people, software robots can do things like understanding what’s on a screen, complete the right keystrokes, navigate systems, identify and extract data, and perform […]
The Evolution of Digital Design: Why Good Design is More Than Good Aesthetics
Digital design as we know it today is still a relatively new concept. It’s so new that only 22% of 557 organizations surveyed had the design operations to implement the design at scale in 2020, a surprisingly low number when considering the few organizations that tapped into the design for more than just the looks were able to outperform the S&P by 228% over a […]
PACE New Features: Customizable Surveys, Web Chat Attachments, and More!
Perficient’s Amazon Connect Experience (PACE) solution amplifies the power of Amazon Connect with several added features and managed services. As we continue to develop and customize our software to your needs, we will post blogs with new features and processes we have added, changed, or fixed. To learn more about PACE visit our dedicated landing […]
Understanding and Creating Multi-Click Images and Map Links in SharePoint Online
This tutorial walks you through how to add multiple hyperlinks inside an image and embed it into a SharePoint page. To add a hyperlink to an image, we want to map the link in the image with its coordinates. You can easily accomplish this through an image map. Image Maps An image map allows a user to click on different clickable areas of the image and be linked to different destinations, making it easy to navigate to a different page. By using image mapping, you can […]
Optimizing Ecommerce for a Growing Business: A Customer Success Story
In our previous blogs How to Modernize Your B2B/EDI Management Platform with Boomi and Jumpstart Your B2B/EDI Management Platform with Perficient, we discussed the benefits of a modern B2B/EDI platform and Perficient’s offerings to help your organization effectively integrate with vendors, suppliers, distributors, partners, and marketplaces, respectively. In today’s blog, we will share how we helped […]
Perficient’s Wei Lai wins IBM’s Build a Bot for Social Change Challenge
We are proud to announce that Wei Lai, a Perficient Technical Architect, won the Best IBM Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Solution that Solves a Social Challenge with his IBM RPA Survey Bot! As a regular host of an annual food drive, Wei was disappointed to discover that there are significant shortcomings associated with local food […]
How to Make Agile Iteration Possible Within Waterfall Budgeting – Part 2
In Part 1 of How to Make Agile Iteration Possible Within Waterfall Budgeting, I covered the business desire to achieve iterative development and quick time-to-market, with the reservations of rigid waterfall budgeting and planning. I also covered pre-project and project start steps, which I believe are critically important to achieving the desired result during implementation. […]
A Brief Introduction to Ansible
Let’s look back at the network and system computing age when server deployment and management were daunting tasks for companies. Then, only the system administrator was responsible for software installation, settings management, and all other administration services manually on various servers. It was almost impossible to manage workloads manually and always needed to put the […]
OneStream – Table Data Manager
During the month of June 2021, OneStream Software made available a new MarketPlace Solution, Table Data Manager, to which this blog will provide an introduction. Per the Setup Instructions, “Table Data Manager was built to enable the management of tables and views in an Azure SQL Database” and based on this blog the functionality I […]