Platforms and Technology

Teams has matured quite significantly from its release date back in 2016. Throughout those years I’ve come across many features that I’ve found essential for work, so I’ve compiled a list of the top ten Teams tips (wow that’s a tongue twister) that you can use to get the most out of Teams! Send an […]

Our Custom Development Solutions group has been working to revive our Tech Challenge coding competition culture and ultimately decided why re-invent the wheel? A lot of our client work is focused around application modernization, so why don’t we modernize an old Tech Challenge application?   Background In 2008, Bryan Dougherty, now our General Manager, created […]

This is the second post in a series on Google healthcare capabilities. To read the first post, click here. With the healthcare industry having to quickly jump on the cloud bandwagon with telehealth recently, it is becoming apparent that a new norm is (in my millennial opinion, finally) emerging. This begs the question – how […]

Consensus, getting distributed processes to agree on a single value, is a fundamental problem in computer science. Distributed processing is difficult. In fact, there are logical proofs that show pretty conclusively that there won’t be a single perfect algorithm for handling consensus in an asynchronous system made of imperfect nodes. As long as there is […]

This week, Perficient’s Customer Engagement Solutions team launched a preview of a product that extends native Amazon Connect capabilities. After working with many customers in migrating contact centers to Amazon Connect, our team wanted to create a solution that assists in managing custom-developed modules from a unified web-based interface. Administrative Tool Features The Administrative tool […]

Secure software practices are at the heart of all system development; doubly so for highly regulated industries such as health-care providers.  Multiple regulatory controls are required for the custodianship of patient and customer data, creation of secure software systems, governance of development environments, and ensuring proper management of audit information. As a best-practice it is […]

I love cross-pollination among technology alliances. The announcement this week from AWS and Red Hat to bring managed OpenShift to AWS cloud has me thinking about other great combos such as chips and salsa, or the sun and moon, or Simon & Garfunkel. According to this Forrester article by Jay McBain, 73% of B2B buyers […]

Azure Data Factory (ADF) pipelines are powerful and can be complex. In this post, I share some lessons and practices to help make them more modular to improve reuse and manageability. Why Modular Pipelines? Pipelines are composed of activities, as the number of activities and conditions increases, the difficulty in maintaining the pipeline increases as […]

Consumers want to be connected to the right people and the right information immediately. As a digital media and communications solutions provider, Intrado develops technology to make that a reality for consumers. They provide a wide variety of technology solutions for their customers including communication services. If you’ve ever filled a prescription or reset your […]

If you’ve driven a car, used a credit card, submitted a claim, or performed countless other everyday tasks, you’ve likely interacted with Pega. But what is it like to build those solutions, and better yet, why would someone want to build those solutions as part of the Pega team at Perficient?  According to our clients, […]

Perficient is excited to announce that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Lynn Brading, director of Digital Experience Alliances, and Liz Stuart, alliance director for Emerging Solutions, to its esteemed 2020 Women of the Channel list! RELATED: Perficient Names Andrea Lampert as Vice President of People About the CRN Women of the […]

Auditing with Hibernate Envers is a small thing to implement but is the easiest way to audit persistent data in a Spring Boot application. However, Envers is opinionated and may not meet data auditing requirements for your organization, such as audit table schema design or content. Spring Boot applications that require more flexible auditing capabilities […]