Platforms and Technology

Vlocity is a San Francisco-based company that delivers industry-specific cloud and mobile software that embed digital, omnichannel processes for customer-centric industries. They are also a Strategic Partner to Salesforce and have many tools developed to help their customers and partners drive results and ensure success. However, Vlocity’s VisualForce community lacked engagement and was difficult to […]

Perficient is excited to be a Bronze sponsor at this year’s Red Hat Summit 2019! Taking place in less than a week in Boston from May 7-9th, Summit brings together all kinds of professionals – from career IT pros to open source contributors – who represent nearly every industry. It is the premier open source […]

The following blog comes from an interview with Perficient’s Strategic Advisors Consulting Director, Victor Wolters, and is part of a series on cloud trends with experts from within Perficient. Undergoing a digital transformation is going to drastically change the technology that businesses utilize. That’s not a secret to businesses. Some don’t realize that this transformation […]

In the post “The Business Case Justification for PaaS” we looked at the benefits and a business case for PaaS and the post “Developing a PaaS Migration Strategy” outlined ways to migrate applications to PaaS. In this blog we will look at the steps to create a reference architecture and developer best practices to get […]

Most businesses today wouldn’t know what to do without their customer relationship management (CRM) system. Increasingly, most wouldn’t know what to do without their cloud-based CRM system specifically, either. It is this reliance that shows how important modern CRM systems are to customer care. The way in which businesses have used CRM systems have changed, […]

Yesterday, experts from Pivotal, Garmin, and West Corporation gathered during St. Louis’ annual Gateway to Innovation conference to discuss organizational and process change, and how their enterprises have tackled those challenges. During the session, the panelists shared solutions they used to address obstacles they faced when adopting a team approach, adapting people and processes stubborn […]

Bringing new technology to a team is always going to bring a set of challenges. As humans, we are creatures of habit, but we also have the ability to understand the logic behind adapting to the needs of the future.  When the Dark Cloud of Change is Already Looming For any business to succeed long-term, […]

As a technical analyst, I was working closely with a client to ensure they were tracking the most important parts of their website. Here was our solution: The client’s request: Track the bottom navigation on the website that only appears on a mobile device using Google Tag Manager (GTM). Sounds fairly standard. Inspect some elements, […]

The following blog comes from an interview with Perficient’s Strategic Advisors Consulting Managing Principal, Michael Porter, and is part of a series on cloud trends with experts from within Perficient. Cloud usage today has gone from a step pursued by bleeding edge innovators to a normal part of everyday business. Indeed, many companies now follow […]

People have higher expectations than ever when it comes to customer care. With the development of technology and communications, customers are now seeking immediate gratification. The average customer believes immediacy and accuracy to be two of the important traits of customer service. The method of interaction is also important for consumers, which gives businesses something […]

Software containers are taking over. Is your organization ready for the transformation? Organizations are gravitating towards software containers as a way to package, distribute, and run their applications. The benefits of container technology such as Docker and Kubernetes include: SPEED – Containers are lightweight relative to virtual machines. New application instances can be launched more […]

Perficient Digital is proud to partner with our clients in creating better experiences for their customers and internal teams. We’re even more proud when that hard work is recognized by other experts in our industry, which happened this week when the new, multi-platform mobile app we helped create for GM Financial was named Best Financial […]