Platforms and Technology

It’s been 4 years since the first Raspberry Pi was released on February 29, 2012. In the last four years there have been a number of updates to the Raspberry Pi platform, including the Raspberry Pi 2 released 1 year ago. The Raspberry Pi has been fairly popular among hobbyist, education and industrial markets with […]

When you think about the picture of a garage it often brings images of grease, oil, tools and cars. At the IBM Interconnect 2016 conference this week IBM released a new methodology called IBM Bluemix Garage. I had the pleasure of sitting in a session led by Rachel Reinitz – IBM Distinguished Engineer & CTO IBM Bluemix Garage. […]

Ronda Kiser Oakes, IBM Champion and Perficient director of IBM Cloud and DevOps, and Sean Wright, Perficient technical director of IBM Mobile, presented a session and demonstration at IBM InterConnect 2016 Migrate Existing Web Services and Build Native Microservices in Bluemix. The session began with Sean discussing the considerations and approaches for migrating to Bluemix […]

The HIMSS16 conference will be at the Sand Expo and Convention Center in Las Vegas from February 29, 2016 (it’s a leap year!) through March 4, 2016. I will be co-presenting with Oracle in the Population Health Knowledge Center at kiosk 14106. We will be demonstrating how Perfiicient and Oracle solutions can transform data into insights […]

Welcome from IBM Interconnect 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada. After attending the session “IoT with Watson”  at IBM Interconnect I became a believer in the possibility of connecting the physical and digital worlds together through the power of the cloud. Peter Crocker – IBM Watson IoT Platform Product Manager provided a very complete overview of where the […]

Security in the cloud is a critical concern of every customer who leverages cloud offerings. IBM InterConnect 2016 had a very informative session with great speakers, Staying Secure in the Cloud with SaaS. The following IBM leaders presented: David Cass, Chief Information Security Officer, IBM Cloud Nathan Reid, Director, Cloud Engineering, IBM Analytics Dave Durazzano, […]

Today, InterConnect 2016 kicked off with the IBM Business Partner Summit at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Peers share their stories of innovating with IBM solutions and bringing exceptional value to their clients. Vishal Rajpal, general manager of Perficient’s Cloud and DevOps practice, had the opportunity to speak during the opening session and shared details […]

Also known as, ASP.NET 5, this introduction will cover some basic topics on the new framework. Microsoft hosted a free all-day training session this week at the MTC and I was able to attend. It was my first in-depth look at all the new features and I was quite surprised by some. The last version […]

This post explains the process of using ODI Export Multiple Objects utility to export selected multiple ODI objects and importing them individually. ODI introduced a new feature ‘Smart Export’ from version 11.1.16, This feature automates the process of exporting/importing all objects related to your change, As BIAPPS OOTB ODI repository contains thousands of objects smart […]

We’re excited to announce that Perficient won the 2016 IBM Beacon Award for Outstanding Enterprise Cloud Solution. Each year, this top honor is awarded to a few elite IBM Business Partners who have delivered exceptional solutions that drive business value and digitally transform the way clients and industries do business. The 2016 awards recognize achievements across […]

After implementing and upgrading Siebel applications for the past 15 years, I can see how customers in the past several years have begun to dislike the user interface/look and feel of the Siebel application. The blue color has not changed forever (although shades of blue have changed), concepts has not changed (list, form, tree, MVG, […]

Do you remember your very first airplane ride? I do, I was eight and I was headed to Disney World. So a double whammy of happiness – first time on a plane and first time to Disney. I don’t recall being scared to get on the plane, or being nervous when landing, or even when […]