Platforms and Technology

This blog will describe how to construct a test plan in Azure DevOps, and how users may create test suites and test cases within that plan. The distinctions between a test plan, a test suite, and a test case are the following: Test Plan: The test suites are listed in the test plan. Test Suite: […]

Apache Spark: Apache Spark is a general-purpose distributed processing engine for analytics over large data sets – typically terabytes or petabytes of data. Apache Spark can be used for processing data in batches, real-time streams, machine learning and ad-hoc query. Processing tasks are distributed over a cluster of nodes and data is cached in-memory to […]

As an agile Project Manager, you face a lot of pressure to assure your stakeholders that your project is on track. You are the one the client is calling saying, “are we going to finish this thing on time??” It is imperative to have documentation that can eliminate all doubt that you will. Enter the […]

In this second installment of our five-part blog series, we’ll talk about the second reason customers decide to seek out a new system. Let’s get back into it. Reason #2: Licenses for the current system are expiring or the system is discontinuing When you signed the license agreement for your current platform, chances are you […]

A serverless architecture is a way to build and run applications and services without having to manage infrastructure. Your application still runs on servers, but all the server management is done by AWS. Serverless framework is a toolkit for creating, deployment of serverless functions like AWS Lambda, publish the message in SNS, send message to […]

SharePoint Patterns and Practices (PnP) contains a library of PowerShell commands (PnP PowerShell) that allows you to perform complex provisioning and artifact management actions towards SharePoint. What is PnP? PnP PowerShell is a cross-platform PowerShell, and it is a .NET Core 3.1 / .NET Framework 4.6.1 based PowerShell Module providing over 600 cmdlets that work […]

In the contact center world agents and supervisors need to manage customer complaints, inquiries, orders, technical support, and many other functions. To provide the best customer experience, many contact centers add layers of complexity, including more skills around different tools and technologies. But how effectively do these complex tools do their jobs? And how can […]

Building software tools for contact centers that make complex tasks look effortless is an important focus within Perficient’s Customer Product Development BU. For example, we help agents and customers who speak different languages communicate easily via text. Some companies have customers around the world who speak a wide range of languages while their agents only […]

It’s easy to think of content and commerce as the technology you chose to gain successful results for your business. But our complex digital landscape is evolving, and it’s no longer only about which platform or technology you leverage. It’s now about understanding that content and commerce is an intricate approach that drives revenue and […]

One of the biggest hurdles to selecting a new platform is recognizing when you should look for something different. In this five-part blog series, we’ll look at the top five reasons our customers make the decision to seek out a new system. If you recognize one of these in your current state, then you may […]

Viva Insights In the ever-changing landscape of work, having data-driven intelligence is paramount for individuals, managers, and leaders. Viva Insights takes signals from across M365, Exchange, and teams and uses them to identify trends. From those trends, MS applies a ton of workplace insights gleaned from academic and hands-on research to derive from that data […]

Apache Airflow is an open-source tool to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows. It is one of the most robust platforms used by Data Engineers for orchestrating workflows or pipelines. You can easily visualize your data pipelines’ dependencies, progress, logs, code, trigger tasks, and success status. With the help of Apache Airflow  and Python we […]