The manufacturing industry was evolving even before 2020, but the global pandemic added a new urgency to manufacturers’ needs to digitally transform. Today, organizations in manufacturing must meet new, more pressing demands of connectivity, technology, and agility. In this article, we’ll look closely at how Salesforce, MuleSoft, and Perficient offer manufacturers the technical and organizational […]
Digital Transformation
Starting Your Middleware Modernization Journey
The following is the second installment in our middleware modernization series. You can read the first installment here. If your applications no longer meet business requirements, it may be time to modernize. Legacy middleware platforms weren’t built to address the needs of modern, hybrid IT environments, but modernized middleware can support application environments that work […]
[Webinar] Ease Cloud Migration with Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS
As one of nine launch partners for Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA), Perficient has developed a Kubernetes-based accelerator to take your applications to production on OpenShift in just a few hours. ROSA is a fully managed and jointly supported offering that combines the power of OpenShift and the AWS public cloud. On Sept. […]
An Ecommerce Feature That Could Protect Your Site Against the Delta Variant
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
An Intro to Caching in MuleSoft 4
Caching is a concept harnessed to store frequently used data in the memory, file system, or database that helps to improve processing times. This strategy is most useful when data does not change frequently or is static in nature. In general, some benefits of caching include improved responsiveness, increased performance, and decreased network costs. The […]
How Hospitals and Health Systems Can Leverage Ecommerce to Reduce Hospital Readmissions
A big challenge that hospitals and health systems face revolves around patients being discharged, then re-admitted in short order after they arrive home. This is problematic for a few reasons. Most obviously, patient health and wellness are always a top priority for hospitals and health systems, so when a patient is discharged and they have […]
The 4 Rs of Middleware Modernization
Many enterprises are well on their way to digital transformation – others are only just beginning. But cloud-first strategies demand a lot from middleware, and legacy middleware platforms weren’t built to address the needs of modern, hybrid IT environments. This means that enterprises need to migrate those legacy platforms to ones that can run on-premise, […]
Perficient Releases Exciting Product Information Management (PIM) News
Our product information management (PIM) experts at Perficient are dedicated to enhancing your commerce strategy by leveraging your data to produce quality product content for your users. To continuously deliver on this promise, we’re excited to announce not one, but two resources to assist your PIM strategy, our State of Product Information Analysis Assessment, and […]
The Importance of Endless Aisles within Your Digital Shelf and Retail Strategy
This past year has completely changed the way consumers shop for products. One of the most popular buying habits is engaging in other is online shopping, which has increased by 44% just in the last year due to COVID-19. Forty-five percent of consumers used home delivery this year and over 90% utilized buy online, pick-up […]
Swagger(OpenAPI specification)
Introduction Swagger/OpenAPI specification are the best for design, document and managing Restful API’s. Since MuleSoft joined the OpenAPI Initiative of the Linux Foundation, MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform explicitly supports Swagger/OAS for describing APIs. MuleSoft Design Center supports importing an OAS 3.0 specification in JSON or ZIP format from the file system. And we can import an […]