Modern and mobile in your personal life I have a mobile banking app on my phone like a lot of people do. That gives me the option to check out the most current activity of all my bank accounts wherever I am. It’s not a necessity to have a mobile app or even bank online, […]
Digital Transformation
Why Are Fintechs Struggling with Banking Regulations?
For all those who think traditional banks will not be able to compete with fintech companies, a federal judge’s ruling in October and the pulling of fintech start-up Robinhood’s bank charter application, which would have allowed it to become a federally insured bank and eliminated the need to partner with other banks, show that it’s […]
How Cloud Improves Processes to Bring ROI
The following is the ninth blog in a series about why businesses are moving to the cloud to modernize and improve business performance. In our previous blog, we highlighted the potential cloud offers as it pertains to making savings and generating revenue. In this blog, we’re going to examine a real-life example of this through […]
Using Predictive Analytics in a Smart Factory
So you want a smart factory? Something that drives greater value by combining business processes and physical machines. Update your manufacturing processes from legacy automation to a fully connected stream of data. The solution translates a specific business problem into a data problem that can be solved with predictive analytics. Many manufacturing systems operate at […]
Avoiding Disasters with Chaos Engineering
The cost of an outage to a business is very high. This isn’t news to anyone, but in today’s world of instant access and immediate gratification, it’s truer now than ever. Businesses today are expected to be accessible at all times to consumers. As a result, businesses need to build infrastructure and applications that are […]
Maximize Your ROI and Cost Savings With Cloud
The following is the eighth blog in a series about why businesses are moving to the cloud to modernize and improve business performance. So far in this series, we have covered topics such as the innovation cloud brings, cloud security, and disaster recovery in the cloud. In this blog, I want to address an issue […]
Get 25% Off AI Summit NY Passes with Perficient’s Discount Code!
The AI Summit is coming to New York again December 11-12 at the Javits Center. This 2-day conference is jam packed with exclusive content tailored to help attendees dig deeper into implementation opportunities and the challenges they face in their industries. There will be eight tracks with stages covering: Retail Sales & Marketing Finance (Look […]
Predictive Model Ensembles: Pros and Cons
Many recent machine learning challenges winners are predictive model ensembles. We have seen this in the news. Data science challenges are hosted on many platforms. Techniques included decision trees, regression, and neural networks. And, winning ensembles used these in concert. But, let’s understand the pros and cons of an ensemble approach. Pros of Model Ensembles […]
How Cloud Improves Disaster Recovery
The following is the seventh blog in a series about why businesses are moving to the cloud to modernize and improve business performance. In our last blog in this series, we examined how security improves with cloud. In this blog, we will look at how cloud enhances disaster recovery (DR) practices and provides a better […]
Data Wrangling – Comparing Three Predictive Analytic Techniques
I spend a bit of time data wrangling. I try to pay mind to what the predictive analytic technique needs. Likewise, it does things on its own too. Then again, when interpreting results, I think on it again. Worse, when I try to compare models or create an ensemble, I really need to know. So, […]
Data Ethics – The Profound Impacts of New Technology
Data ethics and security have been around a long time – as long as data. Constantly evolving. But, continued tech advancement has made a profound impact. So, data security and data ethics is more important than ever. 1. Magnified Relevance Tech has enabled an exponential increase of data. We know this. The more data, the […]
Meet Perficient’s Chief Strategists: Mike Porter
Thrilling our clients with innovation and impact – it’s not just rhetoric. This belief is instrumental for our clients’ success. In 2018, we introduced our Chief Strategists, who provide vision and leadership to help our clients remain competitive. Get to know each of our strategists as they share unique insights on their areas of expertise. Understanding […]