With companies looking to reduce costs and increase agility, many are looking to move their CMS to the cloud. Adobe offers two cloud solutions for Adobe Experience Manager (AEM): Adobe Managed Services (AMS) and AEM Cloud Service. For existing on-premises customers, AMS is a lighter lift as it is closer to on-premise architectures. Is AMS […]
Strategy and Transformation
Building digital KPIs in healthcare
What’s the secret to success in any healthcare digital project? Hint: It’s not a snazzy design or lots of bells and whistles. No matter the project, there’s a key step that separates success from failure. And that key is within your grasp. The key? Before you dive into your project, define what success will be. […]
3 Fundamentals Every Digital Strategy (Still) Needs
How will you spend your COVID-19 bonus? No, not a fatter paycheck (sorry). I’m talking about the additional resources your CFO may be freeing up for new digital initiatives. A survey of U.S. executives by Duke’s Fuqua School of Business shows that due to pressures brought on by the COVID economy “nearly 2/3 of companies […]
Ecommerce is Dead, Long Live Digital Commerce
In the past, ecommerce was believed to be the simple act of building a commerce website for your business and seeing how your customers used it. However, many B2B sites weren’t performing well or able to adapt to this approach because they lacked the specific resources and knowledge needed to be successful and even felt […]
Change Your Mindset to Create a Better Data and Analytics Program
Self-Service for data is not a new concept. Even in the early 2000s, companies have struggled with giving “power users” or “information workers” access to data to develop value-based insights. One of my past customers had a simple as a web page with hundreds of CSV formatted data extracts that people could “self-service data” based […]
Building and Deploying Apps with Red Hat OpenShift on AWS
Your digital transformation journey requires flexibility and efficiency while ensuring confidence in the security, governance, and support structures of your cloud strategy. Whether you’re migrating legacy applications, modernizing applications via cloud-native development, or embracing container orchestration, AWS and Red Hat have the platforms, services. They support you’ll need for transformation at scale. Containers at a […]
Microsoft Teams Updates (September 2020)
As the school year begins, many of you may find yourselves doing your learning remotely via Microsoft Teams. With that said, its always a good idea to keep up to date on the latest and greatest additions to Teams, so you can use Teams to its fullest potential. In today’s blog, we’ll be highlighting some […]
What Restaurants and Bars Can Teach Us about Commerce User Experience
There are many important aspects to consider when looking at re-platforming or re-vamping your commerce storefront. One of these aspects that almost always comes into play is user experience, and for good reason. At a high level, we ecommerce professionals know the importance of keeping the look and feel of a site fresh – but […]
Who is Coming After Gen Z and What Will They Expect from a Customer Experience?
The spending power of Gen Z is predicted to outmatch all the generations before it. Still, it’s never too early to start understanding and planning for capabilities that will be expected from the generation coming next. But who are they? What will they expect from an experience given how they grew up under the influence […]
Amazon Just Did What?
IoT in healthcare just gained new wings. Yesterday, Amazon announced its new foray into the busy wearables sector. Dominated by the Apple Watch and Fitbit, the wearables market is estimated by Gartner to reach $52 billion this year – an impressive 27% increase from 2019. This growth coincides with slow-downs of in-person care delivery, brought […]
Collaboration at its Finest at C-Level @ A Mile High During COVID-19
C-Level @ A Mile High is an annual event, hosted by the Colorado Technology Association (CTA), where C-levels from many of Colorado’s largest technology companies donate their time to support charities and advocacy groups aimed at including more female and under-represented minority students for computer science-related studies and careers. Usually hosted at the Denver Broncos […]
Key Components/Calculations for Spark Memory Management
Different organizations will have different needs for cluster memory management. For the same, there is no set of recommendations for resource allocation. Instead, it can be calculated from the available cluster resources. In this blog post, I will discuss best practices for YARN resource management with the optimum distribution of Memory, Executors, and Cores for […]