Integration + IT Modernization

Nathan Shaw, technical managing consultant of Liferay, Inc., presented “7 Habits of Highly Successful Liferay Projects” at the 2016 Liferay Symposium.  The presentation was influenced by the best-selling book “7 Habits of Highly Successful People.”  The highlights follow. 1) Be Proactive Be proactive and not reactive. Learn what Liferay can do Stay informed via Liferay […]

Henry Nakamura, Senior Customer Experience Manager of Liferay, presented Liferay’s perspective on customer experience at the 2016 Liferay Symposium in the session “Customer Loyalty is Dead.”  The session focused on stressing the importance of customer experience and how Liferay can help you. The amount of data available today drives impacts overall experience, not just price […]

The database has become a vital component of any enterprise’s IT structure. Databases continue to provide more and more sophisticated options than versions we have seen in previous years. IBM Datapower gateway is designed to connect to most of the popular databases. In his most recent post, Technical Consultant, Karthik Selvaraj walks you through the steps to […]

This is a traditional chicken or the egg problem, and I would like to put in my 2 cents by trying to address the same question in the information technology era. We see hundreds of new and emerging startups rising every day across all the industries. The secret of success is not coming from any […]

As you build out your portal strategy and decide on a platform, there may be many thoughts going through your mind. After all, portals are hardly simple technologies, requiring expert customization, development, and planning in addition to marketing and communications lift. Choosing the wrong features or looking at the wrong strategies can be limiting to […]

Many robo-advisors are thriving with growing customer bases. Not only are they flourishing, they’re partnering with – and in some cases being acquired by – traditional institutions that offer wealth management services. Take UBS, for example. The company’s wealth management division recently formed a strategic alliance with SigFig, a robo-advisor that will help develop solutions […]

September is great for several reasons. For one, football is back and dominates the weekend and for another, the season of Fall arrives, bringing us all closer to Halloween, Christmas, and the prevalence of pumpkin spiced drinks and desserts. Open-source community developers also have the Liferay North America Symposium (LNAS) to look forward to and […]

I love headlines like this: J.P. Morgan Creates Executive Role to Lead Cloud Services. It helps me understand what’s important to a company and tells me that a company’s focus area is real. As financial services companies continue their efforts to become more efficient in a time in which regulatory demands and low interest rates […]

Perficient is proud to be exhibiting at CA World 2016, November 14-18 at Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. This year’s conference is expected to see a quarter more attendance with over half of the attendees in a manager-level role or higher within their organizations. For developers, the event this year also has […]

If you are working in the area of software development, you’ve probably run into a situation where one layer of service was ready but another wasn’t, either due to more time taken for higher complexity of implementation or something else. Traditionally, in such cases the layer of service – which was already built – would […]

As much as they are disruptors of sorts, traditional banks view robo-advisors as healthy. They represent a challenge for incumbents, one that will ultimately result in better customer experiences. Financial institutions believe that the foundation of what they do is not going to go away; however, it puts pressure on them to focus on the […]

When I first hopped online, it was 1995. I had yet to turn 8 years old and my parents had just purchased our first desktop computer, an IBM Aptiva. Life was fairly exciting for several reasons: First, I could surf Microsoft Encarta to absorb all the encyclopaedic knowledge there was to gain and second, I […]