“To stay relevant, financial advisors are recognizing that technology has to be a big piece of their pitch to this generation.” That statement came from a CNBC article that discussed the critical role technology plays in the financial services industry. The author, Ilana Polyak, points to a recent report from Fidelity, which indicates that financial […]
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Google’s Apigee Acquisition Shows Growing Importance of APIs in Cloud
Today, Apigee announced that it will be acquired by Google for $625 million. Apigee is a leader in the API management space and is ranked highest for “completeness of vision” in Gartner’s magic quadrant. Perficient partners with Apigee to provide API solutions, so what does this acquisition mean? For Google, the acquisition of Apigee is […]
Liferay Introduces Improved Audience Targeting
Liferay recently released (Q2 2016) Audience Targeting 2.0 for Liferay DXP, improving the already powerful capabilities of segmenting your audience, targeting specific content to different user segments, and creating campaigns to target content to user segments. It also allows you to track user actions and generate reports that provide insight into the effectiveness of your […]
How Cloud is Shifting the Software Stack
To the average consumer, applications have become an integral of everyday life. Interaction with technologies over the past decade have shifted tremendously from desktop to mobile, including tablets and smartphones. While there isn’t much to notice besides shifting user interfaces and interaction, there is a lot happening in the back-end, much of which is up […]
Gartner: By 2020, “No-Cloud” Policy Like Today’s “No-Internet” Policy
Gartner recently put out a press release that is quite memorable. It begins with: “By 2020, a corporate “no-cloud” policy will be as rare as a “no-internet” policy is today.” While I personally have never encountered a company that has such a success-hindering policy, I’m sure there are companies out there who are ultra-slow adopters, […]
The Robo-Advisor Climate
The benefits of robo-advisors are clear: trustworthy and affordable financial advice for everyone, regardless of net worth. Although some may debate what role robo-advising will play in wealth management, we’ve reached a point where it’s hard to imagine a world without it. Ever since the evolution of the internet and the widespread adoption of digital […]
MU3–Exposing Electronic Health Record as APIs using IBM APIC
Exposing patient health information as Application Program Interfaces (APIs) is one of the most critical components in Stage 3 of the EHR Incentive Programs and all providers will be required to comply with MU3 requirements by 2018. The APIs will ensure improved patient engagement by providing data access in application of patient’s choice instead of […]
The New Paradigms of Application Development
Having arrived home from Pivotal SpringOne, I’ve given some thought over the past few weeks around what I heard at the conference. From listening to breakout sessions to speaking with fellow attendees, I felt that I was able to get a fairly solid grasp on where cloud computing, as well as application development is heading. […]
What Are Robo-Advisors?
While your clients may have never obtained advice from traditional wealth management companies, the times are changing through the introduction of robo-advisors. Unlike traditional human-to-human financial advice, robo-advisors provide personalized, automated financial advice based on algorithms. They work without the need for human intervention, making such advice cost-friendly and ultimately eliminating common high-net-worth membership figures. […]
The Internet of Things – Making “Things” Come Alive
Vision of the Internet of Things We all know where we are heading. There are smart devices all around us; there are smart phones, smart cars, and machines talking to us, guiding us all around. Now, with advent of the internet and connecting daily things of our lives over telecom networks, I wouldn’t be wrong […]
MuleSoft Salesforce Connector Release 7.2.0.201608251058 and fieldsToNull
Hot off the press, MuleSoft just released a new Salesforce connector “7.2.0.201608251058”. If you read carefully, that’s about 5 days ago. Normally, I’m not in a hurry to update new connector release. However, this time it may be worthwhile to get the new version if you need to use a particular feature: setting SFDC fields to […]
Attain Enterprise Agility with Pivotal
Silicon Valley has long been the upstart entrepreneur who builds the next big thing in their garage. Whether it was Steve Jobs building the first personal computer in his garage to the development of Pinterest at a co-working space, the ingenuity, creativity, and agility are the motivating factors towards driving change and innovation. In the […]