Integration + IT Modernization

Smart machines, which encompasses a group of cognitive computing technologies such as advanced machine learning, natural language processing, and prescriptive analytics to make decisions and solve problems without human intervention, have been receiving more attention in recent years due to the rise and success of solutions like IBM’s Watson. A smart application learns and adapts […]

Organizations are faced with the continuous challenges of creating and connecting experiences for customers, especially with the recent explosion of software, social, and customer-facing solutions supported by the cloud. With each additional connection point, the cost to connect only increases while the speed slows down, leading to customer anger, lost revenue, and business inefficiencies. Our […]

The cloud is not new, but it remains incredibly important. Yes, leaders at financial services institutions continue to worry about the cloud’s ability to meet their strict security and privacy requirements. However, threats like cyberattacks are not stopping them from moving to the cloud. There are simply too many more advantages to operating in the […]

We are excited to announce our partnership with Dell, specifically providing clients with the Boomi AtomSphere solution. Specializing in cloud-based integration, API management, and master data management, the product is aimed at organizations seeking integrated solutions or integrated platform as a service (iPaaS). Boomi AtomSphere specifically enables organizations to connect any combination of cloud, cloud […]

Over the past several years Amazon has had various releases of their Dash service, which is designed to improve the consumer goods ordering process. The goal is to remove friction in the commerce process and capture more consumer spend by making Amazon the default vendor for consumables. Initially Amazon released a bar coded scanner and later in 2015 […]

Understanding your clients is paramount. The more you know about them, the more effective you can be at winning their business. For the fifth year in a row, Gartner reports that business intelligence (BI) and analytics has remained the number one priority for financial services companies. In fact, the research firm forecasts that the BI […]

Customer expectations are rising and creating new service challenges for companies to retain and grow their business. One key to keeping up with new and changing demands is the ability to rapidly deliver new applications and functionality for your customer base. However, “new applications” and “rapidly” can often sound like an oxymoron. Low-code development platforms […]

Enterprises must be lean and agile in order to compete. Yet in many organizations, consolidations, mergers, and acquisitions have created fragmented, non-integrated systems and processes that drain financial and human resources and diminish your ability to respond to a changing market and the relentless demands of customers and partners. Perficient’s integration and application program interface […]

What are the key differentiators to determine Hadoop distribution for Big Data analysis on AWS? We have two choices: Amazon EMR or a third-party provided Hadoop (ex: Core Apache Hadoop, Cloudera, MapR etc). Yes, cost is important. But, aside from cost, other things to look for include ease of operation, controlling, managing, performance, features etc. 1. Cost […]

Many look forward to the freedom of retirement, which includes activities like travel, bingo, and time spent with friends. Though there is far less to do, staying organized and up to date on retirement benefits is important. Such was the story of a leading state retirement system who looked to Perficient to unify their disparate […]

There’s lots of talk about the effect that FinTech (or, at least the artificial intelligence (AI) and smart machines it’s producing) will have on jobs in the financial services industry. Here are a couple of examples. In a recent CFA Institute survey, respondents indicated that automated financial advice tools will have the largest impact on […]

Every project needs to store passwords to access some resources, such as DB, network accounts etc.  Mule uses java properties to store the passwords. Since property files are in text format, we need to encrypt these passwords. There are two ways to do this with Mule. One method is to use pure java solution, the other […]