Integration + IT Modernization

Last month, I read an article on the announcement from Apple’s CEO Tim Cook that stated Eli Lilly bought 15,000 iPads. The article, focusing on Apple’s mobility partner program, framed this as big news about Apple. I assume this will also significantly contribute to the Apple and IBM partnership as they build big data and analytics enterprise […]

Health Level Seven International (HL7) is a not-for-profit, ANSI-accredited standard-developing organization dedicated to providing a comprehensive framework and related standards for the exchange, integration, sharing, and retrieval of electronic health information that supports clinical practice and the management, delivery, and evaluation of health services. We use these standards to communicate and exchange information at the […]

** To view “hello-world.raml”, please go to the very bottom of this post. APIs are driving the digital economy. One of the key players in the API field is MuleSoft. Instead of a labyrinth of overlapping products offerings, MuleSoft provides the Anypoint Platform with Mule API gateway and a nimble Mule ESB that can run […]

I’ve written about blockchain, the technology that underpins Bitcoin on various occasions; having spent time working for a bank and supporting trading floor technology, I am interested in technologies that drive cost and complexity out of transaction. This article in the Wall Street Journal details how IBM is now the largest company support blockchain and […]

Perficient is proud to announce a partnership with Appian Corporation, a leading provider of a modern application platform for Business Process Management (BPM) and case management solutions. Appian is a technology platform – grown from business process management – for building custom business applications. Based in Reston, VA, Appian enables organizations to easily build, use, change, […]

One of the nation’s largest marketer of tires for auto replacements, required a secure, scalable and flexible user friendly point-of-sale application. Perficient partnered with them to implement a new system for sales associates, which provides a faster way to access enterprise data and ultimately provide better customer service. In order to accommodate increasing workloads, the SOA-based solution […]

A regulated electric utility company in operation for more than 100 years with almost a million customers in the south central United States wanted to take its customer engagement to the next level. Over time, this client had developed a network of disparate websites, each serving a segment of customers and prospects. These sites needed to be unified […]

Eric Roch, principal of SOA and Integration Solutions at Perficient, recently wrote about the architecture needed to enable successful adoption and monetization in your API program. “APIs are a foundational technology that enables companies to participate in the digital economy,” wrote Eric. “APIs open up the potential for the creation of entirely new business models […]

Volkswagen Group of America is a wholly owned subsidiary of Volkswagen AG, one of the world’s leading automobile manufacturers.  They produce vehicles to sell in the U.S. that are innovative, safe, and eco-conscious, allowing them to be at the forefront of automobile technology with trusted brands such as Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini and Volkswagen.  This […]

  Every industry experiences cybercrime, but possibly none more than the financial services space, with an average annualized cost of $13.5 million. In last month’s newsletter, the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC) shared several threats to look out for in 2016. While most are not new, the number of occurrences continue to […]

John Wood, Program Director of IBM PartnerWorld Digital Content, chats with Perficient’s Vishal Rajpal at the IBM PartnerWorld Leadership Conference. John and Vishal discuss Perficient’s second consecutive Beacon Award, our Immersion solution, and the value of customers in helping develop technology that enables the adoption of cloud.

When I was learning to bowl, my father taught me to not focus on the pins, but focus on the arrows (also called “dovetails”) that are about halfway down the bowling lane. The purpose of the dovetails are to help improve your targeting on whatever pin you are trying to hit. It helped my game […]