Integration + IT Modernization

As the name Apache SOLR suggests, SOLR is developed by Apache foundation in JAVA language, and this has base libraries from the Apache LUCENE project, which provides a searching algorithm to SOLR. SOLR, an integral part of many applications, has search functionality including Google, Amazon and many enterprise applications. (This post from Lucidworks includes a list of […]

A data governance plan begins with the acknowledgement that your organization needs a strategy to own and be responsible for data in order to make better decisions internally and externally. Without this in place, data can be misunderstood and misused, or worse, not used at all. As an Elite Informatica Partner, Perficient and Informatica work […]

Since the (seemingly) wondrous achievements of the Mechanical Turk in the 18th century, humans have been fascinated by robots. Today robots, either the physical or software, are becoming a part of all of our lives and this raises questions that we have not figured out how to answer. The week of OSCON, I saw a keynote and […]

It is no secret that Big Data is involved daily with social engagement, advertising, mobile applications, and business intelligence in today’s enterprise. As much data that an enterprise would like to receive from customers, even more data needs to be ingested from the cloud, commerce sites, transactions, social feeds, geo-locations and on. In between the […]

 Although OSCON wrapped up Friday, I have a few more thoughts and observations that I will share this week. Danese Cooper, Arnold Goldberg and Manish Jain from PayPal gave a Key Note where they discussed InnerSource. This wasn’t a term I was familiar but as I watched the keynote, I thought how the concept, better code and craftsmanship, was applicable to […]

At OSCON the keynotes are interesting and influential speakers but not arranged around a specific yearly theme. In this post and a future one, I want to pull together this theme of using the concepts and principles of Open Source in new ways. Two speakers, from the US and UK governments, provided fascinating insights and the […]

I spent a half day with a very engaging speaker, Chris Richardson in his session “Introduction to Microservices”. I found the tutorial very useful because I have seen the challenges he discussed at our clients. I was at one of our healthcare clients, managing a team focused on the automation of test data. Other Perficient teams were responsible […]

You can’t be in technology without hearing about Docker. Docker mania is so sweeping I bet the local diner is about to announce a partnership. That being said, a company with over $1 billion valuation and partnerships with IBM, Google, RedHat, Rackspace, Microsoft and VMware and a host of customers is one that deserves attention. It is […]

Today the O’Reilly Open Source Convention, OSCON, kicks off in Portland, Oregon. Approximately 4,100 people are gathering this year to focus on open source solutions. If you are not here, you can still catch a number of the announcements and keynotes live using this link. I am here, along with some of my sales colleagues, because although Perficient […]

  Scenario 1: A runner is out for an early workout taking the isolated forest trail when all of a sudden is feeling out of breath, tightening chest, and falls to the ground. The runner just had a heart attack with no one around. Beforehand, the runner decided to become proactive in the future of […]

APIs are the gateway to accessing Internet of Things connected devices, and server as the bridge between the Internet and Things. APIs are the invaluable driver for IoT to evolve, where APIs provide access to the mesh of web services that are required for IoT to be useful and operate. APIs provide a following important […]

Digital transformation is already taking place outside of your environment. Is your company a part of it? Marketing has evolved to become immersed with technology to where the traditional CMO role is becoming immersed with various with technologies. CMOs are digital leaders that have the power to push company-wide transformation into their technologies, and API […]