Integration + IT Modernization

This has been an exciting first half of the year with another IBM award announced at last week’s IBM Amplify Event. This award recognizes Perficient for groundbreaking solutions leveraging the IBM Commerce portfolio to help clients improve business operations, increase sales revenue, reduce cost of services, and help deliver the best customer experiences. It was […]

A colleague posted on the Saleforce blog recently a brief post exemplifying why Informatica is a leader in real-time data integration. He writes… No secret or surprise that Informatica and Salesforce have been closely aligned and work very well together. Both are cloud solutions which free you from having to manage on-premise networks and access […]

Shannon Ahern from Varsity Spirit Fashion and Greg Schaller from Perficient spoke at IBM Amplify 2015 about how Varsity Spirit Fashion achieved a 100% adoption rate internally and transformed their business.   Varsity Spirit Fashion outfits more than 1 million athletes.  Previously Varsity Spirit’s 300 person sales team faced several challenges including a huge catalog […]

Day 2’s opening session continued the theme of “A New Way to Engage” and started with Chris Wong, VP of strategy and Product Management in IBM’s Commerce group. IBM now has 30,000 users in their Marketing Cloud. Chris said that IBM thinks the way for marketers to move forward in the rapidly changing technology landscape […]

  Urban Outfitters worked with Perficient to implement IBM Sterling multichannel fulfillment system and the result has been superior customer service. Jas Singh with Urban Outfitters and Subroto Majumdar with Perficient presented this case study titled “Ensuring Successful Order Management Implementation” at IBM Amplify today. Urban Outiftters is an apparel retailer with annual revenue of […]

… To boldly go where no business has gone before The theme for Informatica World 2015 is “All Things Data.” To more thoroughly understand “All Things Data,” I went to synthesize pillars of all things data with Informatica products and Perficient’s service offerings. During this synthesis, it occurred to me that an analogy for this […]

Amplify 2015 is IBM’s conference for Digital Marketing and Commerce. This is a big year for IBM as they look to take advantage of their cloud capabilities and bring together all of the systems they have purchased over the last few years. Alex Banayan kicked off the opening session talking about how life has changed […]

Introduction: High availability is always an important topic, which is often thought at end of the project or even sometimes at the time of downtime/disaster. While it is challenging to set up high availability environment, as you have to spare time and money to complete; here is my attempt to provide you with a prototype […]

For a company like LinkedIn, data is at the core of their business. Externally, subscribers to their network are constantly seeing content updated by the seconds. But what about internally? Their data teams are non-stop behind the scenes working to keep up with all of this rapidly changing data so when their Financial, Planning, & […]

I had the opportunity to attend the Liferay User Group in Denver this past week. Perficient and Liferay hosted the event covering topics; OSGi on Liferay, presented by Perficient’s Daniel Moshi (link to post) and Liferay in the Government sector presented by Liferay’s Johnnie Stubbs. After the respected presentations, we opened up the group for […]

This is another in a series of exploratory questions that someone might ask when kick-starting an API strategy for your company. How do APIs foster innovative development? Why would you want to foster innovative development? Innovation. It’s a word that is bouncing about these days, but what does it mean in the context of API […]

Perficient’s Health Analytics Gateway with Informatica is a comprehensive solution that reduces the data integration process using Informatica PowerCenter, and automates the loading of transformed source data into the IBM Healthcare Data Model, which helps healthcare organizations more rapidly generate intelligent and actionable analytics. This innovative solution was developed to compress the long lead time […]