Integration + IT Modernization

I really didn’t expect to see the day when Rational Application Developer would be supported on Mac OS, but it appears that RAD v9.0 will do just that. While tablets have been taking a big bite out of the laptop and desktop sales across the broader consumer market, developers still generally need some real horsepower […]

Perficient recently partnered with The Men’s Wearhouse, a leading men’s dress apparel retailer in the United States, to evolve their e-commerce strategy. The Men’s Wearhouse had long been a brick and mortar store, but recognized its customers’ growing use of digital channels during the shopping experience. To improve their competitive and customer experience, the retailer […]

As IBM’s Premier Partner delivering Smarter Commerce solutions Perficient knows how to create a seamless and unified omni-channel commerce experience that leverages commerce, social and mobile technologies to provide the operational excellence needed to deliver a consistent brand experience that deepens your client relationships. Perficient is one of a very small delivery partner that are […]

Perficient’s award-wining IBM Business Analytics practice is a Gold sponsor of Vision 2013. During the conference our subject matter and industry experts will be on-hand to discuss how Perficient helps our clients leverage accurate, timely and integrated information to transform information into actionable intelligence that provides insight, drives planning and improves performance. Our experience with […]

I recently had a unique integration requirement where an external service provider was expecting XML within the SOAP request. One automatically thinks CDATA but in this case the endpoint required the XML to be escaped within a SOAP request. <SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV=”http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/” xmlns:ns1=”http://exacttarget.com/wsdl/partnerAPI”> <SOAP-ENV:Body> <ns1:CreateRequest> <ns1:Name>XML_Data</ns1:Name> <ns1:Value>&lt;order&gt; &lt;ns1:Attributes&gt; &lt;ns1:Name&gt;Transaction_ID&lt;/ns1:Name&gt;&lt;ns1:Value&gt;Transaction_ID goes here&lt;/ns1:Value&gt; &lt;/ns1:Attributes&gt; &lt;/order&gt; </ns1:Value> </SOAP-ENV:Body> </SOAP-ENV:Envelope> […]

After passing into the new millennium, myself and many of my peers saw an increase in the use of innovative marketing terminology relative to technology.  Just around the turn of the century, the term “Big Data” surfaced in conjunction with analytics. Soon thereafter, it was being applied to large volumes of data exceeding 1 terabyte in […]

Industry Challenges What is the biggest delay in closing a deal aside from the long sales cycle – getting through the contract process ! Contracts play a critical role in any vendor-client transaction, documenting terms such as dates, pricing, project duration, assumptions, etc. Not getting solid contracts in place can lead to penalties, overpayment for services, […]

Exciting News! Today, we announced the acquisition of TriTek Solutions, an enterprise content management and business process management consulting firm with significant IBM expertise, based in the northeastern United States. Like Perficient, TriTek is an IBM Premier Business Partner. They’re an excellent addition to our team,  bringing meaningful services expertise, important intellectual property assets and […]

IBM has acquired software deployment automation software firm, UrbanCode. Any company that requires frequent software updates, such as those in social, mobile, cloud and business analytics, will benefit. CRN covered this story in an article this week, for which they interviewed Vishal Rajpal, general manager of IBM BPMS at  Perficient. Vishal weighed in: “Consumers are rapidly becoming a […]

Perficient is Showcasing Our Award-Winning IBM SOA, BPM, and Mobile Solutions & Services at IBM’s Impact 2013 Conference Perficient is a gold sponsor of Impact 2013, and our experts are available in Booth G9 to discuss how customers can implement impactful technology solutions including BPM, service-oriented architecture (SOA), cloud, mobile and WebSphere solutions for major […]

Recently I was in an integration testing war room for a retail client who was implementing a brand new Order Management System. There were several applications silos involved in testing. I saw that the most challenging part for business analysts and testers was inability to understand the integration aspects. They have difficulty understanding what actually […]

With the ever growing need for external and cloud based integration I’ve seen more and more needs for PGP encryption/decryption. Also as DataPower nor Message Broker explicitly supports PGP as part of it’s processing we’ve come up with a ‘workaround’ using GPG – AIX’s open-source PGP tool, http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-gnupg/ The script below combines MQ (for triggering […]