When configuring the call center experience administrators should keep in mind that long wait times will invariably lead to dropped calls and frustrated customers. An easy way to make sure your callers don’t have to wait on hold for a long time when no agents are available is to make use of the callback feature. […]
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Perficient Achieves Amazon Web Services Advanced Tier
With AWS Re:Invent on the horizon from November 27 to December 2, we are proud to announce that we have achieved Advanced Tier for our Amazon Web Services partnership. The achievement is a result of our participation in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Amazon Partner Network Consulting Partner (APN) program, which enables technology consulting firms […]
CA World Keynote Day 2: Transformational IT
It was an amazing four days at CA World, with attendees immersed in the full suite of CA solutions and their associated IT Trends. With many organizations now using the Modern Software Factory (which includes agile, automation, insights, and security) for their day-to-day innovation needs, CA Technologies CTO Otto Berkes stepped to the stage to […]
Britannia Development: Complete Property Automation with CA API Management
Our team joined Britannia Development at CA Technologies’ CA World 2017 conference to share insights into how the nationwide real estate development company will build connected homes that leverage IoT and automation for real-time customer access to data. Britannia Development, which built its business on real estate development and rehabilitation, plans to introduce Internet of […]
CloudBees Adds Analytics to DevOps Solutions
Open-Source Cloudbees Jenkins is at the center of many DevOps deployments, providing support for Continuous Integration and Deployment processes end-to-end. With so many data points at play in DevOps, CloudBees recently launched CloudBees DevOptics, an analytics application to aggregate data from software development pipelines as it moves through a Jenkins server. The tool will identify […]
What Is Blockchain? 7 Things to Know About the Technology
In simplest terms, blockchain is a technology that enables value to be transferred using only software; that is, without the need for trusted intermediaries. It is a record-keeping system where transactions are executed, validated, and recorded publicly. Let’s break down blockchain: 1. Blockchain is the technology behind bitcoin, the electronic currency. It is not the […]
Perficient Wins Disruptor of the Year Partner Award at CA World
CA World kicked off for partners today with a half-day summit outlining the current state of CA Technologies’ partner program and a future look at the roadmap. CA executives across the board presented to the crowded room of Focus partners – those specially appointed by CA for their sales and delivery capabilities. As part of […]
CA World Begins Tomorrow – Join Us!
The moment has arrived – CA World has started! Over the next few days, we’ll be at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas Resort & Casino speaking with thousands of IT professionals at CA’s premier user conference. If you’re attending, we’d love to speak with you at booth #1001 about our DevOps, Cloud, Service Virtualization, and digital […]
Don’t Miss These Sessions at Pivotal SpringOne
Pivotal SpringOne is less than a month away and we’ll be at the conference, sharing digital transformation success stories. With cloud native development trending as a best practice and preferred strategy, you’ll want to attend. We scoured the agenda and found the following sessions of interest that all attendees should participate in: Managing the Complexity […]
Process Amazon Connect self-service data with Lambda and SES
In this blog post, we process data collected through a self-service Amazon Connect Contact flow and deliver results in an email. My previous article shows how to configure Amazon Connect and Amazon Lex to create a Self-service Contact Center experience. Assuming the first part is done, it is time to process the data using a Lambda function. As the […]
Reach the Peak of Innovation with DevOps
According to research firm Gartner, IT spending will total $86.4 billion by the end of this year, with much of the investment going into initiatives including DevOps. Organizations who leverage tools within the DevOps toolchain including Sonatype, CloudBees, Chef, Ansible, Amazon Web Services, and Pivotal experience positive business outcomes, from money saved to easier collaboration […]
More natural text to speech with SSML and Amazon Connect
Within Amazon Connect we can build engaging contact flows that use Amazon Polly to prompt callers with text to speech utterances. Amazon Polly produces natural sounding speech using deep learning technologies. This is not your old-school and often cringe worthy “robot” voice. With that said, let’s look at a few scenarios where we can delight […]