Operations

I remember that I heard the cloud concept about ten years ago while now the real cloud age is here. The cloud deployment and practice in CRM area might be the pioneer comparing with others. It is glad that we are seeing more and more BI vendors are boosting their cloud strategy and product development […]

Solution Writing column names in the first row of a flat file target using PowerCenter (version 8.1 or update) session, do the following: Edit the session with the flat file target in Workflow Manager. Select the Mapping tab. Select the target file. Scroll to the Header Options attribute. Select Output Field Names from the attribute list. NOTES: By default, this option […]

Today, Master Data Management (MDM)  is an accepted mainstream tool / program / application within corporate America. Large companies have multiple MDM solutions across business units, geographical units and even within the same business unit, they have different MDM for different domains. It is becoming a common sight to see MDM fully functioning and operating, […]

Governance is an essential part of any SharePoint deployment. Any organization that has tried to implement SharePoint has undoubtedly asked the question, “How do we effectively manage our SharePoint environment?” Governance is that answer.  Governance is a set of policies, procedures, roles, and responsibilities that control how your business teams and IT teams work together […]

If you have already read ‘Tales from a SharePoint upgrade’ blog series part I and part II, this is part III.  One of the more popular upgrade scenarios is upgrading from SharePoint on premise to the Office 365 cloud.  This upgrade process can also mean a migration of email systems to Exchange Online, creation of […]

I recently attended a webinar from Gartner on Mobile Marketing and Data-Driven Marketing. Do look up the interesting statistics shared in the webinar. What stood out in the webinar is that, highest priority is given to Analytics, besides building the application itself. From my experience, lot of the Marketing / Advertising programs are outsourced to […]

Information Governance is a key discipline to manage the data quality and overall Information accessibility, security and usability. It is very logical to see the benefits it can bring to the organization. However the soft benefits, can only help start the conversation , but getting Executive commitment will take much more convincing data. Like every […]

Master Data Management is an unheard of term within legal industry. Historically  only handful of software providers serves the  legal industry. Due to the fragmented nature of the business not many major ERP vendors have targeted this industry. However,  this situation is changing, ERP vendors are looking to expand in this space,  large and medium-sized […]

Recent articles and the technology hype around Big Data, is forcing big companies as well as medium size companies to do something with this technology. Lot of companies have kicked off Big Data projects albeit in silos. New titles like Data Scientists and the cool factor has increased the expectations of value, the Big Data […]

Last week IBM announced v8.5 for their Digital Experience system.  This has been known in the past as WebSphere Portal, but with all the additions to the platform over the years, its become much more than just a portal.  My colleague Brendon Jones listed a few of the new features included in v8.5.  Its often […]

Last week IBM announced v8.5 for their Digital Experience system.  This has been known in the past as WebSphere Portal, but with all the additions to the platform over the years, its become much more than just a portal.  My colleague Brendon Jones listed a few of the new features included in v8.5.  Its often […]

Today we’re featuring a guest post from Krystle Vermes, marketing manager at Seismic, discussing how financial enterprises and financial advisors must stay ahead of the game with clients. Seismic is a Perficient technology partner and will be joining us on May 20 at 1:00 ET for a webinar, “How to Improve Sales Performance with Next Gen […]