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The mobile payments space is experiencing unprecedented growth as consumers continue to seek better ways to shop, make payments and manage their money.  At the same time, it creates pressure on both retail and financial services sectors to enhance their product offerings in order to meet consumer demand.  Corporate strategies have evolved to be more […]

The roles of CMOs and CIOs are changing. What was once easy to define – CMOs focused on the brand and sales, CIOs on IT – the line between the two has become increasingly blurred. Why? Well, for starters, a CMO’s role now encompasses social media and digital marketing channels. This includes enabling collaboration and communication […]

Microsoft recently announced several updates to Windows Azure. You can read about all the details on Scott Guthrie’s blog (ScottGu’s Blog), but there was one item that really caught my attention: Active Directory Application Access Enhancements. This feature (or collection of features) was previewed over the summer and is supposed to be available by the […]

@ChrisCrummey is IBM social evangelist and he gives a great presentation. He shows us what an IBM’er in in the digital world A digital IBM’er is smart, social, and secure. He or she has no office, employes next generation employees, and has a more informal voice Note: IBM CIO says IBM to become the preeminent […]

@ChrisCrummey is IBM social evangelist and he gives a great presentation. He shows us what an IBM’er in in the digital world A digital IBM’er is smart, social, and secure. He or she has no office, employes next generation employees, and has a more informal voice Note: IBM CIO says IBM to become the preeminent […]

IBM has been hard at work updating their Content Template Catalog (CTC) for WebSphere Portal and Web Content Manager.  CTC is a collection of content templates, pages templates, content, site builder and editing tools that greatly improves the usability of IBM’s Web Content Manager. In the video shown here, IBM demonstrates the new features available […]

I presented at the SharePointFest Chicago in October 2013. During my presentations, I mentioned that I would upload my PowerPoint presentations. Session 1: Search Customizations This session covered customizations for search in SharePoint 2013. 1. Display Templates 2. Server side search web parts. 3. Boosting and segmentation Here is the link : http://www.slideshare.net/perficientinc/search-customizations Session 2: […]

Content targeting is a hot topic in marketing circles these days.  Actually content targeting has always been a hot topic, but many content management systems didn’t support it or made it too difficult to implement.  IBM WebSphere Portal has long included the concept of content targeting through its personalization engine.  But, in the past, IBM […]

Money2020 is behind us, but we met some incredible people and learned a lot. On October 9th, we participated in a Twitter chat about Money2020 and financial technology. For those of you who missed it, the transcript is below.   Question 1 Bank of America @BofA_News: Q1: What speakers or topics have most resonated so […]

Last week, Perficient sponsored and presented at SharePoint Fest Chicago. One of our speakers was Rich Wood, National Director of Modern Applications here at Perficient. He presented on “Migrating Your Intranet to SharePoint Online.” First, Rich explained what’s different about the cloud, and gave details on SharePoint as a service, including what makes it different from SharePoint […]

Long before Microsoft acquired Yammer, I was impressed with the usability of the latter enterprise social tool.  Granted, they looked (and still look) more or less like Facebook, but that sort of stealing is brilliant stealing.  After all, these days pretty much everyone uses Facebook, so when new users log into Yammer for the first time, […]

In an earlier blog post I wrote that Agile BI was much more than just applying agile SDLC processes to traditional BI systems.  That is, Agile BI systems need to support business agility.   To support business agility, BI systems should address three main attributes: Usable and Extensible –  In a recent TDWI webinar on business […]