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Bank Marketing Buzzword of the Year – Big Data One of the hottest terms in IT circles during the past 2 years has been “big data”.  While many pundits will tell you that big data is all about processing data that has a combination of Volume, Velocity and Variety for everything from log file management […]

 Recently (prior to SharePoint 2013 going RTM), Perficient Microsoft hosted their semi-annual Hackathon focusing on the new SharePoint 2013 App Model. We had 6 teams compete (one team was entirely remote with not a single person in the same room, ah the power of Lync!), and I was so amazed by the wide variety of […]

Over the past several implementations we have dealt with we have encountered more than a few variations as to how customers want to handle their cross charge transactions.  And as you can well imagine this always leads to numerous questions as to how the functionality works and what exactly the options are.  It is often […]

What was that law about an object at rest?  Well, when my own mind is at rest– that is, when I’m not consumed with doting on my kids, digging up obscure music, or reveling in the resurgence of Notre Dame football– my mind tends to wander to SharePoint.  In the wake of the phenomenal and […]

Sometime ago I came across the issue of handling multiple tasks in parallel. Turned out Windows Workflow Foundation provides a friendly replicator activity. So I decided to use it to develop a workflow that upon kick off reads items from other lists for assignment, business areas and notification lists and spawn multiple tasks dynamically in […]

I have been assigned on a project to investigate some issues with SharePoint Variations and the first issue I encountered was the error shows up when I click on Variation Labels link under Site Settings. The error pops up with a message “Object reference is not set to an instance of an object” and correlation ID. As […]

Competition continues in the industry creating the need for transformational business strategies and technology to improve profitability for banks and financial institutions. As mentioned in our top technology trends post, Big data is widely talked about in banking as a catalyst for change.  However, banks have only scratched the surface of using smarter analytics. As a technology service provider […]

Trying to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to IT issues is a challenging task. Emerging technology forces in the financial services industry are already impacting business. The convergence of these forces does present challenges; however, it also provides a window of opportunity for financial institutions to elevate business performance and gain a […]

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. — By Leo Tolstoy

I spoke with several SharePoint Community Rockstars at the SharePoint Conference and asked them what advice they’d give to women interested in a career in technology.  You can see what they had to say here What advice would you share?

I recently attended an Oracle partner meeting in Denver.  Upon entering I noticed how few of the partner firms I recognized. Twelve years of attending these kinds of meetings and all of sudden, not only did I not see those who usually attend, I didn’t recognize the ones who were there.  Was I the only […]

Yesterday, Mike Panzarella, one of Perficient’s financial services experts, was quoted in Credit Union Times on the subject of digital wallet adoption by the credit union industry. As organizations look to the year ahead, credit unions have reached a fork in the road when it comes to mobile wallets.  What’s the best digital wallet strategy?  […]