Operations

This is a 4-part blog intended to give you some pointers to think about when choosing DevOps tools.  In the interest of full disclosure and trying to be as non-biased as I can be, I spent around 9 years in software pre-sales with IBM.  One of the main reasons why I joined Perficient is because […]

Constant pressure from shareholders and upper management to improve the bottom line are driving factors to business leaders searching for new ways to be more effective and efficient. One of the many tools available to them is Enterprise Performance Management. Broadly defined, Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) is managing the profitability and performance of your business […]

Living with disease and undergoing treatment can be life-changing. Patients may not understand their diseases, their treatment options, or even the implications of the medications they’re taking. The process can be confusing, complicated, and worrisome. With digital transformation becoming more sophisticated and prevalent, pharmaceutical and medical device companies have stepped up to the plate with […]

2018 is shaping up to be an unusually challenging year for healthcare providers. On top of the typical revenue cycle management and payer reimbursement concerns providers deal with every year, there is ongoing regulatory and political uncertainty which could adversely impact revenue. Meeting these challenges is a difficult balancing act. Internally, there is ever greater […]

The New Year brings new hope for technology, especially as consumers and organizations anticipate continued growth in areas that will help increase productivity and innovation. Here are some of the top DevOps and cloud predictions we found around the web for the year ahead. Prediction 1: Serverless Overtakes Containers Containers gained prominence in 2017 but […]

Data is king for many reasons, and the amount of data we produce every day grows exponentially. According to some estimates, 90% of the data in existence today was created within the last two years. IBM estimates that we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day, or enough to fill 10 million Blu-Ray discs. […]

We’ve done many of API and microservices projects over the years, but I thought it would be nice to share what we presented at the recent CA World conference, which took place at the end of 2017. We shared the stage with TCF Bank, a client of ours. According to the company’s website, TCF Bank […]

Introduction PBCS/EPBCS has the option of deleting and creating a member for Dimension without doing any refresh to the database. This feature was introduced later in on-Premise planning application and the same is available in PBCS/EPBCS. We had instances where user had to wait for sparse dimension members to get added by admin and then […]

Knowing for certain what the future holds is impossible. Trends, on the other hand, are more predictable. In fact, there’s probably no better indicator of emerging or future trends than recent history. That is exactly how we determined the trends we anticipate seeing in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries in 2018. This guide does […]

Predicting the future of finance is, for the most part, impossible. However, if you look back (and not that far) at the history of innovation in our industry, chances are you believe the future is bright. Consider how far we’ve advanced in just the past 60 years: Modern-day credit cards were introduced in 1950, starting […]

Now that January is here, I thought it would be neat to look back at what our readers found most interesting last month. Below are the top five blog posts Perficient’s life sciences practice wrote in December – they’re ranked in order of popularity, with number one being the most viewed piece. Shared Investigator Platform (SIP) Struggles […]

Overview This document demonstrates how continuous build and deploy automation is achieved for IBM Integration Bus deployment using open source GitHub, Jenkins and JFrog Artifactory. Basic Functionalities Full Deployment – Latest code is pulled from GitHub repositories, and each IIB applications are assembled, packed, override properties applied then deployed to respective Integration Server (Execution Group) […]