Technical

As a recent homeowner, I’ve become more attuned to the complexities of the building I live in. After all, the buck now stops with me around repair challenges including piping, the water heater, and the look of the interior. One thing that stands out to me around home repairs is that everything is standardized and […]

Over the better part of the last decade, most healthcare organizations have significantly invested into technologies like EHRs with Care Management and Population Health support. These investments have equipped their healthcare practitioners with accurate information about their patients necessary to provide timely and appropriate quality clinical care to their patients. Certainly, CMS helped influenced some […]

A few months back, I worked on a project that involves flat file handling. I thought it was such an odd thing that people still use flat file in the 21st century. Ironically, I’m now on my 3rd project which involves flat file processing. It is not just flat file; I am actually dealing with […]

So I and others at Perficient have highlighted many times that Digital Transformation involves more than technology. As a matter of fact, I did a search of Perficient’s web site and got a lot of references to organizational change management (OCM).  So this recent article from CMO.com is music to my ears. They reference Altimeter’s […]

Amazon Connect Streams (Streams) is a JavaScript API that enables browser-based integrations with the Amazon Connect contact center. This series of blog posts covers three basic scenarios using Streams: Embedding the Contact Control Panel (Part 1) Subscribing to Streams Events (Part 2) Creating a Custom User Experience (Part 2) Source code from this post is […]

As a whole, it’s understood that the robotic process automation (RPA) market is poised to explode over the next few years. Figures from Grand View Research peg the market to be worth $8.75 billion by 2024, led by interest in enhanced accuracy, compliance, cost-savings, and scalability. It’s estimated that the tools afforded by RPA are […]

Moving members in an Oracle Analytic Cloud Essbase outline is not as easy as it is in EAS Console. Here’s an overview of a not-so-genius method I found. Scenario: An account moves to a different parent. There is no move method in the OACS outline editor and if the account is shared elsewhere, we cannot […]

“What’s the version of your Mule API?” you might be asked one day. On the surface, you would think it’s such a trivial question, but if you think again, you would know there is much to more to the story. The truth is, there are a few “versions” of the same Mule API depending on […]

In Siebel, we often find ourselves creating new extension columns and reusing unused business component fields for different purposes. But, how do you manage a situation in which an existing field has been created with a column text length that is larger than what you want? Let us look at an example. In this scenario, […]

One of the buzzwords in the financial services industry is “machine learning.” While even among experts in the field there is no single accepted definition of machine learning, in simplest terms, machine learning focuses on the use of technology (often referred to as artificial intelligence or cognitive computing), to find solutions through continuous learning. It’s […]

Back in April 2017, Microsoft announced the release of support for Modern Authentication for the Skype for Business Online PowerShell Module. Adding Modern Authentication introduces new scenarios where multi-factor authentication (MFA) can be used for authenticating remote PowerShell sessions out to Skype for Business Online. Using MFA for authentication for PowerShell sessions provides another layer […]

Integration initiatives are top of mind for executives in 2017 and beyond, especially as speed and agility translate to competitive advantage. Frustrated by the operational complexity and implementation challenges of traditional integration approaches like service oriented architecture (SOA), an increasingly popular alternative is microservices, a component-based architecture that allows for greater flexibility. Like every IT […]