Development and Operations (DevOps) is the agile software development approach that allows for simultaneous software development and testing. A successful DevOps practice requires quality assurance and testing (QAT). DevOps developed from the need for businesses to respond faster to market changes to acquire a competitive advantage and accelerate their growth. DevOps is assisting firms with […]
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Using Microsoft Teams: Utilize Chats, Meeting Chats, & Posts
This blog is the third and final in a three-part series tackling how to set up and use Microsoft Teams for a project. Chats, Meeting Chats, and Channel Posts are all excellent methods of communication within Microsoft Teams. However, there is often confusion amongst project teams of when it is appropriate to use each feature. […]
Using Microsoft Teams: Write Effective Teams Posts
This blog is the second in a three-part series tackling how to set up and use Microsoft Teams for a project. So you’ve posted a message in Teams and you’re asking yourself, why hasn’t anyone responded? It might be that your messaging isn’t clear, or the right people don’t even know that you’re addressing them. […]
IP Whitelisting through AEM Dispatcher in 5 easy steps
The dispatcher is used as a load balancing/caching tool by AEM. It can also be used to block anyone from accessing your AEM author instance. This is to ensure that no one outside the client’s network can access it. AEM Author and publisher should never be exposed directly. In most cases, clients may also require […]
How to Monitor Performance Using Application Insights
Monitoring your website performance is a key factor to ensure your application performs as expected. There are a lot of application performance monitoring (APM) tools available in the market that can be used to monitor the performance of the application, such as NewRelic, Azure Monitor, AppDynamics, and others. In this post, I’ll talk more about […]
What a Successful Digital Commerce Transformation Looks Like
In my last blog, I explained what digital commerce looks like in today’s world for businesses everywhere. Now, we’ll discuss what a digital commerce transformation looks like. Whether a business has created new leadership roles to address digital demands or not, businesses need help evolving in many areas, including: Knowing their customer and their current […]
Clarifying Excel’s lookup functions
I’ve decided to write some of my own documentation for common use cases of the Excel functions LOOKUP, VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP and XLOOKUP because the official documentation is pretty confusing. It uses “lookup value” as a synonym for “key”, when one would conventionally expect a “lookup value” to be a synonym for “value”! (After all, in […]
On Scala’s parenthesis convention for no-arg functions
One might be confused or even angered when they learn about Scala’s convention regarding parenthesis usage for no-arg functions. The convention is this: given a no-arg function, you use put parentheses next to the function call only if the function has side effects. So, you would invoke a function named printCurrentState by writing printCurrentState(), since printCurrentState […]
Configure your Microsoft Teams Integration with Amazon Connect through PACE
Today, many businesses depend on Microsoft Teams for internal communications and Amazon Connect for their contact center, making it challenging for agents to accept queued calls and simultaneously answer internal calls in Teams. Suppose there is no status synchronization between the two solutions. In that case, this behavior could significantly impact several levels, such as […]
Digital Commerce in 2022 – It’s Not Your Father’s Shopping Cart
Nearly all businesses have invested in digital commerce to varying degrees over the past two decades. Previously, digital commerce was thought of as a channel through which the business exposed its way of doing business to a digital audience. This thought served businesses well when the digital audience had little expectation with a business online […]
Strengthening Healthcare C-Suite Relationships & Partnership: IT, Marketing, Revenue
What do the Chief Information Officer (CIO), Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), and Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) need from each other in order to deliver on transformative business outcomes and customer success? Certainly not more short-term fixes. Instead, they need three things: A cross-functional partnership Shared longer-term business and IT roadmaps Nimble architecture “Just 36% of […]
Perficient Launches Knowledge Sharing Community for Colleagues
In 2021, Perficient continued launching new resource groups for colleagues to find connections and community while building their skills. In addition to the Giving ERG and Agile Community, Lance Bruner, director, took the reigns to formalize a group that had been providing information on consulting best practices to our localized GEO teams so that more […]