Technical

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

In this blog post, we’ll explore application migration and its role in application modernization. Read about the first, second, and third pillars of application modernization. Historically, enterprises wanted to move applications to the cloud because they wanted flexibility, scalability, or the predictable pay-as-you-go cost structure that cloud providers offer. Now, they want environments that enable […]

Introduction to Spring Framework for Java This article walks through the basics of using Spring Framework for Java. From a very, very high level point of view, Spring Framework infers a program’s runtime behavior from labels that the programmer attaches to pieces of code. There are many different groupings of labels, and each grouping of […]

In this blog post, we’ll explore cloud modernization and its role in application modernization. Read about the first and second pillars of application modernization. Cloud adoption can have an impact on many types of modernization, including infrastructure and application. It shouldn’t be done in a vacuum (i.e. only modernizing your business processes but not your […]

Dedicated order management systems (OMS) provide incredible functionality when it comes to effectively managing orders within your organization, and as the market continues to evolve, the time has come for B2B companies to leverage an OMS to grow business functionality and elevate the customer experience. Ninad Manelkar, Director of Commerce Solutions at Perficient, was recently […]

Interpersonal skills are a project manager’s (PM) ace in the hole. Whether you’re working on a large initiative or a simpler project with a shorter timeline, your ability to build real, honest relationships with your colleagues will yield much better project outcomes and lead to a happier and trusting team. Here are four key soft […]

2021 just vanished, but we could not let go of the good times we had! Last year, at the end of November, we got together to attend the Annual Product BA Team Event – this is the third year in a row this event is celebrated, and not even Covid could stop it! The event […]

Consumer experiences outside of the healthcare industry continue to shape patients’ expectations when engaging with healthcare organizations. That’s why Genesis Healthcare System, an Ohio-based integrated healthcare delivery system, wanted to migrate its legacy content management system (CMS). The goal of delivering personalized, interactive experiences for patients was key for Genesis Healthcare System. A new CMS […]