Integration & IT Modernization

The boundaries of traditional enterprises are blurring. In this digital evolution, APIs form the foundation of the new open enterprise, allowing businesses to reuse their existing information assets across organizational boundaries. APIs and API business strategy are essential as digital conduits to products, data, collaborative business processes, and service offerings.   Perficient Ranks as a Strong […]

The Azure Update Management solution can be used to manage updates and patches for virtual machines (VMs). Through Azure Update Management, you can manage available updates, schedule the installation of required updates, and review deployment results after installing updates. Prerequisites An Azure Automation account A virtual machine It should be linked with the same workspace […]

The following blog comes from an interview with Perficient’s Strategic Advisors Consulting Managing Principal, Michael Porter, and is part of a series on cloud trends with experts from within Perficient. Cloud usage today has gone from a step pursued by bleeding edge innovators to a normal part of everyday business. Indeed, many companies now follow […]

Software containers are taking over. Is your organization ready for the transformation? Organizations are gravitating towards software containers as a way to package, distribute, and run their applications. The benefits of container technology such as Docker and Kubernetes include: SPEED – Containers are lightweight relative to virtual machines. New application instances can be launched more […]

Last year Microsoft released something referred to as BYOT (Bring Your Own Trunk). Upon its GA release, this was renamed to Direct Routing for Microsoft Teams. Direct Routing is very similar to the offering in Skype for Business Online (CCE) however Direct Routing will not require the large footprint that was required for Cloud Connector […]

First, what is Kubernetes? In simple words, it is an open source tool for managing high-scale containerized environments, deployments, auto scaling, etc. It was originally created by Google engineers to manage their billions of application containers and auto-deployment processes. After a while, it was given to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), part of the […]

Overview This is the second post in our series on Chef Habitat. For an introduction to Habitat, please refer to our initial post. In this writeup, we will be looking closely at Habitat in a Windows context. There are a few differences between Habitat on Windows versus Linux or Mac which we will point out. Additionally, […]

With more businesses seeking cloud capabilities, app modernization and migration capabilities are crucial in utilizing existing software and data to digitally transform. Many businesses seek a partner to enhance their digital efforts that they may not have in their existing staff. This is an area in which Perficient focuses, helping clients optimize processes and get […]

One of the newest and most compelling technologies from Chef Software is a project known as Habitat. Much of the early messaging and use cases around Habitat have left some with the impression that it’s simply another way to build application containers. Habitat is in fact much more and could be quite disruptive in terms of how […]

The following blog comes from an interview with Perficient’s Azure Practice Director, Steve Holstad, and is part of a series on cloud trends with experts from within Perficient. Businesses have a lot of data. This isn’t news. However, the sheer amount of data that businesses have can even surprise them. This is because old models […]

Governance forms the framework for information, content, and knowledge management to operate. Establishing clear, common, and consistent models in healthcare upon which to ground governance components provides a solid foundation executing the management activities that enforce these governance requirements. This ensures the consistency and relevancy of the information for the business – the ultimate goal […]

Welcome back to the last article in the “Core Components of Microsoft Teams” blog series! Throughout this series we’ve explained how different Microsoft products are leveraged within Microsoft Teams. Today, we’ll wrap things up by discussing how Microsoft Teams uses Exchange. How does Teams use Exchange? Teams uses Exchange in various ways. One of the […]

Hello and welcome back to part 4 of the “Core Components of Microsoft Teams” blog series! Last time we discussed Office 365 Groups and how they are leveraged by Microsoft Teams. In a similar fashion, today we’ll be covering how SharePoint Online and One Drive for Business tie into Microsoft Teams. This will be a […]

Welcome back to part 3 of the Core Components of Microsoft Teams series! This time we’ll discuss all things Office 365 groups including how Teams leverages Office 365 groups. With that said let’s get this show started! In a nutshell, Office 365 Groups is a membership service that gets broken down into 3 steps: A […]

Why Integration Bus? Quickly integrates the existing system into a new service. Maintenance is simplified by reducing tight coupling. Flexibility to add, update or replace the system without affecting the consumers Intelligent workload management. Easily integrated to heterogeneous environment. Compatible Migration versions Below specified previous versions can be migrated to IBM Integration Bus Version 10.0, […]

Investing In Your Partners Pays Off With aggressive sales revenue goals for partner channels in 2018, enterprise information management services company Iron Mountain wanted to enable partners to register and track deals during the channel sales cycle in a way Excel spreadsheets were not able to provide. Perficient partnered with Iron Mountain to design a […]

Of all the governance trends, none is more foundational and critical to the success of the governance program – indeed the organization itself – than the need for accurate, consistent, and relevant models that communicate the meaning, use, and residency of the assets of the enterprise. Modeling not only addresses the integration and ingestion of […]

Welcome back to part 2 of the “Core Components of Microsoft Teams” blog series! This time we’ll be discussing what Azure AD is and how it relates to Microsoft Teams. What is Azure Active Directory (AAD)? Azure Active Directory (AAD) is Microsoft’s multi-tenant , cloud based directory and identity management service. Azure AD combines the […]

The following blog comes from an interview with Perficient’s Chief Strategist of IT Modernization and Integration, Eric Roch, and is part of a series on cloud trends with experts from within Perficient. The cloud needs have changed for many enterprises. These enterprises have accepted they need the cloud. Now they aren’t just asking how to […]

Understanding Salesforce Release Management With Salesforce, your team needs to prepare for release management. Release Management is the planning, scheduling, coordinating, and overseeing releases and infrastructure changes meant to optimize their efficiency and quality while meeting the demands of rapid growth. “Think of organizational change management as the captain of the ship, setting the course […]