Posts Tagged ‘APIs’

APIs and microservices are two key pieces to succeeding in the digital economy. Their ability to fuel innovation, scalability, and agility in the face of changing customer expectations make both popular approaches to integration to fuel digital transformation initiatives. However, both are fraught with challenges in implementation and execution. While APIs and microservices hold huge […]

The most successful modern enterprises are those who build thriving ecosystems of developers and partners. Whether it’s retailers, payment systems, or social networks, the prevalence of application programming interfaces (APIs) adds value to the platform and creates scalability that far outpace traditional and monolithic platforms. In the modern era, the question is no longer whether […]

The sheer scope of a digital transformation can be overwhelming. Oftentimes, organizations try to simplify their digital transformation journey by solely focusing on customer experience. While the digital experience is critical – and the primary component of a digital transformation – a successful digital transformation requires organizations to address underlying IT systems, platforms and operational […]

Often, when talking about digital transformation, organizations solely focus on front-end customer experience. While digital experience is an essential – and primary – component of digital transformation, the underlying systems and processes that support and enable customer experience are a vital and often overlooked key to long-term success. According to Forrester, 2017 is the year […]

For too long, digital transformation initiatives have focused solely on customer experience. But customer experience is just one half of a successful digital transformation strategy. Yes, external experiences must change to deliver new channels and personalized service, but internal operations and systems must also be transformed. Effective, modern, and digitized internal operations have countless internal […]

Two of our technology partners, Appian and MuleSoft, recently announced a partnership to improve integration for digital transformation. Appian is a low-code BPM platform to build apps and simplify workflows. MuleSoft‘s Anypoint Platform integrates apps, data, and devices with API-led connectivity. Together, these two vendors help simplify integration and accelerate digital transformation with the combined functionality of […]

In this blog I’ve taking some liberty to extend the general definition of full stack, in order to describe a system architecture that lends itself well to full stack development. With the emergence of micoservices as an alternative to monolithic applications and service-oriented architectures; there is need to elaborate in more depth on an architectural […]

  With the rising trend to move the infrastructure into the cloud, more enterprises are looking forward to building or migrating their IT hub into the cloud space. There are several obvious advantages of cloud computing that explain its wide-spread popularity: 1. Cost of infrastructure– Having to build an entire network for data storage, processing units, clustered-network […]

InterConnect starts on Sunday, and I’m sure many of you are planning how to make the most of your time with over 2000 sessions to choose from as part of the curriculum this year. While Perficient will be leading some great sessions, in many cases, the best way to learn is by the example of […]

Things are moving fast with Mule (no pun intended). It has been barely a year since I posted about the Mule hybrid API with 3.7 release.  That version has already become somewhat obsolete. With the Mule release 3.8, the API gateway and ESB are firmly fused into one (technically that already happened with the last 3.7.x) and […]

IBM InterConnect, the premier IBM user conference being held March 19-23 in Las Vegas, is quickly approaching, and we hope you’ll be among those attending. There are three main ways you can connect with us during the conference: Visit our booth Perficient is proud to be a Gold Sponsor of this year’s event. Visit us at booth 677 in the […]

Perficient announced today an expansion of its partnership with CA Technologies to provide industry-leading services for managing enterprise-scale application program interfaces (APIs). CA Technologies fuels digital transformation for companies by providing solutions that help them plan, build, test, deploy, operate, and secure software in ways that ensure success in the application economy. APIs are routines, […]