Mobility is no longer a nice-to-have, but a must-have in order to connect to customers. Mobile applications and the cloud continue to drive requirements for backend services. But according to surveys, 70% to 80 % of the time spent in mobile “app” development is building the backend services. These backend services are necessary to build […]
Posts Tagged ‘APIs’
Forrester Recommends Perficient as Vendor for API Strategy and Delivery
APIs are exploding in the digital marketplace with almost 15,000 public APIs now available. Business executives are realizing the value of APIs in: Driving business innovation Building mobile apps and customer engagement Creating seamless operational efficiency Enabling business agility Serving hybrid integration internally and externally Optimizing existing infrastructure As businesses grow their adoption of both […]
Unplug Your Legacy ESB
With the shift towards hybrid cloud architecture and the exponential growth of mobile applications it is essential to establish an integration strategy that supports new computing models that include on-premises, cloud and mobility. Legacy middleware has a monolithic architecture, proprietary components, complex operating environments and expensive licensing. A dated integration style greatly slows mobile development […]
What I Learned on Day 1 of the I LOVE APIs Conference
The second day, called “Day 1” here at I Love APIs begins the speaker series for Strategy, Developer, and IT forums. What is I Love APIs? Go here for a run down of the conference by Alexandra Haefele: How to Get the Most Out of the I Love APIs 2015 Conference 10:30 AM A late start to […]
What I Learned on Day 0 of the I Love APIs Conference
Follow me @prftarvin! This will be updated hourly. Today is the first day of I Love APIs in San Jose, CA. The force is strong with everyone here, and the API energy is vibrant – even before the coffee station was out. Day 0 is a major workshop day with: Foundational Topics in Apigee Edge Advanced Topics […]
Join Us for ‘Craft and Connect’ at the I Love APIs Conference!
Craft and Connect hAPI hour: Welcome Reception at the I Love APIs Conference Sponsored by Perficient
BIG Data and APIs
It is no secret that Big Data is involved daily with social engagement, advertising, mobile applications, and business intelligence in today’s enterprise. As much data that an enterprise would like to receive from customers, even more data needs to be ingested from the cloud, commerce sites, transactions, social feeds, geo-locations and on. In between the […]
Making Beautiful Music with APIs
I love jazz. As a young boy moving from rural South Carolina to New Orleans in the early 80s, I had not really appreciated the genre, but in New Orleans it’s easy to fall in love with it since it has made itself part of our DNA (as an early style of the genre was […]
OSGi on Enterprise Portals
I recently had a chance to give a presentation about OSGi on Liferay 7 at the Chicago Liferay User Group as OSGi is proven to help build, package and maintain robust API’s for Java based Enterprise software components running in the Cloud or On Premise. Attenders included architects, BAs and developers from different companies across […]
Driving Digital Transformation in Retail with APIs
The way people shop is different than the way it used to be. A shift towards an integrated shopping experience requires execution and fluidity across store and digital channels. To support an omni-channel customer experience, business must work through disconnected systems to quickly serve customer demands. In the face of IT Modernization, organizations must consider […]
APIs in a photograph
APIs are Application Program Interfaces. They are channels to new customers and markets. Used externally, APIs unlock the power of partners to use business assets to extend the reach of your products or services to customers and markets you may not otherwise easily reach. I think of these as windows… doorways… a passageway to something. […]
6 Useful APIs To Leverage With Siebel CTMS
In a blog post from several months ago, Param Singh, director of clinical trial management solutions at Perficient, announced the newest version of our Siebel Clinical Trial Management System (CTMS) accelerator, ASCEND. ASCEND 2.0 includes Oracle’s new Open UI updates that make the system easier to deploy and run on a variety of browsers and […]