Application modernization is a growing area of focus for enterprises, especially in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Why? Because business leaders feel increasing pressure to drive innovation. Digital trends, remote work, and escalating customer expectations are among the reasons. No industry is immune to these dynamics. Businesses must evolve to succeed, which is why […]
Optimizely DXP Deployment API – Downloading Assets
The Optimizely Deployment API (Episerver.PaaS.EpiCloud) has helped immensely as I’ve been working on new projects, but there has always been something that has plagued me; copying down content/assets into my local environment. When I say “Copying down Content,” I mean two pieces; Database and the Assets. For the Database Export, I have created my ExportDatabase […]
Setting Up the Release Pipeline for Optimizely B2B Commerce Cloud
Once we’ve completed the build pipeline setup and it’s running successfully, it’s time for the final step in your process: setting up the release pipeline. The release pipeline is used to deploy the artifact generated by the build pipeline to a server. Follow the steps below to set up the release pipeline: Set up the […]
Blazor, Are You Ready?
Introduction Building SPA’s I have been involved in several web application projects implemented as a single-page application (SPA) with a REST API interface to the backend in recent years. In all of these cases, the SPA was built with React and the Flux/Redux design pattern. Since my background is heavily .NET and Azure-centric, the API […]
Perficient Chairman and CEO Jeff Davis Comments on Microsoft’s Momentum to CRN
Companies turning to Microsoft solutions such as Azure and Teams has driven growth for the tech giant at an amazing rate, according to CRN. And, as Perficient Chairman and CEO Jeff Davis shared with CRN, Perficient has been able to help companies significantly in these areas with Microsoft. “Our Microsoft customers have expressed great determination […]
Perficient Listed in Four Recent Forrester Reports Related to Microsoft Capabilities
The second half of 2020 has been an exciting period for our Microsoft team, with Forrester listing us in four reports that relate to capabilities within our Microsoft practice. These reports range in solutions and showcase the wide range of capabilities that our Microsoft practice holds, ready to help clients with any number of digital […]
Baseline Certifications for Professionals working in the M365, Power Platform, and Azure spaces
Baseline Certifications for Professionals working in the M365, Power Platform, and Azure spaces Anyone selling, designing, delivering, or supporting Microsoft services in the M365, Azure, or Power Platform (I will call this Microsoft Cloud below) should consider studying for and obtaining the three ‘Fundamentals’ certifications from Microsoft. For business or sales oriented professionals Although these […]
How to Host Your Project Using Azure Build & Release Pipelines (GIFs included)
If you have a project in your repository that you want to host on the web, running the build and release pipelines on Azure is one way to go. Although configuring them is super easy, the process itself is not very intuitive especially the first time you encounter it because what each pipeline does is […]
Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare Is Generally Available
At Perficient, we see a lot of our partners investing in healthcare in general. Most of our partners have evolved to the point where their tools are HIPAA compliant and many are willing to sign BAA’s. I think it’s significant then that Microsoft’s recent announcement that Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare is generally available. Getting beyond […]
Perficient Listed in Forrester Azure Services Providers Q4 Report
We are excited to be listed by Forrester in its recent report, Now Tech: Azure Services Providers, Q4 2020 — Forrester’s Overview of 41 Azure Services Providers. As the report notes, “Many enterprises continue to struggle with starting and continuing their journeys to the cloud.” The report also notes that service providers can help clients […]
How Perficient and Microsoft Can Help You Return to Work
To say the world has changed this year would be an understatement. In every part of life, we have had to learn and adapt, and business is no different. The truth is that your business will never be the same. The world today is digital first more than ever, and your business must adapt to […]
Handshake Powers Elasticpath Intelligent Search
Elasticpath is a market leader for headless commerce microservices and are great partners. Search driven commerce has extreme value for online retailers. Search drives customers to better recommendations. It tracks the conversions and query terms that translate to more sales. With machine learning, search quantifies the search results that translate directly to sales. For the […]