Thrilling our clients with innovation and impact – it’s not just rhetoric. This belief is instrumental for our clients’ success. In 2018 we introduced our Chief Strategists, who provide vision and leadership to help our clients remain competitive. Get to know each of our strategists as they share their unique insights on their areas of expertise. […]
Meet Perficient’s Chief Strategists: Christine Livingston
Thrilling our clients with innovation and impact – it’s not just rhetoric. This belief is instrumental for our clients’ success. In 2018, we announced the first class of Chief Strategists, who provide vision and leadership to help our clients remain competitive. Get to know each of our strategists as they share their unique insights on […]
AI and Big Data: The Yin and Yang of Technical Innovation
I’ve had some interesting conversations with my colleagues Christine Livingston and Arvind Murali. Christine knows AI. Arvind knows data, especially big data. As we spoke it became obvious that the two are deeply interconnected. Innovation today seems to be driven by data. AI relies on data. Just implementing any kind of artificial intelligence means you […]
Getting Started With Data Governance
Data governance doesn’t start in a vacuum; it requires plenty of advance thinking, preparation, and strategy. As such, successful data governance must begin with a foundation built on data principles and a well-thought-out data strategy. Data principles are core guidelines and beliefs that form the backbone of the data strategy and core data governance capabilities. […]
Known Process, Unknown Tech vs Unknown Process, Known Tech
An interesting take on data from “The CUBE” interviewing Anil Chakravarthy (CEO, Informatica). Until recently, technology was driven by requirements from known processes such as CRM, ERP, and HR modules. In recent years, technology such as Cloud, Big Data, and SaaS applications have been driving new business processes and identifying opportunities for improvements and new […]
What is Your Big Data Strategy…?
Big Data is big deal. Every vendor has a strategy and a suite of products. Navigating the maze and picking the right Big Data platform and tools takes some level of planning and looking beyond techie’s dream product suite. Compounding the issue is the open source option vs. going with a vendor version of the […]
Yarn – The Big Data Accelerator
Yarn….. Yes, Hadoop may be changing everything, but when Yarn was released, the change pedal has been pushed aggressively to the floor. Putting the technical details aside, the bottom-line is that now multiple concurrent workloads can be executed and managed on Hadoop clusters. This “pluggable” service layer has separated the data processing and cluster resource […]