Posts Tagged ‘cloud’

Healthcare organizations that want to make more informed and better clinical and business decisions need to not only integrate their data but be able to turn that data into insights. More and more analytics are becoming the key to successful implementations, innovations, and better patient outcomes. Our healthcare leadership team will once again be in […]

In 1929, Hollywood held its very first Academy Awards ceremony. With no broadcast and a room of just 270 guests, the event was a calm affair and low-key, complete with dinner and a few awards. For the average American who could afford to go to the theaters to see a movie, they found an industry […]

API Management is an emerging trend for 2018 as organizations discover their versatility, cost savings, and business value. According to Carl Lehmann of 451 Research, the stage is set as the availability of holistic API strategies provide the ability to roll out programs supporting initiatives including the Internet of Things (IoT) or voice interfaces. Opportunity […]

Imagine a large organization with many teams and Jenkins pipeline jobs.  Or imagine one or two people who have to maintain many different Jenkins pipeline jobs within a Jenkins Master.  For anyone who has been responsible for maintaining source code of any scale, the source code 101 tactic of good source code maintainability is the […]

At Perficient, we’re all about having our pulse on the state of technology and the trends impacting business. Around this time of the year, we look out for surveys, including RightScale’s State of the Cloud Report. A regular fixture in the technology community, this particular survey answers burning questions around cloud adoption, usage, and anticipated […]

Small business users of cloud storage look most to features and capabilities when selecting a cloud storage provider, according to a new survey by Clutch, a B2B research firm in Washington, DC. Over one-third of small business IT decision makers (35%) said features and capabilities primarily influenced their purchasing decision. Less than 5% said that marketing […]

HIMSS18 is right around the corner. This year, more than 45,000 professionals from around the world will gather in the Sands Expo and Convention Center, Las Vegas, March 5-9 to help uncover the promise of health information and technology. The conference will bring world-class education, cutting-edge products and solutions, and unique networking opportunities to help […]

What is IT Debt? The term IT debt became a very popular talking point in the selling and marketing of cloud-based solutions after Gartner promoted it in 2010. IT debt refers to the investment a company would have to make to eliminate its IT backlog and bring their current application portfolio up to a fully […]

The following diagram is a generic representation of release management for a development organization.  There are typically different development teams who develop individual and standalone pieces that go into a release.  In the diagram, they are referred to as the component.  Each component has its own development lifecycle, source code repository, and (probably its own) […]

As a software outsourcing company, we work with a variety of partners in different stages of cloud adoption, but across all clients the consensus is clear; the cloud is a key component to accelerating business growth and adding value. The annual RightScale State of the Cloud Report dives deeper into the world of cloud and […]

Romantics and poets have spent considerable amounts of time trying to quantify love over the past several centuries with very limited success. Scientists including Johannes Kepler (more famous for discovering law of planetary motion) even devised the Marriage (Secretary) Problem, a method using interviewing methods and analytics for increasing optimizing finding a mate. More recently, […]

Anyone who is single understands the exhaustion and frustration of modern dating, especially with so many different online platforms and mobile applications. Without the right strategy, finding love becomes an overwhelming and thankless experience. Developing a dating application is also a challenging endeavor, especially with the nuances of digital transformation. Akin to modern marketing challenges […]