Google announced yesterday that they entered a definitive agreement to acquire Apigee, a company with an innovative API platform, that is a leader in the industry, and is highly regarded by many analyst firms. An application programming interface (API) is a piece of software that helps move information back and forth, serving as a connector […]
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Google’s Apigee Acquisition Shows Growing Importance of APIs in Cloud
Today, Apigee announced that it will be acquired by Google for $625 million. Apigee is a leader in the API management space and is ranked highest for “completeness of vision” in Gartner’s magic quadrant. Perficient partners with Apigee to provide API solutions, so what does this acquisition mean? For Google, the acquisition of Apigee is […]
IBM Bluemix Named Leading Public Cloud
It’s awards season in the tech world and IBM is leading the way in public cloud. In their most recent study of available services, Forrester ranked IBM among the leaders in the public cloud space with specific regard to empowering enterprise developers with the tools they need to build applications. In their assessment, named “The […]
Gartner: By 2020, “No-Cloud” Policy Like Today’s “No-Internet” Policy
Gartner recently put out a press release that is quite memorable. It begins with: “By 2020, a corporate “no-cloud” policy will be as rare as a “no-internet” policy is today.” While I personally have never encountered a company that has such a success-hindering policy, I’m sure there are companies out there who are ultra-slow adopters, […]
Expenses Flow to Payables: Fusion iExpenses
The Oracle Internet Expenses application has quickly become one of the most intuitive products in the Financials suite. Not only have I previously discussed how simple it is to use the mobile app or how simple it is to create an expense report in the instance, but the seamless flow to Payables is definitely worth […]
Cloud: Driving Business Intelligence and Big Data
As head into the fall, industry-watchers will begin releasing market predictions and trends that will define the rest of this year and the year ahead. As cloud adoption and migration continues to grow, so do the industries that depend on cloud technologies including business intelligence and big data. For enterprises, business intelligence and big data […]
Countdown to Oracle OpenWorld 2016
Oracle OpenWorld, is quickly approaching and the Perficient team extends a warm welcome to come visit with us. Perficient is proud to be an exhibitor at Oracle OpenWorld, which is being held September 18-22 in San Francisco. Visit us at booth #1715 to meet with subject matter experts and thought leaders and learn how we’ve […]
FBDI: Payables Invoices
The use of the Payables Standard Invoice Template for importing mass invoices is great for clients who prefer not keying in invoices manually, which, let’s be honest here, is most clients. This FBDI (file-based data import) file comes in handy and is fairly simple to use. The greatest feature is the amount of invoices that […]
Data Integration Challenges with Cloud-Based CRM
Adoption of cloud computing and SaaS applications continues to increase as advances in technology address concerns with security, privacy and customization limitations. The global SaaS market is projected to grow from $49B in 2015 to $67B in 2018, attaining a CAGR of 8.14% (Roundup of Cloud Computing Forecasts and Market Estimates, Forbes, Sept 27, 2015) […]
AWS Named as Market Leader for IaaS
Cloud infrastructure is an integral part of any organization’s transition into the cloud and Gartner expects the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) market to grow at least 38.4% before the end of the year. Overall, IaaS is expected to continue its skyward path well into 2017 as technology leaders decide to shed their legacy deployments for flexible, cost-effective […]
Pokemon GO: Inspiring the Connected Enterprise
Unless you’ve slept under a rock the past few weeks, the arrival of Pokemon GO has no doubt entered your consciousness from kids walking around aimlessly to businesses offering incentives for trainers who have managed to level up. Based on the Pokemon animation from Japan in the 1990s which features young adults traveling a fantasy […]
4 Methods to Increase Your Organization’s Cloud Adoption
On July 20, we organized a webinar around preparing for the future of cloud. Well attended by CIOs, IT Managers, and Executives alike, we shared the principles and trends driving cloud adoption. In the course of our webinars, we also ask questions in between transition slides of our attendees to get a gauge on where […]