Posts Tagged ‘IBM’

With World of Watson, IBM has expanded its annual data and analytics user conference to encompass cognitive business applications. Perficient is proud to be a sponsor of World of Watson 2016, which is being held October 23-27 in Las Vegas. If you haven’t already registered, there’s still time to secure the pre-conference rate: https://www-304.ibm.com/events/tools/wow2016reg/registration/#/  If […]

Developers have numerous choices when it comes to their technology capabilities. In a technology community, there is always conversation around which solutions are superior and which should be skipped. Thankfully, IBM Bluemix falls in the former category, named as the leading Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) platform by the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). Taken as a survey from […]

 According to Gartner, growth is the number one priority among senior-level executives in the financial services industry. How can you increase revenue? It’s not that you’re no longer concerned with the usual compliance, regulatory, and risk issues, but what is currently top of mind is how to drive growth and improve efficiencies. The Depository […]

When smartphones went mainstream in the late stages of the previous decade, consumers saw the rise of the application. Unlike its cousin of the two decades prior, mobile and tablet applications offered ease of use and intuitive look and feel from a unified user experience. Whether end-users were socializing with friends on social networks, discovering […]

Customer service is a default need for any organization that serves a wide base of customers. As customers ourselves, we expect issues to arise from time to time and will look for relevant phone numbers and emails to contact to achieve problem resolution. When deploying your own modern customer service program around your products, it’s […]

Smart machines, which encompasses a group of cognitive computing technologies such as advanced machine learning, natural language processing, and prescriptive analytics to make decisions and solve problems without human intervention, have been receiving more attention in recent years due to the rise and success of solutions like IBM’s Watson. A smart application learns and adapts […]

Migration to the cloud is a challenge for many organizations. Between selecting the appropriate solution, training employees, and integrating technology into day-to-day activities, business leaders find themselves facing a long laundry list of items. We understand this challenge and have developed the Innovation Lab to ease the transition. To understand where the cloud industry is […]

Global companies have a unique advantage, with the ability to span all continents while remaining personal in their service to clients. Though companies can implement communications technologies that bring employees closer together, sometimes it isn’t enough to truly connect everyone. Such a challenge was true of a global management consulting firm, who was challenged with […]

According to research firm Gartner, 50% of enterprises will have a hybrid cloud deployment by 2017. Hybrid cloud is currently the most popular type of cloud right now, offering a mix of public and private cloud services while serving as a transition for enterprises who are warming up to the benefits of cloud computing. For […]

    Phani Kanakala, Florida Blue’s Web and Mobile Manager and Glenn Kline, Principal at Perficient spoke at IBM Amplify about Florida Blue’s transformation of their customer experience.  A dinosaur video clip started the talk and Glenn related how companies are either going to be a digital predator or digital prey.  If you are a […]

Jeff Paxton from MetLife – the largest insurance company in the US – spoke about what they are doing in this area of cognitive computing.  MetLife has 100m customers. 3-4 years ago MetLife embarked on a customer-centric journey.  They wanted to give choice to the customer and make it easier for them to work with […]

Are you a technology leader looking for innovative solutions to your organization’s challenges around cloud? Are you sold on the cloud but unsure about how to migrate and with which solutions? Finally, do you enjoy a glass of beer while figuring out your information technology strategy? If you answered yes to all three questions and live […]