Posts Tagged ‘IBM’

The IBM InterConnect 2016 energetic day 2 general session focused on IT transformation. The session discussed factors and real-life examples of how company’s culture and IT has and must transform. Some of the key messaging included data, security, APIs, cloud and application integration. Speakers included: Caleb Barlow, IBM VP WW Portfolio Marketing, IBM Security Harriet […]

Today, InterConnect 2016 kicked off with the IBM Business Partner Summit at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Peers share their stories of innovating with IBM solutions and bringing exceptional value to their clients. Vishal Rajpal, general manager of Perficient’s Cloud and DevOps practice, had the opportunity to speak during the opening session and shared details […]

  Perficient was recently recognized with the 2016 IBM Beacon Award for Outstanding Enterprise Cloud Solution. This top honor is awarded to a few IBM Business Partners who have delivered cutting-edge solutions that drive business value and digitally transform how clients and industries operate. In her blog post, my colleague Alexandra Haefele, marketing manager at […]

For those in the healthcare industry, topics such as population health, precision medicine and connected care have been top of mind, and rightly so. While these topics create a lot of buzz in the industry, it is the foundational capabilities of an organization that are key to making population health, precision medicine and connected care […]

We’re excited to announce that Perficient won the 2016 IBM Beacon Award for Outstanding Enterprise Cloud Solution. Each year, this top honor is awarded to a few elite IBM Business Partners who have delivered exceptional solutions that drive business value and digitally transform the way clients and industries do business. The 2016 awards recognize achievements across […]

  Gartner forecasts that the business intelligence (BI) and analytics market will increase 5.2% over last year, reaching $16.9 billion by the end of 2016. Ian Bertram, managing vice president at Gartner, believes “The shift to the modern BI and analytics platform has now reached a tipping point.” He urges the organizations that are lagging […]

  Recruiting subjects for clinical trials has been a longstanding challenge for pharmaceutical and research organizations. According to Dr. Steven Alberts, Chair of Medical Oncology with the Mayo Clinic, only 5% of cancer patients ever enroll in a trial. On top of that, only a fraction of all trials ever finish enrolling enough patients on […]

IBM Connect 2016 kicked off today (February 1st) with a two-part opening general session. The second part focused on new product capabilities, demos and product direction. The first demo was IBM Verse, mobility and Connections as an integrated and seamless experience. The interface has been streamlined to include some great productivity capabilities.  Some of the […]

In a recent report, Forrester analyzed the hybrid cloud management solution market by evaluating the 11 top software providers on 32 criteria. While there are many paths to the cloud, hybrid cloud is increasingly the mode of entry for organizations with 65% of enterprise I&O decision makers saying they use more than one public and/or private cloud […]

As IT consultants, we’re pretty sure that we’re smart enough to recognize phishing attacks against us. We all get emails asking us to open invoices, confirm our bank account information, or perform other actions designed to separate us from our credentials and our money. But according to a consultant specializing in penetration testing, 40% of us will still […]

  According to IBM, we generate 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day. And, 90% of the data that exists today, whether found in your clinical systems, on social media, or on your mobile devices, has been gathered within the last two years. All of that is what we call “big data.” As the volume […]

With all the devices and data, processes and people that exist, will all of these components become so intertwined that the digital world and physical world will become one? To what extent will engagement and analytical insights drive change throughout the value chain and in stores? Wil retailers be required to move beyond traditional legacy […]