Posts Tagged ‘IBM’

Earlier this week, I read a news article about the use of Twitter, or more accurately, the use of data collected from Twitter to prohibit a passenger from boarding a United Airlines flight. Strangely enough, the person banned from the flight was probably among the people who should know the most about cyber-security and perceived […]

Training delivered by professional instructors can be a huge benefit when implementing software systems.  Employee satisfaction, return on investment, and reduction of calls to help desks can all be significantly affected by appropriate application training. Here are a couple of quotes concerning the value of education: “An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” […]

Perficient is proud to be a sponsor of IBM Vision 2015, held May 17-20 in Orlando, FL. Vision is the premier business analytics and performance management conference for finance, risk management and sales compensation professionals. The conference is only 2 months away, so if you haven’t already registered, click through the following link: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/analytics/vision/registration.html If […]

In a blog post earlier this year, I discussed the precipitous drop in energy prices.  From roughly mid 2014 through early 2015, the price of crude oil was cut in half, and the related dominoes started to fall.  Companies were affected directly or indirectly by the new price level of oil.  Public and private entities […]

Last week, during IBM’s Investor Day, CEO Ginni Rometty announced that IBM’s investment strategy would mirror and support its evolving go-to-market strategy, by funneling $4 billion into cloud, analytics/big data, mobile, social and security (CAMSS). Through this investment, IBM is looking to expand the footprint of its CAMSS offerings from $25 billion in revenue to […]

In the session “Hybrid Cloud: Getting Started with a Dedicated, Private BlueMix of Your Very Own”. Turns out that in addition to offering local BlueMix they now offer a dedicated single-tenant BlueMix option. PaaS is such a great way for businesses to start delivering new applications. It manages scale, availability and performance without having to […]

David Barnes, Program Director of IBM Strategy, chats with Perficient’s Rick Klein at the IBM PartnerWorld Leadership Conference. David and Rick discuss Perficient’s recent IBM Beacon Award win, our Health Analytics Gateway product and the importance of partners in creating comprehensive IBM software solutions for the marketplace.  

Migrating content to a single, updated repository allows organizations to replace legacy systems, simplify operations and reduce costs in maintenance and support. With ongoing IBM Image Services maintenance and support at 4x the cost of an updated IBM content repository, the price of staying on an outdated platform is substantially increasing year-over-year. After all content […]

Perficient’s Health Analytics Gateway is a robust solution that accelerates data integration by more than 50% and automates the population of the IBM Healthcare Data Model, which helps healthcare organizations generate insightful and actionable analytics much quicker. This innovative solution delivers rapid results from the Enterprise Data Warehouse and provides business intelligence and analytics that […]

We’re excited to announce that Perficient won the 2015 IBM Beacon Award for Outstanding Information Management Solution. Each year, this top honor is awarded to a few elite IBM Business Partners who have delivered exceptional solutions to drive business value and transform the way their clients and industries do business in the future. The 2015 […]

Technology is constantly evolving to meet the ever changing demands of enterprises and customers. For example, we’ve seen database management move towards big data and information management, transaction processing to rules-based workflow, and document management to content-enabled case management. These innovations, through Digital Transformation, align business strategy with technology to more effectively engage with customers […]

Patient readmissions are a big problem in U.S. hospitals and have become an area of focus for the healthcare industry and the Government. Patients that are readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of being discharged increase healthcare costs approximately $17.5 billion annually. Hospitals are investing in predictive analytics solutions to help reduce patient readmissions […]