Posts Tagged ‘IoT’

Thursday’s IoT session entitled “IoT Cloud and AWS: Creating the End-to-End IoT Solution for Businesses” provided a great overview of the IoT business opportunity for organizations and a concrete view of a relatable end-to-end solution built with Amazon AWS and Salesforce IoT Cloud. Here’s a rundown of everything you need to know from the session: […]

The Wednesday morning IoT session “Driving Sales with IoT Cloud: Turn Every Connected Device Into a Sales Machine”, was interesting. Here is my rundown of the high points and key takeaways. The connectivity revolution offers a massive opportunity to disrupt. A traditional “Products Only” mindset and strategy can have limited growth potential and can be […]

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 […]

A premier asset management organization, the Society of Maintenance & Reliability Professionals (SMRP), is a nonprofit society formed by practitioners to advance the reliability and physical asset management industry. To provide their 5,000+ members the opportunity to learn, mentor, and network, the SMRP hosts an annual conference. We interviewed Kevin Clark, a member of the […]

Vision of the Internet of Things We all know where we are heading. There are smart devices all around us; there are smart phones, smart cars, and machines talking to us, guiding us all around. Now, with advent of the internet and connecting daily things of our lives over telecom networks, I wouldn’t be wrong […]

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 […]

I was reading a short blog post by Adobe about IoT and Personalization. That got me to thinking about how different companies think about what the Internet of Things  (IoT) really means.  Here’s a view into Adobe: More and more brands have jumped on the IoT bandwagon. We have an excess of wearables—activity trackers, smartwatches, […]

There is no doubt that cloud computing has been the buzzword for several years and will continue to dominate the IT and business world for quite a long time. In the cloud computing world, the computation resources, storage, algorithm, application and big data analytics are centralized and their service is provided to the consumer just […]

Recently I heard an interesting story about a space mission shared by Captain Scott Kelly, an astronaut who set the record for the total accumulated number of days spent in space, and was most recently in space for 340 days on an International Space Station mission. Capt. Kelly compared the two different information eras of […]

In September, leaders from Pfizer, Otsuka, Quintiles, Roche and Eli Lilly & Co. to name a few, will be convening at the ‘Mobile in Clinical Trials’ event in Boston to discuss the uses and barriers to mobile technology in clinical trials. Mobile and web-based technology platforms are on the rise for clinical trials and post-approval […]

Over the past several years Amazon has had various releases of their Dash service, which is designed to improve the consumer goods ordering process. The goal is to remove friction in the commerce process and capture more consumer spend by making Amazon the default vendor for consumables. Initially Amazon released a bar coded scanner and later in 2015 […]

The Internet of Things has taken the Life Sciences industry by storm, challenging norms, the status quo, standards, barriers, and most notably, regulated constraints. IoT solutions are already dramatically impacting and improving processes around clinical trials, biotech, and pharmaceutical and device manufacturing. To examine the evolving role of IoT in the industry, IBM’s Watson IoT […]