Posts Tagged ‘Mobile’

It was a great week at IBM Interconnect with so many great sessions to choose from, activities to participate in, and networking to be had. I want to share my thoughts on one session in particular that was of interest – Carter’s “Creating a Smarter Shopping Experience”.   During the session I was reflecting on all […]

I’ll keep this post short and sweet in honor of Friday! Now if you are an avid follower of Microsoft, you got to agree that the most fascinating news (other than stock news) about the company is their shift to the cloud with platforms and products like Azure and Office 365. With so much exciting […]

We’ve mentioned Perficient’s Digital Transformation webinar series a couple times now here on our Microsoft blog. Last week, the series kicked off with its first session, Digital Transformation in 2015: Laying the Groundwork for Success. Perficient’s Strategic Advisors are the strategists behind the webinar series, and help our customers create and enable a digital transformation […]

Microsoft is continuing its cross-platform productivity applications push. For a long time Microsoft was developing applications only for its own operating system (Windows) with an exception of MacOS/OSX (which was likely due to monopoly accusations) . But recently things are changing in a big way. Microsoft could no longer ignore extremely popular mobile OSes like Android […]

Windows 10 maybe not be coming until later this year, but Microsoft is busy at work building application for it, including probably the most important consumer application – Microsoft Office. Yesterday Microsoft released early preview builds of Universal (meaning that it will run on any flavor of Windows 10 – desktop or mobile) Office applications for […]

Barry Pellas from PointSource spoke about several options for delivering content to mobile devices. Imagine you want to display a coupon to a user has they navigate your mobile app. But you also want to deliver that same coupon to someone browsing on a desktop browser. You don’t want to create two different coupons and […]

Tyler Tribe, IBM’s Product/Offering Manager, IBM Digital Experience Software, presented a great session at ConnectED 2015 titled “Optimizing Mobile Applications with IBM Digital Experience, IBM MobileFirst, and IBM ExperienceOne.”  The session focused on keys to delivering successful mobile experiences.  Some of the key points and messages from the session were:  Mobile Statistics People check their phones […]

Dan Swango, Director, IBM Collaboration Solutions, and Baan Slavens, Sr Product Manager, IBM Connections presented a session at IBM ConnectED 2015 on IBM’s Mobile Strategy in the collaboration space, which includes IBM Verse, Connections, Sametime and Traveler applications. Baan presented some market statistics: “The average person unlocks his or her smartphone 110 times each day.” “25% […]

It has been quite a while since Apple Inc. provided the fingerprint authentication API for developers to use the amazing feature “Touch ID” in their own apps, but it’s still hard for us to find out any Touch ID supported apps in App Store. This post will provide you a chance to touch this new […]

Last week, Michael Novinson from the Channel Company published an article on its IT Best of Breed website around Perficient’s work with Partners In Health to deliver cloud communication capabilities to workers in remote locations. The full article is available here. From the post: The St. Louis-based company, No. 66 on the CRN SP 500, […]

Around Q2 last year Apple and IBM announced their joint venture. At the time, I sw it as IBM ensuring everything works with iOS.   CNET’s latest article highlights some of the first fruits and it’s a little different than expected.  They focused on developing industry specific apps focused on productivity within the digital channel.  I […]

There’s been a lot of hoopla around the NFL and their new partnership with Microsoft surrounding the Surface tablet, now deemed the official tablet of the NFL and, of course, Seattle Seahawks QB Russell Wilson’s favorite toy. The deal, in part, outfits NFL teams with tablets to improve communication on the field, photo viewing, and […]