We know it’s a new year when the NRF Big Show kicks off in January. Each year we migrate to New York City to see the best and brightest of retail for the next year. This year is no exception – and like the holiday shopping season just passed, we go looking for the new […]
Posts Tagged ‘Mobile’
Retail Trends 2014: #4 – The Enterprise Ascends into the Cloud
The cloud trend continues into 2014 as more cloud platforms mature, confidence in security and reliability grows, and the retail use cases for cloud begin to overlap with driving trends like mobile and big data. Analysis from Aberdeen and Accenture show retail investments doubling or tripling through 2015 as cloud business cases begin to prove […]
Modern iOS app development part 2
All .net developers know that LINQ can be used to conveniently extract and process data from arrays, enumerable classes, XML documents, relational databases, and third-party data sources. These concepts are adopted by other programming languages such as Java, Javascript, Ruby etc. var cityWiseSalary = from comp in ListCompany select new { comp.Name, Emp = (from emp in […]
Webinar – Office 365’s Power BI: Self-Service BI Using SharePoint
In recent months, you’ve probably heard a thing or two about Power BI, the new cloud-centric BI front end tool set from Microsoft. Available to Office 365 SharePoint Online users, Power BI is a compelling new offering with advanced collaborative BI capabilities. Power BI includes PowerPivot, PowerView, Power Map, and Power Query. While these tools […]
Modern iOS app development part 1
iOS is a great app development platform, yet its UI programming model is so 1990s, the UI library is not so productive compared to the html CSS model. After iOS5, UIAppearance did improve such an outdated model and it allows you to modularize UI themes like the follow code: [[UIBarButtonItem appearanceWhenContainedIn:[UINavigationBar class], nil] setTintColor:myNavBarColor]; [[UIBarButtonItem […]
Modern Objective-C Language Features
Objective-C was quite verbose and lack of visual clue, however after Clang 3.5, there are quite a few improvements, these new language features allow us to write more clean code: The “new” method [Foo new] is better than [[Foo alloc] init] if you don’t need to use custom init methods. Object Subscripting array[i] dictionary[key] are […]
The Empowered Consumer Drives 2014 E-commerce Tech Priorities
When Gartner recently asked chief exectuives to identify their five-year technology investment priorities. They rated their top three as the following: Business analytics E-commerce Customer experience I was a bit surprised to see e-commerce ranked second, but not at all surprised to see it show up in the top ten answers. The New, More Empowered Consumer We […]
Executable specification on Android and iOS platform
Traditionally, in order to test both Android and iOS apps, we need to: Create a test case document. Translate the test document to automation scripts for Android and iOS. As a result, we need to maintain 1 document and 2 scripts for each user story. But now, there is a less painfulway. All we need is […]
Webinar Replay: Powering Your Contact Center with Microsoft Lync
Last week, Perficient and Clarity teamed up for the webinar, “Maximizing Your Lync Investment in the Contact Center.” Matt McGillen, Director of Infrastructure at Perficient, and Craig Reishus, Director of Business Development at Clarity, showed attendees how they can extend Lync to other business units, easily adding functionality to an existing Lync environment. First, Matt […]
Create cross platform apps in C# with Xamarin
Xamarin and Microsoft have teamed up to make all other development platforms irrelevant. Xamarin is the creator of popular cross platform development tools that allow developers to create iOS, Android and Windows applications all in C#. With the launch of Visual Studio 2013, Xamarin and Microsoft announced a partnership that will significantly improve the experience […]
Dreamforce: Building Custom Mobile Self-Service Apps
As you can see from the Salesforce keynote, Mobile is extremely important to them and to customers. Why Mobile Self-Service Mobile devices are ubiquitous. Q4 was the inflection point where more phones and tablets exist than pc’s and laptops. Study: Frost and Sullivan analysis show that users already use mobile devices for a wide ranges […]
Dreamforce Keynote
While Dreamforce started on Monday, the Keynote kicked off today. Huey Lewis and the News kicked it off after a great children’s charity video. Mark Benioff started by thanking everyone and speaking about why we are all really here, to help others. “Philanthropy is the biggest rush.” 135,000 people registered to attend the event. (include […]