• Travel

    Desert Southwest

    I am always amazed how beautiful and sparsely populated parts of the USA are. This is an iPad (3) shot from 30,000 feet above New Mexico. I am off to Las Vegas to do what no one thinks of doing at this time of year, ride motorcycles. I get to…

  • Life - Travel

    Fondis Colorado

    A couple of months ago, a friend of mine sent me the link to a blog post of 25 Abandoned Buildings in Colorado. It was an interesting post and I stashed it away for later. Yesterday, I wanted to go out on a ride so I decided that I would…

  • Work

    IBM Vision 2015

    Last week, I had the pleasure of attending IBM Vision 2015 at the Hilton Bonnet Creek in Florida. Perficient was a sponsor of the event. This was my first time attending IBM Vision, I have been to a number of the other IBM conferences, and I came away impressed. Unlike…

  • Work

    Implementing Cognos ICM at Perficient

       by  nist6dh  Defining the Problem For any growing organization, with a good size sales team compensated through incentives for deals and revenue, calculating payments becomes a bigger and bigger challenge. Like many organizations, Perficient handled this problem with Excel spreadsheets, long-hours, and Excedrin. Our sales team is close to a…

  • Work

    Think Better Business Intelligence

       by  jDevaun.Photography  Everyone is guilty of falling into a rut and building reports the same way over and over again. This year, don’t just churn out the same old reports, resolve to deliver better business intelligence. Think about what business intelligence means. Resolve, at least in your world, to make…

  • Travel

    Riding Patagonia

    [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFXkQbPhavg?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] Here are some of the videos Oggy and Charlie shot on our Patagonia trip, unedited for the most part, along with a couple of my shots. http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUo0GxOdCNVtskD3KVmsw3LJM3G23E1-v (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

  • Travel

    Day 18 – Santiago to Denver

    January 18th 2014 Distance – 5493 miles as the crow flies Travel time – ~24 hours door to door This was a brutal travel day. After far too much beer, too many cocktails, and too little sleep, Martyn bangs on the door of the “Princess Suite” to wake me up…

  • Travel

    Day 17 – Winding down in Santiago

    Friday, January 17th Distance – 0km This is it. The trip is almost over. All we have left to do is hang out and get our flights home. The lads are leaving around 5:30pm this evening. I’m hanging out until 6am tomorrow. For those of us who have not yet…