• 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…

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    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…

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    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…

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    Day 16 – Puerto Varas to Temuco

    Thursday, January 16th Distance – 354km This is it, just 300 or so clicks of pavement left to go, getting us back to the KTM dealer, Roland Spawater, in Temuco. Martyn was supposed to be up and out early for his 1000 clicks back to Santiago. We are flying the…

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    Day 15 – Hornopiren to Puerto Varas

    Wednesday, January 15th Distance – 165km, 50% ripio Ferry – 30 minutes Some of the lads were up and about early and sorted breakfast for us. Martyn, Simon, and I were moving a little slower. George had got Martyn a cool, little iPhone speaker for Christmas. We’d spent a late…