• 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…