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Archive for January, 2012

Hello Responsive Web Design : Part 1

Unless you’ve been living under a rock or have possibly gone full blackout mode in support of the occupy SOPA / PIPA festivities, undoubtedly you’ve heard of Responsive Web Design — RWD for all the hipsters who like their acronyms.  In this 4 part series, I will explain the following: 1. What Responsive Web Design […]

Big Blue Goes Big On Mobile – buys Worklight

Today IBM announced the intent to purchase, Worklight, an Israeli mobile platform company.  From their press release: In a move that will help expand the enterprise mobile capabilities it offers to clients, IBM today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Worklight, a privately held Israeli-based provider of mobile software for smartphones and tablets. Financial terms […]

Digital Acupuncture, Mapping Touch Points to Drive Healthy Behavior Change

You can’t change who you are but you can change your behavior. And sometimes, through consistency of habit, changes in how you act can truly alter who you become. It’s no secret, as a culture we’re up against it when it comes to healthcare. People are living longer and the big time baby boom is […]

Kindle Fire: It's a Cloud Device, Not a Tablet

A while ago I blogged about the Kindle Fire and how excited I was about their Silk Browser.  Well, I ended up getting one and have had two months to really dig into it.  Here’s what I discovered, it’s really a cloud device rather than a true tablet. I’ll start with what you expect from […]

Kindle Fire: It’s a Cloud Device, Not a Tablet

A while ago I blogged about the Kindle Fire and how excited I was about their Silk Browser.  Well, I ended up getting one and have had two months to really dig into it.  Here’s what I discovered, it’s really a cloud device rather than a true tablet. I’ll start with what you expect from […]

What “Angry Birds” teaches us about Mobile Apps

Once upon a time, when you took a stroll down the aisle of an airplane in mid-flight, you would see lots of people playing solitaire on their Windows laptops. Today, you see many, many more people engaged in intense concentration on game of “Angry Birds.” Angry Birds is an addictive, fun, easy to play game […]

Microsoft Announces Office 15 Technical Preview

One of my colleagues pointed out an interesting post over at the Microsoft Office blog. I believe this is one of Microsoft’s first public comments on the next version of Office which will include SharePoint. Although there is not much detail on what is in the new product in terms of features, “I’m not able to share too […]

Physician Loyalty – A must in today’s healthcare environment.

“The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals.” – Rensis Likert Loyalty. People generally tend to have loyalty to each other, their country, perhaps their favorite […]

Can you assign an Exchange Online license to a user before migrating them to Office 365?

I was recently asked this question by a customer, as we were starting to build out a migration process. My immediate thought was no, we need to migrate the mailbox first then assign an Exchange Online license to mailbox. The reason why this was first reaction was primarily due to BPOS. (BPOS was the version […]

An Equation for Customer Satisfaction

What negative commentary from unsatisfied constituents is so often directed at politicians, across party lines or affiliations? They made empty promises. I read a blog post this morning by Seth Godin where he discusses a simple equation for customer satisfaction. Customer Satisfaction = (What you get) – (What you were hoping for) Anytime this equation […]

Microsoft BI in the enterprise

I was demoing the Microsoft BI stack to a client the other day and although PerformancePoint, PowerPivot and Power View showed well as always, I was amazed that the Q&A session gravitated back to the same old questions that I always hear. “Well what about Oracle?” “Have the BI tools made it out of the […]

Perficient Wins Microsoft ‘Best Practices’ Award

The Perficient SharePoint Rockstars have done it again! At this week’s Microsoft Southwest District bi-annual Partner Briefing, Perficient was awarded the ‘Best Practices’ award for a SharePoint solution we built for a large auto manufacturer.  Perficient was engaged by this automaker to define, build, and deploy a system to record and track dealer interactions for […]

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