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Archive for April, 2012

IBM Impact 2012: Social Business Bootcamp

I presented on social business strategies today at IBM Impact 2012 in Las Vegas.  It was a packed room with great questions and collaboration.  Here is a copy of my presentation, as promised:

Helping Data Scientists Navigate Big Data with the Semantic Web

The term “Big Data” is being thrown around a lot lately, but what is it, and what makes “Big Data” different from the other data that wework with in the healthcare industry? Big Data is differentiated by its volume, velocity, and variety. The last point, variety, deals not only with the wide variety of formats […]

Salesforce Best Practices: Swim in Your Customer’s Pool.

Last week I was talking with one of our customers about a new project. The customer was already a big Salesforce Sales Cloud user, and now they were adopting Service Cloud. The project focused on migrating a portion of their service infrastructure from an old email response system to Salesforce…and potentially still using email as […]

QA Estimation

After doing QA testing estimation for several projects, when it comes to design the template, I still believe the hardest part  is to identify the complexity and figure out the factors. And the secondary difficult thing to do is how to add the effort for any contingencies. Finally before to use the template or be confident […]

An Impossible Question? Taking Analytics Towards a Typology of Visits

What happens on my site? This is what we web analysts call a core question. It’s harder to answer than it looks, even though site analytics programs are supposedly designed to answer it. Traditional analytics tools answer it with descriptive numbers, such as: 20% of your site’s visits looked at the About Us page at […]

SharePoint Internet, Intranet, Extranets at Gateway to Innovation

Yesterday, at the Gateway to Innovation conference in Saint Louis, MO, two of our clients presented to an audience on how SharePoint specifically helped their organizations 1) grow and scale, and 2) collaborate and integrate data and processes. Andrew Richards, Director of the Information Systems Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences at Washington University presented […]

IBM Interviews Perficient about Impact 2012

Very soon, Perficient’s team of IBM experts will be in Las Vegas for IBM Impact 2012, an event that promises to be exciting and packed with insightful education, announcements, predictions and networking. We will be holding an Ipad Giveaway, for which you can register online at Perficient.com/Impact, and starting this Sunday, you can visit with […]

PHM: Making the Sum Greater than the Whole

Research suggests that an effective healthcare model focusing solely on evidence-based medicine or preventative does not impact cost and quality as well as programs that merge evidence-based medicine with a healthcare program that encourages preventative care and evidence-based medicine (Cohen, Neumann & Weinstein, 2008). As a result, organizations that are focused on containing costs and […]

Salesforce best practices: Sharing is caring. But know what you are sharing…and with whom.

One of my favorite features of Salesforce is the ability to share information with your community, be it through the Partner Portal or Customer Portal, Salesforce Sites, Siteforce, or Salesforce-to-Salesforce. Bringing a Salesforce Cloud to your community is a great way to foster better and more efficient communication.

Dummy Coding with IBM SPSS

Dummy Coding with IBM SPSS To understand what is meant by dummy coding, you need to understand 2 forms of data: Qualitative or Quantitative? “Qualitative data describes items in terms of some quality or categorization while Quantitative data are described in terms of quantity (and in which a range of numerical values are used without […]

Microsoft named CRN 2012 BI & Collaboration Channel Champion

Congratulations to Microsoft for being named 2012 Channel Champion for Business Intelligence Software by CRN. CRN provides news, analysis and perspective for VARs and Technology Integrators. Both SharePoint and SQL Server are Gartner Magic Quadrant technologies. From the article by Rick Whiting Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) was tops in this year’s Business Intelligence Software category, besting competitors SAP (NYSE:SAP), […]

For SharePoint’s Sake, Don’t Delete that AD User

Recently I was working with a client that publishes content from a secure SharePoint site to a public SharePoint site.  This publishing involves the use of the SPListItem.Copy command to copy a ListItem from the secure site to the public site.  The public and secure sites both have the same content types, but use different […]

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