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Archive for November, 2012

Troubleshooting Sitecore Item Buckets Installation

I recently installed the Item Buckets packages to my Sitecore 6.6 installation so that I could play around with it and determine if it could be used for a particular business need of one of my clients.  After having seen Tim Ward’s presentation at Sitecore Symposium on Item Buckets, I have to say I was looking […]

Big Data Adoption Resources for Financial Institutions

Competition continues in the industry creating the need for transformational business strategies and technology to improve profitability for banks and financial institutions. As mentioned in our top technology trends post, Big data is widely talked about in banking as a catalyst for change.  However, banks have only scratched the surface of using smarter analytics. As a technology service provider […]

Introducing the Concept of Practice IP

On the agenda of every Practice Center of Excellence must be:  “Implement and formalize IP identification and development”. The first step in establishing a program of this type is to clearly understand the concept of “practice intellectual property” – keeping in mind that the “traditional” concept of IP is mostly outdated. Practice leadership must understand […]

Lync on the Surface RT: It’s a Winner

Overview I’ll start off by mentioning that I’ve been using the Surface as my only computer now for the last 4 weeks. No laptop, no desktop. It’s my work computer, my home computer, my tablet and of course my mobile computing platform. In fact, I’ve composed most of this blog post with the Surface on a […]

Mobile BI – Old Wine in New Bottle? – Part 1

I would like to start with a quote from the late Steve Jobs “Many of the touch, content-interaction, and collaboration features that make tablets and smartphones so appealing for consumer use could also revolutionize the experience of BI, particularly for nontechnical users.” Mobile BI has been in the wild for almost 3 years and few […]

Top 5 Technology Trends in Financial Services – November 2012

Trying to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to IT issues is a challenging task. Emerging technology forces in the financial services industry are already impacting business. The convergence of these forces does present challenges; however, it also provides a window of opportunity for financial institutions to elevate business performance and gain a […]

Subject Line Testing – Close Enough for Government Work?

I’m sure you’ve been in the situation wherein the results of a subject line test were very close. You may have made the decision to go with the subject line that had the slight edge in the test. Would your decision have yielded the greatest outcome? Here’s a real life example of a recent email […]

Insights from a Developer: Use Google Web Fonts

Let’s discuss typefaces.  As the designer, you have the distinct privilege of selecting the fonts that will be used on the website, and barring client restrictions, you have free reign to use whichever fonts you desire.  You should keep in mind when choosing a font, though, that this typeface needs to be present not only […]

Do I need an ESB if I’m integrating in the cloud?

One pattern that I’m seeing arise more often lately is cloud applications integrating with cloud applications. As such, programmers are skipping the use of an ESB all-together, with the reasoning being, “why should I enter the trusted network only to have my request go out again?” While this maybe a valid reason, I suggest that […]

Lync 2010 / 2013 disabled from AD Deny Groups

Here is the scenario – you have AD security groups specifically to DENY services to users that are added to this AD group. For example – a naughty user could be placed on probation in your organization,  and then added to this group –  in turn this membership would be automatically disabled in Lync.

Dual Booting A Windows Machine With VHD Drive

So I was talking to a colleague of mine, and we were trying to decide if we wanted to run Server 2012 or Windows 8 Enterprise on our laptops. We had a few issues on doing this. Not sure what OS we wanted to run. Not sure all of our current software, will run on […]

Perficient Expert Achieves Highest Google GSA Certification

Chad Johnson, our Google Practice Manager at Perficient, has received the newly available Google Search Appliance Qualified Deployment Specialist (GSA) certification, and we’re happy to applaud him on the accomplishment. As a national systems integrator and certified Google Enterprise Partner, Chad and his team consult clients of all types and sizes with their enterprise search […]

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