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Archive for May, 2014

Yammer 101 Series – Posting

Welcome back to Perficient’s Yammer 101 Series. This is Part 2 of the series. If you missed Part 1 – Introduction, please have a look. In this post, we will take a dive into the world of Posting – How to Post, Types of Posts, Topics, Mentions, and Best Practices for Posting. How to Post Starting […]

Microsoft and Salesforce… in a Partnership?

From yesterday’s announcement: Salesforce will support Windows, Windows 8.1, build “interoperability Salesforce and Office 365,” Microsoft’s subscription-based productivity suite, and integrate OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Online, and Outlook in various capacities. Salesforce will use Microsoft’s Azure broadly. Who would have ever thought there would be a picture containing both a Microsoft CEO and Mark Benioff […]

Hadoop Summit – The Future of Big Data

Next week is the Hadoop summit in San Jose. Perficient, along with almost every Partner, will be attending, sponsoring and/or exhibiting. Big Data, especially Hadoop-based solutions is the most dynamic area of IT. Hundreds of companies have products and solutions, all geared at increasing the value enterprises are able to extract from their information. Hope […]

IBM announces Cloud Business Solutions: A new packaged offering

IBM announced yesterday a new all-in-one packaged offering to enhance their current cloud based solutions for the enterprise. This is in addition to their existing cloud-based solutions such as IBM SmartCloud for Social Business. Here is a snippet from the announcement Called IBM Cloud Business Solutions, the portfolio includes multiple components packaged into a single client agreement and delivered […]

Google’s attention to detail – down to a single pixel

I have always been impressed with Google’s attention to detail.  The custom yellow shell around the Google Search Appliance is completely useless, but I suspect it has enhanced the value of their trademark.  GMail’s reminder when you mention an attachment in your message but forget to actually attach a document is downright useful. Two recent examples caught my attention, and […]

Perficient Colleague to Participate in Hack4Colorado

Tom Marrs is a technical architect for the Perficient team in Denver, Colorado and for the second year in a row he’s donating his time to Hack4Colorado. Hack4Colorado is part of a series of events located all over the country that encourages technical professionals to pool their talents to create much-needed digital tools for nonprofit organizations. […]

BI or BPM – what’s a CIO to do?

I came across this blog post from Andrew White, a Research analyst at Gartner controversially titled BI’s days are numbered – Here comes BPM again. The core message of the post is this that BI and data analytics are a means to an end – and it is the change in processes (effected through BPM) that will result in impact […]

What the salesforce.com and Microsoft partnership means for salesforce.com customers

Marc Benioff said “Today is about putting the customer first” when talking about salesforce.com and Microsoft announcing a partnership to connect salesforce.com applications and platform with Microsoft Office and Windows. If it is truly about the customer, what does it mean for salesforce.com customers? Access Salesforce on Windows Devices Using two solutions –  Salesforce1 for Windows and Windows Phone […]

Is Social Risk and Compliance on your radar?

In the emerging “Social Risk and Compliance” space, Actiance Socialite and Hearsay Social where rated leaders in a recent Forrester report. SRC solutions “help organizations enable companywide use of social media while providing the necessary controls and oversight to mitigate associated risks and enforce compliance.” What do SRC solutions offer? Capabilities to monitor, moderate, and enforce […]

The Right Steps to a Simpler Digital Experience!

It has been almost a month since IBM announced the release of Digital Experience 8.5 and I just read a blog post from one of our Senior Solution Architects, Shyam Sunter who gives a great tutorial and highlights as he installs the new WebSphere Portal V8.5 Extended Addition. Downloading the Installables IBM made it easy […]

Mobile Consumers are Changing Everything

Although currently mobile channel (phones and tablets) sales are not making a huge impact on e-commerce, predictions tell a different tale.  In a report released by e-marketer, “by 2016, 85% of digital shoppers will be mobile shoppers as well”.[1]  Forrester’s released a study that predicts that mobile transactions will be the majority of e-commerce by […]

Flexible Meta Models and IBM Cognos Framework Manager

A metadata model is “a gathering of Meta information that includes both physical information and business information for one or more datasources and is the foundation for both future modelling and report development within an organization”. Meta-model flexibility can be defined as the ability of a (Meta) model to: Easily expand and grow (to support […]

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