Archive for April, 2011

Microsoft recently released a free Excel 2010 add-in which uses PowerPivot to analyze your schedule from your Outlook calendar. The add in, named Calendar Analytics Tool, has two main benefits. The first is that it is extremely useful (and cool). By using the familiar Excel pivot table functionality, including Slicers, you have the ability to […]

I recently posted about high-fidelity Axure prototypes on our new Spark blog. While the post focuses more on the visual design aspects of Axure, the prototype I created was for a financial services portal and also included a fair amount of interactivity for the purpose of demonstrating the product to potential customers. Axure has sophisticated […]

There is plenty of documentation out there on how to install the XMPP gateway with OCS or Lync (references provided at the bottom of this post). This blog will not focus on the installation of the XMPP Gateway, but rather what to do if you receive TLS errors on the Lync Edge server when communicating […]

On a recent flight I was able to catch up on a few things and one of them was a recommendation from a good friend to check out Mike Rowe’s TED video on the the value of work (or lack thereof).  I was excited not only because Dirty Jobs is a favourite show of my […]

I’ve recently spent some quality time in Axure Pro 5.6 creating a public facing high-fidelity demo site, with a goal of representing a new visual style as accurately as possible within the constraints of Axure’s capabilities. I don’t expect Axure to support a feature set that creates perfect front-end production code because that’s really not […]

Brian Solis spoke at the IBM Get Social event in Santa Clara, CA.  He’s an analyst at the Altimeter and focuses his research on media, social media, and ongoing impacts to that.   Overall, his presentation was really good.  He takes a pragmatic approach to social business and highlights the difference between just having a facebook […]

Perficient’s Liza Sisler (@lizasisler) is at Microsoft Connected Health Conference this week in Chicago, where she met up with Shaun Priest, Sr. Vice President of Business Development at MEDSEEK. Together, they discussed how working together with MEDSEEK, we will work to drive better results for hospitals across the US and Canada with Microsoft’s SharePoint technology. […]

For several years now, Perficient (@Perficient) has followed many IT professionals on Twitter, including hundreds of CIOs (many of whom are listed at on CIO Twitter Dashboard / @CIODashboard). While IT leaders make up our target market, they are also some of the most influential voices across social networks like Twitter. At many companies, these […]

Under pressure from healthcare reform, many healthcare organizations are focused on legal and financial issues as opposed to the redesign of clinical care. Ironically, data from IHI shows that healthcare organizations achieve lower costs when they put the highest emphasis on the entire healthcare system that patients use to receive care. By incorporating the critical […]

I had the great privilege of being invited to guest blog on the Microsoft Connected Health Conference by the Microsoft Partner team. You can read the Day 1 recap post here http://microsoftpartnernetwork.com/News/Permalink/215#fbid=dysGQLqv2ms

A new mobile developer survey has come out and pundits everywhere are trying to decipher and give their insight into who is up and who is down in the mobile development space. What caught my eye was one of the bullet points that focused on tablets: While 71% of developers are very interested in Android […]

A recent HIMSS Analytics white paper showed that using clinical data to decrease costs was a top concern for health plans. Respondents emphasized the importance of becoming more strategic with regard to both individual patient data and data that relates to groups of patients in identified geographies. In comparison to health providers, health plans are […]