Archive for July, 2011

How many versions of a typical document do you need to keep? 5? 10? 100?   SharePoint content databases often get cluttered with redundant versions of the same documents. In some cases, I’ve seen presentation libraries with less than 10 GB of active content, but hundreds of GBs of content due to gradual changes.   […]

SAP recently announced the renaming of most of several key BI solutions and products primarily in order to bring clarity to their BI stack and ever-growing product suite. “These changes were made to make it easier for everyone to identify the SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions and better understand their capabilities. The changes will also help […]

Key Interview Points I am going to keep the summary of the key points short in today’s interview. Tiffany’s responses bring new clarity to the reconsideration request process. Here is what Matt Cutts Tweeted about the interview: Read on and enjoy! Interview Transcript Eric Enge: Thanks for taking the time to address our questions! Tiffany […]

It is no secret that the role of social media in health care continues to evolve and be better defined. As health care professions begin to venture into this new space many red flags and warnings are being issued. Dr. Brian Vartabedian of the Texas Children’s Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine and collegues from the Mayo […]

Welcome to my Oracle BI 11.1.1.5 Project Log series. This will be an open ended series related to decisions made and lessons learned in a live Perficient project. I will be focusing on the technology questions which should be generic to any OBIEE implementation. Which Operating System Should We Use? If a client has a […]

“Critique is a life skill, not a design skill,” Adam Connor asserted in his presentation “Discussing Design: The Art of Critique” at the Big (D)esign Conference. His session as well as the critique activities in Dana Chisnell and Jonathan Knoll’s workshop “Design and Critique for Challenging Problems” made me realize how misunderstood and unpracticed this skill […]

Use an Experienced Core Team Part 7 in our series is perhaps one of the most important: Use an Experienced Core Team.  “We have a bunch of smart people and they can figure this portal thing out” is a sure way to put your project in jeopardy.  I cannot stress enough how important having the […]

When it comes to performance problems indexing is the bread and butter of most data warehouse developers. And why not? It’s a cheap and easy way address simple performance problems. However, like anything cheap and easy it can only fix the cheap and easy problems. Indexing will not solve large underlying performance problems, but it […]

The first movie I saw that wasn’t a cartoon was The 10 Commandments. I think I was about nine or 10. There were slaves, pharaohs, parting seas, and the bizarre yet compelling sight of Edward G. Robinson in a striped headcloth with an asp on his forehead snarling, “I give you a God of GOLD.” […]

“I know that you believe that you understand what you think I said but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.” -Robert McCloskey, former U.S. State Department spokesman Regardless of how your software project is organized, how it is being run, or what you are building, sooner […]

Adobe CQ5 has been getting a lot of great reviews by many analysts.  In the latest Forrester publication, CQ5 jumped into the leader wave.  I recently had a chance to look into the mobile support provided by CQ5 and I must say, Adobe has a compelling story for users and developers. In the following video, […]

New models of care delivery are inevitable. Whether it’s accountable care, or another favored form, the current incentive structure is evolving. This is occurring in hopes that waste can be eliminated and quality can improve. Although there is still much uncertainty, the inevitable truth is that the need to streamline and share information is central […]