Joe Crabtree

Did you know there are 25 different services offered as part of the Microsoft Azure platform? These services span a variety of areas – Compute & Networking, Web & Mobile, Data & Analytics, Storage & Backup, Media & CDN, Hybrid Integration, and Identity & Access Management. Quite the set of tools! When deciding whether to […]

If you’re a fan of the NFL, you will know that every team uses a series of camera’s at different angles to take snap shots of every play. Those images are relayed back to the teams on the sidelines and then are printed out on full pages. You might have seen classic images of your […]

A few weeks ago, a colleague posted a TED Radio Hour from NPR on our Perficient Yammer network titled – “Why We Collaborate”. After listening to the broadcast, I thought this would be a perfect segway into a post I have been working on for a while now. I want to discuss some of the […]

Perficient has many great partners that support our development and deployment of the best of breed solutions we provide for our clients. This post is the first in a series that will highlight some of the products available from our partners. Today, I’ll be presenting AvePoint and their Online Services for Office 365. Requiring no […]

Perficient has many great partners that support our development and deployment of the best of breed solutions we provide for our clients. This post is the second in a series that will highlight some of the products available from our partners. Today, I’ll be presenting Metalogix and their Diagnostic Manager for SharePoint. Metalogix Diagnostic Manager […]

In a world dominated by bigger, faster, stronger; scientists are always looking for ways to improve on current technology. Moore’s law states that processor speeds double every 2 years (often quoted as 18 months based on Intel’s assertions). But how long can that last? Will we reach a physical limit of our technology? Yes, and […]

One of the best benefits to Office 365 is the continuous updates and improvements to the platform. We no longer need a sever release, service pack, or hotfix. We get new releases when Microsoft is ready to make them live in the cloud. Recently, we’ve gotten Document Conversations and Office for iPad; and we will be seeing Office […]

There’s a lot to think about when planning your Enterprise Yammer implementation. How will I get users into Yammer? How will users login to Yammer? Which password will they use? How will users who leave my organization be handled in Yammer? What software do I really need to implement? This post is all about Yammer […]

Some of you may be doing a double take. Wait, is this post really about the Content By Query Web Part? Didn’t that die with the release of the Content By Search Web Part? In short, no! There are a few use cases where the Content By Query web part is still very useful – and necessary!! […]

Microsoft has done it again, raising the free storage limit for all customers on OneDrive to 15 GB!! That’s up from 7 GB that was rolled out earlier this year. This announcement is for personal OneDrive and not OneDrive for Business – which has been at 1 TB of storage since April. Comparing to the other vendors […]

Have you ever encountered a new feature in Office 365 that you did not know even existed?!?! I have, and it can be frustrating. In exciting news, today Microsoft has released a brand new Office 365 for Business Roadmap web page!! Check it out, its great. It has 5 categories – Launched, Rolling Out, In […]

In really exciting news today, Microsoft announced new integrations between Yammer, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive called document conversations. We had a sneak peak of this functionality back in March at the  SharePoint Conference. At the time, Microsoft announced these changes would come “sometime this year” and I am really happy to start seeing this functionality early […]