Perficient recently worked with Memorial Hermann Health System, implementing Microsoft Dynamics CRM to handle community outreach, call center management and specialty patient onboarding. Here is an excerpt from the case study describing the challenge: …the management of disparate systems had become an increasingly arduous task. The marketing department wished to consolidate all data into an […]
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Visual Studio Online, the end of the developer workstation?
Last week Microsoft released Project Monaco which is essentially Visual Studio as a service. An IDE in the cloud. Visual Studio has long been regarded as one of the premier development environments for Windows based and Web development. It integrates perfectly with the entire Microsoft stack and its debugging features are second to none. It […]
Webinar Replay: Forrester & Perficient on CIO & CMO Convergence
On Wednesday, we hosted a webinar on the CIO & CMO Convergence: Microsoft for Cloud, Social & Mobile Enterprise Social Networks. Guest speaker Rob Koplowitz from Forrester, and Perficient’s own Director of Web & Social Collaboration, Rich Wood, discussed what defines an enterprise social network and where the true value lies. Rob kicked off the […]
Presto! The new SQL engine for Big Data
Facebook has been one of the software pioneers when it comes to Big Data. They have an continuously increasing amount of data that constantly needs to be indexed and queried in a fast, efficient manner. Facebook originally developed Hive which is a distributed data warehouse that allows for querying and managing of large data sets. They released […]
Windows Azure updates for Web Sites
Web Sites are by far one of my favorite features on Windows Azure. As a developer, I didn’t like having to manage the infrastructure. Web Sites allow me to focus on my application and data and let the platform manage the rest. In the last couple of updates there have been a few improvements to […]
Windows Azure Import/Export Hard Drives to Blob Storage
In the past, it has been a bit of a pain to move large amounts of data from on-premises to the cloud. As of the end of October Windows Azure released a new service to make the transition a lot smoother. Now you can securely ship hard disk drives to the Windows Azure data centers. […]
Webinar Replay: Windows Azure Overview for IT Pros
On Wednesday, we hosted a webinar on Windows Azure. During the session, Adetayo Adegoke, a senior solutions architect at Perficient, gave an overview on Azure, which is Microsoft’s secure, standards compliant, rapidly scalable and globally distributed cloud computing offering. It offers Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) capabilities for a wide […]
Sitecore: Forcing Vanity URLs to Perform a 301 Redirect
A client of ours is performing a migration of their old site content onto their new Sitecore instance. The old site contained vanity URLs for their product catalog that they wanted to utilize for the new site. They wanted to send a 301 redirect for SEO and then display the new Sitecore item representing the product […]
Goodbye JavaScript, Hello TypeScript!!!!
There are many things developers hate about JavaScript. You can see this with all of the different ways people are trying to “fix” JavaScript. Here are a couple of the ways: CoffeeScript is a language which is syntactically similar to JavaScript and attempts to expose the “good parts” of JavaScript Google went ahead and wrote […]