Microsoft

On Wednesday, we held a webinar on a popular topic: how to successfully integrate Microsoft Lync with Cisco. During the webinar, Matt McGillen, Director of Infrastructure at Perficient, shared his recommendations and best practices on integrating the two technologies. Many organizations today are struggling to figure out how to make Lync work with their existing […]

Most would agree that it’s critical to leverage technology solutions that’ll increase your competitive advantage while decreasing your costs. Healthcare organizations are doing just that, using Microsoft Dynamics CRM to reduce inefficiencies, optimize care plans and improve financial management. To learn more about customer relationship management (CRM), and specifically what your organization can accomplish using […]

This interesting Office 365 infograpic was recently shared with me.  It contains some pretty impressive numbers 1 billion people on the planet are using Microsoft Word 2 out of 3 information workers are using SharePoint 90 out of 100 Fortune 100 companies are using Lync One in four of Microsoft’s Enterprise customers – Microsoft’s largest […]

Intranets in SharePoint Online just got a lot more powerful. Hot off the presses from the SharePoint Blog, the Content (by) Search Web Part is now available in Office 365 SharePoint Online. This is a major announcement for those looking to do intranets on SP Online, because this web part allows you to easily deliver […]

Microsoft’s Windows Azure is a secure, standards compliant, scalable cloud computing offering. It provides a simple, comprehensive, and powerful platform for the creation of web applications and services. As an open and flexible cloud platform, it allows organizations to build, deploy and manage applications across a global network of datacenters. You can build applications using your choice of […]

As a best practice, I do my project work outside of my Sitecore directory. I also as a best practice, segregate my Sitecore assemblies for my project compilation by copying them to a folder included in the solution. There are some times that I don’t always get to follow my preferred best practices. On more […]

On Wednesday, we hosted a webinar on what’s new in System Center Configuration Manager 2012, from 2007 up to and through the new R2 release. During the webinar, Bryon Burkhardt, a lead Microsoft infrastructure consultant here at Perficient, covered an impressive amount of content during the one hour call. Bryon shared how System Center 2012 R2 Configuration […]

The roles of CMOs and CIOs are changing. What was once easy to define – CMOs focused on the brand and sales, CIOs on IT – the line between the two has become increasingly blurred. Why? Well, for starters, a CMO’s role now encompasses social media and digital marketing channels. This includes enabling collaboration and communication […]

So we’ve seen a trend lately that some hype with overblown expectations but that remains a significant development.  Specifically, a blurring between the lines of what a CIO does and what a CMO or Chief Marketing Officer does. Old World CMO: Take care of the brand.  Enable greater sales through lead generation. Use external tools […]

I presented at the SharePointFest Chicago in October 2013. During my presentations, I mentioned that I would upload my PowerPoint presentations. Session 1: Search Customizations This session covered customizations for search in SharePoint 2013. 1. Display Templates 2. Server side search web parts. 3. Boosting and segmentation Here is the link : http://www.slideshare.net/perficientinc/search-customizations Session 2: […]

Sentiment analysis is arguably one of the fastest growing concepts in the analytics space and is poised to become a major source of information to enterprise BI programs in the very near future. The idea of receiving instant feedback from a consumer base, enabling near real-time follow-up or correction holds an incalculable ROI. Unfortunately the […]

On Wednesday, we hosted a webinar with Lamar Advertising that showed what can be accomplished using Sitecore CMS. During the webinar, Mendi LeBlanc Robinson, creative director for Lamar, and Candace Hoeksema, a lead Sitecore Consultant at Perficient, teamed up to discuss how Lamar used the Sitecore CMS platform to improve its customer experience and create a fully […]