Perficient’s Microsoft team is excited to announce the promotion of David Greve to National Cloud Enablement Director! Perficient’s Microsoft team is more that just Microsoft’s 2013 US Partner of the Year award winner, we are Microsoft cloud computing experts. David’s role in the organization will ensure that Perficient continues to lead with the cloud when […]
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SharePoint Fest Chicago: Migrating Intranets to SharePoint Online
Last week, Perficient sponsored and presented at SharePoint Fest Chicago. One of our speakers was Rich Wood, National Director of Modern Applications here at Perficient. He presented on “Migrating Your Intranet to SharePoint Online.” First, Rich explained what’s different about the cloud, and gave details on SharePoint as a service, including what makes it different from SharePoint […]
Yammer and Office vs. “SharePoint for End-Users” on CMSWire
Long before Microsoft acquired Yammer, I was impressed with the usability of the latter enterprise social tool. Granted, they looked (and still look) more or less like Facebook, but that sort of stealing is brilliant stealing. After all, these days pretty much everyone uses Facebook, so when new users log into Yammer for the first time, […]
Setting up a Recommendation Engine (Mahout) on Windows Azure
A Brief Background In my previous posts I have walked through setting up Hadoop on Windows Azure using HDInsight. Hadoop is an extremely powerful distributed computing platform with the ability to process terabytes of data. Many of the situations when you hear the term “Big Data”, Hadoop is the enabler. One of the complications with […]
Webinar: What’s New in System Center Configuration Manager 2012
On Monday, Microsoft announced a fall wave of new enterprise products and services that will accelerate cloud benefits for customers. These new solutions, including Windows Server, System Center, Visual Studio, Windows Azure, Windows Intune, SQL Server, and Dynamics CRM, complement Office 365 and other services, and deliver on […]
Hashtags to get answers #AzureChat and #SqlHelp
I’ve been using Twitter for some time. While I don’t normally take part in all the conversations, I do know how to get help from colleagues in the community. Hashtags have been around for several years and are now used in most main stream social networks. Hashtags are mainly used for joining people with similar […]
How to: Setting up an HDInsight Hadoop cluster in Windows Azure
Edit: Part 3 using Mahout here In my previous post I described the basics of HDInsight on Windows Azure and an example of what a Hadoop cluster can do for you. Without further delay, lets build a cluster! If you don’t already have a Windows Azure account go here and sign up (it’s free!!) Setup […]
The fast and easy way to get your on-premise users into Yammer!
Does your company have a freemium Yammer environment that pre-dates your latest Enterprise Agreement? Do you want to have the same set of users in Yammer as you do in your on-premise Active Directory? Wonder no longer, dear readers. We now have some recommended reading for anyone who finds themselves trying to rationalize a pre-existing […]
New to SharePoint 2013? Here are FREE Training Resources
One thing Microsoft has been really great at over the years has been the production of all kinds of technical and non-technical training information. We have TechNet, MSDN, Channel 9, and many others. Customers always ask me for these and how to get new users up to speed quickly with SharePoint, so I’ve decided to […]
Minimize the performance hit of reflows in a web application
In what at this point feels like a previous life, I did far more work automating Microsoft Excel with Visual Basic for Applications or from within Windows applications than I would care to admit. In those days the rendering performance of Excel was horrible and any time work was done that would modify the visible […]