Microsoft

If I had a thousand dollars for every time I’ve heard the phrase “devices and services” from Redmond this year, I could retire early.  Tellingly, it occurs between four and eight times in the (only nine full paragraphs of the) official joint blog post announcing Microsoft’s move to acquire Nokia’s mobile phone business.  Count ‘em […]

You may have noticed that I’m on a SkyDrive and SkyDrive Pro kick of late. It has more to do with me wanting to understand and use the tools to their fullest extent.  While SkyDrive has a well known and documented API, SkyDrive Pro hasn’t reached that point yet.  However, the SharePoint Developer Team over […]

Before I started blogging for Perficient, I had a few posts on a personal blog. One of the post, though outdated, is still referenced quite often. So I thought it might be a good idea to update the post for use with SQL Reporting. The original post was created for SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). […]

As you may know, I’ve been doing a lot of experimentation with SkyDrive Pro and have a Mac users viewpoint.  Some of those thoughts came in a previous post.  I somehow let slide by that Microsoft made some changes to their SkyDrive Pro size. PC World has a quick news article on the recent changes. […]

Previously, we addressed the specifics of data services in Azure, and what paths might be valid for SQL Server BI.   Today, we’ll look at delivering data to users — the “last mile” of Microsoft’s cloud BI story — via SharePoint. Whenever you talk about delivery of Microsoft BI, the first point of discussion is logically […]

I read an article by Chris Clark on CMSWire last week covering SharePoint, Yammer, and the way UI (User Interface) impacts use and adoption.  The article itself was enjoyable and informative, and I found myself agreeing with Mr. Clark’s central argument– Yammer’s superior UI helps it win adoption where SharePoint’s more complex UI can sometimes […]

Just attended an overview of the next release of CRM, known as Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013, which will be released in October 2013. Many new ideas and thoughts about how the product is evolving based on the changing market place. In particular:  1. Reimagined experience  2. Process agility  3. CRM on the go and social […]

I see more and more people taking advantage of SkyDrive and now SkyDrive Pro.  I think there’s a lot of potential here, especially for heavy users of SharePoint. But first a video that’s 51 minutes long but gives a great overview of features and what’s coming.  Thanks to Ignite for the video. Let me tell […]

Thanks to @lizasisler for point this out to me.  Frederic Paul at CIO.com has a nice slideshow on 11 Things Microsoft is Doing Right.  Like Frederic, I prefer to focus on the positive and mention areas where there is room for improvement. Frankly, no major company lacks opportunity to improve in many different ways so […]

I am currently working to take a client’s existing Sitecore instance and internationalize their commerce functions. The current Sitecore multi-site instance shares a common codebase and the Web Forms For Marketers (WFFM) module installation. To adhere to legal requirements, visitors to the site must agree to the client’s terms and privacy policy when downloading content through […]

This is part three in a series of extending SSIS for the enterprise with complementary Microsoft products. Different industries have standards for data such as Accord for insurance, HL7 for medical, and Eagle-PACE for finance. These standards have a defined data model that can also be used for data exchange. One of the transports for […]

I am currently at a client who is attempting to migrate Reporting Services objects from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2013.  There are two paths they can choose for the migration: Copy the files over or do a database-attach upgrade to 2010 then 2013.  Either path they choose they will still have to set the reports […]