Microsoft

It was exciting to read Heather Clancy‘s post on ZDNet.com this morning, ‘Perficient’s Cloud Prescription for Healthcare Companies‘ highlighting Perficient’s Cloud & Healthcare expertise.  From Heather’s post, which can be read here [Perficient] was named in July as both the software developer’s U.S. Partner of the Year and also as [Microsoft’s] top provider for delivering healthcare […]

Just last week Rich Wood blogged about recent Forrester Analysis about Yammer and SharePoint.  Rich’s short post focused the fact that neither Yammer, nor SharePoint, nor the cloud was going away anytime soon and that Yammer is the enterprise play.  I want to focus on two key items in the Forrester report, “Is Yammer + […]

In the last post in this series, we looked at why Azure Machines are the most likely candidate for workable SQL Server-based cloud BI implementations.   Today, we talk turkey about actual limitations and things you need to know as you look at a potential solution in this environment. The first thing to know is that Azure […]

Gone are days when going online for an enterprise was considered a proud moment and the only purpose its public facing website served was an instant ‘brochure’ for visitors about its products and offerings. Nowadays visitors can not only browse the information but also can purchase directly on the website or show an interest into […]

Gartner released it’s latest Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management (WCM) at the end of July, and once again Sitecore is in the leaders grouping of the software providers that were evaluated.  This marks the 4th year in a row that Sitecore has achieved such an honor!  Gartner describes the software in the Leader classification […]

I’m not sure why exactly, but I have always loved SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). If you didn’t already know it, I’m here to let you know that Windows Azure has a similar version called SQL Reporting. In everything I see about Windows Azure, SQL Reporting doesn’t seem to be talked about much. SQL Reporting doesn’t […]

My colleague Brad Nunnally from our XD practice has an interesting talk submitted for SXSW focused on the complexity of making choices and how it can drive customer engagement. Brad speaks extensively at conferences and events on UX related topics and is one of the authors of ‘Designing the Conversation: Techniques for Successful Facilitation (Voices […]

Walking around new and existing client offices and buildings, I take note of what sort and type of devices staff are using these days.  It really is such a plethora of mobile types, laptops, tablets and of course desktops.  Then I think about the huge growth in the remote-office worker and know there is even […]

In my last post in this series, I described the basics of Data Services within Microsoft’s Windows Azure public cloud platform.   Basically, we were able to somewhat exclude the majority of PaaS offerings in Azure and home in on the IaaS offering:  Azure Virtual Machines. Azure VM’s are effectively the only real path to full-fledged […]

In recent weeks, I’ve been seeing an uptick in aggression from SharePoint’s would-be competitors, and I suppose that makes sense.  Microsoft’s do-it all platform for collaboration, social business, intranets and extranets, content management, enterprise search, business intelligence and whiskey distillation—okay, maybe not the whiskey, but everything else and then some—is pretty much ubiquitous in large […]

Forrester Research last week published a report on SharePoint, Yammer, and Microsoft’s direction for the two.  I’ve always found the analysis put about by the likes of Forrester and Gartner to be far more important than the common buzz that gets tweeted and blogged around the internet because, bottom line, their material targets CIOs outright.  […]

I recently started playing tennis again after a long absence from the game.  My son is just learning how to play and I want to be able to play with him as he gets older. While I played tennis in (high) school in Ireland, I was never a particularly strong individual player – I had […]