Microsoft’s Power BI is a data and analytics reporting tool that lets you connect to multiple data sources. Once connected to a data source, raw data sets can be converted to dashboards and presented to the team, customer, anyone at any time. In this blog, we will get introduced to the custom function feature available […]
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Dependency injection in C# .NET
I’ve decided to write a tutorial on how to accomplish dependency injection in C# .NET, because the Microsoft documentation of dependency injection libraries is unfortunately way too sparse, and the Microsoft dependency injection tutorial is a little convoluted and complicated. Fortunately, C# .NET’s implementation of dependency injection is pretty straightforward. In my opinion, it’s way […]
Internet Explorer is officially retiring – what does it mean for Oracle Clinical, RDC, and TMS?
As of 15th June 2022, Microsoft’s venerable web browser, Internet Explorer, will finally be officially retired and desupported on Windows platforms; it’s earned its rest! This quick post will discuss what that means for the Oracle Clinical/RDC/TMS suite of applications. As any users of the OC suite will know, Internet Explorer was, for most of […]
Using Microsoft Teams: Utilize Chats, Meeting Chats, & Posts
This blog is the third and final in a three-part series tackling how to set up and use Microsoft Teams for a project. Chats, Meeting Chats, and Channel Posts are all excellent methods of communication within Microsoft Teams. However, there is often confusion amongst project teams of when it is appropriate to use each feature. […]
Using Microsoft Teams: Set Up and Organize Teams Channels for Your Project
This blog is the first in a three-part series tackling how to set up and use Microsoft Teams for a project. Maintaining good communication is crucial to project success. One of the best tools to facilitate regular communication amongst your project team is Microsoft Teams. In this post, we’ll cover a useful way to set […]
Using Microsoft Teams: Write Effective Teams Posts
This blog is the second in a three-part series tackling how to set up and use Microsoft Teams for a project. So you’ve posted a message in Teams and you’re asking yourself, why hasn’t anyone responded? It might be that your messaging isn’t clear, or the right people don’t even know that you’re addressing them. […]
How to Monitor Performance Using Application Insights
Monitoring your website performance is a key factor to ensure your application performs as expected. There are a lot of application performance monitoring (APM) tools available in the market that can be used to monitor the performance of the application, such as NewRelic, Azure Monitor, AppDynamics, and others. In this post, I’ll talk more about […]
Perficient Earns Modernization of Web Applications to Azure Advanced Specialization
Application modernization continues to be critical for digital transformation. Perficient is committed to meeting the demands of our customers’ cloud needs with highly skilled and specialized partnerships. We are proud to announce that Perficient has achieved Advanced Specialization in the Modernization of Web Applications to Azure. This formally recognizes Perficient as a leading partner in […]
Clarifying Excel’s lookup functions
I’ve decided to write some of my own documentation for common use cases of the Excel functions LOOKUP, VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP and XLOOKUP because the official documentation is pretty confusing. It uses “lookup value” as a synonym for “key”, when one would conventionally expect a “lookup value” to be a synonym for “value”! (After all, in […]
Perficient’s Key Takeaways: The Forrester Wave™: Digital Process Automation Software, Q4 2021
Digital process automation (DPA), also called process orchestration, leverages digital technology to perform a task in order to accomplish a workflow or function, such as the loan process at a bank. With DPA, you can define event-driven business rules that provide a streamlined next step for all processes within your enterprise. As enterprises continue to […]
Log Pipeline Executions to File in Azure Data Factory
Why Azure Data Factory? Nowadays, the data our customer’s applications generate is increasingly exponential, especially if data is coming from several different products. Organizations have data of several types located in the cloud and on-premises, in structured, unstructured, and semi-structured formats all arriving at different time-frequency and speeds. It will be a critical task to […]
4 Trends Shaping Hybrid Work in 2022
In the past two years, we’ve seen organizations and their employees lean into pandemic-spurred changes in how they work. If 2021 was about adaptation, 2022 will be about embracing change as the “new normal”. Here are four trends expected in the new year: 1. Hybrid Work is Here to Stay At Microsoft’s November 2021 Ignite […]