Welcome back to the second blog post on Microsoft Teams Breakout Rooms! Last time, we discussed what breakout rooms were, how they are created, how to assign users, and how to open/close a breakout room. If you are joining us for the first time, I encourage you to check out the first post here. This […]
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Microsoft Teams Updates (January 2021)
Welcome to 2021! I’m sure I can speak for pretty much everyone when I say that 2020 won’t be missed! Nevertheless, Microsoft has graced us with some exciting new updates to start the year off on the right foot. In today’s blog, we’ll cover some of the biggest updates around meetings, calling, management, and even […]
Making Meaningful Data Reports with Microsoft Power BI
Create Power BI reports to effectively translate your business data Microsoft’s Power BI is a versatile platform that allows users to connect to and transform data to make meaningful and interactive visualizations. With a familiar and intuitive interface, Power BI Desktop makes connecting to a data source and creating useful reports easy. Upon completion of your report, you can publish it from within Power […]
How Implementing MSMQ Technology Improves Communication between Technologies
Having clear and consistent communication is key to accomplishing your business goals. It’s even more important to have open communication between your business technologies to ensure your organization continues to run as is, if not better. In modern technology architecture, performance and decoupled integration is a key factor of application development. Message queues can significantly […]
How to use Microsoft Teams Breakout Rooms (Part 1 of 2)
Microsoft recently announced the general availability of Microsoft Teams Breakout Rooms! This has been a long-awaited ask from the tech community and has been in the works for quite some time! In today’s blog, we’ll discuss what a breakout room is used for, how to create one, how to assign people to a specific breakout […]
Rocketing PowerApps Development Forward
The goal of pair programming or team coding is to efficiently develop & maintain a computer software. This type of componentized programming allows for multiple users to break up a large application into parts reducing workloads while maximizing team efficiency. One of the sticking points for PowerApps at the time of this blog post is […]
Microsoft Dataverse for Teams
The New and Improved Microsoft Dataverse As if 2020 didn’t hit us with enough changes, Microsoft revealed some new terminology that all Dynamics 365 and Power Platform users should be aware of. From November 2020 onward, the Common Data Service (a secure data platform utilized in the Power Platform and Dynamics 365) will be referred […]
Global Team Delivers Big Results
We are excited to share our successful completion of a two-year engagement migrating one of the largest managed care organizations in the US to SharePoint Online. Together as partners, we migrated over 45,000 SharePoint webs and more than 70 TB of data to the cloud — making it one of the largest migrations of SharePoint […]
Data and Analytics blueprint – successful delivery
Here is your data & analytics blueprint Clear vision and measurable outcome Establish Sponsor buy in and level set expectations Crisp delivery based on agile with timely deliverables called out Open communication and cadence Establish a RACI! Now comes the actual delivery and build Data be the center and focus of everything (anyone else tells […]
Microsoft Teams Updates (December 2020)
Happy holidays to everyone, and welcome to December! Microsoft has been working diligently to get everyone some great new updates before the end of the year. In this blog, we’ll cover some of the biggest updates announced this month around Teams meetings, calling, and collaboration! Meetings AI-based noise suppression I cannot emphasize how excited I […]
Microsoft Teams as a Platform and Microsoft 365 Apps to DevOps Maturity Model
Microsoft Teams is the modern hub for Teamwork. It’s the place to chat with your team, connect to meetings, and gather notes; it helps manage and provide a single interface for your tasks and projects and work teams. The best part is the extensibility and focus of bringing enterprise line of business systems together as […]
Perficient Listed in Four Recent Forrester Reports Related to Microsoft Capabilities
The second half of 2020 has been an exciting period for our Microsoft team, with Forrester listing us in four reports that relate to capabilities within our Microsoft practice. These reports range in solutions and showcase the wide range of capabilities that our Microsoft practice holds, ready to help clients with any number of digital […]