Microsoft

Last week Microsoft announced general availability of auto attendants and call queues in Skype for Business Online in Office 365. These features have been in preview for several months, and I know many people are excited to finally have them released. The lack of auto attendants and call queues have prevented many organizations from utilizing […]

Research firm Gartner has given Coveo its highest placement in the 2017 Magic Quadrant for Insight Engines – ranking the enterprise search organization well ahead of its competitors in both “Ability to Execute” and “Completeness of Vision.” Gartner analyzed 13 enterprise search engines for the 2017 Magic Quadrant for Insight Engines. The firm defines “insight […]

Sitecore allows you to manage a user’s profile in the User Manager. The fields for the user’s profile comes from the User template found in the Core database at /sitecore/templates/System/Security/User. While developing a proof of concept, I found that if you create your own user profile template and inherit from the built-in User template, fields […]

During the past several months, we’ve seen a plethora of changes within Skype for Business Cloud PBX, meaning we are getting closer and closer to feature parity between on premise Skype for Business Server and Skype for Business Online. Among those changes was the addition of auto attendants. At Enterprise Connect in Orlando (March 2017), […]

On Microsoft’s Office 365 blog, you can find a compilation of all the new Office 365 features released in March: Real-time co-authoring is now available in Excel! This is big news for those who have been waiting…and waiting…for this collaboration functionality. Currently only available to Office Insiders, this update allows multiple users to edit and […]

Did you miss our webinar earlier this month, Accelerate Sitecore DevOps on Microsoft Azure? If so, check out our on-demand recording! Perficient’s George Chang and Tim McCarthy covered the benefits of Sitecore DevOps on Microsoft Azure, including using Microsoft Azure and Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) to: Automate the build-out of Sitecore environments Automate code […]

The Perficient team is at Adobe Summit this week, and we couldn’t be more excited about the expanding partnership between Adobe and Microsoft. On our Adobe blog today, Rich Wood, Perficient’s National Director of Digital Content Platforms, recaps the conference, including next steps for the partnership and what it means to critics and fans alike: […]

“Preserving the status quo is not a strategy.”  That’s how Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen kicked off the Adobe Summit on Tuesday. He was speaking of digital disruption and transformation in general, but what amounted to a vision statement could just as easily sum up the burgeoning new alliance between his company and Microsoft. The status […]

Adobe and Microsoft have started to roll out the solutions they announced in September 2016 that help both companies fill out key gaps in their portfolios. Here are three of the key new offerings from Adobe and Microsoft: Integration of Microsoft Dynamics with Adobe Campaign.  One missing piece of Adobe’s marketing portfolio is CRM and Dynamics […]

If your organization is running on SharePoint Server 2010, you may be operating at risk. With mainstream support of SharePoint Server 2010 unavailable and extended support from Microsoft only available through October of 2020, it is a perfect time to begin planning to migrate to SharePoint Online. The SharePoint Migration assessment tool (SMAT) is a tool […]

We’re excited to announce that our client Acuity Brands was awarded honorable mention for their recent intranet redesign! Ragan Communications presented Acuity Brands with an honorable mention in the “Intranet Usability” category of their annual Intranet Awards. Check out the story below for how we helped Acuity create a modern intranet with Rise. Background When […]

Microsoft announced that their new chat-based tool, Microsoft Teams, launched today to Office 365 users in 181 markets and 19 languages. Microsoft Teams is available directly in Office 365, and according to the Microsoft press release, more than 50,000 organizations are already using it, including ConocoPhillips, Deloitte, and Expedia. In a blog post today, Kirk […]