Microsoft

4/24/2017 – See my latest blog entry to see dial plans in action after being released from preview. When Skype Online was first introduced, it had its limitations, particularly around policies and customization. From an administrative point of view, you were locked down to being able to use only predefined policies. As Cloud PBX and […]

It is about time that we all face a hard truth: Many traditional intranet projects fail to achieve their stated business objectives. There, I said it, and I’m already starting to feel better. According to one recent Gartner report, “Since the emergence of the intranet in the mid-1990s, organizations have seen wave after wave of […]

We recently published a whitepaper titled “Leveraging the Microsoft Platform for DevOps.” In it, we describe our DevOps maturity model. How mature is your DevOps practice? Some organizations are so mature, they are able to blow away and overwrite their production environment up to 1,600 times a day. That’s right; destroy the environment with no […]

Greetings true believers! If you’ve been following on Twitter and Slack, you’ve already seen that we’ve released a major revamp of Ignition. The getting-started guide can be found here: https://github.com/sitecoreignition/Ignition.Foundation/wiki Here’s a companion video going over getting started with the new framework: Some new features unveiled in 2.o include… A full restructure of our project structure […]

We’ve been developing Xamarin.Forms apps since the framework’s inception and have watched the tool mature into a solid tool for building native, cross-platform experiences. More than once we’ve heard hesitations about using Xamarin.Forms because “it doesn’t feel as polished.” We understand where that idea comes from (many are basing that opinion on early iterations of […]

In the January release of Skype Operations Framework (SOF) materials, Microsoft gave us a set of Call Quality Dashboard (CQD) templates that cover various aspects of audio quality as well as client versions and devices. They also released a series of videos showing how to navigate CQD, build reports, and investigate quality issues. Because audio is […]

The cloud continues to generate a lot of buzz in the IT world, and for good reason: According to Gartner, 50% of enterprises will be using hybrid cloud solutions this year. But making the move to the cloud can be intimidating. There are many things to consider: What are the best practices? Who are the […]

We don’t like to pat ourselves on the back too much around here, but when our colleagues achieve something this great, we can’t help but share the good news! SIX of our Sitecore experts have been named Sitecore Most Valuable Professionals (MVP). Perficient now has MVPs in three practice areas, including two of only three […]

Behavioral profiling, for most marketers, is the ultimate digital goal when it comes to their customer experience solution. Not surprisingly, it is nearly always the first question I am asked when working with an organization that is either using, upgrading, or considering Sitecore CXP. “How do we personalize?” or “How can we get started with behavioral […]

Adopting a new customer experience platform can be costly and challenging, but the risk of not keeping up with the latest technology could be even greater. When your platform can no longer provide the functionality and flexibility that your business needs to compete, it’s time to take a hard look at your legacy system and […]

Since the announcement of the Microsoft/Adobe partnership at Ignite, we at Perficient have been working to make this a first-class offer for our clients. The internet wouldn’t exist if all the world’s computers were isolated from one another. Networking is the foundation of modern day computing, so it’s only logical to start with this topic! […]

A few months ago a question popped up on Sitecore Stack Exchange about why parameters passed into the Html.Sitecore().ControllerRendering(string controllerName, string actionName, object parameters) method introduced in Sitecore 8.2 do not bind to the action parameters in the called action method. I answered why the parameters don’t bind and suggested that if you want this functionality, you […]