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Earlier this week, Microsoft announced the launch of Microsoft Teams, a new feature of Office 365. The chat-based collaboration service is available for preview now and is expected to be delivered in Q1 2017.

93% of millennials do not go to the doctor for preventative checkups, and more than a quarter are willing to self-diagnose their own sicknesses. When patients go to the doctor so infrequently, how can healthcare professionals provide the consistent and in-depth care needed to keep patients healthy?

Think back to your childhood, we all had that parent, teacher, aunt, or uncle who’s answer was always NO! Until recently this was the answer of most IT organizations when it came to bringing your own device to the table. Can I get my email on my phone? No! Can I access the intranet from […]

As winter is coming in Canada and there will be family fun in the snow, we have been brainstorming on the Sitecore Family-Friendly Conference and had some interest however not enough yet for a full conference. After looking a bit harder we realized that it is hard to do 2 conferences in a year and since […]

Great news for enterprise Mac users – this week, out of Redmond: the new Skype for Business client for macOS has been released and is available for download! If you’re a business Mac user (or if you support Mac users), and currently use Lync Server, Skype for Business Server, or Skype for Business Online as […]

The last Sitecore User Group meeting in Atlanta was on December 9, 2014. For reference, at that time the following were still alive (WARNING: Game Of Thrones Spoilers): Mance Rayder, Janos Slynt, Barristan Selmy, Maester Aemon, Shireen, Stannis Baratheon First of His Name, Myrcella Baratheon, Jon Snow (wink), Doran Martell, Trystane Martell, Roose Bolton, Balon […]

DocumentDB is a NoSQL JSON database by Microsoft that is provided as a service in Azure. Due to its cloud service architecture, this allows developers and clients to read and write to the service using the DocumentDB API and have a globally scalable and lightning fast data repository. This provides a consumption-based NoSQL database and […]

Federated Experience Manager (FXM) is a very useful part of Sitecore, in that it allows end users to add content to and track events on external applications. This is good because it means that clients do not have to convert all of their existing applications into the Sitecore instance to use it’s functionality. In a […]

With so many variables to consider, making the move to the cloud can be overwhelming. This Thursday, join us for a webinar to help simplify the process.

Two-way communication is a key factor for gaining user adoption on the intranet and a great way to engage users and make your intranet more interactive is through the use of Quick Polls. Quick Polls are simple questions with multiple choice answers that users can answer quickly. Once a user has answered they get instant […]

Over on our Adobe blog, Perficient’s Rich Wood digs into the big news announced at Microsoft Ignite that Adobe is making Microsoft Azure it’s “preferred” service: It’s this simple: Azure is a Microsoft platform, so traditionally when people hear “Azure,” they immediately put walls around it.  Those walls look a lot like a Windows server […]

We are pleased to announce today that we have acquired Bluetube, a digital consultancy based in Atlanta, GA. Bluetube specializes in enterprise mobile applications, adding to our deep Sitecore expertise and introducing an Elite-level Xamarin partnership. Xamarin is a Microsoft-owned mobile app development platform, and Bluetube is one of just 10 Elite partners.