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Partners In Health (PIH), which provides healthcare services to underserved regions around the world, wanted to allocate more of its scarce resources to enacting its mission and enable reliable worldwide communication and collaboration. With help from Perficient, PIH replaced its incompatible email systems with cost-effective Microsoft Office 365 and Azure cloud services. Today, virtual teams—working […]

Usually the Home Item in a Sitecore site infrastructure is a key item since all other pages of the site are descendants of this one item so if the wrong thing happens to this item, the site can go down.  So this particular item tends to get protected from a security stand point. A short […]

We’re excited and honored to announce that Perficient has swept the regional National Solution Provider awards during Microsoft’s 2016 Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in Toronto for the second consecutive year. Perficient was designated Microsoft’s East Region National Solution Provider (NSP) Partner of the Year and Cloud Partner of the Year, Central Region NSP Partner of […]

This is will be a quick blog about a detail involving Sitecore which I find myself using more and more.  Often in Sitecore, we have a component which can be added multiple times to a page but we need the means to identify a specific instance of that component in code to perform some activity […]

If you build an intranet, they will come. You’ve done everything right when building your company’s new intranet: You’ve delivered on time and under budget. It has all the right content. But no one is using it. How do you make sure that your investment in your company’s intranet is worth it?

Recently, I had installed Microsoft’s IIS URL Rewrite 2.0 application within my local Sitecore development environment.  For those who are not familiar, this application is used to redirect certain URL calls to other URL locations.  As part of this environment set-up we are using Hedgehog TDS to manage and track Sitecore items. However, when I […]

In the world of app troubleshooting, the app’s logs are your best friend. Sometimes you know when your error is happening, but sometimes you need to know, down to the moment, when the error shows up in the log files. In other words, sometimes you want to view all updates to the log exactly as they happen. […]

It’s time to re-platform, upgrade or simply join the world of Customer Experience Platform site management. You hold internal meetings where rough budgets are set. You meet with potential implementation partners and plan, strategize, repeat. But yet, one piece that I see continually forgotten until late in the process is Site Search. Okay, not forgotten, but certainly […]

Living in Atlanta, GA, I know a little bit of something about heat and humidity. When the pollen count is up and the temperature is registering 95°F in the shade, the last thing I want to be doing is mowing the grass. This wasn’t always the case; as a teenager, I earned spending money and later gas […]

This is an internal training webinar that ran on the week of 6/13/2016. It included members of our Sitecore team both in Atlanta and elsewhere, and included people who had used the framework extensively as well as total newcomers. Sitecore Ignition is an Open Source Development Accelerator and set of best practices for rapidly developing […]

What is SPEAK? Sitecore Process Enablement & Accelerator Kit is a set of standard tools that allow developers to build custom applications for Sitecore users inside the familiar Sitecore backend. SPEAK attempts to provide most of the tools a developer needs to build quickly and efficiently. SPEAK follows a convention-over-configuration paradigm, bringing together common JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and Sitecore […]

I’ve had several colleagues tell me about Gulp recently. Gulp is an automated task runner. You can set it up to automate build tasks. They tell me it can do “anything.” But for me that wasn’t such a helpful description. Where do you start when this tool can do “anything?” Here, I have a practical […]