Every Azure Website (recently renamed App Service) comes with a default deployment slot – production. Did you know that you can create up to 4 additional deployment slots to be used for dev, test, QA, or staging?
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Office 365 People Experiences
Following on my previous posts in series “Office 365 – A day in life of an end user”, today I bring to you a recent discussion between the Microsoft team and Office 365 community around Delve. It touches on some real great areas on how this new feature enhances the people experience. ————————————————– Overview On April 15th Microsoft […]
Boosting Cloud Security in Office 365
Microsoft has been spearheading the security campaign across cloud services. This week has been in focus with announcements of new capabilities affecting SharePoint Online (SPO), Email, and customer controls. I’ve been involved in numerous customer strategy sessions where similar concerns were raised. It is becoming increasingly clear that customers are expecting higher level of security controls […]
Oracle BI Cloud Service: Data Sync Released & DBaaS Supported
Today Oracle releases Data Sync, a tool that facilitates loading data into the Oracle BI Cloud Service (BICS) by offering a variety of capabilities: Loading data from on-premise relational databases or data files into BICS Schema Database Scheduling data load jobs Monitoring data load jobs Sending out email notifications Earlier this week, Oracle has upgraded […]
Winning the Customer Experience Battle: Three Points to Remember
How Business Intelligence, Digital Transformation and the Cloud Enable the Most Successful New Business Models A few thousand Oracle users, partners, and employees sat (and stood, as necessary) at Mandalay Bay, waiting for that day’s keynote to begin. The CIO of Oracle, Mark Sunday, was scheduled to give us the latest buzz on cloud computing. […]
Building a successful Searchandizing strategy…
What is searchandizing? Obviously search in the context of merchandising. Retailers have taken this technique to a different level. Constant price pressures and competition from online retailing has spurred the innovation in this area both in terms of tools, approach and overall strategy. In the early dot com days several online retailers have built custom […]
Working with dynamic schema in Azure DocumentDB
About a week ago Azure DocumentDB, a new Microsoft’s entry into NoSql database market, become generally available. DocumentDB allows user to to store/update/delete arbitrary objects (as complex as needed, not limited by relation structure) and query these objects using a special (quite limited) flavor of SQL (yes, SQL!) or LINQ when it’s used from .NET. […]
New Additions to Delve
This post goes one level further in showcasing features within Office 365 which makes day in life more productive (Read the previous post in this series) In order to get more background on Delve, read my previous articles here 1. Delve 2. Everything about Delve 3. How Delve makes life easier 4. Global Rollout “Check out […]
BUILD & IGNITE Know It. Prove It. Tech Challenge Tour
I recently blogged about my personal experiences with the first “Know it. Prove it.” challenge that ran through the month of February 2015. The “Know it. Prove it.” challenge is back! This time it’s bigger and better than ever. The new challenge is a companion to both the Build and Ignite Conferences with 11 amazing […]
2015 Microsoft MVP Virtual Conference – The Power of Community
The Microsoft MVP Virtual Conference is a virtual/remote, 2 day live event on May 14 – 15, 2015. This is a brand new conference presented entirely by Microsoft MVP’s! Conference sessions will be provided in IT Professional, Developer and Consumer tracks, in addition with sessions available in English, Spanish or Portuguese tracks. The full agenda […]
Digital Transformation and the Salesforce Service SOS Feature
Businesses are undergoing digital transformation in many different areas of their business – operations, finance, supply chain, support – and mobile is at the heart of almost every initiative. The number of mobile apps in the market continues to grow. In the area of support, digital transformation is forcing companies to rethink customer service and how […]
Ruminations from OAUG Collaborate 15
I’ve had many conversations with all levels of users, developers and managers working with Oracle software while at Perficient’s booth #716 here at #Collaborate15 this week. I always love meeting with people and hearing about how they are using systems, how they approach problems and new projects and discussing solutions with them. Yesterday, I had […]