Many organizations are now trying to adopt Teams at a rapid pace. However, adopting a new product like Teams alongside Skype for Business is no easy task and can create confusion if not implemented properly. My intention with this article is to discuss how to properly pilot Teams for your organization so you can test […]
Integration & IT Modernization
New administrator capabilities in Microsoft Teams! – Nov. 2018
November has been a great month for our administrators in Teams because Microsoft has recently expanded the administrative capabilities! In order for your organization to have a great experience with Teams you need to ensure your administrators are well equipped with good governance capabilities. With that said, let’s go over what has recently been added […]
Voice Quality in Microsoft Teams – Why you should care! — Part 2
Last time we discussed the planning phase for your network. In this article we’ll be continuing with the subject of your network but instead we will be focusing on the monitoring of your network and what services Microsoft provides so you can ensure your network is running smoothly and your end users are having an […]
Voice quality in Microsoft Teams – Why you should care! — Part 1
Voice quality is surprisingly something that is often overlooked when an organization wants to move their voice infrastructure to the cloud. I’ve worked for multiple customers over the past two years where some have been well equipped to handle the media traffic whereas others were missing some of the vital pieces that proved to be […]
Number porting 101 – Transferring phone numbers to Microsoft
Let’s say you are thinking of moving your phone numbers to Microsoft. Great! However, there are a few things that you need to take into consideration before making this leap. In this article I’ll go over what number porting is, what challenges you may face, and what you’ll need to know to get your numbers […]
OBIEE Design and Development Best Practices
Introduction This document is for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) Developers and Designers. These standard guidelines may vary from project to project. Below mentioned OBIEE Standards are more in generic form & developers can follow these guidelines to standardize their code & minimize post development defects. Repository – Physical Layer best practices Database […]
AllianceBernstein’s Mobile App Empowers Sales Teams in Real Time
How to Best Enable On-the-Go Sellers What if you could improve the customer engagement experience and provide your sales team with a customer-facing toolkit? And what if it gave real-time insights? And what if it was mobile? Do you need proven effectiveness, because it’s got that, too. Meet SIMON (Sales Intelligence Mobile Optimized Network). Perficient’s MicroStrategy […]
Governance in Healthcare: Information, Content and Knowledge
The trend of treating information, content, and knowledge as assets means that ultimately these things need to be addressed and accounted for just like all other assets in a business. This means making it a part of the organization’s balance sheet – if not formally, as accounting principles do not yet support this capitalization concept […]
What’s New in Teams – November 2018
Microsoft Teams continues to receive updates with new features and functionality at a rapid rate! Just in October alone, we saw a number of updates in areas such as new third party apps, communication features, admin features, and mobility features. With that said, I’ll be breaking down each of these areas in more detail below. […]
OBIEE 11g Portal Customization
In order to best deliver an intuitive and interactive end-user experience, architecture and UI elements have been redesigned from the ground-up in Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g Release (Oracle BIEE). The 11g UI is dynamically generated using scripts which makes it highly customizable as per client’s needs and standards. This blog post illustrates the […]
Security in the Age of Cloud Computing
As a former CIO, I believe the most important aspect of an IT organization’s job is to protect their IT infrastructure and data that resides within it through advanced security. While it is obviously important to implement new technologies and applications, if the environment is not safe then nothing else matters. Part of this responsibility […]
With RPA, You’re One Step Closer to AI
Recent research from the Digital Banking Report found that only 13% of financial organizations globally have deployed at least one artificial intelligence (AI) solution. 27% believe they will have an AI solution in place in the next 18 months. 37% say they will consider an AI solution within the next 18 months, and close to a […]