Operations

When I was in school, I remember studying learning styles – “series of theories suggesting systematic differences in individuals’ natural or habitual pattern of acquiring and processing information in learning situations.” I was the always the Converger, very hands-on, figuring out things for myself, testing theories. For me, this started at an early age. I can remember being one […]

As an avid user of IBM DataStage for over 8 years I was recently on a client engagement where I had to use Oracle’s Oracle Data Integrator (ODI).  At first I was disappointed as I was out of my confront zone.  But after a week or two I was very surprised how quickly I was […]

There’s a lot of interest around moving to the cloud, and specifically, SharePoint Online. Because of that, we’ve had several webinars over the summer that focus on SharePoint Online and SharePoint in a hybrid environment (you can view all our past Microsoft webinars here, beginning with the most recent). Despite that interest, migrations can be […]

This is a summary of an article from Database Trends And Applications; dbta.com. The author addresses fundamental mistakes that we do or we live with in regards to our database systems. 1. Poor or missing documentation for databases in PRODUCTION We may have descriptive table names and columns to begin with, but as workforce turns […]

With the rapidly evolving migration to the cloud SharePoint teams are faced with a new challenge: How do we develop and deploy for SharePoint Online? If your feet have been firmly planted with on-premises development for SharePoint it can be a little daunting trying to move your process to the cloud. Where and how should […]

Written by Chris Durfee As Project Managers at Perficient, we are your guides through the eCommerce Universe. This online universe, like in real life, is infinite and ever-changing; something truly extraordinary to behold in all of its diversity. Fellow Program Manager, Dan Kaho and I attended this year’s IRCE. It was enlightening. It reaffirmed our necessity […]

Written by Chris Durfee As Project Managers at Perficient, we are your guides through the eCommerce Universe. This online universe, like in real life, is infinite and ever-changing; something truly extraordinary to behold in all of its diversity. Fellow Program Manager, Dan Kaho and I attended this year’s IRCE. It was enlightening. It reaffirmed our necessity […]

A lot of what we talk about here on the Perficient Microsoft blog focuses on the cloud, and that reflects market trends, and what we are seeing with our customers. As Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wrote earlier this month in his email to employees, and so many at Microsoft have said since, we now live […]

SSRS is a powerful tool not because it projects queries in really good looking charts but because it enhances user experience.  The reports are so intuitive that users can navigate and export data without much training.  However, as business analyst or data analysts or report designers, it is our responsibility to extend these usability features […]

Data science is a discipline conflating elements from various fields such as mathematics, machine learning, statistics, computer programming, data warehousing, pattern recognition, uncertainty modeling, computer science, high performance computing, visualization and others. According to Cathy O’Neil and Rachel Schutt, two luminaries in the field of Data Science, there are about seven disciplines that even data scientists in training […]

My … how times are changing … back to what they once were!  I guess it has something to do with living long enough to experience things, but budgeting with Oracle’s exceptional world class platform Hyperion Planning solution is now available in the cloud.  This means that both new and existing Hyperion Planning customers of […]

The personal computer, internet, digital music players (think ipods), smart phones, tablets are just a few of the disruptive technologies that have become common place in our lifetime.   What is consistent about these technology disruptions is that they all have changed the way we work, live, and play.  Whole industries have grown up around these technologies.   […]