Operations

  In SharePoint 2010, Microsoft introduced a great new feature for publishing and subscribing to content types called the content type hub. If you’re unfamiliar with the feature, read this. With SharePoint 2010 or 2013 on-premises, you would create a new site collection, turn on the features and configure the managed metadata service. Easy! When you […]

So much is changing each day with Office 365 suite of services and applications, that it’s hard to keep up. This post is an attempt to get you up to speed with the exciting new features on Yammer roadmap slated for this year. Work Like a Network If you are asking yourself what is this, then […]

According to both Forrester and Gartner, the enterprise content management (ECM) market shows continued growth. So, what’s on the horizon for content management to better meet the changing demands of financial services companies? What if my marketing department could create up to 500% more sales collateral? How can regulatory compliance workflows for investment product reviews be less of a burden for our relationship […]

A trio of presenters at the Gartner Portal, Content, and Collaboration Summit in Las Vegas gave a talk on “Delivering on the Digital Experience Promise”. I found this to be insightful as a case study, but not revolutionary, more evolutionary. It was a great study in increasing loyalty and revenue from customers. The trio included: […]

I knew that there were differences between Power View in desktop Excel and Power View as run from SharePoint. But I recently felt the impact of this for the first time. The first confusing point I found was, the Export to Power Point function only works for reports created in Power View in SharePoint Server. […]

If you read my previous post on Tales from a SharePoint 2010 Migration to 2013, I described a client migration and some of our lessons learned.  At Perficient, we do many SharePoint migrations and we have learned a lot along the way.  Here is a challenge we faced when migrating lists from 2010 to 2013.  […]

Last year I was involved in a Data Governance initiative where product vendors were hitting the client with Multi-domain MDM solution. Vendors were offering the software at various price points and simply put confusing the client. The fact of the matter is the client did have a huge MDM problem to solve. Their issue is […]

One of the less addressed areas of Enterprise Information Management (EIM) is the Information Life cycle Management (ILM). If you think about it Life cycle management touches key business areas especially regulated industries like financial services. IT is concerned with managing storage, application performance issues due to large volumes of accumulated historical data and the […]

OK, it’s not really a movie trailer. It’s more like a list of new features in the next version of their Digital Experience product (Portal / WCM).  But it’s made as if it were a trailer up to and including the credits at the end.  Enjoy.

I am sure we all have our stories highlighting our experiences upgrading from SharePoint 2010 to 2013.  I have some lessons learned that might be helpful to note when upgrading to SharePoint 2013 and reorganizing the site structure. First, here is the scenario: We were upgrading a fairly large (approx 150GB) single content database farm […]

Recently we experienced the Data Warehouse Admin Console (DAC) notification configuration issue in the Oracle BI project and finally resolved that. It would require the configuration in two parts. 1. Configure Email Recipients in the DAC Client Follow this procedure to configure email recipients in the DAC Client. 1). In the Setup view, click the […]

If you were at the SharePoint conference this year in Las Vegas, you probably saw the InfoPath Funeral procession through the vendor pavilion.  If not here is a clip:   We have known for quite some time Microsoft isn’t putting a large effort into InfoPath and in fact “… InfoPath 2013 is the last release […]