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Several weeks ago, I was watching a cable network news channel and the news anchor was discussing what it will take to win the next presidential election. As he discussed it in more detail, he commented about how there will need to be much better analysis of data to pinpoint the right segment of the […]

It is clear by now that SharePoint 2013 offers up some big changes, particularly around search and social functionality. For starters, Fast Search is now part of SharePoint in the new release. This means that SharePoint 2013 can easily index content from a wide variety of different sources. By taking the Fast solution and combining […]

So if you are like me you have more development VMs than SSD space and do everything you can to keep your VM space down. One of the biggest things you can do is set your database options to Simple recovery model. This means that you won’t be able to do point in time backups […]

While at EMC World earlier this month, EMC announced the winners of its Partner Innovation Awards.  These awards recognize partners for excellence and innovation in solution development, design integration, and best practices for implementation and deployment of a solution that serves our mutual customers.  TriTek Solutions, now Perficient, was the proud recipient of EMC’s Outstanding […]

Are you looking to learn the steps to a successful SharePoint 2013 migration? Ready to join the SharePoint 2013 revolution but not sure how to prepare and plan for it?  Or, in the middle of a migration that is falling behind schedule? With the arrival of SharePoint 2013, many organizations are preparing to make the […]

It’s not unheard of, that a CTO might have to grill some staff at audit-time, and that line of questioning to take some oddly specific turns. “Why is our hosting provider billing us for this server ORCL-001A? What’s it doing here? Weren’t all our backend systems moved to SQL Server? Weren’t all these virtualized?”  Whether […]

Before I start, it is important to understand Oracle’s license terms. It is not uncommon to download Oracle products from the Oracle Technology Network (OTN). Here’s an extract from the Oracle Technology Network Free Developer License Terms “You may not cause or permit reverse engineering (unless required by law for interoperability), disassembly or decompilation of […]

Lately, I’ve been thinking about ways to manage and re-use existing code. Right away I thought of code snippets. Snippets are handy for methods or small segments of code, but what I was really looking for was a faster way to repurpose common class libraries and patterns. Functionality such as caching, logging, abstracting the SharePoint data layer, etc. […]

How many times have you been in your local bank branch in the last 6 months (for anything other than to get a sucker)?  If the answer is on more than one hand, you were probably born before the interstate highway system.  If you’re saying zero, you’re probably a Millennial like me. Since you’re reading […]

Business Objects provides a tool named Metadata Integrator to import relationship between universe and report. You need configure CMS(Central Management Server) and target database in Metadata Integrator first, then run, then it will load those relationship into target database. Below is window when data loading starts Here is description of related tables: Table Name Description […]

Recently, I was working with a customer who was evaluating Office 365 for a very particular use case.  The scenario was this: The customer has several “kiosk” type computers in a store, and need to be able to save email attachments directly to the cloud without having to touch the file system of the kiosk.  […]

​Here’s a quick way to implement custom sort functionality in a Content Query web part. Since the out-of-the-box options only offer ascending or descending alphanumeric sorting, you can use a Calculated Column to provide the necessary logic. For example, say you have a list called ‘Defects’ that has the following two Choice fields: ‘Impact’ and […]