Operations

Before 2000, primary challenges for companies were to enable the systems so that transactional data could be captured faster for organizational productivity, now gear is shifted towards delivery of information to the business users through reporting, analytical system and actionable drill down dashboard etc that organization have stored in files, data, audio and video stream etc on propriety clustered and […]

If you’ve stumbled around display templates in SharePoint 2013 Search, you’ve probably run into these following JavaScript do-dads: ctx.RenderBody(ctx)  -> (standard search results Display Template) ctx.RenderBody(ctx)   -> (hover panel Display Template) ctx.RenderFooter(ctx)  -> (hover panel Display Template) ctx.RenderHeader(ctx) –> (hover panel Display Template) You can find these methods on items such as Item_Default.html, Item_PDF.html, Item_Word.html, […]

Let’s say you do something fancy with your publishing site that changes the page hierarchy and would like the Bread Crumbs to account for those changes. You could create your own Bread Crumbs control but there is a quicker and more supported way that will allow your changes to affect the OOB Bread Crumbs control. […]

In many places I see it recommended to change the web.config to turn this on or fix this or add this, these changes work fine in development or single server environments. However if you are going to deploy your fix or feature to a multi-server SharePoint farm and you are planning to make the changes […]

The popularity of SharePoint in the enterprise is indisputable. In the last decade, it has grown from an intranet and basic collaboration application to having many different uses, including content management, business intelligence, workflow, portals, collaboration – you name it. Despite this popularity, up until now, it hasn’t exactly been known for its social computing […]

Yesterday, we heard from data governance expert, Ben Leeson, about why financial services companies should be using a master data management (MDM) solution. In case you missed it, you can read part one of the MDM Q&A here. Today we’ll be talking more about the value of MDM in banking IT and how to overcome the elusive […]

Today, we have a Q&A guest post with one of Perficient’s Data Governance Architects, Ben Leeson. Ben has extensive experience working on master data and governance projects for today’s leading financial services companies.  He will also be a part of our  upcoming financial services webinar, “Creating a ‘Customer 360’ with MDM in Financial Services” where […]

Yesterday, Fast Company released their annual guide featuring the most innovative businesses with the greatest impact in their industry.  The financial services industry was very well represented with innovative leaders in several major areas that are very much in a state of flux right now.  The impact that some of these leaders have had on […]

Chris Dunn, lead technical consultant at Perficient, recently wrote a blog post on how to migrate an Oracle Hyperion Planning application. His blog provides a single, concise process for migrating EPMA enabled Planning applications between two spearated environments. He makes a few assumptions during the process, but details them and the Oracle specific references he used. The […]

Last week, we hosted a webinar on SharePoint 2013’s web content management capabilities, “Manage Your Web Content with SharePoint 2013 Mobility and Search.” Speaker Travis Nielsen divided the presentation into three topics: Design, Publish, and Engage. He quickly dove into designer and developer enablement in SharePoint 2013, followed by a demonstration. From there, Travis gave […]

As of version 2.6 you get an option in NewsGator to supply a custom style sheet. There’s one provided for a narrow activity feed (370px wide, to be precise).  However, that isn’t the narrowest it can be and if you want a really slim newsfeed, check this out… My approach is to reuse the narrow […]

MSDN has a neat web part you can use for polls – Quick Surveys. Unfortunately the link to read more leads to an error. Since I had to figure out what might have been at that mysterious location, I figured I’d document the findings. I made some minor updates to the code to work a […]