Operations

(This post is Part 2 in a two-part series.  For Part 1, click here.) In our previous episode, we quickly reviewed the concept of data analytics as applied to social computing software—how it enables both admins and the software companies themselves to prescriptively target feature configurations or updates to user demographics that will benefit from them. […]

(This post is Part 1 in a two-part series.  For Part 2, click here.) Let’s continue our tour around the social capabilities of SharePoint 2013 and its extensions with a look at the value of analytics and why they need to matter to the decision-makers—whether they’re in IT, Communications, Human Resources or some other function— who […]

My colleague Rich Wood presented a webinar on Understanding SharePoint 2013 and the Social Landscape last week. You can see the webinar replay here and the slides here. Rich has also been blogging on this topic. Rich had some great points in his presentation about Cloud versus On-Premise solutions, SharePoint 2013 out of the box, […]

Although the term “Business Intelligence” has only been around for a couple of decades, the concept of business intelligence (BI) goes back much further, to the early days of data processing. Today, BI describes a category of software tools and business practices used to manage data, providing insight to support better business decision making. Have […]

IBM just published their tuning guide for WebSphere Portal 8.0.  There have been lots of improvements made to Portal 8, especially in re-architecting the JCR database for WCM.  If you have a Portal 8.0 installation or are planning to implement Portal 8.0, this tuning guide should be a must read for your team. The tuning guide […]

Business Objects has a CMS repository which stores all information about reports and universes. Since the data is stored in a binary format in database, then we could not query directly to get all these information.

I’m a big fan of infographics, I like to see data rather than read about it. The first point on this infographic struck me. That’s a staggering number. The rest of the infographic, which you can see linked below, goes on to talk about the power of mobile and the rise of BYOD in the […]

These are exciting times for SharePoint developers. SharePoint 2013 RTM is right around the corner. If you want to get a jump start on developing with SharePoint 2013 then sign up for the Office 365 Preview.     Once you’re signed up, you will recieve an email from Microsoft welcoming you to the Office 365 […]

Today I updated my iPhone 4 to the new iOS 6 operating system.  It has lots of new features which I’ve just started to play with, including a new version of Safari, Apple’s mobile web browser.   What does this have to do with portals?  Keep reading. One of my clients just recently (yesterday – […]

Join us Wednesday, October 17, 2012, at 1 p.m. CT for the webinar “Create Great Search Experiences with SharePoint 2013.” Have you ever found yourself searching for the perfect “search” interface? If that answer is yes, you’re looking at it the wrong way. You’ve got to start with your search results. Because let’s face it, no one […]

Are you a SharePoint Rockstar? Do you want to be a SharePoint Rockstar? Do you want to live like a Rockstar? The Perficient team would like to give you the chance to live like a Rockstar with your own Home Theater.  The winner will be announced on the last day of the SharePoint conference, but […]

Gartner recently issued their 2012 version of the Web Content Management Magic Quadrant.  This year’s version looks similar to last year’s version with Oracle, SDL, SiteCore, Adobe, HP (Autonomy), Extron, and OpenText all making the Leaders quadrant.  IBM and Microsoft are in the Challengers quadrant once again. You can see the entire report on Gartner’s […]