The second half of 2020 has been an exciting period for our Microsoft team, with Forrester listing us in four reports that relate to capabilities within our Microsoft practice. These reports range in solutions and showcase the wide range of capabilities that our Microsoft practice holds, ready to help clients with any number of digital […]
Baseline Certifications for Professionals working in the M365, Power Platform, and Azure spaces
Baseline Certifications for Professionals working in the M365, Power Platform, and Azure spaces Anyone selling, designing, delivering, or supporting Microsoft services in the M365, Azure, or Power Platform (I will call this Microsoft Cloud below) should consider studying for and obtaining the three ‘Fundamentals’ certifications from Microsoft. For business or sales oriented professionals Although these […]
How to Host Your Project Using Azure Build & Release Pipelines (GIFs included)
If you have a project in your repository that you want to host on the web, running the build and release pipelines on Azure is one way to go. Although configuring them is super easy, the process itself is not very intuitive especially the first time you encounter it because what each pipeline does is […]
Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare Is Generally Available
At Perficient, we see a lot of our partners investing in healthcare in general. Most of our partners have evolved to the point where their tools are HIPAA compliant and many are willing to sign BAA’s. I think it’s significant then that Microsoft’s recent announcement that Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare is generally available. Getting beyond […]
Perficient Listed in Forrester Azure Services Providers Q4 Report
We are excited to be listed by Forrester in its recent report, Now Tech: Azure Services Providers, Q4 2020 — Forrester’s Overview of 41 Azure Services Providers. As the report notes, “Many enterprises continue to struggle with starting and continuing their journeys to the cloud.” The report also notes that service providers can help clients […]
How Perficient and Microsoft Can Help You Return to Work
To say the world has changed this year would be an understatement. In every part of life, we have had to learn and adapt, and business is no different. The truth is that your business will never be the same. The world today is digital first more than ever, and your business must adapt to […]
Handshake Powers Elasticpath Intelligent Search
Elasticpath is a market leader for headless commerce microservices and are great partners. Search driven commerce has extreme value for online retailers. Search drives customers to better recommendations. It tracks the conversions and query terms that translate to more sales. With machine learning, search quantifies the search results that translate directly to sales. For the […]
Sitecore 10 – The Dawning of a New Containerized Day
Sitecore 10.0 made its way into the world a few weeks back. While it wasn’t a dramatic user-facing major release, it was a massive release for Sitecore becoming more cloud-native and looking ahead to the future of the Sitecore development experience. Cloud-Native? You may be asking, what does “cloud-native” mean? Well, for that, we can turn […]
Application Modernization: Reviving a Technical Coding Challenge
Our Custom Development Solutions group has been working to revive our Tech Challenge coding competition culture and ultimately decided why re-invent the wheel? A lot of our client work is focused around application modernization, so why don’t we modernize an old Tech Challenge application? Background In 2008, Bryan Dougherty, now our General Manager, created […]
Building Modular Pipelines in Azure Data Factory using JSON data
Azure Data Factory (ADF) pipelines are powerful and can be complex. In this post, I share some lessons and practices to help make them more modular to improve reuse and manageability. Why Modular Pipelines? Pipelines are composed of activities, as the number of activities and conditions increases, the difficulty in maintaining the pipeline increases as […]
Perficient Named 2020 Microsoft Health Innovation Award Winner
We are honored to announce that we have been named by Microsoft the 2020 Microsoft Health Innovation Award winner in the category of Enable Personalized Care. The award recognizes healthcare organizations and technology solution partners that leverage Microsoft technology to provide innovative solutions to help enable personalized care, empower care teams, improve operational outcomes, protect […]
Why Azure Red Hat OpenShift Helps Developers Innovate
The following is the fourth and final in a series of blogs about how innovation is necessary for businesses – and how Azure Red Hat OpenShift, a managed offering from Microsoft and Red Hat, enables that innovation. In this fourth blog, we’re going to highlight how Azure Red Hat OpenShift helps developers focus on innovation […]