Posts Tagged ‘cloud’

I see more and more people taking advantage of SkyDrive and now SkyDrive Pro.  I think there’s a lot of potential here, especially for heavy users of SharePoint. But first a video that’s 51 minutes long but gives a great overview of features and what’s coming.  Thanks to Ignite for the video. Let me tell […]

Thanks to @lizasisler for point this out to me.  Frederic Paul at CIO.com has a nice slideshow on 11 Things Microsoft is Doing Right.  Like Frederic, I prefer to focus on the positive and mention areas where there is room for improvement. Frankly, no major company lacks opportunity to improve in many different ways so […]

It is a much talked about fact that the healthcare industry lags behind other industries in IT adoption. With constantly changing regulations, security concerns, and the pressure to deliver better care at a lower cost, healthcare providers have not implemented the latest technologies to leverage their data. One solution to these issues is cloud computing. […]

It was exciting to read Heather Clancy‘s post on ZDNet.com this morning, ‘Perficient’s Cloud Prescription for Healthcare Companies‘ highlighting Perficient’s Cloud & Healthcare expertise.  From Heather’s post, which can be read here [Perficient] was named in July as both the software developer’s U.S. Partner of the Year and also as [Microsoft’s] top provider for delivering healthcare […]

Just last week Rich Wood blogged about recent Forrester Analysis about Yammer and SharePoint.  Rich’s short post focused the fact that neither Yammer, nor SharePoint, nor the cloud was going away anytime soon and that Yammer is the enterprise play.  I want to focus on two key items in the Forrester report, “Is Yammer + […]

In the last post in this series, we looked at why Azure Machines are the most likely candidate for workable SQL Server-based cloud BI implementations.   Today, we talk turkey about actual limitations and things you need to know as you look at a potential solution in this environment. The first thing to know is that Azure […]

I’m not sure why exactly, but I have always loved SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). If you didn’t already know it, I’m here to let you know that Windows Azure has a similar version called SQL Reporting. In everything I see about Windows Azure, SQL Reporting doesn’t seem to be talked about much. SQL Reporting doesn’t […]

Walking around new and existing client offices and buildings, I take note of what sort and type of devices staff are using these days.  It really is such a plethora of mobile types, laptops, tablets and of course desktops.  Then I think about the huge growth in the remote-office worker and know there is even […]

In my last post in this series, I described the basics of Data Services within Microsoft’s Windows Azure public cloud platform.   Basically, we were able to somewhat exclude the majority of PaaS offerings in Azure and home in on the IaaS offering:  Azure Virtual Machines. Azure VM’s are effectively the only real path to full-fledged […]

In recent weeks, I’ve been seeing an uptick in aggression from SharePoint’s would-be competitors, and I suppose that makes sense.  Microsoft’s do-it all platform for collaboration, social business, intranets and extranets, content management, enterprise search, business intelligence and whiskey distillation—okay, maybe not the whiskey, but everything else and then some—is pretty much ubiquitous in large […]

Forrester Research last week published a report on SharePoint, Yammer, and Microsoft’s direction for the two.  I’ve always found the analysis put about by the likes of Forrester and Gartner to be far more important than the common buzz that gets tweeted and blogged around the internet because, bottom line, their material targets CIOs outright.  […]

On Wednesday we hosted a webinar that covered how and why Windows Intune can be a great solution to address growing concerns driven by the current trend towards Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) to work.  Steve Andrews, a senior solutions architect in Perficient’s Microsoft infrastructure practice talked about the challenges many companies face today, often […]