Posts Tagged ‘cloud’

With the July updates/enhancements of Windows Azure some changes have been made to SQL Database. In this article I’m going to talk about Automated SQL Export. Previously you had to manually export your database for backup. Now you can automate the export/backup schedule. If you need a Windows Azure subscription here is the link for […]

So, have you heard about Power BI yet?  The whiz-bang new cloud-centric BI front end tool from Microsoft?  Well, this video from the 2013 WPC breaks down the story — in a very entertaining manner…  So, having watched, let’s assume we all remember Mariah’s chart-toppers and instead review the greatest hits of the Power BI […]

Windows Azure Web Sites have been around for a while now, and one of the great features about them is deployment via source control. You have several options for source control deployment as well: you can use GitHub, CodePlex, TFS or even DropBox to keep your sites integrated and up to date. In this post […]

We recently had one of our long-time Perficient customers go-live with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Online (which is part of the Office 365 platform) with great success and ease. After utilizing SharePoint and Exchange online for years, they realized they had reach the limits of SharePoint in managing their day-to-day business and needed more in order […]

The Perficient team was represented in force at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in Houston last week, where we were honored as Microsoft’s US Partner of the Year award winner.  In addition Perficient was thrilled to win three additional awards, validating our  Cloud expertise and commitment.  From the news release which can be read here […]

Remember the days when you’d hear that on the in-stores announcement? “Attention Shoppers! For the next hour K-Mart is now offering a blue light special – half off all summer beach wear.” Those announcement where a form of on-site marketing offers made only to the stores patrons shopping at the time. The offers were made […]

You have all recently seen a bevy of cloud partnership announcements from Oracle.  That of course produced a flurry of stories about it, some more informative than others. Perficient Oracle Blog: Oracle announces Salesforce partnership Perficient Microsoft Blog: Microsoft/Oracle Announcement Highlights Azure as Cloud Leader CRN: Oracle, Microsoft To Announce Cloud Alliance Built On Oracle’s Database Microsoft: Microsoft […]

We live in a world where we communicate and interact with each other through various mediums such as wireless voice, text, email, IM, and social media. The most personal of those mediums is voice-to-voice but increasingly its also the one used less-and-less. As the volume of our interactions increase in non-personal forms, our capacity for […]

Yesterday Microsoft and Oracle announced a cloud based enterprise partnership that they said will help customers embrace cloud computing by providing greater choice and flexibility. From CRN’s Rick Whiting Oracle (NSDQ:ORCL) will certify and support its software products running on Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT)’s Windows Azure cloud platform and Hyper-V virtualization technology under an alliance unveiled by […]

IBM announced yesterday their Cloud Suites for the C-Suite.  CRN also ran an article on it where they dive into the implications of it rather than the detail of “more than 100 offerings in the Cloud” that IBM delivers.  I like the following quotes: While CIOs and IT managers are often making cloud technology decisions, […]

Business Insider published an article titled “12 Technologies That Are Improving at Insane Speeds” describing a McKinsey report about technologies that are disrupting the global economy.  The image shown here summarizes the 12 technologies and provides a glimpse into the amount of technological improvement provided over the years. Not surprising to me is that areas […]

One of the keys to Microsoft’s strategy to make Azure a clear choice for customers of every size is the idea that you get massive scalability to meet demands, but only have to pay for capacity that you’re actually using at any given point in time. Until today, that statement has always come with its […]