Posts Tagged ‘cloud’

So it’s Open World time and CRN is reporting on some key announcements.  They note that Oracle is pushing almost all of their key services online including. Oracle Planning and Budgeting in the cloud (Hyperion) Oracle Financial Reporting (Not sure) Oracle Data and Insight (OBIEE???) Oracle Developer Cloud Service (could be part of Fusion and […]

GigaOM has an interesting article about why they think Amazon and Salesforce are blowing away the competition when it comes to cloud offerings.  Keep in mind that author James Urquhart is saying that these two are leaving companies like Google and Microsoft in the dust.  Here’s a couple quotes before my thoughts. I almost feel silly […]

Dream Team… Assemble in the Cloud! It’s finally come and gone! After months and weeks of buildup, including my own running buildup to the event, Dreamforce was wonderous week! This is an exciting time! I got to hang with almost twenty of my colleagues as a team. No small feat considering we’re coming from all over North America, spanning multiple time […]

I’ll be speaking at a brand new cloud & virtualization conference for IT professionals, systems administrators, developers and consultants – Cloud & Virtualization Live!, December 10-14 in Orlando, FL. http://bit.ly/CVSPEAK25 I’ll be presenting the following sessions: · Developing Mobile Solutions with Azure and Windows Phone · Pushing Data to and from the Cloud with SQL […]

I am ecstatic about attending the first of what I hope to be many Dreamforce events! Everyone I know who has gone raves about their experience. Finally I get to learn the secret handshake and get a firsthand perspective on the biggest and considered by some, the best event in our industry today. To celebrate, I have created a […]

CRN has an article about how Microsoft is diving into the cloud with Windows Azure, partner cloud easy program, Office 365 and a host of other tools and programs.  Perficient’s Microsoft group has seen this first hand as well.  In some ways, it’s like when Microsoft dove into the web browser world and really got […]

My Colleague Martin Sizemore had a great post this morning on Microsoft stepping up to the HIPAA Compliance challenge in the Cloud. In the post, which you can read here Martin talks about Microsoft’s recent announcement that support for HIPAA compliance is now avaliable for Windows Azure in addition to Office 365. From Martin’s post Microsoft […]

Prior to HIMSS 2011, I blogged about the 3 reasons for using a Managed Private Cloud for Interoperability. In that blog, I noted that in healthcare circles, cloud computing conjures up fears for protecting private healthcare information and security compliance concerns. In the last few weeks, Microsoft has introduced support for HIPAA compliance in their […]

One of the more notable announcements in the last month was that of Google’s Cloud Platform Partner Program. The platform currently offers Google Compute Engine, Google App Engine, Google BigQuery, and Google Cloud Storage. The partner program is designed to extend the use of these applications by allowing integration of other Technology Partner applications as well as expanding implementation options […]

The Perficient team was excited to be selected as Microsoft‘s Northeast District Cloud Partner of the Year award winner, at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner conference in Toronto, Ontario.  The award recognizes Perficient’s work in helping customers to move to Office 365, Microsoft’s cloud based productivity and collaboration suite.  The Perficient team has worked with client using our Exchange […]

A friend of mine started a business providing a uniquely customizable, cloud-based EMR solution. His business is growing quickly and enables small physician practices to create a “practicized” EMR that minimizes retraining, lowers overall time to deploy, and is ridiculously inexpensive compared to traditional EMR solutions. His solution offers these benefits because it is cloud […]

Oracle has fully jumped into the Customer Experience market and is claiming a revolution!  We now have the age of the customer.  Oracle says “Customers have many choices today. So it is critical to make their experiences as simple, consistent, and relevant as possible as they move throughout the customer lifecycle, from buying to owning—and […]