Posts Tagged ‘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 […]

We’ve written many articles on this blog about the importance of Activity Streams, mostly in conjunction with social software.  Forrester recently released the first research report dedicated to just Activity Streams.  To be included in the research, Forrester said the product had to specialize in activity streams as opposed to being a platform. Initially this […]

Rich Wood blogs about the recent Yammer acquisition over on the Microsoft Blog.  I’ll let Rich tell his own story but here’s my two cents: Rich pegs it about the short term implications.  I don’t think we’ll see anything incorporated beyond any existing integration between Yammer and something like SharePoint This highlights the importance of […]

I’ve started to hear more and more about Open Stack.  It was originally developed by Rackspace and then pushed into a standard at Openstack.org.  From CRN we see that IBM is launching into support for OpenStack IBM (NYSE:IBM) embraces OpenStack, the open-source standard used for building cloud-computing stacks, but believes a key piece of its […]

With all the benefits and buzz around the cloud, is cloud HIPAA-ready? Can the healthcare industry use the benefits of Cloud without sacrificing privacy on protected Health Information (PHI)? According to the HIPAA rule: It provides federal protections for personal health information held by covered entities and gives patients an array of rights with respect […]

In the previous parts we discussed about Cloud Computing definition and Cloud Applications. Having so many applications on Cloud and enterprise, there is demand for integration of these applications to exchange data and complete the business process. In this section I am going to discuss about IBM Cast Iron, the Cloud integration tool, to integrate […]

In the previous part we discussed about Cloud Computing definition. In this part let us discuss various applications in Cloud Computing. I am going to discuss these applications under three major categories: Infrastructure as a Service Platform as a Service Software as a Service (SAAS) Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) IT Managers employing IaaS need […]

TriCore Solutions, LLC and Birst Inc have combined forces to offer a more complete cloud-based BI solution. Birst, founded in 2004, has been make great strides as a disrupter in the Business Intelligence space. The San Francisco- based starup also just completed series D financing to start the month by raising a cool $26 million. This puts Birst’s […]

Perficient colleague and Microsoft MVP David Greve has co-authored a book with fellow Microsoft Office 365 MVP Loryan Strant. Entitled “Microsoft Office 365: Exchange Online Implementation and Migration,” the book provides a hands-on tutorial that shows organizations of all sizes how to implement and migrate to Microsoft Exchange Online in Office 365. From the Press […]

Great article highlighting changes in business analytics industry: Enterprise BI models undergo radical transformation from ComputerWorld.com. Some mention of ROI, the reporting tools in the forefront of “new analytics” and the “service-heavy implementation model” seen in these BI projects today.

We hear lot of cloud terminologies : Apple iCloud, , Amazon EC2, Google Apps, IBM Cloud Foundation, IBM Lotus Live, Microsoft Azure, Google App Engine, Private Cloud, sales force, Public Cloud, Grid Computing ,… too Cloudy Isn’t it!!! In this part of I am going to put some definition around Cloud Computing, in next parts […]

Late last year Packt Publishing asked fellow MVP Loryan Strant and me if we were interested in writing a book on Office 365. I’ve certainly written a few technical blogs, but never a book with this much detail. Since the topic of this book is right in our wheelhouse, we couldn’t pass it up. Integrating […]