At the Ignite 2015 conference Microsoft had announced a few details about what Azure Stack is, and that at its most basic level it’s Azure Services that run in the On-Premises, Enterprise Data Center. Back when Microsoft Azure launched in 2010, there was a promise of Azure in your Data Center, that wasn’t talked about […]
Posts Tagged ‘cloud’
“Cloud is Strong” according to Microsoft Q2 2016 Earnings
I’ve previously blogged about Azure being the future of the Enterprise data center. Some times it can be difficult to tell how well Microsoft’s Cloud business (Azure and Office 365) are doing. Good news for us is that when Microsoft releases their earnings, they do give a glimpse of how well the different divisions of the business are […]
Why Use Informatica for Cloud Data Management
Cloud data management is a critical component to the effectiveness of your big data and analytics program. But you need the right tool and not all data management tools are optimized for cloud. There are six reasons on why customers use Informatica Cloud Data Management: 1. Agility and time to value: Informatica has done well to bring […]
Perficient’s Microsoft Practice is Ready to ‘Rise’ and Shine
Agility in any marketplace requires a willingness to evolve. With the acquisition of Rise Foundation, Perficient’s Microsoft practice is positioned to create, market, and sell products of its own. Rise Foundation is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application that transforms SharePoint for Office 365 or SharePoint 2013/2016 on-premises into an easy-to-use intranet or portal for the business […]
Forrester Ranks IBM as Leader in Hybrid Cloud
In a recent report, Forrester analyzed the hybrid cloud management solution market by evaluating the 11 top software providers on 32 criteria. While there are many paths to the cloud, hybrid cloud is increasingly the mode of entry for organizations with 65% of enterprise I&O decision makers saying they use more than one public and/or private cloud […]
Cloud is the Name of the Game: 3 Aspects of Data Management in the Cloud
When Informatica went private in 2015, Microsoft Corporation and Salesforce Ventures agreed to become strategic investors in the company alongside the Permira funds and CPPIB. Henceforth, the message on this year’s partner conference was platform-independent, enterprise-ready Cloud Data Management. Informatica has three major focus areas in cloud for 2016: Intelligent Data Platform: This platform is primarily focused […]
Digital Transformation Is Inevitable, But Where Do We Begin?
Most digital transformation initiatives begin with customer journey mapping, a process that helps fully understand the dynamics of your target customer and their behavior. Journey mapping connects the dots from your customer’s initial interaction with your brand, through their entire experience with your brand via multiple channels (e.g., website, mobile app, phone call, direct […]
Importance of the Cloud: Scaling, IaaS, PaaS
There’s always been a level of redundancy built into large Production or even smaller mission critical systems. Scaling out is the answer to both by adding additional compute resources as well as increase the overall uptime reliability of a system. This principle is no different when it comes to the cloud, than it is on-premises. […]
Perficient to Speak at Nintex’s Inaugural InspireX
Nintex, a valued partner of Perficient, is hosting its first customer and partner event February 22-24, 2016 at ARIA Resort in Las Vegas. Matt Morse, general manager of modern applications within the Microsoft group at Perficient, will lead a breakout session on hybrid solutions using Nintex and Office 365. Most organizations with investments in Office […]
Perficient & Microsoft Move Kraft Heinz to Office 365
Earlier in 2015 H.J. Heinz Company and Kraft Foods Group combined in a $46 billion deal to create Kraft Heinz Company – now the 3rd largest food company in North America, the 5th largest in the world, and over $29 billion in net sales in 2014. That’s a lot of numbers. With a lot of […]
Top 5 Life Sciences Blog Posts From December 2015
Now that January is here, I thought it would be neat to look back at what our readers found most interesting last month. Below are the top five blog posts Perficient’s life sciences practice wrote in December – they’re ranked in order of popularity, with number one being the most viewed piece.
Microsoft’s Favorite Things for 2016
Microsoft founded a separate division within the company, called Microsoft Research, back in 1991 as a global think tank of sorts to move computing, engineering, physics, science, and mathematics forward. It was, and is, a place for scientists, researchers, mathematicians, and otherwise incredibly bright people, to have the freedom to think about amazing ideas and […]