Posts Tagged ‘cloud’

  In our last “cloud fact or fiction” post, we identified several reasons why hosting clinical and pharmacovigilance systems is just as safe as housing them on-premises. In fact, in many cases it could prove to be safer. This week we’ll briefly discuss migrating data to the cloud. 

Last week, during IBM’s Investor Day, CEO Ginni Rometty announced that IBM’s investment strategy would mirror and support its evolving go-to-market strategy, by funneling $4 billion into cloud, analytics/big data, mobile, social and security (CAMSS). Through this investment, IBM is looking to expand the footprint of its CAMSS offerings from $25 billion in revenue to […]

  Now that March 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 February – they’re ranked in order of popularity, with number one being the most viewed piece. 

  When Hurricane Sandy struck the U.S. in 2012, it was devastating, to say the least. It damaged homes, businesses, and schools. No one in its path was left untouched. Even data centers were flooded and left without power, taking critical systems offline. Experiences like Sandy make you wish you had a plan in place […]

Decision makers today are all about the bottom line, how can we increase productivity while still lowering operational costs?  These are typically mutually exclusive goals, but does it have to be that way?  Reducing costs may not maximize profits, if we consider technologies that increase production efficiency and we agree that greater productivity is a direct […]

Introduction When a search query is submitted to the index, each document that is returned has a search score which is an indicator of its relevance in the current search query and context. The higher the score, the more relevant the item and therefore, the higher it is ranked on a scale of high to […]

I’ll keep this post short and sweet in honor of Friday! Now if you are an avid follower of Microsoft, you got to agree that the most fascinating news (other than stock news) about the company is their shift to the cloud with platforms and products like Azure and Office 365. With so much exciting […]

  Earlier this week, The Wall Street Journal published an article on some issues that companies encounter when running their systems in the cloud. It points out that a considerable amount of money is wasted on resources such as unused power or even servers. That’s not a surprise. If you don’t know what you’re doing, mistakes […]

We’ve mentioned Perficient’s Digital Transformation webinar series a couple times now here on our Microsoft blog. Last week, the series kicked off with its first session, Digital Transformation in 2015: Laying the Groundwork for Success. Perficient’s Strategic Advisors are the strategists behind the webinar series, and help our customers create and enable a digital transformation […]

I recently needed to deploy a SharePoint-hosted App that would work in both SharePoint Online and On-Premises. My client had an Azure license, and we are hosting the App there. Now, how to get the On-Premises farm to work with my App? I started by reading this MSDN article on the subject. This article had […]

For some time now Microsoft has been working on an intelligent fabric- machine learning. This algorithm is (now more than ever) becoming an integral part of many new platforms and products, especially office graph which powers the new Office app called “Delve”. Delve is part of the Office 365 suite and is available for all […]

Search as a Service From FAST ESP to SharePoint Search and Bing/Google, search has become an integral point for users to reference their data. Microsoft has developed Azure Search to provide an integration point for a complete search experience. Developers can use the Azure portal and front-end APIs to tune their search index as well as […]