Posts Tagged ‘cloud’

According to a recent HIMSS survey 80% of healthcare organizations have already adopted cloud based services. In addition according to HIMSS  “Nearly all cloud adopters plan to expand their cloud services; areas for growth include archived data, disaster recovery and hosting operational applications and data”.    “The top three reasons for adopting cloud services include lower […]

Azure Active Directory is a comprehensive identity and access management cloud solution. It combines core directory services, advanced identity governance, security, and application access management. Azure AD also offers developers an identity management platform to deliver access control to their applications, based on centralized policy and rules. In the last few months there’s been significant […]

Do you know what organization transports your child to school each and every day? There’s a good chance it is FirstGroup’s First Student. Transporting more than 2.5 billion people each year across the UK and North America, FirstGroup plc is much more than yellow school buses. It’s Greyhound. It’s First Transit, one of North America’s […]

Cloud services like Office 365 and SharePoint Online are becoming an increasingly popular alternative to an on-premises SharePoint solution. However, many organizations are deciding that their best bet is to deploy specific solutions in Office 365, while keeping other workloads in their on-premises SharePoint environment. Certain hybrid scenarios make sense, and others don’t. This past […]

Recently I participated in a Microsoft developer discussion on the Yammer Network where some great ideas were shared. I am re posting a summary of the session posted in that group here for everyone’s benefit ——————————– Overview: Microsoft responses to questions are provided by Chris Johnson, Sonya Koptyev, Jeremy Thake, Dorrene Brown, Mauricio Ordonez, Brian Jones, Ricky Kirkham, Christophe Fiessinger, […]

Organizations of all sizes are looking more seriously at the cloud, and beginning to understand the scalability and cost savings benefits of a hybrid solution. Given the benefits of a properly implemented hybrid solution, it’s logical to consider other areas of the business that can gain from the cloud – one of those being your […]

SharePoint SKU Retirement July 1st, the following SKUs will be retired: SharePoint Plan 1 w/ Yammer SharePoint Plan 2 w/ Yammer Office Online w/ SharePoint Plan 1 Office Online w/ SharePoint Plan 1 This retirement aligns with Microsoft’s previous announcement of OneDrive for Business and the broader SKU strategy of eliminating mini-suites. More information on […]

As many organizations are in the process of moving to the cloud, or even considering a move, and a large portion of those organizations use SharePoint, it can be difficult to determine if and when a SharePoint on-premises and a SharePoint Online hybrid solution will provide value. This isn’t surprising, given the fact that questions […]

The last year has flown by for our Perficient Microsoft team – and that’s likely the case for most Microsoft partners. It seems like a mere few months ago, Perficient was both elated and humbled to be recognized as the 2013 Microsoft U.S. Partner of the Year.  As mentioned in this blog post, at the […]

IBM announced yesterday a new all-in-one packaged offering to enhance their current cloud based solutions for the enterprise. This is in addition to their existing cloud-based solutions such as IBM SmartCloud for Social Business. Here is a snippet from the announcement Called IBM Cloud Business Solutions, the portfolio includes multiple components packaged into a single client agreement and delivered […]

Earlier in the year, we held a popular webinar on utilizing Power BI, a new Microsoft offering (then in preview). Of course, much has changed since that previous webinar, with Power BI being available to the general public and the release of SQL Server 2014. In light of those changes, my colleague, Andy Tegethoff, a […]

Many users are migrating to the Office 365 platform and a good portion of those are migrating from GroupWise.  I  recently had the opportunity to migrate a client from GroupWise to Office 365 and wanted to leverage PowerShell.  There are several good reasons for this: There are limited reports available from GroupWise and they never […]