The cloud trend continues into 2014 as more cloud platforms mature, confidence in security and reliability grows, and the retail use cases for cloud begin to overlap with driving trends like mobile and big data. Analysis from Aberdeen and Accenture show retail investments doubling or tripling through 2015 as cloud business cases begin to prove […]
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Microsoft acquires Parature to add customer suite to CRM
This week Microsoft made a very strategic acquisition of Parature to fill a gap that customers need that Microsoft Dynamics CRM has not been able to fulfill in the past without third-party software. Customer Support/Knowledgebase/Portal are features that Parature offers and I am sure like other recent Microsoft acquisitions Microsoft will do a nice job in tightly […]
Webinar – Office 365’s Power BI: Self-Service BI Using SharePoint
In recent months, you’ve probably heard a thing or two about Power BI, the new cloud-centric BI front end tool set from Microsoft. Available to Office 365 SharePoint Online users, Power BI is a compelling new offering with advanced collaborative BI capabilities. Power BI includes PowerPivot, PowerView, Power Map, and Power Query. While these tools […]
Perficient’s Top 5 Sitecore Related Blog Posts of 2013
Last week, we shared the top five SharePoint posts from 2013, as well as the top Office 365 posts. Today, it’s all about Sitecore. As a Sitecore Certified Solution Partner, Perficient has designed, architected, implemented and delivered numerous large, public-facing sites powered by Sitecore – one of which is Perficient.com. Recently, our corporate site won […]
Perficient’s Top 5 Office 365 Blog Posts of 2013
As 2013 comes to a close, we’re taking a look at our most popular blog posts of the year. It was a big year for the cloud, and specifically, Office 365, which officially launched in 2013. Here are the top five Office 365 posts, in no particular order: Using System Center Automation to Manage Office […]
Why you Should Consider Cloud Based Gifts this Holiday Season!
I’m a huge Cloud fan. In my world, I want the device to function merely as an access point, a gateway to the myriad of experiences living in the Cloud can provide. Lately, I’ve found myself explaining the how and why in many different settings, and to different people, but always with the same end […]
Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V – Overview of Generation 2 VM’s
With the release of Windows Server 2012 R2 comes many great new features, including a improved virtual machine named generation 2. Generation 2 virtual machines provide quite a few enhancements across the spectrum of Hyper-V VM technology. Perhaps most notable is the removal of legacy emulated hardware. Removal of the legacy network adapter, IDE controller, […]
Webinar Replay: Driving Employee Engagement with Yammer and #ESN
This past Wednesday, we hosted a webinar, “Using Yammer and SharePoint Intranets to Drive Employee Engagement.” During the session, Rich Wood, Director of Web & Social Collaboration at Perficient, first gave a quick overview on the enterprise social network and Yammer, and then went on discuss user adoption and engagement. He covered what exactly a […]
Windows Azure: Web Roles vs. Websites
Windows Azure has many different devices for publishing and consuming content. Two of those which are often confused are web roles and web sites. The two are very similar and share some common strengths, but given specific conditions one may fit your need better than the other. For example, web roles and web sites will […]
Windows Azure for ITPros Webinar Followup
I gave a presentation about Windows Azure the other day, and got some great questions that I would like to address with this blog post. Here they are in no particular order, with some answers I hope are useful to you: “We have multiple Operating Companies who may want to leverage the features of Windows […]
Webinar Replay: Microsoft Dynamics CRM for Customer Engagement
On Wednesday, we hosted a webinar, “How Memorial Hermann is Using Microsoft Dynamics CRM for Customer Engagement.” Guest speaker Kevin Kelly, manager of online marketing at Memorial Hermann, and Perficient’s Robert Fitzer, a senior solutions architect and Microsoft CRM practice lead, demonstrated how Memorial Hermann leveraged Microsoft Dynamics CRM to handle community outreach, call center […]
Webinar: Using Yammer & SharePoint to Drive Employee Engagement
With the recent acquisition of Yammer, Microsoft is is now able to truly support social collaboration within the enterprise. Are you ready to take advantage of this? As mentioned in our webinar with Forrester last week, just because you’ve built it, doesn’t necessarily mean that they will come (Field of Dreams, anyone?). A successful social […]