On Wednesday we hosted a webinar on BI in the Cloud with Windows Azure and Office 365. During the webinar Andy Tegethoff, a Microsoft BI architect in Perficient’s dedicated Microsoft BI practice, shared key point on taking advantage of the cost savings, scalability and speed of implementation benefits offered by Cloud based implementations. Andy offered […]
Posts Tagged ‘cloud’
BYOD and Cloud Adoption Like Early PCs
If you are old enough to remember PCs coming into your business and the reaction most IT shops had to them, then Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and Cloud Computing services should seem like déjà vu. IT worried about PC security, backups and the lack of standards and all the while business people kept buying […]
Visual Studio 2013 Release Candidate available
A little over a year since the release of Visual Studio 2012 (VS2012) and we already have a release candidate for Visual Studio 2013. If your interested in the Virtual Launch keep up to date on the event page, you can also download the Release Candidate. You can install it over the preview and along […]
Attention Nonprofits: Microsoft is donating Office 365 to you
If you qualify Microsoft will donate Office 365 to your organization. Don’t you think you could benefit from Exchange and SharePoint as well as Office applications? Wouldn’t it be great if you could simplify IT administration and work towards your goals as a nonprofit? Well I believe that is what Microsoft is trying to do […]
Windows Azure SQL Reporting what’s missing?
I’m going to use the theme of an earlier post (Windows Azure SQL Database what’s missing?) and ask the same question on another service offered on Windows Azure. The reason I chose these offerings specifically is because I really like them as a developer. Not having to deal with configuring infrastructure and being able to […]
XBox in Healthcare?
Obviously there’s a lot of excitement going on with the upcoming release of Xbox One. Ryan Duclos has a new post out about it’s potential outside of gaming and entertainment which frankly is where my mind lies as well. In my portal world, I seem to spend about 50% of my time with healthcare clients […]
Sitecore Azure Takes Advantage of Windows Azure Services
I recently blogged on interesting avenues in which you can use Windows Azure to more easily move software that was originally on-premise to the cloud. No sooner do I finish that than I read an article from @sharepointrich on SharePoint vs Sitecore. In his post, Rich mentioned that Sitecore Azure runs on Windows Azure. That […]
Final Stages for the release of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013
The latest from Microsoft concerning the next release of Microsoft Dynamics CRM (2013) scheduled to be released in October 2013. This documentation (Release Preview Guide) contains the latest information as of this morning from Microsoft about what will be contained in the release. As you can see above it contacts the key these me have been […]
Will Xbox One have potential outside of gaming and entertainment?
Will Xbox One be used in the workplace, is a question I ask myself as I see information come across the wire. The simple answer is Yes it will have value in the workplace in my opinion. At first glance it may not have a place in the enterprise, though I believe it will be […]
Thoughts on Azure As Platform for Software Installation
You may hear this from almost any vendor whose original software was built for an on-premise installation. “Look, we are on the cloud. Our product has an image on Amazon AWS. It takes just minutes to provision this pre-existing image and you are off and running.” I love the concept of that. I love the […]
Microsoft raises SharePoint Online upload limits to 2GB files
Thanks to @lizasisler for pointing me to this. ZDNet has an article about Microsoft’s recent announcement raising the upper limit on file size from 250 MB to 2 Gig. They now also allow you to upload .exe files. At it’s face, that’s a pretty easy thing to report but I think that raising the limit […]
SharePoint or Sitecore? Let me explain…
In my most recent article at CMSWire, I had the opportunity to make some wild and crazy predictions for the future of Microsoft’s SharePoint platform. While not claiming access to any crystal ball or inside information, I did make every attempt to ground my possibilities in the realm of actual, factual reality. One of those predictions […]