Posts Tagged ‘Google’

I.  Create Safe and Secure Passwords – By far the easiest way to access your mail account for nefarious activity is by using a stolen password. Google Apps User Make sure you create safe and unique passwords for all your important accounts Make sure you store your passwords in a secure way Try using a password generator […]

Recently, I came across an AIIM study that focused on enterprise search and discovery trends. As a Google Search partner, we have in-depth knowledge of search and the challenges of the “knowledge worker.”  We hear from clients every day that their implementation of enterprise search helps to increase productivity and this report validated that assumption; however, […]

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

1.      It is a mission critical productivity solution that is both easy to deploy and easy to maintain! With an experienced deployment partner, transitioning from your current legacy system to Google Apps for Work becomes a well-rehearsed change management procedure.  Additionally Google Apps for Work is the leader and only email productivity solution built from the ground […]

In this post (the first in a series about the Google Maps API), we will take a closer look at how the Geocoding class works with respect to a recent client need.  Their requirement was to generate a cluster of postal addresses surrounding a given central address, so I began with looking over the API […]

  If you look at the numbers, it’s evident that Google is the leader when it comes to web search. There’s no contest. So, it should be no surprise they also happen to be the champion of enterprise search, enabling companies to quickly and accurately scour their multitude of databases all at once across the […]

I tried on Google Glass a few times.  I wasn’t impressed.  Does that mean it’s an awful product?  No.  Does that mean it is not useful?  No.  So what happened? This week the Wall St. Journal reported that Google is not giving up on Google Glass.  Google acknowledges that it was a first generation product with some rough […]

We’re on a roll!  Cody Coggins and Narbeh Yousefian have joined the elite team of Google Search Appliance (GSA) Qualified Deployment Specialists. They join existing GSA specialists Anu Pidaparti, Allen Han, Alok Gupta, Shruti Sundaresh, Yogesh Dhavale, and myself. The 4-part certification process is rigorous and designed to validate the experience of individuals among search […]

  The U.S. government recently disclosed the amount of time it takes to comply with the FDA’s requirements for the reporting and recordkeeping of human drugs and biologics, related to Investigational New Drug (IND) applications. It probably won’t come as a surprise that it takes an exhausting 22,801,297 total hours. Yes, you read that correctly. 

Sorry… this post is not going to teach you how to build a connector.  Maybe next time. Instead, I am going back a little earlier in the process.  I want to describe the process for qualifying our ability to build a new connector in the first place.  How do we estimate the level of effort?  How do we […]

Sometimes you may need know the password used to configure a connector. Here is simple Java program that can be used to do that. Please note this only works for GSA 3.x connector. public class DecrpytConnectorPassword { private static String fullPahtToCMKeyStore = “connector_manager.keystore”; private static String fullPahtToConnectorPorperties = “myConnector.properties”; public static void main(String[] args) throws […]

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 […]