Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft SharePoint’

SharePoint logs are very useful for performance analysis, troubleshooting and monitoring compliance with service level agreements. The Unified Logging System (ULS) is responsible for keeping an eye on SharePoint and generating the logs. It reports the events to three different locations: SharePoint trace logs, Windows Event log and SharePoint logging database. All this three kinds […]

Andrew Wright posted at story at ragan.com titled Are intranets a waste of time or valuable? Survey says … where he looks at data concerning the usage of an intranet vs perceived value. We have been called into many companies to help them improve their intranet because of a variety of reasons.  A lot of the time, […]

We’ve written many articles on this blog about the importance of Activity Streams, mostly in conjunction with social software.  Forrester recently released the first research report dedicated to just Activity Streams.  To be included in the research, Forrester said the product had to specialize in activity streams as opposed to being a platform. Initially this […]

As I often come across in my engagements at Perficient, there comes a juncture where the client must make a decision between whether to pay us to write a custom application or purchase software that satisfies some business requirement(s).  Depending on who I am working with, the conversation typically goes one way or the other…adamantly.  […]

​One of the things that can come in handy for a SharePoint consultant is to install SharePoint on one’s personal laptop. I speak at many conferences and sometimes do not have the luxury of an internet connection to a virtual server and my laptop only has 6GB of RAM, so a virtual machine running on […]

Perficient’s outstanding Healthcare team just posted a video on YouTube that highlights our Health BI portal offering.  You can view the video right here in this blog post. This system is based on Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and provides very dynamic insight into your Healthcare data.  It is designed for physicians, nurses, hospitals, MCOs, IDMs, ACOs, […]

Perficient’s outstanding Healthcare team just posted a video on YouTube that highlights our Health BI portal offering.  You can view the video right here in this blog post. This system is based on Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and provides very dynamic insight into your Healthcare data.  It is designed for physicians, nurses, hospitals, MCOs, IDMs, ACOs, […]

Over on CMSWire, Christian Buckley posted an article about SharePoint Search.  Buckley’s post talks about a presentation given by Michal Pisarek at the recent Australian SharePoint Conference. The post and the presentation focused on the business value of search and hoe you should organize your content in SharePoint to create better search results. Pisarek argues […]

One of the great add-ons to the Sharepoint stack is Newsgator Social Sites.  I was on a recent client who is a highly regulated healthcare company and even though the Newsgator has a great mobile app, it wouldn’t work within their security model.  That model required that all BYOD (bring your own device) employees needed […]

We’ve been working with clients on mobile collaboration solutions and the topic of editing Microsoft Office documents always comes come.  I’ve used various tools on my iPad and most I’ve found lacking the ability to use all the features in Word, Excel and PowerPoint.  For example, in DocsToGo, I can change fonts, create a bulleted […]

Mo Omar posted a video on YouTube that debunks three myths he has been hearing regarding SharePoint online.  Mo is a Perficient Senior Technical Consultant and SharePoint MVP.   Mo talks about three myths in the video: On premise version has more features than the cloud version Developing solutions is more limited on the cloud […]