Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’

Context – Bring data together from various web, cloud and on-premise data sources and rapidly drive insights. The biggest challenge Business Analysts and BI developers have is the need to ingest and process medium to large data sets on a regular basis. They spend the most time gathering the data rather than analyzing the data. […]

Power Up your Analytics with Power BI  Power BI is a hosted BI solution on the Microsoft cloud. Its biggest appeal is the ecosystem it comes with.  Microsoft across its  various releases has created a very intuitive product on a robust platform. Its a one stop shop for all analytics needs. Identifying use cases for […]

When you think about search engines, Google tends to be top-of-mind. But competition is one of the key drivers of innovation. Check out our recent video from Eric Enge and Mark Traphagen, who joined Perficient Digital through our acquisition of digital consultancy Stone Temple, where they explore areas where Bing is pursuing new innovation. Competition drives […]

In a whirlwind of activity that included an executive networking lunch and live webcast, Q&A chat hosted by CMO Marge Breya and a ceremonial ringing of the Nasdaq opening bell, MicroStrategy officially unveiled MicroStrategy 2019 on Monday. Touted as the industry’s first and only enterprise platform for HyperIntelligence, transformational mobility and federated analytics, MicroStrategy 2019 promises […]

Today’s intranet portals serve many purposes, from corporate communications to collaboration and business productivity. But more and more organizations are beginning to look for ways to modernize their intranet platforms and provide a richer, more collaborative end user experience. Here are three ways that organizations today are modernizing intranet platforms: Knowledge Management – rapid advances in […]

Sometimes, the difference between winning deals with your customers or walking away empty-handed involves one critical element – trust. If you haven’t earned your buyer’s trust, how likely are they to invest their company’s dollars in your product or solution? Not very. In fact, as stated in LinkedIn’s The State of Sales 2017 report, “77% […]

The MicroStrategy platform allows custom data connectors to access data from nearly any source, which includes Microsoft Power BI. In order to bring the best of both worlds together, Perficient’s MicroStrategy experts have developed a custom data connector to help Power BI users do just that. This custom connector integrates the two products and provides […]

When you think of digital transformation, do you have a future vision? Or are you trying to solve a pain point that only a major transformation will fix? Maybe it’s a combination of both. If you’re in our headquarters hometown of St. Louis, we’ve got great news for you. Yesterday marked the opening of the […]

Business intelligence, artificial intelligence, intelligent cloud, intelligent edge, big data…the buzzwords are all around. There is a fundamental shift in the way companies are doing business. Many are beginning to leverage their data in new and innovative ways. They are leveraging their data to make critical business decisions, identify revenue growth opportunities and improve customer […]

A couple weeks ago, I attended my first Microsoft Inspire event. There is only one word to describe my Inspire experience, which took place in Las Vegas in late July, and that is hot! It was very, very hot. While temperatures outside were scorching, the conversations, thought-provoking keynotes and sessions kept things chill inside. Inspire […]

My team recently had a requirement in one of our Windows projects where the development team wanted to offload the website’s read request load from the database server, which can be done only if there is another database server to take the read request load on. To accomplish this, I had to configure database replication […]

During Microsoft’s recent third quarter earnings call, CEO Satya Nadella called the company “a clear leader in cloud security,” while reporting 58% growth in commercial cloud sales. Total sales during Q3 increased by 15.5% to $26.82 billion. Perficient’s chairman and CEO, Jeff Davis, told CRN that our cloud growth has been in line with Microsoft’s, […]