Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’

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, […]

Every once in a while something happens that is so exciting you still feel the buzz long after the dust settles. When we heard the announcement that Adobe and Microsoft would be partnering we were excited. Why were we excited? Well, because we are a full-service digital agency, coupled with Adobe and Microsoft cloud technical experts, […]

Enterprise Connect 2018 is wrapping up and over the past year there has been an abundance of new exciting products and services released into the world of Unified Communications. However, there can only be one winner and Microsoft has earned top honors this year for its reinvigorated intelligent communications solution called Microsoft Teams. Microsoft Teams […]

No matter how hard we try, it’s nearly impossible to keep our inbox free from junk mail and phishing threats. This is an annoyance for us, but for organizations, security threats pose a serious risk.  The looming threats facing businesses push them to constantly seek new technology in hopes of solving these issues. As technology improves, other organizational […]

Microsoft reported yesterday that Azure revenue nearly doubled in the company’s second quarter of fiscal year 2018, ending on Dec. 31, 2017. According to CRN, 2018 Q2 marks the tenth straight quarter of reports that Azure revenue grew 90% or more on a year-over-year basis. According to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: “The intelligent cloud, intelligent […]

Microsoft and Adobe announced their partnership last fall, and as a leading partner to both, we’ve been hard at work understanding how this alliance will benefit our customers. Rolling out key platform combinations in phases, Adobe and Microsoft are calling their alignment “the perfect partnership for even better experiences,” noting that Adobe Experience Manager running […]

Artificial intelligence (AI), the ability of a digital computer or computer-controlled robot to perform tasks commonly associated with intelligent beings including learning, language and perception, then help people solve problem better. It has been over several decades since human being research on AI, but the progress is very slow because of many facts, such as lack of data information, low performance […]

Sitecore Symposium 2017 has come and gone. I’ve been able to get caught up on work and review my notes. So it’s time to share. First of all, I want to thank and commend the Mirage for being such a great host. The staff was all very friendly and helpful. The conference area is spacious […]

Daniela Rus also believes that the cars of the future will be able to do a lot more than just self-drive; they’ll be able to understand how you’re feeling by listening to your voice, or route you to the nearest store when you run out of milk. Peggy Johnson, executive vice president of business development […]