Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’

Confused when to use cross site publishing? When does it bring you the most value? Or how does it fit in your content strategy and information architecture? Cross site publishing has been around since the launch of SharePoint 2013. I’ve seen various implementations and variations of it over the years but never surprised when I […]

Over the last few years, the software market has changed shape. According to Joanne Correia, research vice president at Gartner, the cloud is the main driver behind that change. Given this, over the same time period, it makes sense to see Microsoft moving its core business functions to the cloud (and the other major software […]

Interesting news came today. Two software behemoths and sometime fierce competitors have decided that co-opetition may be the best model. IBM and Microsoft today announced a partnership making it easier for cloud customers to access each other’s software. The News IBM cloud users will be able to get Microsoft products like Windows Server and SQL […]

Microsoft and Salesforce has made significant progress to their strategic partnership announced in May. They unveiled new joint solutions—including Salesforce1 for Windows, Salesforce for Office, and Power BI for Office 365 and Excel integrations with Salesforce—at Dreamforce 2014.  The companies disclosed that in early 2015, they will release a Salesforce1 app for Windows Phone. Alongside, […]

While there are several BI technologies and more coming into the foray every day, SSRS has remained a key player in this area for quite some time now.  One of the biggest advantages of SSRS reporting is that it involves the participation of the end user and that is very intuitive to use. Let’s go […]

Ok, I’ve got to admit I really meant to say “Almost everything you need to know in first Release.” The more you share, the more you get. Believe in that? Office 365 community does and as a result , this week Microsoft hosted “Delve Yamjam” to coincide with the launch of the new Office 365 […]

How long have you been patiently waiting for this amazing new search powered app called “Delve”? Days, weeks, months? The wait is finally over with Microsoft announcing today that it is releasing Delve to office 365 subscribers! What is Delve? Delve is a new way to search and discover content with Office graph in the […]

Last week, Perficient’s Zach Handing wrote a post over on our Spark blog explaining what to make of the recent Internet Explorer announcement published on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer blog. In the article, Microsoft discussed their plans for supporting older versions of IE. There was quite a bit of racket across the web, as people interpreted […]

  Last week I wrote about strategic benefits with Microsoft Azure and included some market research of other big cloud competitors. Continuing on that and in part 2 of this series I will talk about the one of the most awaited multi-forest identity solutions – Azure Active Directory Sync Tool In April this year, Microsoft announced set of great […]

Microsoft published an article on their Internet Explorer blog yesterday that discussed their plans for supporting older versions of IE, and the web development community has been blowing up ever since.  I have seen many eager Interneters making loud claims to the tune of, “IE8 is dead!  We no longer have to support older versions of […]

With my job I end up doing some travel and with that comes the fun of meeting new people, hearing new stories, and traveling new places (possible). My last trip was to the east coast covering New York and Florida and it got me connected with some interesting folks. Waiting at the airport for our […]

SSRS is a powerful tool not because it projects queries in really good looking charts but because it enhances user experience.  The reports are so intuitive that users can navigate and export data without much training.  However, as business analyst or data analysts or report designers, it is our responsibility to extend these usability features […]