Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’

Table of contents have always helped readers to navigate through thick volume of books. This feature can be extended to our users in SSRS to navigate through several pages of reports. The table of contents in SSRS is called the document map. A document map is a clickable table of contents that takes the user […]

In the past few weeks, we created variety of reports starting from simple tabular reports to colorful pie charts to user friendly drill down reports.   SSRS tool is very friendly and is developed to provide world class reports to the user community.  While browsing through several business intelligence forums, I found couple of questions that […]

Steven Gregor, Microsoft Business Intelligence Consultant at Perficient, has been working with a client to help reduce readmission rates, a key component of the Affordable Care Act. Often times healthcare organizations have a difficult time analyzing readmission data because it is located in multiple systems. The use of business intelligence tools allows data to be […]

In his July 10th email to employees, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella mentions the word “data” no fewer than 15 times.   This simple fact serves to highlight how dealing with data is a foundational part of Microsoft’s future strategy.   When he describes a “mobile-first and cloud-first world”, Mr. Nadella is describing a world where data is ubiquitous in “the […]

This morning, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella sent his employees an email, and a pretty important one at that (Read it here). July marks the beginning of FY15 for Microsoft, and it’s a time to reflect on the previous year and plan for the future. For Nadella, this means determining where the focus lies as the […]

Oslo Renamed to Delve Announced earlier this year as Codename Oslo, today Microsoft published the official name as Delve. Delve, the first experience powered by the intelligence fabric we call the Office Graph, will be available to Office 365 customers later this year. New SMB Plans Microsoft will release as of October 1st, 2014 three new Office […]

Did you always feel Office 365 has been going through rapid updates and you as a customer or partner are left with no insight? Until now Microsoft has been rolling out features without regard to the tenant profile. There is generally no process for partners to get updates before or after customers. I personally know […]

Azure Active Directory is a comprehensive identity and access management cloud solution. It combines core directory services, advanced identity governance, security, and application access management. Azure AD also offers developers an identity management platform to deliver access control to their applications, based on centralized policy and rules. In the last few months there’s been significant […]

Earlier today, CMSWire.com published an article written by my colleague, Rich Wood. Rich heads up our modern applications team here at Perficient, and he’s basically a gold mine of information when it comes to enterprise solutions for intranets, extranets, and public internet sites. Thankfully, he likes to share that knowledge with the rest of us […]

Recently I participated in a Microsoft developer discussion on the Yammer Network where some great ideas were shared. I am re posting a summary of the session posted in that group here for everyone’s benefit ——————————– Overview: Microsoft responses to questions are provided by Chris Johnson, Sonya Koptyev, Jeremy Thake, Dorrene Brown, Mauricio Ordonez, Brian Jones, Ricky Kirkham, Christophe Fiessinger, […]

SharePoint SKU Retirement July 1st, the following SKUs will be retired: SharePoint Plan 1 w/ Yammer SharePoint Plan 2 w/ Yammer Office Online w/ SharePoint Plan 1 Office Online w/ SharePoint Plan 1 This retirement aligns with Microsoft’s previous announcement of OneDrive for Business and the broader SKU strategy of eliminating mini-suites. More information on […]

The last year has flown by for our Perficient Microsoft team – and that’s likely the case for most Microsoft partners. It seems like a mere few months ago, Perficient was both elated and humbled to be recognized as the 2013 Microsoft U.S. Partner of the Year.  As mentioned in this blog post, at the […]