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 […]
Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’
Displaying Custom Messages in SSRS.
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 […]
Creating Table of Contents for SSRS reports
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 […]
SSRS – Easy Hacks
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 […]
Reduce Hospital Re-admissions with Business Intelligence Tools
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 […]
Surprise! Microsoft Future Is Dependent on Data
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 […]
Microsoft, the productivity & platform company for a mobile world
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 […]
Released – Official name for Oslo and New Office 365 SMB Plans
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 […]
Office 365 Feature Rollout and First Release Program
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 […]
What’s New in Microsoft Azure Active Directory
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 […]
Developing for Office 365 and SharePoint
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, […]