Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’

The process of effectively managing population health while consistently measuring and reporting its outcomes can be a challenge for healthcare providers. We will be having a conversation with Christine Bessler, CIO and VP of Information Technology at ProHealth Care and Juliet Silver, Director of Healthcare Advisory Services at Perficient on Wednesday, March 26. We will […]

In a world of broadband internet connections, online collaboration tools and the ability to work from almost anywhere – office culture can be difficult to sustain.  This especially holds true for people who live in large cities (where the commute can be problematic) or in harsh climates (like the never ending winter in Chicago this […]

For healthcare providers, it can be a challenge to effectively manage population health, and consistently measure and report its outcomes. Recently, ProHealth Care announced that it was the first healthcare system to use Epic’s data warehouse, Cogito, in a production environment. Specifically, ProHealth implemented the data warehouse to help its physicians assess their entire population […]

Beginning on June 2, 2014 Windows Azure will be retiring Windows Server 2008.  This means that you will no longer be able to deploy a new Cloud Service or manage your existing services on virtual machines running Windows Server 2008. Windows Azure currently supports four different GuestOS ‘versions’: GuestOS 1.x – Windows Server 2008 GuestOS […]

Sales Report with Date Picker. Last week we created a generic sales report in SSRS.  This week we will customize that report and display the numbers only for specific dates.  Such reports are called Parameterized reports and are user friendly because the user can choose a date range for his/her reports. So, let us begin! […]

I hope everyone has found my articles useful and have used my articles in creating some great looking SSRS reports.  This week we will take a look at creating a product breakdown report or a detailed sales report. Let us refresh our memory.  Our sales table has the following fields: Fields Description Data Type ID […]

For those that have deployed Lync 2013 alongside Office Web Apps 2013, we’ve all seen this seemingly innocuous check box: Office Web Apps Server is deployed in an external network (that is, perimeter/Internet) Over the past year I’ve never yet had a reason to check that box and honestly didn’t have a very good idea […]

In my previous post I discussed how Microsoft and NBC were streaming every single event live and on demand at the Sochi Olympic Games.  Azure makes publishing and streaming videos easier than ever before.  This post will walk you through creating a media service, uploading content (video or audio), encoding it and publishing it for […]

NBC and Microsoft recently publicized they are streaming every event of the 2014 Winter Olympics to any iOS, Android, Windows device using Windows Azure Media Services.  What is Windows Azure Media Services (WAMS) and how does it work? WAMS is a cloud optimized edition of the Microsoft Media Platform (MMP) which handles a variety of […]

Today, Perficient announced that we will be the evening event sponsor at the second annual Lync Conference in Las Vegas from February 18-20. The Perficient team, including several Lync Microsoft Certified Masters (MCM), will be showcasing our expertise in booth 223.  The team will also be giving away a $1000 gift certificate to the Microsoft Store. […]

This morning Microsoft announced that Satya Nadella will be taking over as the new CEO.  Satya Nadella is the former head of the Cloud and Enterprise division at Microsoft.  The last few years Microsoft has been focused on providing a better cloud solution.  They have rapidly iterated on Windows Azure, SharePoint Online, Office 365, Xbox […]

As part of working on two SharePoint 2013 WCM projects I’ve had the opportunity to develop a lot of Display Templates. At first, Display Templates development sounded more painful than it should be, but as I spent more time I found a few techniques to easily build rich interfaces. In this post I’ll go over […]