Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’

Overview I’ll start off by mentioning that I’ve been using the Surface as my only computer now for the last 4 weeks. No laptop, no desktop. It’s my work computer, my home computer, my tablet and of course my mobile computing platform. In fact, I’ve composed most of this blog post with the Surface on a […]

So I was talking to a colleague of mine, and we were trying to decide if we wanted to run Server 2012 or Windows 8 Enterprise on our laptops. We had a few issues on doing this. Not sure what OS we wanted to run. Not sure all of our current software, will run on […]

This is a question that continues to come up and is truly important to understand in order to have success with CRM in your organization. There are many books written about CRM success and they all revolve around three major items that need to be taken into account with CRM within any company: 1.       People […]

In keeping with our Rockstar theme at the SharePoint Conference we asked folks “If SharePoint was a Song, What Song would it be, and Why?  Check out the answers below. What do you think?  Which answer was your favorite?  

I came to this year’s SharePoint Conference with one goal in mind: I wanted to learn everything I could about Microsoft’s enterprise roadmap for Yammer.  Well, as of this writing the conference is halfway over and if anything, it looks I’m probably going to get about halfway to that goal. I’m not going to recap […]

I’m attending the SharePoint conference in Las Vegas and man are there some sights to see. Sleek and inviting, everything you would want in a BI platform of course! I work extensively with all of the technologies from the Microsoft BI stack, but have realized already this week that the changes coming in the SharePoint and […]

I have had a few days to recover from the last 10 days of launches, releases, announcements and presentations from Microsoft and after catching up from the sleep deprivation, I have had an epiphany. Everything you knew about Microsoft has not changed but everything you knew about Microsoft has been turned upside-down. First let’s look […]

I was recently working on some code that added items to a SharePoint list based on a user’s input from an InfoPath form. It was an easy task until I got to a choice column. I wasn’t sure of the syntax for setting the value of a choice column, and for some reason, all of […]

Part I: Philosophical Differences The new Microsoft Surface runs Windows RT, a curious product.  It is basically a stripped down version of Windows 8, re-engineered to work on the mobile, low power ARM architecture.  Apple’s iOS and Mac OSX are the closest comparisons to the new Windows Operating Systems. Microsoft has played to their strength by scaling […]

I’m excited to share that Perficient colleague Kyle Burns has authored a book entitled “Beginning Windows 8 Application Development – XAML Edition.”  From the press release, which can be read here This book provides information technology professionals guidance on how to develop on Microsoft’s newest platform – Windows 8. “As the world becomes more connected, […]

Congratulations to Microsoft for winning CRN‘s Annual Report Card (ARC) Trophy for Collaboration Software, the first time that this category has been included.  From CRN’s post by Rick Whiting “Almost every enterprise we work with has SharePoint someplace,” said Matt Morse, director of the SharePoint practice at Perficient, a St. Louis-based solution provider that’s a […]

I was recently introduced to SQL Server 2012 and discovered Data Quality Services (DQS); a new feature of SQL Server 2012.  I wanted to use this blog as an introduction to DQS, define key terms, and present a simple example of the tool.  According to MSDN, The data-quality solution provided by Data Quality Services (DQS) […]