Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’

  Author: Suzanne George, Senior Technical Architect, Perficient. This week I presented at the Houston SharePoint Users Group on Advanced InfoPath Development and although the dance-off between Richard Calderon and I was, well, memorable — and not necessarily in a good way LOL(!),  I hope everyone had a great time and great food thanks to […]

You may have already heard that Microsoft released the pricing for the “Surface RT” version of their new Surface tablet earlier today, October 16.  The prices are Apple-esque in general, ranging from $499 for a 32GB, keyboard-free edition to $699 for a 64GB, touch cover keyboard. ZDNet’s noted Microsoft blogger, Mary Jo Foley (for whom […]

Let’s get back to my colleague, Matt Morse, and his recent presentation on SharePoint 2013. In my previous post, I summarized Matt’s answer to the first question he’s often asked, and discussed Microsoft’s investment areas in the new release – and the reasoning behind those investments. You probably recall that the public preview of the […]

During a recent presentation, my colleague Matt Morse shared his thoughts around SharePoint 2013. Matt, a SharePoint practice director, responded to three questions about the new release that he’s frequently asked: Where is Microsoft going with SharePoint 2013? What do we know about SharePoint 2013? What’s new in SharePoint 2013? In this post, I’ll cover the first […]

Gartner has recently published the 2012 version of their Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals.  So far, I haven’t found the Gartner report on their reprint site and none of the vendors have provided links to it yet.  Here is the link to the report on Gartner’s site, but you’ll have to be a Gartner subscriber […]

GigaOM has an interesting article about why they think Amazon and Salesforce are blowing away the competition when it comes to cloud offerings.  Keep in mind that author James Urquhart is saying that these two are leaving companies like Google and Microsoft in the dust.  Here’s a couple quotes before my thoughts. I almost feel silly […]

(This post is Part 2 in a two-part series.  For Part 1, click here.) In our previous episode, we quickly reviewed the concept of data analytics as applied to social computing software—how it enables both admins and the software companies themselves to prescriptively target feature configurations or updates to user demographics that will benefit from them. […]

Gartner recently issued their 2012 version of the Web Content Management Magic Quadrant.  This year’s version looks similar to last year’s version with Oracle, SDL, SiteCore, Adobe, HP (Autonomy), Extron, and OpenText all making the Leaders quadrant.  IBM and Microsoft are in the Challengers quadrant once again. You can see the entire report on Gartner’s […]

As part of the release of the SharePoint 2013 Preview, Microsoft has provided a series of diagrams covering a variety of infrastructure areas.  One of the more interesting can be regarded a synopsis of farm topology best practices.  Even though this diagram can be rendered on a single page (click here to review an interactive version), it is filled with a […]

Much of the press and blog coverage following Apple‘s billion dollar judgement against Samsung has focused on what it means for Google and Microsoft. The Washington Post’s Cecilia Kang in her post titled Apple’s patent victory spells changes in smartphones for consumers sums it up like this Apple’s big court victory against Samsung on Friday […]

CRN has an article about how Microsoft is diving into the cloud with Windows Azure, partner cloud easy program, Office 365 and a host of other tools and programs.  Perficient’s Microsoft group has seen this first hand as well.  In some ways, it’s like when Microsoft dove into the web browser world and really got […]

I’m really excited to share that for the second time in three years Perficient has been honored to be named Microsoft’s Healthcare Provider Partner of the Year.  From the press release, which can be read here Perficient, Inc. (NASDAQ: PRFT), a leading information technology consulting firm serving Global 2000 and other large enterprise customers, today announced […]