Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’

The Perficient team was excited to be selected as Microsoft‘s Northeast District Cloud Partner of the Year award winner, at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner conference in Toronto, Ontario.  The award recognizes Perficient’s work in helping customers to move to Office 365, Microsoft’s cloud based productivity and collaboration suite.  The Perficient team has worked with client using our Exchange […]

Last month I told you about the features Microsoft Dynamics CRM is rolling out as part of the “CRM Q2 2012 Service Update” which will include massive improvements and capabilities around mobility and Microsoft Dynamics CRM.  As most of you have heard by now, Microsoft has just announced its newest mobility device the “Surface”, which […]

Wow.  And you thought we were done!  This afternoon, it feels like I’ve spent half the day keeping tabs on the conversation around Microsoft’s Yammer acquisition and its implications for enterprise social networking.  And for good reason– this is big news.  You can already find my own thoughts on the topic, both in terms of […]

So we’ve looked at Microsoft’s Yammer acquisition from a holistic, Microsoft-centric viewpoint.  One hot question that we haven’t yet covered is what this means to on-premise SharePoint customers who may already have their own social solutions installed and running. Here’s a quick take of the two key points from my own perspective: 1. To the Cloud. One […]

Rich Wood blogs about the recent Yammer acquisition over on the Microsoft Blog.  I’ll let Rich tell his own story but here’s my two cents: Rich pegs it about the short term implications.  I don’t think we’ll see anything incorporated beyond any existing integration between Yammer and something like SharePoint This highlights the importance of […]

Maybe I’m amazed.  According to no less than the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft is in fact acquiring Yammer, Inc. This begs a few questions for which we’ll anxiously be awaiting answers, then: What, if any, aspects of Yammer’s current offering will be integrated into the next release of Microsoft’s productivity stack?  In other words, how will […]

By now you may have heard the rumor that Microsoft is looking to buy Yammer for a billion dollars. It’s a pretty shocking thought, but while anything can happen, I’m reserving my real shock until and unless something actually goes down.  Right now, this is just another rumor, nothing more, and a surprising one at […]

Perficient colleague and Microsoft MVP David Greve has co-authored a book with fellow Microsoft Office 365 MVP Loryan Strant. Entitled “Microsoft Office 365: Exchange Online Implementation and Migration,” the book provides a hands-on tutorial that shows organizations of all sizes how to implement and migrate to Microsoft Exchange Online in Office 365. From the Press […]

Apparently Google Chrome is now the world’s most popular web browser.  Ho-hum. Google also has the most popular search engine, but “most popular” doesn’t necessarily mean “best”.  Just ask 1990.  Some of you might remember that Milli Vanilli won a Grammy award that year.  Sheer populism is a mistake we often make in our modern […]

I recently caught up with Mike Gannotti in Philadelphia. We talked about his new role in the Philadelphia MTC, SharePoint, Social Media, Dogfooding (of course!) Tahoe (Mike’s been around SharePoint for a while), Social Business, Women in SharePoint & more. I learned that Mike is the Seventh most followed Microsoft entity on Twitter! You can […]

I was flying back from Dallas the other day and when we landed there was quite a bit of discussion in the row in front of me.  The gentleman in the aisle seat had a Nokia Lumia 900 and his seatmates wanted to see it and hear about it.  I smiled to myself as this […]

Everywhere I go I see more and more people using their mobile devices to do “stuff” that they used to only be able to do on their laptops.  iPads, Androids, slates, tablets, extremely large phones are all out there and getting better and better.  I was even sitting in the airport and watching a grandmother […]