Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’

Microsoft ships SharePoint with a lot of out-of-the-box features.  However, no out-of-the-box portal is going to give you everything you want out-of-the-box.   So at some point in your implementation of SharePoint you are going to need to do some custom development.  Have you thought about your development strategies for SharePoint? If not, Forrester has […]

When somebody says “Healthcare Portal”, what does that mean to you?  Unfortunately the word portal has been used so broadly that it generally is confusing.  Here are examples of how the word portal is used in various contexts: In the new federal healthcare law, the government is mandating that a health exchange portal be created. […]

I’m really excited to share that today Perficient announced our Health BI Solution that leverages Gartner Magic Quadrant technologies SQL Server & SharePoint. We’ll be exhibiting at the Georgia HIMSS Healthcare Trade Faire & Regional Conference tomorrow (October 12th) where we’ll be talking about Health BI. You can find us in the Microsoft Pavilion! From […]

Rob Klopowitz and John Rymer recently released a report at Forrester titled SharePoint Adoption: Content and Collaboration is Just the Start. For this report the authors surveyed 510 IT professionals about their experiences with SharePoint.  There are some very interesting findings I will highlight below. The core values of SharePoint are: Managing unstructured content like […]

Rob Klopowitz and John Rymer recently released a report at Forrester titled SharePoint Adoption: Content and Collaboration is Just the Start. For this report the authors surveyed 510 IT professionals about their experiences with SharePoint.  There are some very interesting findings I will highlight below. The core values of SharePoint are: Managing unstructured content like […]

Forrester has just published their latest research on Enterprise Social software systems.  The Wave chart shown here indicates that Jive, IBM, NewsGator and Telligent lead the list of vendors.  You can get the entire report at forrester.com. In analyzing the top four leaders in the Enterprise Social Software space, Forrester says: Jive SBS: “… continues […]

Forrester has just published their latest research on Enterprise Social software systems.  The Wave chart shown here indicates that Jive, IBM, NewsGator and Telligent lead the list of vendors.  You can get the entire report at forrester.com. In analyzing the top four leaders in the Enterprise Social Software space, Forrester says: Jive SBS: “… continues […]

This is the fourth entry of my PowerShell for SharePoint Admins series.  I am basing this series on what SharePoint Administrators have said are the most important tasks to accomplish in PowerShell.  Here is the list: Create/Delete Sites, Webs and Web Applications Backup and Restore Sites, Webs and Web Applications Deploy Solutions and Features Add/Delete […]

Configuring a SharePoint 2010 Farm is a non-trivial undertaking. Each of the servers in the farm must have the correct software installed. In addition, a myriad of accounts, databases, applications, and services must be correctly installed, created, and configured on each server. Typically, a project team requires three or four different farms (development, integration, validation/test, […]

Over at CMS Wire, Scott Jamison (@sjam) has posted an article about SharePoint 2010 titled: The Executive Perspective: Top 7 Things You Must Consider for SharePoint 2010.  Aimed at those companies looking to implement SharePoint 2010, Scott explains the following 7 things to consider: Go All-in or don’t bother.  I echo that.  I’ve seen too […]

I’ve blogged before about the need for a marketplace of portlets.   I’ve lamented the lack thereof in fact.  So I was happy to hear about a new offering in the Widgr Marketplace site.  Widgr, in beta right now, intends to offer a variety of portlets, widgets, gadgets, iframes, and other pieces of functionality for use […]

Forrester recently release their Web Content Management Wave.  It’s striking less for the rankings and more for the information about trends and why they ranked the vendors the way they did.  I won’t reveal the Wave itself since I don’t have rights to distribute but I will note a few key findings. Welcome to CXM […]