Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’

While attending the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference last week in Washington DC, I was excited to be part of the team that had the honor of accepting Microsoft’s Health Provider Partner of The Year Award on behalf of Perficient. This was a great honor! Thank you to Microsoft, our clients & partners for sharing in […]

Mikko Ollila is a senior product manager working on Bing Local. He is responsible for defining the value proposition and driving the business strategy for Local Search. Ollila first started working at Microsoft Corp. in 2006 with Microsoft Dynamics as a product manager overseeing supply chain ERP offerings. He joined Bing in 2007, where he […]

So cloud has different meanings for different people. Not surprisingly, consumers have a different perspective than IT. What is driving the cloud?  It’s all coming out of web 2.0.  Web 2.o continues to improve and mature.  Technology like REST and Ajax help it.  The user or community based paradigms get better. Portal and the Cloud […]

As an active participant in the Twitter Healthcare community I often want to know more about what my fellow participants tweet. Over the coming months I’d like to go behind the tweet and take the opportunity to learn more. Sam Adams (@1samadams), Manager Enterprise Software Engineering of BayCare Health System (www.BayCare.org) graciously agreed to share […]

For over a decade, Dr. Scott Prevost has worked to bring natural language processing technology to the marketplace. As a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, he developed theoretical models of prosody for synthetic speech, as well as technology to generate dialogue for autonomous agents. In post-doctoral research at the MIT Media Lab and […]

Angus Norton is the Senior Director, Live Search, at Microsoft Corporation. Angus previously has had several other roles at Microsoft, including Senior Director, Developer Platform Evangelism, Director, Windows Mobile, and Group Product Manager, Enterprise Servers & Tools. Angus was one of the few that have won the Microsoft Circle of Excellence award. This is an […]

Nathan Buggia is the Lead Program Manager for the Live Search Webmaster Center, Microsoft’s suite of tools designed to help web publishers get better results from Live Search. Buggia has overall responsibility for all the Webmaster Center Tools, Community, and evangelism within the search marketing industry. Previously, Buggia spent six years in Microsoft’s Server and […]

Ziya Genceren is a Group Product Manager at Microsoft, responsible for running the product management team for local, mobile and mapping search technology. He has been at Microsoft for three years, initially joining the product management team for Microsoft communication services products like Windows Live Messenger, Spaces, and Hotmail. Genceren holds a degree from Carnegie […]

As senior director, product marketing, Grad Conn is responsible for both the enterprise and consumer sides of the Health Solutions Group (HSG) at Microsoft Corp., including market mapping and segmentation, brand and communication strategy, and all marketing communication and sales enablement implementation. In the enterprise and healthcare provider space, the HSG offers IT solutions that […]

The following is the transcript of an interview with Justin Osmer, a Senior Product Manager at Microsoft. Justin is with the Online Services Group, which includes both MSN and Windows Live, including Windows Live Search. Interview Transcript Eric Enge: Why don’t you start by providing us a brief background of yourself, and how you got […]