If you have used Windows Azure Cloud Services for any length of time, one of the features you would have wanted is AutoScale. AutoScale allows you to scale your applications based on usage and performance. Being able to dynamically scale your applications based on performance and other factors is a now a reality, as AutoScale is […]
Posts Tagged ‘Mobile’
Upcoming Webinar: SharePoint 2013, Responsive Design & Mobility
In the past few years, the mobile market has grown significantly, and the use of mobile devices to access the Internet has skyrocketed. Research shows that by 2015, mobile device usage will surpass that of desktop computers being used to surf the web. Of course, when it comes to web design, coping with these rapid […]
Microsoft’s Power BI: a peek at the future?
So, have you heard about Power BI yet? The whiz-bang new cloud-centric BI front end tool from Microsoft? Well, this video from the 2013 WPC breaks down the story — in a very entertaining manner… So, having watched, let’s assume we all remember Mariah’s chart-toppers and instead review the greatest hits of the Power BI […]
The Quest to Make SharePoint Mobile
Yesterday, CMSWire.com published an article written by my colleague, Rich Wood. In the article, The SharePoint Mobility Forecast: Outlook Cloudy, Rich discusses the topic of SharePoint and mobility, and the difficulty of achieving a fully accessible SharePoint environment. To kick things off, Rich so aptly puts it: Whether it’s a favorite son or a red-headed stepchild, […]
Attention Shoppers, Blue Light Specials, and Big Data
Remember the days when you’d hear that on the in-stores announcement? “Attention Shoppers! For the next hour K-Mart is now offering a blue light special – half off all summer beach wear.” Those announcement where a form of on-site marketing offers made only to the stores patrons shopping at the time. The offers were made […]
Upcoming Webinar: Solve BYOD Nightmares with Windows Intune
If you are looking for assistance on your organization’s Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiative, join us on Wednesday, August 14, at 1 PM CT for the webinar, Solve BYOD Nightmares with Windows Intune. Windows Intune supports your BYOD initiatives by giving employees the apps they need, optimizing software distribution while helping to keep their […]
Microsoft Surface Impresses Doctors, Improves Patient Care
Over on the Perficient Healthcare IT blog, my colleague Jamie Churchill had a great post this morning around the tablet battle in healthcare. From her blog post, which you can read here, Jamie shares: I came across an article this morning about the growing trend of doctors using tablets in healthcare – specifically the Microsoft […]
Got Apps? SkyDrive Pro Now Available on iOS, WinPhone
Good news this morning for those using SharePoint 2013 and SkyDrive Pro for business collaboration and content storage / backup. Microsoft announced the news today (okay, technically yesterday) over on the Office 365 blog: We are pleased to announce that the SkyDrive Pro apps for Windows 8 and iOS are now available in the Windows […]
Social Media, The Commerce of Being Nice, and Delta
We live in a world where we communicate and interact with each other through various mediums such as wireless voice, text, email, IM, and social media. The most personal of those mediums is voice-to-voice but increasingly its also the one used less-and-less. As the volume of our interactions increase in non-personal forms, our capacity for […]
Getting Started with Core Data
Enabling persistent object mapping is a relatively straight-forward process. It differs from transient object mapping in only a few ways: libRKCoreData.a must be linked into your target Apple’s CoreData.framework must be linked to your target A Data Model Resource must be added to your target and configured within Xcode The RestKit Core Data headers must […]
12 Technologies That Are Improving at Insane Speeds
Business Insider published an article titled “12 Technologies That Are Improving at Insane Speeds” describing a McKinsey report about technologies that are disrupting the global economy. The image shown here summarizes the 12 technologies and provides a glimpse into the amount of technological improvement provided over the years. Not surprising to me is that areas […]
2013 IBM Exceptional Web Experience Opening General Session
The 2013 IBM Exceptional Web Experience Conference takes place from 5/20 to 5/23 and was kicked off by a Larry Bowden, Vice President, Portals and Digital Experience Software, with a overview of the progression of portals from 2001 to 2013. The session focused on IBM’s digital experience direction and how various technologies and concepts are […]