Posts Tagged ‘Office 365’

Yesterday, we hosted a webinar on Power BI for Office 365: Using SharePoint Online to Deliver Self-Service Business Intelligence. During the well attended session, Andy Tegethoff, Microsoft BI architect at Perficient, first reviewed what Power BI is all about, who is likely to be a user, and the components of it. He then dug deeper […]

In recent months, you’ve probably heard a thing or two about Power BI, the new cloud-centric BI front end tool set from Microsoft. Available to Office 365 SharePoint Online users, Power BI is a compelling new offering with advanced collaborative BI capabilities. Power BI includes PowerPivot, PowerView, Power Map, and Power Query. While these tools […]

As 2013 comes to a close, we’re taking a look at our most popular blog posts of the year. It was a big year for the cloud, and specifically, Office 365, which officially launched in 2013. Here are the top five Office 365 posts, in no particular order: Using System Center Automation to Manage Office […]

This interesting Office 365 infograpic was recently shared with me.  It contains some pretty impressive numbers 1 billion people on the planet are using Microsoft Word 2 out of 3 information workers are using SharePoint 90 out of 100 Fortune 100 companies are using Lync One in four of Microsoft’s Enterprise customers – Microsoft’s largest […]

Intranets in SharePoint Online just got a lot more powerful. Hot off the presses from the SharePoint Blog, the Content (by) Search Web Part is now available in Office 365 SharePoint Online. This is a major announcement for those looking to do intranets on SP Online, because this web part allows you to easily deliver […]

On Wednesday, we hosted a webinar on Office 365 and identity management. During the webinar, Shalini Pasupneti, a Solution Architect in Perficient’s Microsoft infrastructure practice, shared her Office 365 acumen specific to identity management between on-premise and the cloud. Shalini explained what constitutes identity management and single sign on in Office 365, and delved into […]

Microsoft announced today that the Power BI for Office 365 preview has been updated. One of my colleagues, Andrew Tegethoff, previously mentioned the compelling features in a previous post. The features were not all available in the preview at the time of the earlier posting. They have added natural language search with Q&A, as well […]

Many people have been asking me lately, “So, what is new in the new version of CRM?” Microsoft recently released an overview of the new items for CRM 2013. This will be release for both on-premises and online in October 2013. Very exciting changes coming including four key themes of: Redesigned user experience Process agility CRM on […]

Ryan Duclos posted a blog about Microsoft’s new offers to Non-profits to let them use email, hosted public sites, hosted intranets, online storage, and office apps.  After some thought, I believe this can have a real impact.   Take a group near and dear to my heart, Teton Valley Ski Education Foundation (TVSEF).  TVSEF’s purpose […]

Well guess what I think is the best alternative, are you ready? It is Office Web Apps!  Office Web Apps are free versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. If you’re like me, I like to use application that have the same look and feel as the applications I’m used to, in this case it […]

I just posted a short article on the leaders in Social Networking by Gartner over on my Portal blog.  Microsoft made the leadership quadrant because of it’s breadth of functionality, Yammer’s ease of use, a great vision, and a tremendous user base that shows no signs of slowing growth.   One of the strengths noted is […]

Thanks to @lizasisler for telling  me about this post.  ZDNet has an article about large organizations using PaaS and that it’s not just a small company kind of thing.  The interesting point they make deeper in the article is that PaaS can be used for more than just hosting a site or set of functionality […]