Over the last few years, the software market has changed shape. According to Joanne Correia, research vice president at Gartner, the cloud is the main driver behind that change. Given this, over the same time period, it makes sense to see Microsoft moving its core business functions to the cloud (and the other major software […]
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Microsoft-Salesforce Integrations as Cloud Giants Shake Hands
Microsoft and Salesforce has made significant progress to their strategic partnership announced in May. They unveiled new joint solutions—including Salesforce1 for Windows, Salesforce for Office, and Power BI for Office 365 and Excel integrations with Salesforce—at Dreamforce 2014. The companies disclosed that in early 2015, they will release a Salesforce1 app for Windows Phone. Alongside, […]
How Secure is Your Cloud? – Introduction to Office 365 Security
Who owns the data we store in your service? Will you use our data to build advertising products? Do you offer privacy controls in your service? Do we have visibility to know where our data is stored? Can we get our data out of your service if we decide to leave? These questions are top […]
Webinar Recap: What to Know When Migrating to Microsoft Exchange
On Tuesday, we teamed up with Binary Tree, Microsoft’s 2014 Messaging Partner of the Year, for a webinar on Best Practices & Solutions For Migrating to Microsoft Exchange. The session delved into Office 365, common challenges when migrating to Exchange, along with an example of a customer who recently migrated to Exchange Online with the […]
Partner Spotlight – K2 Appit for SharePoint
Perficient has many great partners that support our development and deployment of the best of breed solutions we provide for our clients. This post is one of them in a series that will highlight some of the products available from our partners. Today, I’ll be presenting K2 and and their Workflow and Forms Apps for […]
Multi-Forest Identity Solution – Azure AD Sync
Last week I wrote about strategic benefits with Microsoft Azure and included some market research of other big cloud competitors. Continuing on that and in part 2 of this series I will talk about the one of the most awaited multi-forest identity solutions – Azure Active Directory Sync Tool In April this year, Microsoft announced set of great […]
Webinar: Ensuring a Successful SharePoint Migration to the Cloud
Last week, at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference, it was mentioned that there are one billion Microsoft Windows and Office users today, and Office 365 is Microsoft’s fastest growing business in its history. At Perficient, we are definitely seeing this. Our customers are using Office 365 more than ever, from SharePoint to Exchange and Lync to […]
Partner Spotlight – AvePoint Online Services for Office 365
Perficient has many great partners that support our development and deployment of the best of breed solutions we provide for our clients. This post is the first in a series that will highlight some of the products available from our partners. Today, I’ll be presenting AvePoint and their Online Services for Office 365. Requiring no […]
Office 365 Roadmap Communications
Overview: Last week Microsoft hosted a Roadmap Communications discussion forum to align with the new Office 365 for business public roadmap. Panel involved experts from Microsoft and Office 365 MVP’s. I am sharing the summary here for everyone’s benefit. Specific topics: · Roadmap at a glance · General Questions & Functionality · First Release · Yammer ROADMAP […]
Office 365 Feature Rollout and First Release Program
Did you always feel Office 365 has been going through rapid updates and you as a customer or partner are left with no insight? Until now Microsoft has been rolling out features without regard to the tenant profile. There is generally no process for partners to get updates before or after customers. I personally know […]
HIMSS Survey: 80% of Healthcare orgs are using Cloud Services
According to a recent HIMSS survey 80% of healthcare organizations have already adopted cloud based services. In addition according to HIMSS “Nearly all cloud adopters plan to expand their cloud services; areas for growth include archived data, disaster recovery and hosting operational applications and data”. “The top three reasons for adopting cloud services include lower […]
Top 25 SharePoint Influencers #Top25sp
With the SharePoint Conference nearly upon us, Scratch Media has come out with a list of the Top 100 SharePoint Influencers in the world, and asked for votes to identify the top 25 SharePoint Influencers globally. While there are many excellent and worthy candidates on the list, it shouldn’t include me, or my esteemed colleague, […]