Welcome back from a great Ignite Conference! By now, I hope everyone knows that the conference recordings are posted to channel9, a section of MSDN. Microsoft does a great job of recording and publishing all of this content quickly, its pretty awesome. One of my biggest challenges at the conference was knowing which session to […]
Posts Tagged ‘portal’
Office 365 NextGen Portals Under the Hood – Ignite 2015
Family of NextGen portals Video Delve Infopedia Notion of these portals is built on the following pillars Intelligent Mobile Social Ready to go NEXTGEN PORTAL MODEL NEXTGEN PORTAL ARCHITECTURE Office 365 Video Powered by azure media services Easily consume Share ideas broadly (rich discoverable social video across devices with yammer embedded) Secure & easy to manage […]
jsPDF in Web Portal
What is jsPDF? jsPDF is an open-source library for generating PDF documents using JavaScript. It provides multiple options to generate PDF files, with custom properties. It has numerous plugins to support various ways of PDF generation. The Challenge in portal web application for PDF generation: In portal, aggregation of data from various sources plays an important part. In […]
What To Call Your My Site
Use “Your” instead of “My” when labeling things that are considered belonging to a user!
Azure Search: Scoring Profiles
Introduction When a search query is submitted to the index, each document that is returned has a search score which is an indicator of its relevance in the current search query and context. The higher the score, the more relevant the item and therefore, the higher it is ranked on a scale of high to […]
Webinar Recap: Preparing for Your Digital Transformation in 2015
We’ve mentioned Perficient’s Digital Transformation webinar series a couple times now here on our Microsoft blog. Last week, the series kicked off with its first session, Digital Transformation in 2015: Laying the Groundwork for Success. Perficient’s Strategic Advisors are the strategists behind the webinar series, and help our customers create and enable a digital transformation […]
Microsoft Azure Search Preview
Search as a Service From FAST ESP to SharePoint Search and Bing/Google, search has become an integral point for users to reference their data. Microsoft has developed Azure Search to provide an integration point for a complete search experience. Developers can use the Azure portal and front-end APIs to tune their search index as well as […]
This Is Bad News For Sponsors And CROs
In a recent post, I wrote how not giving principal investigators (PIs) the right systems (i.e., investigator portals) can lead to frustration, causing them to eventually withdraw from studies. Apparently, times are still rough for PIs and investigator sites. According to a new Tufts CSDD Impact Report and Wall Street Journal article, while the […]
SharePoint 2013 Search: External Content Relevancy Boosting
Where’s my External Content? The first time you bring in external content into your search index, whether that be from BCS or Custom Connector, your search ranking and relevance for that content will most likely be buried under all of your SharePoint content. This is quite common. Don’t worry however, we will go over some […]
IBM ConnectED 2015: Integrating Digital Experience and Connections
The Digital Experience has many components. IBM makes the case that they can create an empowering and relevant experience based on all the tools in the Digital Experience Suite. Commerce Integration Marketing Management Analytics Optimize Cloud Portal Personalized targeting Social and UCC Mobile Content Rich Media e.g. lots of products Example: Jyske Bank. They used […]
Lessons from 2014: Healthcare and Patient Portals
There was a lot of talk about Healthcare and Patient Portals in 2014. Health insurance exchange portals started to mature a little bit with healthcare.gov finally coming on line. The Affordable Care Act requires providers to provide access to medical records for patients and many have looked to implement patient portals. Looking back, here are […]
The Top 5 Reasons Why Content Strategy Matters
Something happened while we were all madly getting websites up and running. They evolved. At the same time sites evolved, users expectations evolved as they wanted more than just a simple site. Users recognized the value of sites that provide content. They began to visit sites that were less about mass marketing and more about […]