Posts Tagged ‘sharepoint 2013’

One of the complaints we often hear about horizontal portal systems is they are complicated and feel “heavy”. What makes a system feel heavy and how can we lighten the load? In a typical portal application we have to integrate multiple applications, content and document management systems, security, search, personalization, page management, etc, etc. is […]

When migrating to SharePoint 2013 older assets may need serious modification to gain from the benefits of the new, lightweight, fast, and fluid user interface. These benefits come from new CSS styles, themes, and master pages. Thus, you must re-create your custom branding by using the new styles, themes, or master pages available in SharePoint […]

It’s been a busy year for our Portals and Social Business bloggers with changes in the space happening daily. With so much information to absorb, we thought we’d narrow it down for you to our five most popular posts of the year, in no particular order. Is SharePoint 2013 Good for External Websites – Mark […]

It’s been a busy year for our Portals and Social Business bloggers with changes in the space happening daily. With so much information to absorb, we thought we’d narrow it down for you to our five most popular posts of the year, in no particular order. Is SharePoint 2013 Good for External Websites – Mark […]

On September 12, 2013 Gartner released their latest Magic Quadrant report for horizontal portals.  Overall, the Magic Quadrant hasn’t changed much from last year with the vendors staying in the same quadrant as they were in 2012 (yawn…).  You can see my blog post from 2012: Gartner Magic Quadrant: Horizontal Portals 2012. In the leader quadrant, […]

Last week, Microsoft announced that Perficient was awarded U.S. Partner of the Year at their Worldwide Partner Conference.  At the same time, Perficient also won three additional regional awards from Microsoft, including National System Integrator of the Year East Region Northeast Area Cloud Partner of the Year Enterprise Cloud Partner of the Year, Central Region […]

So what do you do if you are a vendor of social software running on SharePoint and Microsoft includes many of your capabilities in SharePoint 2013?  Well if you are NewsGator, you introduce a solution that leverages your expertise in social systems and delivers to a very important stakeholder of the corporate intranet. Essentially that […]

My colleague Seth Broweleit shared with me news that Yammer has been integrated with Microsoft SharePoint.  If you are a Yammer Enterprise customer, you can download the installation package that includes some very nice features.  The video here shows many of the features I’ve listed below:  Primary Yammer Web Part – Add Yammer feeds, private messages, […]

Thanks to Erin Maloney (@ErinE) for this great article by James Dellow at Ripple Effect Group.  James starts off by asking the question about whether SharePoint is a platform for social and then delves into all the other things taking place in the world. Firstly, its important to recognise that Microsoft’s long term strategy is […]

So our SharePoint gurus here at Perficient have been blogging on a lot of subjects around what’s new in SharePoint 2013.   I’ve not been good about pointing them out but there’s a lot of good content.  Here’s a quick recap of some of them. Webinar on what’s new in SharePoint 2013.  It’s already heavily […]

So our SharePoint gurus here at Perficient have been blogging on a lot of subjects around what’s new in SharePoint 2013.   I’ve not been good about pointing them out but there’s a lot of good content.  Here’s a quick recap of some of them. Webinar on what’s new in SharePoint 2013.  It’s already heavily […]

As part of the release of the SharePoint 2013 Preview, Microsoft has provided a series of diagrams covering a variety of infrastructure areas.  One of the more interesting can be regarded a synopsis of farm topology best practices.  Even though this diagram can be rendered on a single page (click here to review an interactive version), it is filled with a […]