Posts Tagged ‘SharePoint Online’

Yesterday, we hosted a webinar on Best Practices When Migrating to Office 365. During the session, Shalini Pasupneti, a solution architect within Perficient’s Microsoft practice, first polled the audience, and found that more than half were not currently using Office 365. Based on this, she gave a brief overview of what makes up Office 365, […]

Today, Perficient announced that Rich Wood, director of Perficient’s national Microsoft web and social collaboration practice, will present on Yammer best practices at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2014, taking place next week, March 3-6, in Las Vegas. The Perficient Microsoft team will also be available in booth #308 to discuss all things SharePoint, and they’ll […]

As we prepare for SharePoint Conference 2014, starting March 2, all eyes are on Yammer and Microsoft’s Social Roadmap. Since Microsoft purchased Yammer in June 2012, there have been a steady stream of updates to the platform. If you have Yammer today, you may have noticed some of these updates – fonts, integrated newsfeeds, etc. […]

“Power BI is a compelling new offering with advanced collaborative BI capabilities –including mobile cross-platform reporting– to Office 365 SharePoint Online users.    But that’s not all.  Power BI also encompasses new tools in Excel 2013 that support streamlined self-service reporting and analytics.    Find out how you can leverage the hot new self-service BI features coming […]

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 […]

There’s really nothing quite like being part of a top national systems integrator.  I’ve found that one of the coolest, most rewarding aspects of this job is working with so many bright, talented people from all across the country.  The sheer breadth and scope of the expertise brought to bear by the ladies and gentlemen […]

Last week, Perficient sponsored and presented at SharePoint Fest Chicago. One of our speakers was Rich Wood, National Director of Modern Applications here at Perficient. He presented on “Migrating Your Intranet to SharePoint Online.” First, Rich explained what’s different about the cloud, and gave details on SharePoint as a service, including what makes it different from SharePoint […]

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 […]

It’s almost a given now that we must take into account Legal Discovery.  Governance and technology comes into play and everyone must keep content for a specific period of time. All that content must be discoverable wherever it may lie.  When you move your entire collaboration and social world to the cloud, that requirement comes […]

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 […]

Thanks to @lizasisler for pointing me to this. ZDNet has an article about Microsoft’s recent announcement raising the upper limit on file size from 250 MB to 2 Gig.  They now also allow you to upload .exe files.  At it’s face, that’s a pretty easy thing to report but I think that raising the limit […]