OK, let’s explore one of the fundamental reasons why different user groups in our organization need different tools from the SharePoint BI stack. It boils down to the ‘degree’ of self-service functionality they are comfortable/capable of using. Several years ago the promise of ‘pervasive BI’ meant the information worker would not only have all core […]
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Upcoming Webinar: Using Microsoft SharePoint for Contract Lifecycle Management
Please join us Wednesday, June 22nd at 1:00 EST for our upcoming webinar, “Healthcare & Life Sciences – Using Microsoft SharePoint for Contract Lifecycle Management” For many companies around the world contracts and agreements govern the way that they conduct business with external parties such as suppliers, customers and partners. Contracts contain milestones, commitments and […]
SharePoint security using the OSI model
I recently attended Microsoft Tech-Ed 2011 and had the chance to sit down with Mike DeVerter of Rackspace, a Perficient partner, after I presented at the conference about the 10 Immutable Laws of SharePoint Security. In this presentation, I talked about SharePoint security using the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model as a guide, covering where […]
Integrating OBIEE with Portal
We are going to be spending some time focusing on integration. Inevitably people ask, “But can you integrate with product x, y, or z?” Our answers is almost always yes with a lot of qualification. Everyone wants out of the box integration that just works but no vendor ever really has a good answer. Because […]
Why Portal?
I’m working with a new client who is asking “Why Portal?” I checked our archives and my colleague Mike Porter posted a blog entry a couple of years ago on the many features common in portals (See Why a Portal). But Mike’s post did not answer this particular client’s question. What I needed was a […]
FAST for SharePoint 2010, Lessons Learned
We just did a FAST for SharePoint 2010 install & configuration at a client yesterday. The client had multiple servers; one admin and two non-admin servers. Great documentation is provided on TechNet, and really should be the outline that you use: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff381267.aspx Make sure you pay attention to the hardware/software requirements; Windows Firewall needs to […]
SharePoint governance vs Portal governance
At Perficient, we view governance as a critical piece of a portal implementation. We often recommend building out your governance model early in a portal project to avoid many of the pitfalls that we see when governance is an afterthought. In fact, we have been brought into many clients to help fix a poor portal […]
WCM + ECM Portal Strategy
I came across this article: ECM + WCM = Your Portal Strategy by Kimberly Samuelson. I might be jaded or maybe its because I work so closely with capital-p Portals, but I can’t agree that a portal strategy consists of simply blending Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Web Content Management (WCM). To me a Portal […]
The Right Way to Get Employees to Collaborate
Liza Sisler (@lizasisler on twitter) pointed me to this article on collaboration on Information Week titled, “The Right Way to Get Employees to Collaborate“. Michael Sampson has obviously been around the block when it comes to deploying collaboration solutions and I completely agree with his main premise. Just building something and throwing it over the […]
MEDSEEK Partners with Perficient to Assist Over 800 Hospitals
Perficient’s Liza Sisler (@lizasisler) is at Microsoft Connected Health Conference this week in Chicago, where she met up with Shaun Priest, Sr. Vice President of Business Development at MEDSEEK. Together, they discussed how working together with MEDSEEK, we will work to drive better results for hospitals across the US and Canada with Microsoft’s SharePoint technology. […]
Is Sharepoint 2010 a good collaboration tool?
Wow, it has been crazy busy here at Perficient lately. That’s good for us, but bad for getting blog posts out in a timely fashion. I came across SharePoint: Is It Worth Using as a Collaboration Tool? posted by Joe Shepley (@joesphepley) at CMS Wire on March 29, 2011. In that article, Mr. Shepley argues […]
SharePoint Migration with Perficient & AvePoint
The Perficient & AvePoint teams recently partnered to co-present SharePoint Migration seminars in Philadelphia and Chicago. The teams took clients through the journey of taking SharePoint from a departmental point solution to leveraging their investment in SharePoint and using it as an enterprise platform. Perficient and AvePoint covered everything from Governance & Taxonomy considerations to technical […]