The big news today is that Microsoft Corp (Nasdaq: MSFT) and LinkedIn Corporation (NYSE: LNKD) have entered into a definitive agreement under which Microsoft will acquire LinkedIn bringing together the world’s leading professional cloud with the world’s leading professional network. The financial aspects of the giant $26.2 billion deal aside, we think that this deal […]
Posts Tagged ‘SharePoint’
Microsoft SharePoint As A Unified Post-Merger Platform
SharePoint 2016 is changing the face of digital engagement in life sciences. There’s no doubt that it’s one of the most effective collaboration tools on the market, but what you might not know is that it also supports an innovative customer-facing experience. Take a look at how, following the merger of two global pharmaceutical companies, […]
Microsoft SharePoint For Clinical Development Plans
There’s been a lot of talk recently about SharePoint 2016. This latest version is especially appealing to life sciences companies because it supports the flexibility of a hybrid on-site/cloud implementation. That means that organizations who aren’t quite ready to fully embrace the cloud have the power to host certain features in-house behind their firewall and […]
5 Reasons to consider Intranet as a Service
Within our Microsoft Practice we spend a lot of time and energy focused on creating great Intranet and Portal experiences for our customers. Over the last 10 years SharePoint has become the defacto platform of choice for Intranets in the enterprise as evidenced by the Nielsen Norman Best Intranets of 2016 awards where 9 out […]
Office 365 Development – Default to ‘Open’
I am truly inspired by the direction Microsoft has taken in recent times with the move to iterative development, open tooling and open source. At its core Office 365 is a suite of services providing OOTB experiences and a set of APIs ready for consumption. The experiences will satisfy many of the requirements for Portals, […]
Under the Hood With “The Future of SharePoint”
It has been about a week since Microsoft unveiled “The Future of SharePoint” at this event here (note: you have to provide your e-mail and some other info to get access to all the content). The keynote has kind of a general overview of all of the new directions that the SharePoint team is heading […]
OneDrive or Box?
OneDrive is leapfrogging the competition for document management, collaboration and sharing. It’s hard to fully quantify the benefits of using OneDrive for your file collaboration and sharing because it’s already part of Office 365. By virtue of being on the platform OneDrive already has the advantage of built in: Search, eDiscovery, Data Loss Prevention and […]
Top 5 SharePoint Innovations Announced Today
On Star Wars day the force is most definitely with SharePoint. SharePoint is here to stay and continues to form an integral part of Office 365. Let’s take a look at the Top 5 innovations announced today… #1 Page Rendering Model There is a radically new page rendering model. SharePoint pages previously relied a lot on […]
Don’t Miss It! The Future of SharePoint Event on May 4th
Mark your calendars and get ready to watch Jeff Teper from Microsoft unveil the new vision and roadmap for SharePoint and OneDrive for Business, both on-premises and in the cloud with Office 365. Microsoft has added so many exciting new innovations into SharePoint. This event will be a great resource for everyone, whether you’re a SharePoint and/or ODFB end […]
SharePoint : May the 4th be with you!
It has been a busy couple of years working with SharePoint Online in Office 365. Perficient has been full throttle migrating organizations to the Microsoft Cloud adopting workloads like Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive and Skype as well as making sense of new innovations like Delve and embracing Social with Yammer. Particularly within the last year there has […]
Using Microsoft Office 365, Quintiles Exemplifies “Progressive”
If you’re an avid reader of this blog, you’ve probably seen several posts highlighting Quintiles, the world’s largest contract research organization (CRO). That’s for good reason. Not only is the global CRO at the top of its game, when it comes to running all aspects of clinical trials for their clients, they’re leading the way […]
How to effectively communicate and collaborate in Office 365
There are many ways to collaborate and communicate in Office 365. Exchange Online (EXO) and SharePoint Online (SPO) and Yammer and Office Groups and Skype for Business and Office Video and OneDrive for Business (ODFB), oh my! We all know how and when to use Email and IM but what about all these other workstreams? How do you decide […]