Posts Tagged ‘social business’

We’ve read the posts, we’ve heard the presentations, we’ve seen the MTC sessions– but what exactly does Microsoft’s new strategy for Enterprise Social mean?  I’m going to try and break that down both for IT architects and the average consumer.  (See an annotated image version here for easy sharing.) Ever since Jared Spataro’s official update […]

The Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit 2013 provided an intriguing panel discussion called  “The Mobile Workspace – Connect, Share, Collaborate and Collide.”  The attendees included  Ken Parmelee – mobile and wireless, Karen Hobert – security and risk strategy consultant, Mike Gotta – social software analyst  and Daryl Plummer of Gartner.  The discussion was lively […]

I’ve spent the last two days at Gartner’s Portals, Content and Collaboration Conference soaking up the wisdom of some very sharp analysts (and a very open customer base) about enterprise social.  There’s other tracks here, but with all of the focus Microsoft has placed on Yammer and its potential for transforming how we do business, […]

IBM has acquired software deployment automation software firm, UrbanCode. Any company that requires frequent software updates, such as those in social, mobile, cloud and business analytics, will benefit. CRN covered this story in an article this week, for which they interviewed Vishal Rajpal, general manager of IBM BPMS at  Perficient. Vishal weighed in: “Consumers are rapidly becoming a […]

Perficient is Showcasing Our Award-Winning IBM SOA, BPM, and Mobile Solutions & Services at IBM’s Impact 2013 Conference Perficient is a gold sponsor of Impact 2013, and our experts are available in Booth G9 to discuss how customers can implement impactful technology solutions including BPM, service-oriented architecture (SOA), cloud, mobile and WebSphere solutions for major […]

I’m always pleased when I see a company living up to its own hype. For the past few years, IBM has really been pushing the “social business” agenda. They have a lot of bloggers writing about techniques and tools for making your business more social. One of my favorite books on social media and social […]

  The SOCIAL story continues to evolve for Microsoft. In particular the social story related to Microsoft Dynamics CRM continues to evolve. Help accelerate your success with social: In 2012 Microsoft Dynamics CRM (CRM) introduced its own internal social networking components to allow users to connect and share unstructured but useful data throughout the enterprise. […]

As a veteran concertgoer, I’ve picked up some great tactics over the years for how best to enjoy live music.  How not to spill your drink on random strangers.  Where and how to scan the masses for old friends from days long past.  How to snake through the crowd before the show and find just […]

Yammer on Tour was in Chicago yesterday and I diligently took notes to share with you. Most of the event was, frankly, dedicated to why social is great, rather than what makes Yammer stand out. Value of social collaboration is a very interesting topic, but when you attend a Yammer event you want to learn […]

My colleagues Erin Moloney and Jamie Stump with be presenting a webinar tomorrow on how Perficient increased website engagement by implementing Sitecore’s web content management system (WMS). The webinar is timely, Forrester recently released The Forrester WaveTM: Web Content Management For Digital Customer Experierence, Q2 2013 and Sitecore was named a strong performer as you […]

This past week I had the honor of co-presenting at SHARE, the “SharePoint Conference for Business Users”, with one of my most distinguished clients, Andy Farella from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.  While our own presentation was focused on how CHOP found success by planning and rolling out social collaboration tools that were, at the […]

I had a couple of people ask me recently what’s up with Twitter. And it’s actually hard to explain. It’s a thing where you can essentially text millions of people, but why? who cares? why would you want to? It seems that there are people who “get it” and people who don’t “get it.” I […]