Posts Tagged ‘social’

The IBM Exceptional Web Experience Conference session “Social Web Experiences leveraging the Power of IBM Connections and WebSphere Portal” was delivered by Mac Guidera, Social Business Evangelist, IBM and  Jon Brunn, IBM Connection Architect, IBM.  The session focused on bringing WebSphere Portal and Connections together in a single cohesive solution leveraging the capabilities of both […]

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 […]

We recently hosted a webinar on Office 365, where my colleague Rich Wood discussed what’s new and improved when it comes to the latest release of SharePoint Online. Rich, Director of Perficient’s National SharePoint Practice, gave attendees nine great reasons to love the new SharePoint Online. The tenth topic focused on Yammer, as Rich delved into SharePoint Online […]

The Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit 2013 had a great session delivered by Ian Finely called “Ten Mobile Apps that are Changing the World.”  The session delibertly skips the common known apps such as Facebook and Twitter.  Here is the list – only 9 apps were presented but some were categories of apps: The […]

  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. […]

We recently hosted a webinar on SharePoint’s social business capabilities and Microsoft’s social roadmap, SharePoint as a Social Business Platform. Guest speaker Rob Koplowitz from Forrester, and Perficient’s own SharePoint Practice Director, Rich Wood, dug into SharePoint from a social perspective, and shared their thoughts on where Microsoft is headed in terms of social business. […]

Anthony Myers posted an article on CMS Wire with results of McKinsey & Company’s latest survey about the use of social tools inside corporations.  I highly respect McKinsey & Company, so I want to pass this information along.  The main results are shown in the image here.

Microsoft’s direction for enterprise social is a little more clear this morning.  And I’ll be honest, the roadmap for organizations willing to move this workload to the cloud—in whole or in part—is pretty exciting.  Questions still remain around just how well this approach covers on-premise deployments, however, and I’d like to spend a little time […]

Finally, a little clarity.  Yesterday’s roadmap post by Jared Spataro on the official SharePoint blog shed some much-sought-after public light on the question of how Microsoft intends to rationalize the Yammer and SharePoint 2013 newsfeeds. “Which newsfeed do we use for enterprise social?  The native SharePoint 2013 feed, or Yammer?”  It’s a question Microsoft customers […]

Today, Perficient announced that we’ve partnered with analyst firm Forrester Research, Inc. to host the webinar, “SharePoint as a Social Business Platform,” next week, on Wednesday, March 27, at 1 p.m. CDT. From the press release: The webinar will explore Microsoft’s recent investments in social enterprise platforms, and the power SharePoint 2013 has in helping […]

Wondering where Microsoft is headed with social business? Join us  for the webinar, “Forrester & Perficient on SharePoint as a Social Business Platform” on Wednesday, March 27, 2013, at 1 p.m. CDT. Guest speaker Rob Koplowitz, Vice President, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, Inc., and Rich Wood, Director, National SharePoint Practice at Perficient will take a […]

The SharePoint 2013 Social Newsfeed is now available in Apple’s App Store. That’s right– you can access the social side of your SharePoint intranet on an iPad in a slick, easy-to-use way.  (Please excuse my low-resolution screen shots– there’s much better examples on the official iTunes page.) From a UI perspective, there is a lot […]