Perficient and Guest Forrester to Host Webinar Exploring Enterprise Social Business

ST. LOUIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SharePoint, Yammer, the cloud. Microsoft has made significant investments in technology platforms that offer social business capabilities. But what’s next? Microsoft NSI partner Perficient, Inc., a leading information technology consulting firm serving Global 2000 and other large enterprise customers throughout North America, today announced it has partnered with analyst firm Forrester Research, Inc. to offer the webinar, “SharePoint as a Social Business Platform,” on Wednesday, March 27, at 1 p.m. CDT. The webinar will explore Microsoft’s recent investments in social enterprise platforms, and the power SharePoint 2013 has in helping organizations become truly social businesses.

“The SharePoint 2013 platform plays a key role in bringing people together, making social collaboration, enterprise search and mobile access possible. Knowledge is power, and SharePoint makes knowledge sharing easy and effective, which leads to better business performance.”

Guest speaker Rob Koplowitz, vice president, principal analyst at Forrester, and Rich Wood, director of Perficient’s National SharePoint Practice, will take a look at SharePoint as a social business platform and discuss related topics, including:

Perception of SharePoint’s social business capabilities prior to the new release
Today’s definition of enterprise social
Understanding the value of social business as it pertains to SharePoint
How the cloud and Yammer fit into the equation
Microsoft’s direction for enterprise social and the social business roadmap

“Companies are in search of solutions that allow them to effectively collaborate with co-workers, clients and partners, and create an engaging social environment that drives collaboration and meaningful dialogue,” said Wood. “The SharePoint 2013 platform plays a key role in bringing people together, making social collaboration, enterprise search and mobile access possible. Knowledge is power, and SharePoint makes knowledge sharing easy and effective, which leads to better business performance.”

Through its partnerships with leading technology innovators, Perficient provides clients in all industries business-driven technology solutions and support in a wide range of practice areas. Perficient’s Microsoft consultants specialize in several practice areas including unified communications, SharePoint, business intelligence and cloud computing to provide digital marketing, portals and collaboration, mobile development and customer relationship management solutions to clients.

For more information on Perficient’s expertise in Microsoft technologies, visit www.perficient.com/Partners/Microsoft. To learn more from Perficient experts first-hand, visit the Perficient Microsoft Technologies blog or follow @Perficient_MSFT.

About Perficient

Perficient is a leading information technology consulting firm serving Global 2000 and enterprise customers throughout North America. Perficient’s professionals serve clients from a network of offices across North America and three offshore locations, in Eastern Europe, India, and China. Perficient helps clients use Internet-based technologies to improve productivity and competitiveness, strengthen relationships with customers, suppliers and partners, and reduce information technology costs. Perficient, traded on the Nasdaq Global Select Market(SM), is a member of the Russell 2000® index and the S&P SmallCap 600 index. Perficient is an award-winning “Premier Level” IBM business partner, a TeamTIBCO partner, a Microsoft National Systems Integrator and Gold Certified Partner, an EMC Select Services Team Partner, and an Oracle Platinum Partner. For more information, please visit www.perficient.com.