Catapult, a Quisitive company, is a Microsoft-focused solutions and services firm that specializes in imagining, building and sustaining digital transformation and cloud-based solutions that people love to use. Catapult has consistently been recognized as a leading Microsoft Partner with 10 Advanced Specializations and 17 Microsoft competencies. Recent accolades include 2020 MSUS Partner Award Winner Azure – DevOps, Top Microsoft 365 Security Partner for FY20, and being named a finalist of the Data Analytics 2020 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award. Catapult has offices nationwide.
For the past few months I’ve been working on a project where the client is in the Pacific Time Zone. I’m in the Eastern Time Zone. Quite often when looking at my Outlook calendar I have to on the fly subtract 3 hours when talking or emailing the client. While talking to Mick Talbott, a co-worker…
update: 10/11/2017 Made -CSV a switch rather than string update: 6/6/2017 If you want to run this script on Windows 7, you’ll need to install Windows Management Framework 3.0 first. I have a decent sized SSD and found it running low on free space. I thought, “what is taking so much space?” After an unsuccessful internet…
This post is a quick review of Will Thompson’s “Create Impactful Reports with Power BI Desktop” session from the 2016 Data Insights Summit. His alternate title was “15 Weird Tricks That’ll Make Your Reports Awesome.” He committed to posting the workbook he used for his demo, and so he has. The tips and tricks are…
Microsoft hosted a “Data Insights Summit” event in Bellevue, Washington on March 22 and 23rd, 2016, and videos of the content (but not the PPT slides) are available on Microsoft’s Power BI YouTube Channel. Jessica Cook did a great job of summarizing both days here and here. The YouTube Channel is nicely organized: Keynotes –…
Database professionals from all over the world (myself included), were sitting on the edge of their seats as Microsoft officially announced SQL Server 2016 at their “Data Driven” event in New York City. I watched online, eagerly anticipating how much detail they would share about the latest release…and apart from not revealing the exact release date…
AUSTIN, Texas – March 17, 2016 – Catapult Systems, Nintex, and Microsoft will host a happy hour and panel discussion on March 24 at Denver Chophouse and Brewery from 5:00-7:00pm (MDT). The purpose of this event, Engage: A knowledge Sharing Forum, is to foster networking and discussion between Denver professionals, with an emphasis on how…
AUSTIN, Texas – March 17, 2016 – Catapult Systems, a leading IT consulting firm, today announced the release of Launch, a solution which automates routine and time consuming IT and business tasks. As part of their Solutions as a Service suite, Launch is configured to meet each organization’s key needs and managed by Catapult Systems.…
AUSTIN, TX (March 14, 2016) — Catapult Systems, a leading IT consulting firm and nationally managed Microsoft solutions provider, today announced the availability of a new Grants Management solution. The solution streamlines and enhances the grant making process from creation to completion, allowing grant makers to focus on fulfilling their organization’s mission while reducing the…
We’ve got a nice little AWS CloudFormation template that builds out a SharePoint 2013 Enterprise farm, configures everything nicely, then deploys a custom code solution right over the top of that. We’re using public Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) in the template and all has been going well. Then, starting this week, SharePoint 2013 no longer…
Catapult Systems and Nintex Announce Partnership to Deliver Workflow Solutions Aimed at Increased Productivity and Collaboration AUSTIN, Texas – February 29, 2016 – Catapult Systems, a leading IT consulting firm, today announced that it has partnered with Nintex, the world’s leading workflow and process automation platform. Catapult Systems, now a Nintex solution provider, will deliver…