Home  /  Thought Leadership  /  Social Media  /  Blogs  /  Perficient Portal Solutions Blog
Perficient Portal Solutions Blog

Business Solutions

Technology Solutions

Multi-Shoring

Subscribe via Email


 

Subscribe to RSS feed

RSS RSS Feed

Archives

Archive for February, 2011

How to get WebSphere Portal 7 and WCM up and running quickly

by on February 27th, 2011

If you haven’t heard, IBM offers a cloud-based service for WebSphere Portal  7.0 via their Smart Business Cloud offering.  In this article Paul Kelsey provides step-by-step instructions to implement your Portal 7.0 in the cloud.

Some highlights of IBM’s Smart Business Cloud for WebSphere Portal include the following features that always seem to cause initial problems in deploying your first portal:

  • Security is already enabled on the server
  • Light start up mode is already enabled, saving you time in starting the server
  • HTTP Server is already setup and enabled – no more plugin configuring
  • DB2 is installed and configured in a separate server
  • Portlet Factory is installed and ready to go

Creating your own Portal instance is done through a wizard interface, so it couldn’t be any easier.  If you want to test out Portal 7.0 or get an application out the door fast, consider the IBM Smart Business Cloud.

 

 

Tags: , , ,
Posted in News | No Comments »

Integrating WebSphere Commerce and Lotus Connections – Part 2

by on February 24th, 2011

In my previous post, Integrating WebSphere Commerce and Lotus Connections – Part 1, I talked about getting started integrating WebSphere Commerce and Lotus Connections, specifically single sign on, branding, and product integration. In this part, I will address approaches for integrating a shopping cart and account services.

(more…)

Tags: , ,
Posted in News, Technical | 2 Comments »

Strategies for Enabling a Social Business

by on February 24th, 2011

Denise Hatzidakis at Premier, Don Lewis at BCBSMN, Jonathan Distad, and myself spoke briefly on strategies for enable social business.  The presentation is available for your viewing pleasure:

If you are intersted in follow on conversation or want to post your own two bits, we created a community at Greenhouse.

Tags: , , ,
Posted in News | 1 Comment »

Which Social Media Metrics Matter…..and to Whom

by on February 24th, 2011

Alan Weintraub tweeted about this blog post by Nate Elliott at Forrester. He takes a look at how social media metrics should be different depending on who is looking at the data.   Keeping in mind that his is focused on social media and not what I would term social networking (see previous blog post), I think he’s spot on.

We’ve been pretty vocal over the past couple of years about how marketers should define success in social media and (perhaps more importantly) how they shouldn’t define success. To put it bluntly, if you’re focusing on fans and followers, then you’re almost certainly doing it wrong.

But saying that raises the question: If the number of fans or followers you have doesn’t tell us whether you’ve succeeded as a company, then what does it tell you? And if your CEO shouldn’t be worried about the number of wall posts you’ve generated, then who should be paying attention to this number?

It’s worth reading the entire post.

Tags: , , , ,
Posted in News | 1 Comment »

Options for Integrating External Content with Portal

by on February 22nd, 2011

WebSphere Portal can easily display content from its own robust web content management system (WCM).  But surveys have found that more than 50% of companies have more than one content management system they want to integrate with Portal.  There are several out-of-the-box solutions that you can use to pull content from other systems and display in your portal.

Here are a few of the options available to you with little effort:

  • Syndicated Feed Portlet – if you can get the other content management system to produce RSS or Atom feeds, you can display that content through this portlet.  This portlet produces a list similar to what other feed readers would produce.  You can apply some basic formatting to the feed.
  • Web Content Integrator – this application ships with Portal and actually copies data from an external system into WCM as real content items.  Your other system has to be capable of producing RSS or Atom feeds.  Once set up, content coming from the external system is read and stored in WCM.  Once in WCM, you have full control over the content including personalization, formatting, workflow, etc.  You display the content using any of the WCM rendering portlets.
  • Link to Remote Content – WCM includes the ability to create links to remote content including Enterprise Content Management systems such as FileNet and DB2 Content Manager.  When you create the link a wizard guides you through specifying the server, a user id and password.  Once you are authenticated, you can pick from a list of documents available to you.

Of course, you (or Perficient!) can always custom build integration between portal and your other content management systems.

Tags: , , ,
Posted in News | 5 Comments »

IBM LotusLive Notes now offers a fully hosted service offering for BES and Android OS

by on February 22nd, 2011

IBM today announced offerings for BES and Android OS on LotusLive.  For many companies where managing a BES or Traveler might be too much to bite, this is a nice offering and a clear sign in the direction IBM is moving in the cloud domain coupled with mobile support.

BM LotusLive Notes 1.3 is a full-featured, cloud-based email service. Subscribing to the LotusLive Notes service means that IBM sets up, operates, and maintains your organization’s Lotus® Domino-based mailboxes via a LotusLive server farm operated within the cloud. LotusLive Notes offers users the benefits of the Lotus Domino® mail server architecture and security without the mail server maintenance overhead.

With this update of LotusLive Notes, you get the addition of a fully hosted service offering for BlackBerry Enterprise Server, both with and without optional Mobile Data Services from Research In Motion (RIM).

Additional enhancements:

* Traveler for LotusLive Notes subscription supports Android operating system, expanding the mobile needs of virtually anyone.
* Additional Mail Manager controls are available as part of the web-based LotusLive Notes Administration experience (including automatic management of content older than “n” days and administrator-controlled User Exclude lists).
* Support for limiting the size of inbound file attachments for email messages (administrator controlled at the user or group level).
* User experience modifications in the area of calendaring and scheduling to further improve visual parity with the Notes client when working in LotusLive Notes via a standard web browser (including full support for alarm preferences plus font, background, and color updates).
* The ability to import contacts within LotusLive Notes web in any supported language.
* Support for purchasing subscriptions to the LotusLive Notes service.

Here is a link to the Press Release.

Posted in Mobile, News | No Comments »

What’s new in Jive5?

by on February 21st, 2011

Jive5 is getting baked and will be GA in a month or so.  Historically, I have seen Jive driven by the agency segment as they have had past big wins in the social media management domain.  In Jive5 they have grabbed my attention – this release is a game-changer in enterprise social business software.  What is Jive?  Jive is a leader in social business software and was named such by Gartner in 2010 for Externally Facing Social Business Software.

Jive5 brings to the table some serious tools that companies looking to build or enable an innovative and social businesses.  First off they have updated their UI to a stellar out of box experience.    Add to that some great tools to add gas to an already fast burning fire called collaboration and innovation.  Tools like:

(more…)

Posted in collaboration, Mobile | 1 Comment »

WebCenter Launch Video

by on February 21st, 2011

Oracle has posted their WebCenter LaunchVideo. I found it on Peter Mosovits’ blog.

Tags: , ,
Posted in News | 1 Comment »

People Centric vs Content Centric

by on February 21st, 2011

I think we sometimes overlook a key difference in what we are doing with collaboration today vs how we tried to make it work in the past.   In IT, we like objects.  We like to store data. We like to store documents.  We like to create Master Data Management systems.   All too often, we forget that there is a goal.  There are people who actually deal with these business process that drive towards a specific goal.  In doing so, we forget that it’s really about the people.   People collaborate with people.  Let me give you an example.  When you are new at the job, is your first tendency to dive into a library and start reading a bunch of documents?  Or is your first tendency to find the person who has been around for years and who will point you in the right direction?  I bet most people choose the latter.

All that said, I ran across a blog on that exact topic. Louis Richardson on the Collaboration Soapbox has a presentation on that topic.  You might find it interesting.

Tags: , ,
Posted in News | 1 Comment »

SharePoint 2010 – Restoring a site collection multiple times on the same web app

by on February 21st, 2011

I got a call from one of my clients Friday trying to do a restore of one of their site collections from their dev to test site, but getting an error everytime they tried to do a restore. I jumped on a webex with them and watched them as they ran the powershell, Restore-SPSite. The command would throw an error – “The operation that you are attempting to perform cannot be completed successfully.  No content databases in the web application were available to store your site collection.  The existing content databases may have reached the maximum number of site collections, or be set to read-only, or be offline, or may already contain a copy of this site collection.  Create another content database for the Web application and then try the operation again”.

(more…)

Posted in SharePoint 2010 | 2 Comments »

« Older Entries