Glenn Kline

IBM released Cumulative Fix (CF) 14 for WebSphere Portal and Web Content Manager (WCM) in early July, 2017.  This fix will apply to either version 8.5 or 9.0.  IBM has moved to a continuous delivery model where they release cumulative fixes every few months to not only fix defects but also to deliver new capabilities.  […]

At IBM Amplify 2017, I gave a presentation on 7 ways to maximize ROI on your digital experience investment.  The presentation was geared mostly towards IBM Digital Experience / WebSphere Portal but the concepts apply to virtually any digital experience platform and are aligned with Perficient’s take on Digital Transformation. The presentation is shared below […]

Last December, IBM released Watson Content Hub (WCH,) their new Content-as-a-Service offering.  At IBM Amplify 2017, Davad Strachan, IBM Principal Offering Manager, Digital Experience and Tyler Tribe, IBM Principal Offering Manager, IBM Digital Experience Software, presented and demonstrated the latest and greatest capabilities of IBM Watson Content Hub. WCH Provides 4 Key Capabilities It provides […]

IBM Connect 2017 provided insights into the future of IBM Connections known as Connections Pink.  Jason Roy Gary, Director of Engineering and Distinguished Engineer and Baan Slavens, Senior Offering Manager provided insights as to what is to come in the future. The upcoming version of Connection will be a complete rewrite and not using any […]

IBM Connect 2017 kicked off today in San Francisco with the theme of Cognitive Workspaces and how IBM Watson will transform everyday work.  The opening general session was divided into two parts and highlighted key messages, shared customer stories, made announcements and of course showed some innovative demonstrations of accomplishments over the last year and […]

IBM released version 9 of IBM Digital Experience including WebSphere Portal and Web Content Manager on 12/22/2016.  This builds upon version 8.5 as CF 13.  There are two important benefits to version 9: WebSphere Application Server V9.0 support All version 9.0 offerings now can run on IBM WebSphere Application Server 9.0.  This gives customers the […]

IBM launched their new content management service, IBM Watson Content Hub, on 11/14/2016.  This new offering provides a full cloud based content as a service offering delivering headless CMS solution.  The new product has many advantages including: Easy to use content authoring interface allowing business to easily create multi-channel content. Full cloud based solution so […]

Bratt Swaim, Technical Consulting Manager of Liferay, Inc., presented “Building for the Cloud – Architecting Liferay in IaaS/PaaS Environments.  The session provided the approach, techniques, considerations and best practices for deploying Liferay to Amazon Web Services (AWS.) The highlights follow. When does moving to the cloud make sense? The following are drivers that are scenarios […]

Nathan Shaw, technical managing consultant of Liferay, Inc., presented “7 Habits of Highly Successful Liferay Projects” at the 2016 Liferay Symposium.  The presentation was influenced by the best-selling book “7 Habits of Highly Successful People.”  The highlights follow. 1) Be Proactive Be proactive and not reactive. Learn what Liferay can do Stay informed via Liferay […]

Henry Nakamura, Senior Customer Experience Manager of Liferay, presented Liferay’s perspective on customer experience at the 2016 Liferay Symposium in the session “Customer Loyalty is Dead.”  The session focused on stressing the importance of customer experience and how Liferay can help you. The amount of data available today drives impacts overall experience, not just price […]

IBM’s Amplify conference featured a digital experience keynote on adaptive experiences which engage customers in context with several prominent speakers.  These included: Gene Phifer, VP, Distinguished Analyst, Gartner Deloss Schertz, Director Enterprise Strategic Application Services, Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc Gary Dolsen, IBM, Vice President, Strategy and Offering Management, Digital Experience Rob Enright, IBM […]

Ronda Kiser Oakes, IBM Champion and Perficient director of IBM Cloud and DevOps, and Sean Wright, Perficient technical director of IBM Mobile, presented a session and demonstration at IBM InterConnect 2016 Migrate Existing Web Services and Build Native Microservices in Bluemix. The session began with Sean discussing the considerations and approaches for migrating to Bluemix […]