Glenn Kline

IBM Connect had a great session on implementing portal themes in WebSphere Portal 8.  Stephan Hesmer, Portal Frontend and Design Lead from IBM presented a technical session on implementing themes and skins.  Portal themes are an extremely powerful, efficient and effective way to implement user experiences in WebSphere Portal. Key points that resonated from the […]

Every time I work with or read an article from a thought leader in Perficient’s Experience Design practice I always learn something new about designing solutions for and around users whether it be a web portal, mobile site or innovative hardware solution.  This really makes me scratch my head and say “What were they thinking?” […]

IBM recently published a paper called “The business of social business: What works and how it’s done.”  It driven by a survey of 1,160 business and IT professionals to understand how organizations leverage social technologies for business objectives.  It provides a great look into the current state of social business.  Some of the highlights are: […]

IBM recently published a paper called “The business of social business: What works and how it’s done.”  It driven by a survey of 1,160 business and IT professionals to understand how organizations leverage social technologies for business objectives.  It provides a great look into the current state of social business.  Some of the highlights are: […]

I recently ran into a puzzling issue with WebSphere Portal 7.0.2 while I was trying to export a portal page using xmlaccess from one portal and import it into another.  This page had some basic Web Content Management (WCM) rendering portlets on it.  The problem was that when I imported the xml into my target […]

I recently ran into a puzzling issue with WebSphere Portal 7.0.2 while I was trying to export a portal page using xmlaccess from one portal and import it into another.  This page had some basic Web Content Management (WCM) rendering portlets on it.  The problem was that when I imported the xml into my target […]

Managed pages are one of the many new capabilities in WebSphere Portal 8.  A key goal of this capability is to provide a great user experience for business users managing pages and content.  I attended a session at the IBM Exceptional Web Experience on managed pages which was lead by Stefan Hepper, Portal / WCM […]

This session from the IBM Exceptional Web Experience is on portal performance tuning techniques.  It is hosted by   Hunter Presnall and Denny Pichardo of IBM.  This particular post does not summarize the entire session but instead focuses on key points and topics that resonate with what I’ve seen happen in the field with customers and […]

I attended this session on caching techniques hosted by Joerg Huehne of IBM at the IBM Exceptional Web Experience Conference.  I always feel that caching is one of the very most important techniques for performance improvement opportunities in portal and this session reinforced it.  Some of the key takeaways from the session are below. Overview […]

Opening General Session keynote with Larry Bowden The session kicked off with Larry Bowden touting the biggest launch for WebSphere Portal in 10 years and the key growth components driving it.  There has been a double digit growth in customers in last 2 years.  Key growth components and statistics include: Social 60% Discover new brands […]

Poor performance in a portal production environment will quickly become your number one complaint from your employees, partners and customers.  Given an option, your user community will look elsewhere and not come back.  Performance testing and load testing are often left to the last minute or skipped all together.  If 2 weeks before launch you […]

 A very common requirement in a portal solution is a terms of use acknowledgement (TOU) which gates entry into the portal until the user accepts terms and conditions.  The next time the user logs on, they will not be required to accept the conditions again.  There is not a built in “out of the box” […]