Glenn Kline

I attended the search engine optimization session by Andreas Prokoph, Lead architect for search in Portal and WCM, at the excellent web experience conference in Orlando.  It was very informative on how search engines work and what doesn’t work.  Here are some of the key messages of interest from the session. How does a high […]

I attended an excellent session called Extending your IBM Portal Exceptional Web Experience to iPhone, Android, and Blackberry Devices at the excellent web experience conference.  This presentation focused on delivering rich web site to specific mobile devices and some of the alternative approaches for accomplishing this with portal.  The main focus was on using custom […]

Excellent Web Expericnce Conference Must Attend Sessions For anyone attending IBM’s Excellent Web Experience Conference 5/16-5/19 in Orlando, FL, Perficient is presenting at three sessions including two with customers. TECH-B21 – You did What?  Avoid the Unacceptable and Make it Exceptional Tuesday, May 17th at 3:15 in conference room Ireland A Glenn Kline, Technical Director, […]

Excellent Web Expericnce Conference Must Attend Sessions For anyone attending IBM’s Excellent Web Experience Conference 5/16-5/19 in Orlando, FL, Perficient is presenting at three sessions including two with customers. TECH-B21 – You did What?  Avoid the Unacceptable and Make it Exceptional Tuesday, May 17th at 3:15 in conference room Ireland A Glenn Kline, Technical Director, […]

Sean Newby is a leading Senior Technical Architect at Perficient and periodically creates “Perficient Pointer” technical tutorials on the Perficient channel on YouTube.  His latest is a 4 part series on installing the trial version of WebSphere Portal 7 on a CentOS virtual machine. If you have trouble viewing the embeded video below, you can […]

This week I was working with one of my clients helping review their mobile strategy and it motivated me to do some additional research. The focus of the meeting was to prioritize business, marketing, and technology goals of mobile commerce. Through this work session some interesting questions came up such as is a mobile web […]

Everytime I read another article on mobile statistics I am more and more amazed.  This article at mobiThinking has some pretty amazing statistics covering mobile commerce, SMS, subscribers, and much more. Some of the key statistics that really jumped out at me are: Google makes about $1 billion annually in mobile ad revenues. There are […]

Client side aggregation using AJAX interactions seems to be a must have these days.  Everyone wants to be like iGoogle or pick your favorite client side aggregated site.  Now while this is wonderful for portal, it is not always appropriate to use and can severely impact performance.  For example, here is a high level typical […]

Personalization (PZN) in WebSphere Portal is one of its most powerful yet overlooked capabilities.  I am surprised how often it is not even considered for everyday scenarios and instead complex custom code is written .  Personalization is often for viewed as simply selecting content from Web Content Management (WCM) based on site areas and matching […]

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.

I was recently asked by IBM if we have integrated WebSphere Commerce and Lotus Connections. I don’t believe to date we have done this but it really got me thinking as to how exactly we would do it. Currently I have been leading an effort where we are integrating Commerce with a traditional J2EE / […]

Gartner has just released mobile device sales statistics for 2010 which just further confirm the importance of having a mobile strategy for portal, social, and collaborative solutions. The full article is here, but some key statistics are as follows: 1.6 billion units sold in 2010 Smartphone sales grew 72% Nokia still has a stranglehold on the […]