TechCrunch has an excellent post on the Twitter adoption cycle. I’ve certainly noticed the same pattern described there in my own use of Twitter. I signed up made sure it worked with a few friends, didn’t totally get it and gave up for a while. Reading blogs like TechCrunch let me know that lots of […]
John Bimson
With 8+ years of portal development, implementation, architecture, and strategy experience, John has amassed a wealth and variety of knowledge of the portal space. Having spent five years in the WebLogic Portal group at BEA, John has been on both sides of "the wall" dividing portal vendors from implementers. This knowledge of software products' inner workings gives him a unique perspective as he strives to get the best out of technologies applied to business problems. Since joining Perficient, John has been involved with several full-scale portal implementations, focusing on content integration and security. Now, in the National Portal Practice John works to guide clients' strategic portal direction, create new Perficient offerings, and keep apprised of the latest portal and web trends.
Blogs from this Author
Digital Natives and the Enterprise
While at the Gartner Portal and Collaboration Summit this week, I got the chance to ask one of Gartner’s analysts over breakfast (I’ll be liberally paraphrasing here) the following: “I hear all the time that the ‘Gen Y-ers or Millennials’ are going to be ‘demanding social software in the enterprise’ and companies had better get […]
Re: Why no Portlet Catalogs?
Mike, Your post got me thinking. The converse to your question is “why is any OOTB software used?” In particular, I think we should look at why so much OOTB desktop software is used. Why don’t people just roll their own word processors and email clients? I think we need to examine that to find […]
Getting Real Value from Web/Enterprise 2.0
As a someone who believes in the power of Web 2.0 technologies, I nevertheless get concerned when I hear companies start asking to “add Web 2.0” to their intra or internet sites. The first question I usually ask is “why?” It’s amazing how many companies want to press on ahead with Web 2.0 initiatives without […]
Open Text to Acquire Vignette
In case you missed it a few weeks ago, Open Text announced plans to buy Vignette for $310 million. The Austin American-Statesman has a nice write up on the deal and Vignette’s history here. Gartner believes that Vignette will continue to operate nearly autonomously as a subsidiary (read more here) with little integration into Open Text’s existing […]
Fun with Ajax (the ZKoss Framework)
A colleague recently turned me on to the ZKoss (ZK) Framework (http://www.zkoss.org/), and I have to say that I’m pretty pleased with it so far. It’s relatively simple to start up and get working, and it has a nice, rapid development model. It has some of the feel of jsps but gives you a lot […]
Downloading Older BEA Products
While working to help resolve some issues for a client, I discovered that finding older BEA products on Oracle’s download pages is not immediately obvious (finding the current versions is pretty easy). I figured out how to do it by following these steps: 1. Go to this page: http://edelivery.oracle.com 2. Click “Continue” 3. Fill out […]
Welcome From John
Mike and I are excited to get a new avenue in which to discuss the technologies that we work with on a daily basis. The opportunity to address portal and collaboration in this forum is a real thrill for us, and we expect this blog to be a fun, interactive way for us to […]