Michael Porter

Thanks for John Spyers for pointing this out to me.  I’ve heard a lot lately about the “contextual” experience.  By that I mean, an up to the minute completely personalized experience based on more than just what a company knows about you.  Now you can take into account all of the usual items like how […]

So I’m not the cloud guy within Perficient but let’s face it, everything I see within my portal, web content, social, and marketing automation world has some cloud component.  Let me give you some examples: We see more and more requests to host IBM Portal and IBM WCM on an easy to manage external entity. […]

As anyone who has followed the Digital Marketing world knows, Oracle bought Eloqua, Responsys, and Compendium. They all form the Oracle Marketing cloud although they haven’t gone through a lot of integration.  Oracle announced some information on the alignment of product release cycles and other updates. PC World has an article about it. Oracle is […]

As anyone who has followed the Digital Marketing world knows, Oracle bought Eloqua, Responsys, and Compendium. They all form the Oracle Marketing cloud although they haven’t gone through a lot of integration.  Oracle announced some information on the alignment of product release cycles and other updates. PC World has an article about it. Oracle is […]

CRN has an article on five signs of a PC exodus.  Given all the stats we’ve seen on the dominance of mobile, I’m not surprised.  Here are a couple mobile stats to consider before I list the five signs.                           And now the […]

Mark Polly (@markapolly) and I (@porteronportal)  presented here at IBM Connect on Healthcare Portals.  It’s a huge subject so we chose to focus on 5 things you absolutely must do when interacting with your consumers, patients, or members.  Here’s the slideshare.

Bill Pappalardo and Tim Reilly spoke about the work they’ve done with a portal at Tufts Health Plan. About Tufts They are the second largest health care plans in MA with over one million members. They are ranked by NCQA one of the top health plans for the past nine years. As part of this: […]

  Setting it all up Who are we trying to secure against? Think of millions of people and thousands of companies in hundreds of countries Who? Script Kiddies Hackers/Thieves Industrial Espionage Terrorist Most aren’t trying to protect themselves from state agencies.  They have vast intercept networks and the capability to break through most security Here’s […]

Chris Crummey (@ccrummey) is probably the most adept presenter on the whole experience in using the IBM tools. He gets what makes people successful and incorporates that into how he works.  So it’s a good session. Here’s what makes you successful:   Types of people: My social strategy is to have a blog (feature)  You […]

Mikkel Heisterberg presented on a deeper dive into Connections Activity Stream.  The Activity Stream in social represents a tool with high potential to make interaction easier and to get into what is most important to you.  This session focused on what it is and how to interact with it.  It was a pretty technical session […]

Jeff Schick is the VP of Social Software at IBM and he led us through where social is going.           The first thing to know is that Connections is now rebranded.  It’s all an integrated solution.  Mail, meetings, docs, etc.  It’s all part of the Connections brand.  Given what we just […]

Jeff Schick is the VP of Social Software at IBM and he led us through where social is going.           The first thing to know is that Connections is now rebranded.  It’s all an integrated solution.  Mail, meetings, docs, etc.  It’s all part of the Connections brand.  Given what we just […]