Michael Porter

Options IBM Workload Deployer – hardware appliance. Formerly cloudburst appliance.  It’s a bring your own infrastructure IBM SmartCloud Application Services. It’s a Managed PaaS Pure Systems Workload Deployer It consists of hardware, workload deployer function, IBM middleware images and patterns.  It can connect to VMWare. It essentially controls all you virtual systems.  Makes it easy […]

IBM has had a cloud based social product in Lotus Live / IBM SmartCloud for Social Business for several years. It’s had problems with lack of integration and lack of feature parity with it’s Connections sibling.  I’ve heard multiple times this week that those problems are about to be resolved with a “Cloud First” strategy. […]

IBM has had a cloud based social product in Lotus Live / IBM SmartCloud for Social Business for several years. It’s had problems with lack of integration and lack of feature parity with it’s Connections sibling.  I’ve heard multiple times this week that those problems are about to be resolved with a “Cloud First” strategy. […]

I saw an interesting session on how to combine the power of site management, web analytics, and digital marketing.  It was given by: Rob Enright – Strategist Portal Customer Experience Management Daniel Tabor – Product Manager IBM Marketing Center I liked what I saw although I have some serious questions on how the integration works. […]

Rob Will, Chief Architect for the Portal platform at IBM, always has a wealth of information about the product and where they are going.  He presented on the platform strategy and roadmap.  Here’s the session notes. Have been in the portal business for about 13 years.  A lot has changed in that time.  Today, portals […]

I’m breaking up my posts because there was so much content and they categorize themselves quite nicely.  Smarter Workforce is part of IBM’s strategy to redefine the idea of an intranet.  Rather than fight competitors in an increasingly commoditized intranet tools market, they want to employ tools like Kenexa and predictive analytics to take intranets […]

We are here at IBM’s Connect Conference and IBM has a lot to announce and very specific focus on taking both the Customer Web Experience and the Smarter workforce to the next level.  Here’s part two. First, some stats: Attendance up 10% More than twice the number from Marketing and Communications 57% of CEO believe […]

We are here at IBM’s Connect Conference and IBM has a lot to announce and very specific focus on taking both the Customer Web Experience and the Smarter workforce to the next level.  Here’s part two. First, some stats: Attendance up 10% More than twice the number from Marketing and Communications 57% of CEO believe […]

Other Keynote Posts: Part 2 Smarter Commerce Part 3 Smarter Workforce and Watson Joseph Gordon-Levitt spoke as the “famous speaker”.  He’s the actor from Looper, Third Rock from the Sun, etc.  He started his open collaborative production company called HitREcord.  Has now screened work at Sundance, South by Southwest, put out anthologies, put out DVD’s, […]

IBM released the first update to Portal and Web Content Manager since their major release of Portal 8 back in September 2012.  They announced the release on on Friday January 25th.  Here’s a brief overview of what they released and we’ll get more detail throughout the week.  I should note that this release is in […]

Perficient just published an interview about social networking and social media trends.  The video is embedded but you can find the video here.

Many of you may have read in Wired that Google wants to find ways to authenticate without the old messy username and password approach. Google agrees. “Along with many in the industry, we feel passwords and simple bearer tokens such as cookies are no longer sufficient to keep users safe,” Grosse and Upadhyay write in […]