Michael Porter

This is part of my ongoing series on Horizontal vs Vertical Portals.   It’s the fifth post and fourth specific topic in the series.   Here’s the other: Series Intro UI Backend Search What do you mean by Multiple Sites? So almost everyone I talk to has a need for more than one site.  Many hospitals for […]

CRN has an article about how Microsoft is diving into the cloud with Windows Azure, partner cloud easy program, Office 365 and a host of other tools and programs.  Perficient’s Microsoft group has seen this first hand as well.  In some ways, it’s like when Microsoft dove into the web browser world and really got […]

I’m doing some research on all things branding and theming with IBM’s WebSphere Portal for a client.  I ran across this in depth article at Base 22.  Cody Burleson has taken a lot of time to document it so I thought I’d point some of you his way.   Cody has also compiled a list […]

Holly Nelson is guest blogging at IBM’s Social Business Insights blog.  She’s done a lot of research on consumer and business use of video.  It’s a two part post.  Check out day one and day two. I’m not going to repeat her entire post so it’s worth it to hit the pages just to get […]

I read a lot of different sources in my bid to stay relevant in this fast changing portal and social world.  John Prince had an interesting article on the butterfly effect as a guest blogger on the Oracle WebCenter blog.  He starts out by noting how very small changes have large impacts. He missed a bus […]

You may be interested in the other parts of this series: Kickoff UI Integration   Search lately has become very important to almost every single portal client.  Most users still complain about how bad the existing search is. They complain about it’s counter-intuitiveness.  They complain about how you can’t find anything. Really what they are […]

We’ve all either rated something or we have used ratings online to determine the quality of whatever it is we intend to buy or use (e.g. movies, consumer goods, books, etc.)  A great post at Quora asks the question about whether or not there is a better approach than a 5 star ratings system.  It’s […]

You may be interested in my other posts in this series Kickoff UI In this post, I want to focus on the back end integration.  No portal can act on its own.  Most portals need to make calls to various backend systems.  Some do it better than other. Vertical Portals with Integration Vertical portals have […]

Proving that security remains a key part of any mobile conversation, it looks like Apple will buy AuthenTec for $355 million.  It’s interesting that this came up via a SEC filing rather than a press release. I guess something that only represents $8/share for a $595/share company isn’t all that big a deal. Seriously though, […]

Erin Moloney flipped this to me via Healthcare Communication.  I’ve embedded the video and some text from the original post.  I’ll give my two cents afterward.   How do you excite hospital employees about an intranet redesign? Dartmouth-Hitchcock Center found a clever way. The center created a quirky video that follows the manager of its […]

So I started a series on whether you should take a look at vertical portal solutions for your industry or whether you should just go with a horizontal portal vendor.   Today I want to take a look at the user interface.  In many ways, the UI provides some of the highest value to end users […]

My second post on IBM’s new Ready for Social Business program is out.  I provide 5 reasons why the program provides value. IBM Business Partners can find value in: Market Differentiation: Participation in the program allows you to differentiate yourself.  Let’s face it.  IBM has thousands of business partners.  Other software vendors also have thousands […]