Michael Porter

Lauren Wendel has posted on an upcoming Beta Education Session on IBM’s WebSphere Portal’s next generation.  Everyone is always worried about upgrade so this is your chance to get the early scoop. We’ve been very pleased to host collaborative education sessions that provide our Customer Experience Suite, WebSphere Portal, Web Content Manager and IBM Forms […]

Over on our Microsoft Blog, Rich Wood has a post on Planning Communities in Newsgator Sites. I’ll pop in a teaser but Rich does dive deeper. In general though, his best practices are applicable across all social sites.  Social tools of all types need to focus on communities as a way to share the information […]

Thanks to Dave Haye at his blog for this. IBM’s Connections products have supported widgets for a while.  IBM’s WebSphere Portal also has a widget portlet. That means you can write a widget that works on many platforms. I haven’t seen a lot of that until now.  Collaboration Factory has created several widgets that work […]

Interesting article at Techcrunch.  The only thing I’ll add is that supporting earlier versions of IE can be expensive. One clients wanted a web 2.0 interface with support for IE 6.  We told them it would increase the cost of the project significantly.  After we launched I sat down with the architect and learned that […]

Thanks to Dave Haye at a Portal to a Portal Blog for this. Copy Search conversion tools to local nodes to enable full indexing of data. The Search conversion tools make it possible to index Files and Wiki attachments. However, the conversion tools are initially deployed on a network share so you must copy them to each […]

Lee Burch, one of our extremely talented architects, gave me a writeup on “Using WPS style Resource Environment Providers with Spring”  He wanted to know where to post something like this and of course, my first thought is this blog.  His justification for posting this is that while it’s a common use case in the […]

Perficient just published a whitepaper authored by one of our Technical Architect in Indianapolis, Kyle Burns.   It’s titled, Microsoft Entity Framework for the Enterprise.  I’ll put the description below but for any who ask why my portal blog would care about something like that I say that more and more enterprise SharePoint implementations will accessing […]

Thanks for Erin Moloney for pointing this out to me.  Tara Clark at Business2Community.com has a quick post on the 5 ways you can harness the power of social tools.  I won’t steal her thunder by reposing everything but I will provide a quick list and then commentary on one item that stuck out at […]

As usual, Dustin Boscher, our visualization king, takes things to the next level when defining how to use visualization tools in a formal project setting. He has a post over on our BPM blog about where and how visualization fits. Check out the link for the text around it.  My only comment is that I […]

CRN has a short article about the latest update to Google Docs and better mobile support, especially for the Android.  While anyone who follows the mobile world won’t be surprised by the content, it’s probably a good time to reflect on larger implications…………………. One of my recent clients had taken a close look at Google […]

You could make a case for a number of resources being the most important to a project.  Off hand I could name five valid reasons why both project managers and portal architects are the most important.  Frankly, you can’t deliver a complex project without a team of people committed to the same goal.  That said, […]

Buried in some of the many announcements IBM puts out on a weekly basis, you will find that they just changed the entitlements for two of their baseline portal packages.  Both Portal Enable and Portal Extend now include the ability to use the profiles and file services from the social networking tool, IBM Connections.  Here’s […]