Michael Porter

I had a client ask me to give more advice on when to use a portal technology.  Obviously, a portal isn’t a fit for every single web site out there.  I typically look at four main categories: Content only or content heavy sites Mix of content and applications Some content and many applications stand-alone application […]

Thanks to Erin Moloney (@erine) for sending me the link. Bob Tinker, the CEO of MobileIron, has a nice article on Forbes.com about Mobile and IT,  He makes five great points as to why Mobile figured out IT. Mobile IT is interdisciplinary Mobile IT is fast Mobile IT is mult-platform Mobile IT is driven by […]

By far one of the biggest complaints I hear from clients is how hard it is to author and manage content.  There’s so much you can do to improve the authoring experience but it all starts with what the vendor provides.  Last month, IBM release a new content authoring homepage to the Solutions Catalog.  For […]

CRN has a list of the ten best open source projects of 2011.  I thought you all would find it interesting.  You should hit the entire presentation for why they made the top 10. 10.  Fedora 16 9.    Ubuntu 11.4 8.    OpenStack (Cloud solution) 7.    Asterisk 10 (Open Source VOIP) 6.   MYSQL 5.6 5.   Android […]

Baseline Magazine has an article about the purchase experience catching up to technology capabilities.  Personally, I think anything that improves checkout time is well worth the effort. his may soon change. Apple—which has already eliminated POS terminals in its stores and provides e-receipts—rolled out its EasyPay service on November 8. It allows customers to scan […]

@ansmt tweeted about this and I found it interesting.  IBM has a Redpaper out about caching using IBM Portal and DataPower XC10.  Many may think of a portal as a vibrant community with lots of changing content, ratings, tags, and applications.  However, the reality is that most sites these days have some level of content […]

Mark Polly has blogged on IBM Content Template Catalog (CTC) before here and here.  I found an interesting video that shows what Mark described.  This also highlights the integration of WCM to Portal.  

Mark Polly has blogged on IBM Content Template Catalog (CTC) before here and here.  I found an interesting video that shows what Mark described.  This also highlights the integration of WCM to Portal.  

IBM has a YouTube of Wheaton Worldwide’s presentation and case study.  Their portal includes key content and a learning management system integrated to the portal.  But the new functionality really integrated their business functions into the portal.  That’s what I really like about this case study. Wheaton’s portal enables their business and uses the web […]

eWeek has an interesting slideshow out about a slew of new or upgraded tools from Google.   Leave it to Google to improve on things like Maps while continuing to forge into realms unknown like Big Data. Here’s the short list: BigQuery Google Maps API: Drawing Library sfntly Google Calendar API version 3 Google Closure Style […]

Every now and again either I, Mark Polly, or Jonathan Distad hit the topic of collaboration and whether there is value in collaboration tools or not.  I’ve heard plenty of detractors or at least those who question it.  (not necessarily a bad thing).  Anyway, Erin Eschen Moloney (@erine) pointed me to this article about what […]

Like many of you, we often wonder how good our two year portal roadmap really is at predicting the future.  Today, our Perficient project team and our client Mike in New York City happened upon the perfect way to double check our work…………………..