Michael Porter

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised about Oracle buying another company.  Endeca has a great search engine.  Years ago, mostly commerce sites running WebSphere Commerce and ATG used it but recently a lot of other companies have used them because they make faceted search easy.  I’ll be curious to see how this Oracle acquisition affects […]

Thanks to Erin Moloney (@erine) for a link to this.  Technology Review published by MIT has an article about the U.S. government’s National Institute of Standards and Technology creating a standard definition  and a Cloud Computing Reference Architecture.  In and of itself that’s not much news.  However, I did like the definitions of cloud which […]

So I continue to work with a wide range of companies and of course, the people in those companies.  That gives me an anecdotal view into who is choosing a tablet over a laptop, desktop, or other computer.  The answers may not surprise you. So without giving away any sources, let me give you my […]

I recently participated in a great webinar with Stephen Powers of Forrester.  We highlighted seven trends that are in the process of changing the game when it comes to customer and partner sites and what you should be doing to not get left behind. btwe, his picture in the link above looks nothing like him […]

Adam Harmetz, Mike Mahon, and Ryan McVeigh gave a deep dive in CMIS.  Adam and Ryan are members of the OASIS committee so they gave a good overview of what it is and how it can make life easier. What is CMIS 6 is the average number of ECM repositories in a company.  Over 50% […]

I heard Eric Harlan and Mark Rackley talk about best practices with JQuery and Sharepoint JQuery Overview What It’s that client side middle tier thing It’s a Javascript utility library available at JQuery.com Lots of third parties libraries are available to enhance your sites Why Using it will improve your user experience You don’t have […]

Glenn Kline posted on the portal 8 beta not long ago. Mark Polly has also been actively checking it out. I just got some more news on it as well.  IBM has an active open beta available to a variety of companies and firms.  Since this is probably the most comprehensive list I’ve seen so […]

I saw a good presentation on knowledge communities.  The speaker, Jim Kane, gave a good overview.  Before I go into notes let me note his one key best practice: ” Don’t just use a template. A template will fail.”  He makes a great point that it’s about much more than just the technology. The Problem […]

Since this is the week for Sharepoint’s conference, I thought I would track the news from the conference. Quick hits and info: Microsoft has sold 125 million licenses of sharepoint Sharepoint 2010 has sold 62 million licenses so far SharePoint by itself would be one of the top 50 software firms 67% of firms have […]

I just read an article passed on by Erin Eschen Moloney.  It’s a great article by Paul Hagen of Forrester. In the article, he notes his belief that the customer experience is just as important to insurance companies and others whose customers are businesses as for the likes of Disney.   It’s important enough to translate […]

Perficient and Wheaton will discuss what they’ve done with portal for a lot of self service tools.  Self Service is where you gain a lot of value and ROI.  Jerrod Carter, Wheaton’s CIO will present with Mike Cronin of Perficient and Craig Pessman of IBM.  It’s worth attending the webinar. Attend this webcast on October […]

So Amazon just introduced a new device called the Kindle Fire which is an Android based 7 inch tablet.  At $199, the price makes it worth looking at. However, I think a number of people will miss perhaps an even bigger story. Amazon released Amazon Silk at the same time. Amazon Silk is a cloud […]