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Michael Porter

Mike Porter leads the Strategic Advisors team for Perficient. He has more than 21 years of experience helping organizations with technology and digital transformation, specifically around solving business problems related to CRM and data.

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Customer Facing Trends in Portal and Content Based Sites Webinar Tomorrow

Erin Eschen Maloney already blogged about this but it’s worth mentioning again.  I host a webinar tomorrow on seven trends in CXM.   It’s going to be interesting as Forrester notes the trends and I add what Perficient sees in the marketplace.  Register here.

Mobile Web Is Not What the Other Guy Says It Is

Chris Woodruff Yammered about a podcast where they debate the merits and intricacies of mobile web vs native app development.  The guest speaker is Chris Love who seems to know a thing or two about mobile, html5, web development etc.  It’s worth a listen. About This Episode In this episode, Keith and Woody sit down […]

Using a Modeling tool to capture UI Design Specs

Karen Bachman has a post out on our sister blog entitled, “UI Design Communication: General Approach and Tips for Axure”  It’s for anyone who has a dread of creating and/or reading design specs for front end systems (e.g . web sites or portals).  I love the idea of using a visualization tool to capture all […]

Changing the Collaboration Landscape

I just read an article at David Strom at ReadWrite Enterprise.   It’s titled, “How Lotus Notes Changed the Collaboration Landscape“.  The title is a bit of a misnomer.  It should really be, “A Short Review of Social Technologies and how They Will Change the Collaboration Landscape”.  Yeah, neither is all that catchy but the second […]

Books on X/HTML & CSS

Molly Malsam, who always has a variety of interesting posts, just published a short blog on some books helping you to figure out XHTML/CSS.  If you need to bone up, check out her recommendation and other books that might fit the bill. Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been looking over a number of […]

Books on X/HTML & CSS

Molly Malsam, who always has a variety of interesting posts, just published a short blog on some books helping you to figure out XHTML/CSS.  If you need to bone up, check out her recommendation and other books that might fit the bill. Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been looking over a number of […]

Jasig Portlet Catalog

I’ve blogged a couple times on portlet catalogs here and here.  There’s still no great solution or catalog out there.   However, I continue to see options in the marketplace.  One that Dave Jones pointed out to me is Jasig.   Jasig is an open source community committed to building higher education tools.  They have the uPortal […]

10 Tablets that Should Join the HP Touchpad

Categorize this under the funniest article I’ve seen in a while.  eWeek posted an article about the tablets that should die.  Some you may never have heard of but some are really well known.  When I read the list and then thought of popular tablets, it seems like the only tablet NOT on the list […]

New Whitepaper on Using TDI for IBM Connections

IBM Connections uses a tool called Tivoli Directory Integrator to push and pull profile information between Connections and a variety of different LDAP’s and systems (Peoplesoft HR for example).  It’s a powerful tool that can get a little complicated.  IBM just published a whitepaper on their developer worksweb site titled Understanding IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator […]

WebSphere Portal on IBM’s New Power 7 Processors

A few months ago Mark Polly and I did a sizing for Websphere Portal on IBM Power 7 processor.  In less than 24 hours IBM’s Techline came back with a sizing that was about 60% of what we were expecting to see. In other words, using Power 7 processors caused 40% reduction in the number […]

WebSphere Portal on IBM's New Power 7 Processors

A few months ago Mark Polly and I did a sizing for Websphere Portal on IBM Power 7 processor.  In less than 24 hours IBM’s Techline came back with a sizing that was about 60% of what we were expecting to see. In other words, using Power 7 processors caused 40% reduction in the number […]

Use of Activity Stream to Manage Your Day to Day Work

Perficient has used instant messaging almost since the inception of the company.  In many ways, we live and die by it.  However, instant messaging allows for quick answers from those you know and not from those you don’t know.  It’s a classic issue trying to be solved by social networking tools.  Recently, Yammer has come […]

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