Michael Porter

Glenn Kline and I recently presented a session on some classic portal mistakes we’ve seen over the years.  We’ve decided to parse out the 12 mistakes into 12 days of posts on the topic.  Today, marks the first of these posts. What Happened I was working on a fairly large portal project at an insurance […]

Glenn Kline and I recently presented a session on some classic portal mistakes we’ve seen over the years.  We’ve decided to parse out the 12 mistakes into 12 days of posts on the topic.  Today, marks the first of these posts. What Happened I was working on a fairly large portal project at an insurance […]

John Rymer at Forrester has a very interesting blog post from back in January about the future of Java.  Oracle will definitely have an impact on the evolution of Java.  I agree with Mr. Rymer that the impacts will be felt more in the long term and that Java is on the path to becoming […]

We are going to be spending some time focusing on integration.  Inevitably people ask, “But can you integrate with product x, y, or z?”  Our answers is almost always yes with a lot of qualification.  Everyone wants out of the box integration that just works but no vendor ever really has a good answer.  Because […]

Jive announced yesterday that they acquired offisync.  Offisync make the integration with Microsoft Windows, Outlook, and Office as seamless as possible.   That’s a pretty strong move considering one of their competitors Teligent already has very strong Microsoft integration. I like the last part of the quote I pulled from their site the best, “Together, Jive […]

Jonathan Booth, an Architect who develops the Portlet Factory development tool at IBM, presented on how you can use Portlet Factory to create Mobile Applications.  I’m not going to blog the entire presentation but instead give some highlights and key bits of information on what and how they use it. My first impressions are that […]

BCBSF in many ways is the epitomy of a great web experience.  They have created a variety of valuable online tools that can be found via web sites, internally, and on mobile sites.  Lisa Crawford of BCBSF and Glenn Kline of Perficient went through how they maximize ROI at BCBSF. Where they were in 2008: […]

One of the most “with it” people we know here at Perficient is Lisa Crawford at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida (BCBSF). She has guided the project at her company to achieve phenomenal results for her business and to allow their members to save a lot of money while receiving the advice and care […]

We are at the Portal Excellence Conference which has now been appropriately renamed to the Web Experience Conference.  IBM is explicitly admitting that it takes more than just portal software to create a web experience so they’ve expanded the discussion to portal, web content management, search, web analytics, user experience, and a number of other […]

PriceWaterhouseCoopers, my first tech employer, posted an interview with Tom Conophy of the InterContinental Hotels Group.  It’s probably the best post I’ve read this year about the evolution of their mobile strategy and how they changed their culture to handle it.  It’s worth reading the entire post but here are a couple excerpts: Then the […]

PriceWaterhouseCoopers, my first tech employer, posted an interview with Tom Conophy of the InterContinental Hotels Group.  It’s probably the best post I’ve read this year about the evolution of their mobile strategy and how they changed their culture to handle it.  It’s worth reading the entire post but here are a couple excerpts: Then the […]

We hosted a webinar with IBM last week about Social Business: a New Way of Working.    Don Lewis of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota did a great job discussing what worked at his company and what tools they used to be successful.  The webinar is now available for replay. A couple of points you’ll […]