Michael Porter

The keynote took the form of a Jeopardy game with IBM’s Watson at the center. this let Sue, Gene Phifer, and Tom Austin take time to address topics during the questions. Sue – The fusion of technology will bring a huge change and value It’s the fusion of the technology that’s coming to the board […]

Mark Polly and I are at the Gartner Portal and Collaboration conference.  It’s always good to understand what trends they see and talk to other people with similar interests.  We’ll be blogging from the various sessions that start in a little over an hour.

You may know eXo from their partnership with JBoss Enterprise Portal. They provided significant content management capabilities to enhance the portal.  They continue to head down what seems to be a unique route with their portal, content, collaboration, and SOA platform.   They are also diving into the cloud with a fury. CMSWire has an article […]

ITEC Connect has an article about facebook choosing to go with a microserver architecture instead of hordes of virtual servers.  If so, that’s one major player bucking the trend.  However, a microserver from a facebook perspective seems to have a lot of similarity with why people choose virtual servers: Easy to add resources Flexibility Plug […]

For those of you familiar with OpenSSO / OpenAM, you probably know the online documentation is mediocre and that there exists few other options to ramp on this technology.  Packt Publishing sent me a free copy or ecopy of the OpenAM book since I had blogged about OpenSSO earlier.   The book by Indira Thangasamy (LinkedIn […]

I like this sort of thing mainly because I hear business users number one complaint, “Why do you make it so hard to create my content?”    The technology has improved to the point where we can do something about it.  Now we just need to focus on more than bits and bytes. Ephox is holding […]

Via a tweet by our Microsoft fellows at Perficient, CMS Wire has a short post out about five things you can do to make your migration successful.  The key theme seems to be that you need to make it an enterprise solution and put some thought into it.

Most portals have a lot of functionality. When you take a portal like IBM’s WebSphere Portal, there is a huge amount of functionality both for use by the business people who manage the portal and by the people who make manage the “guts” of the thing.   You might only use a small portion of what […]

Via LinkedIn from Adam Ginsburg, IBM Product Manager is a YouTube video showing how to create a simple status update app on your portal. The status update would query and write to Lotus Connections, Twitter, and Facebook.  You gotta love the open API that lets you do this. I also love the way they use […]

So I’ve seen a significant uptick in Adobe tools being used in portal and collaboration projects as well as Adobe being considered as a platform.  That’s no surprise given what they have acquired and what they’ve been investing in R&D. Whether it be Day Software for web content management, Omniture for web analytics, or continuing […]

TED has posted a great video on how MIT researcher Deb Roy filmed the first years of his son and how he was able to trace the birth of a word.   It’s a very interesting exercise to take all that video/audio and correlate it to how and when kids learn words.   My focus on this […]

This may be a portal blog but in at least 4/5 of our projects, we hit a services layer.  We need that data and those transactions to meet user requirements.  So I’m always interested in what’s happening in the middleware fields.  Anyway, eWeek has an article about IBM flexing their middleware muscle while setting new […]