Michael Porter

So not that anyone is still running an old version of software out there like Websphere Portal 5.1.  But if you have any doubts or concerns, then this is the page for you. http://www-01.ibm.com/software/support/lifecycle/ Thanks to Craig Pessman for the link.

In doing some research, I found a post from the LinkedIn WebSphere Portal group that points to Joe Lennon’s article in developerWorkson DOJO.  It’s actually three separate articles. I thought they would be good to pass along. Update: thanks to Wayne MacKirdy for cathing link issues.  Links are good to go now. Dojo from the […]

So we in the software world have it easy.  We don’t have to beg for $$ to update physical facilities.  I’ve seen enough offices to see how facilities become outdated and even run down.  So I recently had the chance to go to a client who had some new facilities and it got me to […]

Jonathan Distad and I are presenting on this topic.  We are seeing a lot of interest in this across all technologies and portal types. Social business is in the process of changing a variety of businesses and even business models.  It’s not just a marketing or corporate communications play.  Employees and third parties throughout your […]

So Microsoft and Nokia have announced a new partnership.  I was wondering what Nokia would do to step onto the highway of the smartphone revolution.  They had a platform but at least in the United States, it hasn’t proven popular.  A thanks to Liza for tweeting it.  Here’s a few details: Under the proposed partnership: […]

I’ve started to see a trend in the ever changing world of Mobile development.  In a lot of ways, it looks like the wild west days of the early .com era (Yes, that dates me.)  I believe that the solutions will mature and in 3-4 years the solutions will consolidate and mobile phone and tablets […]

David Jones put me onto this article by Bex Huff on collaboration.   I think he and Clay Shirky who he references have gotten it right. For example… I want you to imagine that a little old lady is walking up to you on the street. She makes direct eye contact, and gestures that she […]

When you offer a social networking tool to the market.  When your market is geared towards businesses that have to worry about security, policies, and government regulation, you cannot just copy consumer oriented tools.  Mac Guidera and Joseph Liu spent some time walking through some of the capabilities from a compliance and auditing perspective in […]

When I look at Forms products I see a huge return on investment especially if it can be paired with an easy to use workflow tool.  Just as the market continues to evolve, IBM continues to work on their Forms tools. What’s New IBM renamed it to IBM Forms.  It is now the Forms tool […]

OK, so portal governance can be a bit of a dry topic but I think it’s important I think others find it important based on the 100 or so people in attendance and the questions.  Anyway, we have posted my presentation on slideshare.

I attended a session on the various products IBM offers and how they interact with Exchange, Sharepoint, etc.  My reality is that no company is a completely homogeneous entity.   I typically see multiple vendors and a large overlap of solutions.  But when you talk collaboration, you want your email system to work with your […]

So many of you are familiar with RACI.  It’s a way to track roles and responsibilities in an organization. From a portal governance perspective that can come in pretty handy.  During my Lotusphere Presentation, I showed an example RACI spreadsheet and offered it to anyone who wanted it.  Here it is. Portal Roles and Services […]