Michael Porter

IBM continues to enhance and refresh their software product related to Portal and Collaboration.   They have a couple releases coming in the next few days.  Forms is about to release version 4.0 and Quickr has a point release in 8.5.1. Lotus Forms 4.0 I’m a big fan of forms software, especially when it’s paired with […]

Almost two months ago I posted on rich internet application (RIA) options.  Silverlight was one of those we covered.  What was interesting to note is that Microsoft supports multiple platforms with Silverlight so it’s not just a windows play.  You can use it with a variety of browsers and with Linux, Mac, etc.  It is […]

I recently published an article about the top 5 portal project resources. That got me to thinking about who is important to a social software project.  Social software projects are a bit different from your typical portal endeavor.  First off, the technology is much more out of the box.   Social Software gives you tools […]

Projects get done because people complete all tasks necessary to launch.  Projects get done on time because the resources assigned to a project are both accountable and competent.  A tpyical portal project can have something like 15-20 different roles.  When I name a top 5 it’s not because I don’t value the other roles, it’s […]

Danielle Cooley, a UX expert and someone who used to work for Perficient, posted on 5 things that can kill an online community Community websites have come a long way since we first stumbled upon chatboards, posted our questions and marveled at the influx of information. Today’s online communities are beautiful to look at and […]

More and more companies are using twitter, facebook, and other tools to find dissatisfied users and fix their problems.  Mashable has defined their top 5.

I recently blogged about content management in portals. Chris DeBracy, one of the lead architects in our Oracle practice gave me some additional information about how Oracle’s Web Center Suite integrates Oracle UCM (the old Stellent product). There are all kinds of ways to display UCM content in WebCenter Suite using little or a lot […]

For most people who look at IBM’s social software product, one of the first questions asked is, “How can I customize this to fit my needs?”  Usually those questions focus on branding, adding in extra top level navigation, federating the search, and adding in widgets on the home and other pages.  IBM released a white […]

So I’ve used the analogy of a portal being like a swiss army knife first introduced by Gene Phifer from Gartner.  It’s a great analogy because a portal site isn’t really about the portal.  It’s about what the portal does.  It’s about the pieces a portal brings together.  Let me give you an example.  I […]

While presenting on portal 101, I touched on mobile portals and made the comparison of that phone in your pocket being more powerful than desktops from not that long ago.   That comment got me to thinking about just how well they compare.  I found an article at tech autos about smart phone processors that has […]

Oracle announced their intention to buy ATG about a week ago.  For a while now we’ve seen legacy ATG sites converting to content management, portal and other commerce systems.  We still find plenty of admins saying you will have pry that software from their hands.  We also find plenty of users needing to upgrade as […]

When you start work on your latest project, chances are that you will spend a large amount of time trying to make sure you understand what the business wants.  It will most likely involve mockups of some sort.  Here’s the old way of doing things: Use Visio for a snapshot in time approach.  It can […]