Michael Porter

Erin Eschen put me on to an interesting article Krishnan Subrumanian cloudcave.  The premise of the article is that things like open source and the cloud started out small and at the lower end of organizations and then built up a very respectable set of users………many times taking management by surprise. Here’s two cents on […]

Many of you have heard about the Oracle lawsuit against Google’s use of Java.  Server Side has an interesting take on where this is headed. A win-win situation It’s a win-win situation for everyone involved. Google gets to put an end to the lawsuit craziness simply by using their deep pockets to buy their way […]

So lately I’ve seen a lot of interest in what content management product to use with specific portals.  Most portal products give you some form of web content management to make life easier in building your portal site.  The supplied WCM tools range from simple to richly functional.   You could choose to use a completely […]

So lately I’ve seen a lot of interest in what content management product to use with specific portals.  Most portal products give you some form of web content management to make life easier in building your portal site.  The supplied WCM tools range from simple to richly functional.   You could choose to use a completely […]

IBM has released the latest version of their mobile portal product. I had the chance to sit in on a session describing updates to the product.  Here are some notes on what’s in the upgrade: The key value points comes from re-use of content across multiple form factors and from re-use of WebSphere Portal since […]

IBM has released the latest version of their mobile portal product. I had the chance to sit in on a session describing updates to the product.  Here are some notes on what’s in the upgrade: The key value points comes from re-use of content across multiple form factors and from re-use of WebSphere Portal since […]

Hot on the heels of their latest portal release is the latest update to the mobile portal that runs on top of WebSphere Portal.  Here’s the press release. IBM® Mobile Portal Accelerator 7.0 software (formerly IBM WebSphere® Everyplace® Mobile Portal Enable software) is an integrated, server-side infrastructure offering that enables the design and deployment of […]

So everyone wants a really cool looking web application these days.  They want it to look good. They want the interface to meet or beat the application interfaces you use on your desktop and the want it to be fast.  There exists a number of options that you can use. They include: AJAX, Adobe Flash/Flex, […]

I’ve blogged on how to surface portlets before.  I wanted to hit the topic again because this question comes up time and time again.  When should you link to a site, use WSRP, iframe it, create a custom portlet from scratch, etc.   The answer is it depends.   Before you make a decision, you need some […]

So it’s October and we have hit the last 3 months of the year.  In looking back, I see a lot portal activity in the vendors who are still active in the portal space.  Almost every single vendor has had a major portal release this year.   Here’s a quick run down: IBM IBM released […]

OK, this is really focusing on ECM and I blog about Portal & Collaboration.  But really, when you are in the portal world, you have to integrate to everyone and everything.  Besides, everything this article says about ECM has some applicability to a mobile portal. Mobile: The Next Frontier for Enterprise Content Management The winning […]

So what IBM has been calling by the codename of Northstar has been officially unveiled.  It’s now the Customer Experience Suite. Online transactions continue to grow at a rapid pace.  Today, eight out of 10 consumers shop online at least twice a week. ABI Research estimates there will be 20 times more data and 40 […]