Michael Porter

With the upcoming September 1, 2010 release of WebSphere Portal comes a new version of WCM.  Actually, the largest changes in the new release come from WCM.  The UI is very different and much easier to use.  They’ve put a lot of thought in making this something that really works for you.  For example, a […]

Rob Will, the Chief Architect for WebSphere Portal gave an overview of what’s new.  Portal 7 is out as of September 1, 2010 so this is the latest and greatest. Portal’s base purpose still hasn’t changed. It’s all about getting the right functionality to the user in whatever context they may be in.  Portal just […]

Rob Will, the Chief Architect for WebSphere Portal gave an overview of what’s new.  Portal 7 is out as of September 1, 2010 so this is the latest and greatest. Portal’s base purpose still hasn’t changed. It’s all about getting the right functionality to the user in whatever context they may be in.  Portal just […]

Whenever you have a form, you more than likely also need a workflow.  I would bet that 70% of the time a human based workflow would be sufficient and that 30% of the time you need a tool that handles both human workflow (review the form, make changes, and approve it) as well as computer […]

Brian Chang gave a demo on the vision of Portal and Project Northstar. (e.g. demo of websphere portal) Mike’s commentary. The following is a little disjointed but it’s a demo of what the vision of a future portal might be where it’s easy to change up the site and personalize it. It’s easy to integrate […]

Larry is the executive over portal.  He’s been with WebSphere Portal for many, many years and is known as the grandfather of portal within IBM. The number of portal customers keeps growing. IBM’s portal strategy has been consistent with base portal, snap on accelerators, and then industry toolboxes. Move up and get more complete functionality. […]

I’m here at the Portal Excellence Conference and Blogging the Keynote. John Murphy – Gartner Portal Unbound – the Next Generation Web, the User Experience, and the Future of the Portal Jim believes there is a perpetual role for portal. Portal is NOT a dead market. Architecture and Customer Engagement are the primary issues Jim […]

John Bimson and I are going to be at the Portal Excellence Conference in Chicago next week. You can expect a lot of blogging while we are there. Visit us at Booth #307 if you’re there!

So I found an interesting article on what IBM’s acquisition of Coremetrics means.  From the article: Tools such as Omniture Insight and Webtrends Segments offer significant analytical and visualisation capabilities but leave much to be desired in terms of modelling and future trending. Google Analytics is only starting to address these issues scraping the surface […]

So I found an interesting article on what IBM’s acquisition of Coremetrics means.  From the article: Tools such as Omniture Insight and Webtrends Segments offer significant analytical and visualisation capabilities but leave much to be desired in terms of modelling and future trending. Google Analytics is only starting to address these issues scraping the surface […]

IBM announced on June 15th that they acquired Coremetrics, the web analytics company.  This is interesting because in the portal world it’s no longer about portal as an employee tool but portal as a customer or partner/channel tool.  Once that occurred, people started demanding much more information about what’s happening in the portal.  Where it […]

IBM Just released their newest version of Lotus Quickr with some significant enhancements for the J2EE version. My personal opinion is that this is a good enough set of enhancements to consider installing now rather than waiting a bit. IBM’s new version of Lotus Quickr social software that was made available today allows community and […]