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So I should keep up better on what Perficient is posting.  Shivam Kullar on the Communications Blog posted a short reference to an article on design challenges. As you all know, large sites have load that any corporate business would die for.  Read her take and the original article for more.

For anyone planing on going to the Portal Excellence Conference in July 2010, registration is open.  Perficient will be there and we should be presenting  in at least a couple sessions.

So a while back you heard that eXo was integrating their portal with JBoss.  I just read that they raised additional funds for their portal and content management platforms.  Interesting that I didn’t see either JBoss or eXo at the Gartner conference. Liferay was there in force and there was buzz about them whenever open […]

So cloud has different meanings for different people. Not surprisingly, consumers have a different perspective than IT. What is driving the cloud?  It’s all coming out of web 2.0.  Web 2.o continues to improve and mature.  Technology like REST and Ajax help it.  The user or community based paradigms get better. Portal and the Cloud […]

The keynote at the Thursday session of the Gartner Portal conference highlighted three companies and their use of new technologies.  It included Joel Graves, CIO of Stratus; Bill Hurley, CTO of Westcon Group; and Walt Oswald, VP IT of Motorola Mobile Devices.  Each had different reasons to move to cloud type services but were successful […]

Gene Phifer and Jim Murphy gave an interesting presentation on the portal of the future.  It incorporated a number of things Gene has been saying about portals for a while as well as some new concepts.  I’ll give Gene this, his “follow me anywhere” portal is getting closer to reality as we see more and […]

So Andrew McAffee, Harvard Professor and generally well known internet guru spoke at the Gartner Portal Conference.  He spoke on Enterprise 2.0 and had a number of interesting observations.   I think he does the best job of capturing the value of this social software revolution.   It starts with the definition of Enterprise 2.0 […]

Tom Austin spoke on Enterprise 2.0 and his views on how it will be implemented successfully for both internal and external audiences. While Web 2.0 brought into the enterprise may work in some circumstances, in it’s current state, it may bomb.  It may really be about bringing the enterprise to Web 2.0. Where Can Enterprise […]

Gartner highlighted the CIO of  Sesame Workshop, Noah Broadwater.  What’s interesting is the sophistication of their network of sites and content.  Here are some highlights: Use Liferay for portal. Scales nicely and they contribute to the open source community Heavily use Flash and are starting to create Adobe Air applications Use Akamai to stream content […]

Debra Logan gave some insights on what social software means to the KM world.   I find this interesting because we all talk about capturing and using the knowledge inherent in our organizations………….we just do a lousy job of implementing it.  I think it has to do with both the tools we used previously and with […]

Gartner is holding their Portal and Collaboration Conference this year in Baltimore.  Since this is one of the few conferences I attend where I am simply here to listen, I should be able to make a number of posts.  The first keynote is always interesting.   Tom Austin of Gartner always leads off and gives some […]

So I found this from Dave Jones who pointed me to Stuart McIntyre’s blog.  I’ll give them credit but then point straight to the You Tube video about why business should be thinking about Web 2.0.