Michael Porter

IBM earlier released what they term LotusLive.  It’s really a large number of capabilities moved onto a hosted platform with a fair amount of hooks into it.  It’s part of a larger strategy to move into Software as a Service (SaaS).  You can get a lot of information and comparison directly from their web site.   […]

So John and I try to keep track of the larger world in portal and collaboration.   The world is not sitting still with changes both major and minor coming up.  Lotus has announced their latest version of their team space product, Quickr version 8.2.  It comes with a number of enhancements: Lotus Connections Files and […]

So it’s been a bit since I last published and I have a number of things to put out.  The first piece of news is that my collaborative writing with Alan Weintraub has produced another article on AIIM Magazine.  It’s titled, Collaboration: What’s Your Strategy.  This is the second of four articles.  We are almost […]

So it’s been a bit since I last published and I have a number of things to put out.  The first piece of news is that my collaborative writing with Alan Weintraub has produced another article on AIIM Magazine.  It’s titled, Collaboration: What’s Your Strategy.  This is the second of four articles.  We are almost […]

Alan Weintraub and I just published the first of four collaboration articles.   Our main theme is that collaboration provides value when it bends to what the users need and cuts across different ways of collaborating.  Got to AIIM’s magazine for the full article.

JSR 329 is a new standard in the Java community.   Many refer to it as the Portlet 2.0 standard.   It deals with JSR 286 portlets and JSF.  That’s about as technical as I can get these days.  I can post more once I ask a couple of smart programmers the what and why of this.  […]

Tim O’Reilly has an interesting article about what the next generation of government services could be. In one of my prep calls with Craig Mundie, he pushed forcefully for the idea that killer apps drive platform adoption. It strikes me that the killer app may already be here; we just don’t give the government enough […]

Tim O’Reilly has an interesting article about what the next generation of government services could be. In one of my prep calls with Craig Mundie, he pushed forcefully for the idea that killer apps drive platform adoption. It strikes me that the killer app may already be here; we just don’t give the government enough […]

While Microsoft may have posted a revenue decline recently, Sharepoint has grown as part of the revenue spread and is a key part of Microsoft’s strategy. It can’t do everything. Executives at Microsoft will readily admit that the bits and pieces of SharePoint lack the more sophisticated features found in products from specialist software makers. […]

IBM has been steadily working on their Social Software product, “Lotus Connections”   I like a lot of the concepts in it and love the profiles and shared activities modules.   The product is definitely one to consider when looking at Social Software.   Version 2.5 is out and their blog just released a Reviewers Guide which does […]

McKinsey has survey results and write-up out on How Companies are Benefiting from Web 2.0. It’s pretty thorough. Don’t forget to check out the interactive charts. They pack a lot of information in a small but easily readable space.

Almost every single portal project requires that you surface a variety of content in different formats.  Most groups that address content run into a number of issues or start with some mis-conceptions about content on portal.   While not every company to create a portal has every single mis-conception, you’d be surprised how much sharing is […]