Mark Polly

I recently posted an entry about the top technology trends of 2012 according to IBM.  Today, I’m linking to Perficient’s Health IT blog, where Jamie Churchill posted the Top 5 Technology Trends in Healthcare – November 2012. Why Health IT technology trends?  Well Jamie points out that two of the five top trends are Social Media […]

IBM recently released the 2012 edition of their annual Tech Trends Report. The 2012 Tech Trends Report is based on a survey of more than 1,200 professionals who make technology decisions for their organizations (22 percent IT managers, 53 percent IT practitioners and 25 percent business professionals). The respondents come from 16 different industries and […]

I was reading an article on CMSWire about HootSuite and Compendium teaming up to improve social marketing.  If you are not aware of either HootSuite or Compendium, briefly, HootSuite provides tools to manage your messaging on social networks and Compendium helps create content. What struck me in the article is an infographic provided by Compendium […]

Over on developerWorks, Thomas Hurek and Falk Posch just posted a new white paper titled: Administering IBM WebSphere Portal 8.0: A comprehensive workshop.  The document is over 130 pages long, so it covers a lot of areas in which portal administrators will be interested.  Here is a list of the topics: Introduction What is WebSphere Portal? […]

IBM has recently announced that WebSphere Portal 6.1 and 6.1.5 will be withdrawn from sales on November 14, 2012. This means you won’t be able to download those versions from IBM after that date. Now that date is not as important to current customers as is the date for when support will stop. IBM has […]

At the Liferay 2012 North America Conference Ed Chung, VP of Product Management, gave us an overview of what Liferay plans are for the next version of Liferay Portal, Social Office, and Sync. Below is the planned release schedule for 6.2.  Of course the timeline can change, but its the best guess at this point. Liferay […]

Typically, there are three ways to integrate external applications into a portal.  Below, I show these methods and describe how Liferay implements each option. Presentation Level iFrame – an iFrame portlet is included out of the box. Requires SSO to be in place. Authentication information can be supplied to the portlet, so the administrator would […]

Josh Asbury presented Liferay’s mobile capabilities this afternoon.  Josh is Director of Corporate Sales for Liferay. If you done any work on the mobile front, you know there are basically three approaches to mobile-enable your websites: Responsive Design – works on most devices and lower implementation costs, but can’t take advantage of the device features […]

SSO within Liferay can be implemented via SAML, OAuth, CAS or OpenID.  Liferay has supported CAS and OpenID for a couple of versions.  SAML is new in 6.1 and OAuth is in the development stage. Liferay Portal supports SAML 2.0 through a plug-in.  The plug-in is available for EE version and is not available in […]

Earlier this year, Liferay announced their Markeplace, where you could go to get applications for Liferay and also deliver applications for others. Application stores are becoming commonplace with Apple, Google, Blackberry all having app stores for their devices. IBM has long had their portlet catalog where developers could upload applications for WebSphere Portal. Liferay understands […]

I’m at the 2012 Liferay Symposium in San Francisco. Liferay is the company name and the name of its open source portal. Gartner rates Liferay as one of the leaders in the horizontal portal market and is the only open source product rated as a leader. Bryan Cheung. Liferay CEO presented the opening session this […]

Gartner has recently published the 2012 version of their Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals.  So far, I haven’t found the Gartner report on their reprint site and none of the vendors have provided links to it yet.  Here is the link to the report on Gartner’s site, but you’ll have to be a Gartner subscriber […]