Mark Polly

I’m working with a new client who is asking “Why Portal?”  I checked our archives and my colleague Mike Porter posted a blog entry a couple of years ago on the many features common in portals (See Why a Portal).  But Mike’s post did not answer this particular client’s question.  What I needed was a […]

At Perficient, we view governance as a critical piece of a portal implementation.  We often recommend building out your governance model early in a portal project to avoid many of the pitfalls that we see when governance is an afterthought.  In fact, we have been brought into many clients to help fix a poor portal […]

I came across this article: ECM + WCM = Your Portal Strategy by Kimberly Samuelson. I might be jaded or maybe its because I work so closely with capital-p Portals, but I can’t agree that a portal strategy consists of simply blending Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Web Content Management (WCM).  To me a Portal […]

Wow, it has been crazy busy here at Perficient lately.  That’s good for us, but bad for getting blog posts out in a timely fashion.  I came across SharePoint: Is It Worth Using as a Collaboration Tool? posted by Joe Shepley (@joesphepley) at CMS Wire on March 29, 2011.  In that article, Mr. Shepley argues […]

I just had a white paper published on IBM DeveloperWorks that shows how to implement a Dojo DataGrid within WebSphere Portal.   Here ia link to the article titled:  Implementing a Dojo dataGrid in IBM WebSphere Portal applications. In the whitepaper, I show you how to create a basic grid using an ItemFileWriteStore.  I also discuss […]

I just came across a couple of aritcles on CMSWire about problems with SharePoint on mobile devices.  I wasn’t really aware that SharePoint had trouble on mobile devices, but apparently there is some love-loss between Sharepoint and the newer tablets.  Apparently SharePoint takes advantage of an attribute (contentEditable) that is not available in the iPad’s […]

I just read a great post on the Collaboration Soapbox blog by Louis Richardson titled “How to get your head out of your inbox“.  In the article Richardson explains how he is using social networking tools to reduce the amount of email he receives.  The basic concept is this:  when you get a piece of […]

In a previous post, I talked about Gartners prediction of a “seismic shift” in the portal market.  In one of the last session of the Gartner Portal, Content & Collaboration 2011 Summit, Gene Phifer spoke about the future of portals.  Gene is convinced that the portal market (and mashup market) will be “subsumed” by a […]

Is the User Experience Platform (UXP) the replacement for portal?  UXP is not an existing product or market, but Gene Phifer of Gartner expects it to come by 2015.  Gartner thinks there is a “seismic market shift” coming for portal products, mashups and content management. So what is a User Experience Platform? Or better yet, […]

Is the User Experience Platform (UXP) the replacement for portal?  UXP is not an existing product or market, but Gene Phifer of Gartner expects it to come by 2015.  Gartner thinks there is a “seismic market shift” coming for portal products, mashups and content management. So what is a User Experience Platform? Or better yet, […]

The collaboration market is on fire, which creates risks and opportunities for companies.  When and where should you place your bets on these technologies?  Social software in the consumer market has taken off like gangbusters.  740 million people use Facebook and we’ll get to one billion soon. These collaboration technologies are making inroads into businesses.  […]

Barb Mosher posted an article on CMSWire about a new report on The State of Software Collaboration Implementations in 2011 from Forrester’s analyst T.J. Keitt. In the CMSWire article, Mosher cites the Forrester report’s statistic of “42% of workers work outside the corporate firewall”, which is driving the need for collaboration software.   Forrester’s research […]