Posts Tagged ‘best practices’

Jim Murphy held a standing room only session this morning covering the 6 pitfalls with portals.  I’m curious, was it standing room only because lots of people have encountered pitfalls, or are all these people just starting out with portal and want to avoid these pitfalls?  My guess is that many of these people already […]

Jane McGonigal was our keynote speaker this morning at Gartner’s Portal, Content and Collaboration conference.  Dr. McGonigal recently wrote a book called “Reality is Broken” in which she discusses gaming and its impact on industry. I’ll admit upfront, I’m not much of an online gamer.  Occasionally I play games such as Angry Birds and others, […]

Poor performance in a portal production environment will quickly become your number one complaint from your employees, partners and customers.  Given an option, your user community will look elsewhere and not come back.  Performance testing and load testing are often left to the last minute or skipped all together.  If 2 weeks before launch you […]

I’m attending the Gartner PCC conference this week in Orlando, Florida.  After a day of rain yesterday, its nice to catch a glimpse of the sun before plunging into the windowless conference rooms this morning. The opening session featured speakers Whit Andrews, Carol Rozwell, Nick Jones, and Gavin Tay. Whit Andrews led off proposing that […]

I’m attending the Gartner PCC conference this week in Orlando, Florida.  After a day of rain yesterday, its nice to catch a glimpse of the sun before plunging into the windowless conference rooms this morning. The opening session featured speakers Whit Andrews, Carol Rozwell, Nick Jones, and Gavin Tay. Whit Andrews led off proposing that […]

Q: How do you determine whether to integrate different Salesforce Orgs* or keep them separate? When a merger, acquisition, consolidation or spin-off takes place, there are often separate Orgs that reside in different areas of a company. Before any integration process begins, it’s critical to assess what the end goal is for combining them. For […]

In the past, one of the weak points in IBM WebSphere Portal is its handling of documents or files.  Prior to verison 6.1, Portal came with a Portal Document Manager (PDM) portlet that did a fair job in letting you manage a file store in Portal.  PDM had many faults too – it wasn’t all […]

Thanks to Carol Smith from our User Experience group for pointing this out on Yammer.  In the portal and social world, we have struggled to pull User Experience activities into a sprint based approach like Scrum.  We’ve started down the path on a couple project but Jon Innes has an article at boxes and arrows […]

Often overlooked in IBM’s Web Content Management system is its ability to deliver web sites three different ways: Pre-rendered – in this mode, IBM WCM creates standard HTML pages for your site and delivers them to a standard web server.  For static content or brochureware, this is an excellent way to deliver web content.  In […]

For anyone who has worked on any portal project, you run into the most common of issues, Single Sign On (SSO).  It’s the holy grail of websites that you never do find.  No one wants to sign in multiple times.  Very few companies have eliminated it.  Many companies use more than one SSO tool like […]

Over on CMSWire, Oscar Berg (@oscarberg) posted an article describing 5 signs that your company doesn’t ‘get’ Social Business.  Social Business was the theme of Lotusphere 2012 and it seemed like everyone ‘got’ it there, but I’m sure there are a lot of companies still struggling with what it means to be a Social Business. […]

Steve Pogrebivsky has a nice article out on 5 critical steps to SharePoint architecture planning.  I like his general take on it because you mention governance in the SharePoint world and before you know it you are down in the weeds defining all sorts of collections, metadata, content definitions and the like.  It’s a different […]