Posts Tagged ‘best practices’

My colleague Mike Porter blogged recently about Integrating OBIEE with Portal.  This inspired me to take a look at how to integrate Cognos with Portal.  I spoke with another Perficient colleague, Dave Jones, about his experience with Cognos and Portal.  Dave provided some useful options that I’ve published below. I think one of the biggest […]

Doubtless you all have heard or participated in the best of breed vs the one vendor stack debate.  I can lean both ways on that debate depending on what kind of solution you need.   There is a time and place for both approaches.  However, sometimes it’s far too easy to get caught up in the […]

Here is a story of how a major hotel chain instantly got a huge ROI on portal… in the wrong direction! What Happened A major hotel chain had a metric that for every second they could cut from call handle time netted $108,000 a year in savings.  It is easy to see how converting the […]

Sometimes Portal Technology can frustrate both technical and business users because it seems so complicated.  The reality is that it is fairly complicated.  That’s what happens when the portal itself has portal administration, theme, documents, web content, personalization, security and a bunch of other services.  The following examples come from two customers who made mistakes […]

Sometimes Portal Technology can frustrate both technical and business users because it seems so complicated.  The reality is that it is fairly complicated.  That’s what happens when the portal itself has portal administration, theme, documents, web content, personalization, security and a bunch of other services.  The following examples come from two customers who made mistakes […]

On the 4th day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a never-ending portal strategy.  A portal strategy is a good thing, right?  Well, not if it never ends. What Happened I worked with a major insurance company that spent 3 months putting together an amazing 2 year portal strategy.  The strategy covered architecture, […]

Continuing with the third installment of the things you shouldn’t be doing on a project is one of my favorite.  It refers to a development methodology.  All too often those of us in IT forget about the end business goal and instead focus on the tool that’s supposed to get us to the goal.  When […]

Continuing with the third installment of the things you shouldn’t be doing on a project is one of my favorite.  It refers to a development methodology.  All too often those of us in IT forget about the end business goal and instead focus on the tool that’s supposed to get us to the goal.  When […]

#2 in our twelve part series tells the story of how not to use core portal capabilities which are provided out of the box.  As consultants, it is our job to communicate to business how portal technology can solve their problems and best implement their requirements with minimal cost and effort, not blindly brute forcing […]

Glenn Kline and I recently presented a session on some classic portal mistakes we’ve seen over the years.  We’ve decided to parse out the 12 mistakes into 12 days of posts on the topic.  Today, marks the first of these posts. What Happened I was working on a fairly large portal project at an insurance […]

Glenn Kline and I recently presented a session on some classic portal mistakes we’ve seen over the years.  We’ve decided to parse out the 12 mistakes into 12 days of posts on the topic.  Today, marks the first of these posts. What Happened I was working on a fairly large portal project at an insurance […]

In spite of the ever increasing interest in “the cloud”, the majority of enterprise SharePoint 2010 deployments still involve architecting a set of server-based resources (e.g. CPU, Memory, and Storage) as a target for the deployment of one or more SharePoint 2010 Farms.  These resources are, however, no longer limited to physical servers, but are […]