Posts Tagged ‘best practices’

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 […]

BCBSF in many ways is the epitomy of a great web experience.  They have created a variety of valuable online tools that can be found via web sites, internally, and on mobile sites.  Lisa Crawford of BCBSF and Glenn Kline of Perficient went through how they maximize ROI at BCBSF. Where they were in 2008: […]

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 […]

We hosted a webinar with IBM last week about Social Business: a New Way of Working.    Don Lewis of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota did a great job discussing what worked at his company and what tools they used to be successful.  The webinar is now available for replay. A couple of points you’ll […]

Liza Sisler (@lizasisler on twitter) pointed me to this article on collaboration on Information Week titled, “The Right Way to Get Employees to Collaborate“.  Michael Sampson has obviously been around the block when it comes to deploying collaboration solutions and I completely agree with his main premise.  Just building something and throwing it over the […]

Sean Newby is a leading Senior Technical Architect at Perficient and periodically creates “Perficient Pointer” technical tutorials on the Perficient channel on YouTube.  His latest is a 4 part series on installing the trial version of WebSphere Portal 7 on a CentOS virtual machine. If you have trouble viewing the embeded video below, you can […]

Cody Burleson has a great video post with links to other posts on the subject of User Impersonation.  Impersonation allows you to be logged in as a one user while acting as another user.  This comes in really handy for any customer service rep who handles issues related to a web site.  The CSR can […]

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 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 […]

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.  […]

Gene Phifer, the father of portal at Gartner, spoke about Portals and his view on where they are headed.  I have to admit I like the title.  I agree that they are mature but things are still changing. Portal continue to change with new methods of portal integration, new delivery models (cloud), and a new […]

Client side aggregation using AJAX interactions seems to be a must have these days.  Everyone wants to be like iGoogle or pick your favorite client side aggregated site.  Now while this is wonderful for portal, it is not always appropriate to use and can severely impact performance.  For example, here is a high level typical […]