Posts Tagged ‘best practices’

For those of you familiar with OpenSSO / OpenAM, you probably know the online documentation is mediocre and that there exists few other options to ramp on this technology.  Packt Publishing sent me a free copy or ecopy of the OpenAM book since I had blogged about OpenSSO earlier.   The book by Indira Thangasamy (LinkedIn […]

I like this sort of thing mainly because I hear business users number one complaint, “Why do you make it so hard to create my content?”    The technology has improved to the point where we can do something about it.  Now we just need to focus on more than bits and bytes. Ephox is holding […]

In the winter issue of MIT Sloan Management Review, Julian Birkinshaw, Cyril Bouquet and J.-L. Barsoux wrote  a great article on the 5 Myths of Innovation.  Innovation, collaboration and Web 2.0 are getting more traction these days and they hit some nice points based on research of leading company over many years.  Many of these I […]

Via a tweet by our Microsoft fellows at Perficient, CMS Wire has a short post out about five things you can do to make your migration successful.  The key theme seems to be that you need to make it an enterprise solution and put some thought into it.

Personalization (PZN) in WebSphere Portal is one of its most powerful yet overlooked capabilities.  I am surprised how often it is not even considered for everyday scenarios and instead complex custom code is written .  Personalization is often for viewed as simply selecting content from Web Content Management (WCM) based on site areas and matching […]

SharePoint 2010 sales are at record levels.  But, its important to keep in mind that Sales <> Usage. Many times, portal deployments result in less than expected usage.  The shiny new intranet portal or collaboration site is launched with great fanfare, usage is high the first few days/weeks and then suffers a precipitous decline.  I’ve seen this on all […]

Enough time has passed since the release of SharePoint 2010 that a growing number of organizations with WSS 3 and MOSS 2007 deployments are taking a hard look at when and how to move to the new platform.  I’m getting more and more questions on this subject. Upgrading from earlier versions of the platform TO WSS 3 […]

I attended a portal migration session at Lotusphere which is provided a good high level overview of what to consider in a migration.  Having participated in quite a few migrations over the years, there are quite a few considerations and techniques.  Over time I will provide more in depth technical details in the blog, but […]

Overall, the process of changing Lotus Connections is easier Deploying changes to markup or style sheets is easier.  If you are really familiar with style sheets, CSS is the way to go to change your look and feel. There is a new getting started page on the homepage The header and footer now support JSP […]

Since portals are very comfortable with the concept of extending a site using portlets, web parts, or widgets; having a portlet catalog or app store seems to be a no brainer.  I actually posted on this about a year and a half ago lamenting how poor the various vendors have done in giving solutions.  The […]

I’ve read some interesting articles lately regarding how to get your offshore partner to innovate. One in CIO magazine; http://bit.ly/dl9YJB covered the topic pretty well with regard to what you have to change to spark innovation. But I’d like to add some specific areas where a multi-shore arrangement can transcend the usual SLA / price […]