Posts Tagged ‘Collaboration’

It goes without saying that in order to maintain financial viability, healthcare organizations must maintain patient loyalty. There are vast marketing engines in place to capture patient loyalty through the use of portals and other collaborative tools. However, when you take a look at the numbers, such as those published frequently by Gallup, you see […]

Yes, I’m a portal and collaboration guy so you may be wondering what I’m doing at a conference focused on commerce, middleware, and other plumbing.  Truth is a lot of the people interested in plumbing have a huge need for portal and collaboration so I come to support Perficient as we talk to clients about […]

I’ve been thinking about what motivates people to do the jobs of a knowledge worker.  When I talk to companies today, most of the concern they have around collaboration is about how to empower knowledge workers.  Most knowledge workers jobs have changed.  They need to focus less on the repeatable tasks and more on the […]

PC Week has an article on Sharepoint in the cloud.  I’m seeing the desire for cloud services among all vendors although Microsoft seems to be sprinting in that direction rather than the running by IBM and other vendors.  I love the quotes about people building applications on sharepoint and that it’s “many things to many […]

We have noticed a pretty significant trend from our healthcare clients. Many healthcare technology teams are getting requests from their board of directors to reduce the paper waste associated with their meetings and provide for a collaborative environment that can connect them across vast geographic boundaries. Collaboration tools, by way of portals, are the solution […]

Sharon Bellamy over on the Connections Blog noted some key enhancements coming in the next release of IBM’s social software product, Connections.  Key but not from a feature standpoint is the rebranding of Lotus Connections to IBM Connections. New capabilities Moderating community content Community owners are provided with new capabilities for the moderation of a […]

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 […]

Search is one of the most compelling features of a true enterprise SharePoint deployment.  In the last 6 months, our clients have expressed more and more interest in looking across the entire spectrum of search options available with SharePoint.  The question normally asked: SharePoint or FAST?  In some cases, the choice is clear.  Large document volume […]

More organizations are investing greater portions of their Intranet deployment budget on improved search functionalities.  Within the SharePoint 2010 product stack, the FAST for SharePoint option provides a whole host of enterprise search capabilities.  FAST for SharePoint not only supports more robust search results but more visual results including visual “previews”.   In the case 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 […]

Perficient has created this series, “Responding to Healthcare Consumerism with Social Media” in order to identify the benefits and drawbacks of using social media and collaboration tools in healthcare, explore the doctor and patient communities currently interacting online, outline social media’s impact on the quality of care, and use current innovations to predict the future […]

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, […]