Posts Tagged ‘IBM’

Last week IBM announced v8.5 for their Digital Experience system.  This has been known in the past as WebSphere Portal, but with all the additions to the platform over the years, its become much more than just a portal.  My colleague Brendon Jones listed a few of the new features included in v8.5.  Its often […]

Last week IBM announced v8.5 for their Digital Experience system.  This has been known in the past as WebSphere Portal, but with all the additions to the platform over the years, its become much more than just a portal.  My colleague Brendon Jones listed a few of the new features included in v8.5.  Its often […]

Today at the Gartner Portal, Content, and Collaboration Summit, Pam Chandor (VP Global Software Sales for IBM Collaboration Solutions) announced IBM Digital Experiences v8.5. Here is the summary of updated capabilities, you can read about it in more detail at the link above. One important point Pam did make, was that it’s useful to use […]

                  I was “lucky” enough to be selected to “go on the road” this year as part of my organizations presence at the IBM business analytics summits, taking pace all over the country. If you haven’t attended one yet, you should as the content presented is both […]

OK, it’s not really a movie trailer. It’s more like a list of new features in the next version of their Digital Experience product (Portal / WCM).  But it’s made as if it were a trailer up to and including the credits at the end.  Enjoy.

IBM announced that it is once again the market share leader in Enterprise Social Software according to IDC.  This marks the fifth year in a row that IBM has maintained the market share leader position.  According to IBM, “Tens of millions of users today rely on IBM’s Social Business software…”, IBM Connections. IBM has spent a […]

The enterprise marketing management space has been heating up for the past couple years.  IBM, Salesforce, Oracle, Adobe, and Microsoft have all made one or more acquisitions here and it hasn’t stopped.  Just a few days ago, IBM bought Silverpop, an Atlanta based cloud marketing automation player with customers in both the B2B and B2C […]

A huge number of my projects are platform upgrades, and every time I ask my customers why they haven’t applied a single published fix for any of the products involved since the system was built (sometimes upwards of 7 years ago). They usually reply with a variation on the old trope, “If it ain’t broke, […]

It is clear IBM is investing in the Cloud with over 11,000 people attending Pulse this year.  The conference has been a great venue for clients and business partners sharing their stories and plans for the future in the Cloud.  The week kicked off with another announcement of another smart acquisition of Cloudent.   IBM Buys […]

I’ve ranted a couple times about the gaping hole that is database in the cloud.  I say that not because I don’t like Azure’s cloud service in SQL Server or Amazon’s db service.  I say it because on premise solutions that run on a database don’t have an easy way to migrate to the cloud […]

In a recent blog posting, we provided a guide for standing up and XI52 as an integral component to an enterprise like laboratory environment. This was the beginning several activities, which spawned an idea for a continuing series of articles around IBM SOA appliances, and the use of the The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) […]

I’m a BIG believer in two things: a) work smarter, not harder; 2) keep things simple — avoid complexity. Complex leads to complicated, complicated leads to misunderstanding, misunderstanding leads to chaos. Nonetheless, my guidelines seem easy enough, right? Well, good news then, they are simple and easy to apply in just about anything we face day […]