Posts Tagged ‘IBM’

This session from the IBM Exceptional Web Experience is on portal performance tuning techniques.  It is hosted by   Hunter Presnall and Denny Pichardo of IBM.  This particular post does not summarize the entire session but instead focuses on key points and topics that resonate with what I’ve seen happen in the field with customers and […]

Cognitive systems is an exploratory focus of IBM Research and may help transform the way computers are used in the future. The most well known display of this work was through Watson and his Jeopardy smackdown in 2011 of the best human contestants Jeopardy could find. While traditional systems today provide “if then what” equations, cognitive systems take an adaptive approach […]

I attended this session on caching techniques hosted by Joerg Huehne of IBM at the IBM Exceptional Web Experience Conference.  I always feel that caching is one of the very most important techniques for performance improvement opportunities in portal and this session reinforced it.  Some of the key takeaways from the session are below. Overview […]

Stefan Hepper presented a session at the IBM Exceptional Web Experience Conference on techniques to integrate external content management systems with IBM WCM.  He first presented on integration of ECM systems into WCM. There are several use cases where this integration is important: Author content in external ECM system and deliver it using WCM Target […]

Opening General Session keynote with Larry Bowden The session kicked off with Larry Bowden touting the biggest launch for WebSphere Portal in 10 years and the key growth components driving it.  There has been a double digit growth in customers in last 2 years.  Key growth components and statistics include: Social 60% Discover new brands […]

Now that WebSphere Portal V8 has shipped, you should wonder what is the migration process to get to Portal 8. I’m attending the IBM Exceptional Web Experience Conference session titled Migrating to IBM WebSphere Portal V8, so I’ll pass along what I learn. First, the upgrade is going to require additional servers because it is […]

Larry Bowden kicked off IBM’s biggest launch of a new version of Web Experience in 10 years.  Mobile, Social, Analytics and Content are all hitting at the same time, and the IBM Web Experience Suites are positioned to take advantage of this convergence. Here are some stats that Larry presented: Social Networking reaches 82% of […]

So what exactly does it mean when Cognos performs a stitch query? Let’s start with a business scenario and question:  A Manager asks a Report Developer to provide a report showing a comparison between Actual Sales and Forecast Sales for any years we have data. But these measures come from two completely separate facts: the […]

IBM recently published a new presentation on their mobile strategy for social businesses.  This presentation is a comprehensive look at the available IBM mobile technologies across their broad spectrum of systems, including WebSphere Portal, Lotus Notes, Domino, IBM Connections, Sametime, Sterling Commerce, Cognos and Coremetrics. IBM has a three prong strategy when it comes to […]

IBM has been reworking WebSphere Portal themes for a long time now.  The feedback I get on themes in Portal 7 is they are too complicated, too slow, and not well documented.  With WebSphere Portal 8, IBM is addressing these concerns with a new theme architecture.  IBM is touting the new theme as very modular, […]

I’ve starting playing with IBM WebSphere Portal 8 (see Installing Part 1 and Installing Part 2) and the first task I attempted was to create a new page.  If you haven’t heard, WebSphere Portal 8 includes a new feature called Managed Pages. With this feature, you can create Projects to hold changes to Portal, such […]

IBM’s new Worklight software is a what we call a Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP).  MEAPs allow you to create exciting mobile applications by integrating multiple existing web and service applications.   Using this approach you can easily deploy one integrated application to multiple platforms and multiple device types.  In fact, IBM Worklight allows you […]