Posts Tagged ‘IBM’

Empowering the Exceptional Web Experience with the IBM Social Business Toolkit Lotusphere was last week and I had an opportunity to attend one of the jumpstart sessions on 1/15/2012 titled “Empowering the Exceptional Web Experience with the IBM Social Business Toolkit” with Mike Taylor and Paul Bastide, software engineers from IBM.Social Business Toolkit is available on […]

Back in October I blogged about IBM’s new Content Template Catalog for WebSphere Portal.  Now that I’m at Lotusphere, I just attended a session with more details. An interesting piece that I didn’t cover the first time was inclusion of SEO features.  New in Portal 7.0.0.2 is the ability for WCM to add title and […]

Here at Lotusphere, IBM has a conference within a conference called IBM Connect. It’s more business oriented with less “geek” going on.  The first speaker was Bridget Van Kralingen, General Manager of IBM North America Note: Great quotes are in bold The most incredible thing about social business is that we are truly in a […]

So I, Mark Polly, and Jonathan are at Lotusphere.  The opening session always provides an interesting set of news.  Here’s the key highlights To start OK GO played three songs to kick it off.  They have some interesting internet music videos worth checking out. Opening As anyone who follows should expect, the theme is social, […]

Guideposts An intelligent, data driven digital dashboard might be described as a corporate guidepost providing insight for an ongoing journey towards profitability. An interesting comparison might be found in the form of ancient store cairns found throughout many countries including Scotland, Ireland, Tibet, and the Arctic. These sculptures were often created as directional markers pointing […]

So Glen and I are speaking at Lotusphere next week.  It’s  Practical Approaches to Successful, Social Web Experience Solutions” on Thursday, Jan. 19, at 8:30 a.m. in S. HEM II  That’s part of a bunch of things Perficient is doing at the conference. Although the press release puts things in more detail, here’s a few […]

Themes in WebSphere Portal continue to undergo significant changes.  In the past few releases we have seen the following enhancements to themes introduced: Splitting theme from the wps.ear into separate applications that can be managed independently of the Portal code Introduction of Client Side Aggregation (CSA) which builds a page using Javascript on the browser […]

By far one of the biggest complaints I hear from clients is how hard it is to author and manage content.  There’s so much you can do to improve the authoring experience but it all starts with what the vendor provides.  Last month, IBM release a new content authoring homepage to the Solutions Catalog.  For […]

…Real-time analytics, that is. One of the challenges in healthcare today is the lag in time for the acquisition, storage, analysis and delivery of data back to the physician or other healthcare provider for decision-making. The majority of transactional information about a patient that is produced on reports or presented in terms of business intelligence […]

IBM has a YouTube of Wheaton Worldwide’s presentation and case study.  Their portal includes key content and a learning management system integrated to the portal.  But the new functionality really integrated their business functions into the portal.  That’s what I really like about this case study. Wheaton’s portal enables their business and uses the web […]

Every now and again either I, Mark Polly, or Jonathan Distad hit the topic of collaboration and whether there is value in collaboration tools or not.  I’ve heard plenty of detractors or at least those who question it.  (not necessarily a bad thing).  Anyway, Erin Eschen Moloney (@erine) pointed me to this article about what […]

IBM just announced Sametime 8.5.2 IFR 1 with a number of new features.  Some of them look pretty interesting.  I’m most interested in the native applications on Android and iOS.  Here’s what they say: IBM® Sametime® provides a core set of real-time communication services designed to help make your social business actionable. Sametime can help […]