Posts Tagged ‘IBM’

Forrester reports on Oracle’s Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud offering.  I find it very interesting how they went about their initial SaaS cloud.  It’s basically the Java App server and the Database setup in with sophisticated self service provisioning. Basically, Oracle unveiled today a fully automated public cloud approach providing a Java Enterprise Edition […]

Forrester reports on Oracle’s Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud offering.  I find it very interesting how they went about their initial SaaS cloud.  It’s basically the Java App server and the Database setup in with sophisticated self service provisioning. Basically, Oracle unveiled today a fully automated public cloud approach providing a Java Enterprise Edition […]

The Quandary I’ve literally written a ton of VBA code over the years to “enhance” my end user’s experience. For example, I’ve often slapped a button on a worksheet or toolbar and used the E_PICK to pop-up a dimension subset editor allowing a selection of particular element and then using that selection to drive changes […]

When somebody says “Healthcare Portal”, what does that mean to you?  Unfortunately the word portal has been used so broadly that it generally is confusing.  Here are examples of how the word portal is used in various contexts: In the new federal healthcare law, the government is mandating that a health exchange portal be created. […]

navigation Cubes are to TM1 what tables are to relational databases.  Almost all data stored in TM1 is stored in and accessed from cubes. Do you know the difference between the types of these basic objects?   Let’s explore!     First, each and every TM1 cube must have at least two and up to […]

Eric Sall, VP of Product Marketing for Information Management at IBM, recently did a video interview with one of my favorite podcasters, Scott Laningham (@scottlaningham) of IBM’s DeveloperWorks podcast series. They discussed the Information On Demand conference, at which Perficient will be exhibiting and speaking October 23-27. This year’s theme: “Turning Insight Into Action” – focus on […]

WebSphere Portal 8 Beta now includes integration with OpenID and OAuth identity providers for authentication services.  What does this mean to Portal users? OpenID and OAuth are services available from sites such as Google, Yahoo, OpenID, and Facebook.  With this integration, your portal users can use their Google ID, Yahoo ID, Open ID or Facebook ID […]

What is Drill-thru? Drill-through can be described as the “act of exploring related   information” or the “act of moving between related data via a link of some kind”. More specifically, drill through usually exploits a relationship between “master” and “detail” information. (By clicking a master item in the master information the details of the clicked […]

I posted back in February about IBM’s Content Template Catalog for IBM Web Content Management.  That  post had over a thousand hits, so I know the Content Template Catalog was popular.  IBM has now released version 3.0 of the Content Template Catalog. You can see a demostration of the template catalog on YouTube:  IBM Content […]

Continuing with my series about WebSphere Portal 8 Beta 2, today I am looking at the improvements made to Web Content Management.  IBM had previously introduced the ability to create custom launch pages for the authoring portlet.  The idea here is that the default view – Library Explorer – can be intimidating for casual users, […]

I’ve been looking at Beta 2 of WebSphere Portal 8 and today I am going to review the new Configuration Wizard feature. If you have had to do any administration of WebSphere Portal, you are probably aware of the command line interface ConfigEngine.   This tool has been around with various names since at least […]

As my colleague Michael Porter mentioned in yesterday’s blog, I have been looking at WebSphere Portal 8 Beta and am going to review some of the new features with you in a series of posts. I just installed Beta 2 and have spent a couple of hours playing with the new Manage Pages feature.  With […]