Posts Tagged ‘IBM’

Forrester recently release their Web Content Management Wave.  It’s striking less for the rankings and more for the information about trends and why they ranked the vendors the way they did.  I won’t reveal the Wave itself since I don’t have rights to distribute but I will note a few key findings. Welcome to CXM […]

Janice James, one of Perficient’s experts in User Centered Design, forwarded to me an article about a new study on the state of intranet portals.  This study was conduct by Jakob Nielsen, who has been described as the “guru of web page usabililty”.  Overall, he has done  67 case studies to support the recommendations he […]

Janice James, one of Perficient’s experts in User Centered Design, forwarded to me an article about a new study on the state of intranet portals.  This study was conduct by Jakob Nielsen, who has been described as the “guru of web page usabililty”.  Overall, he has done  67 case studies to support the recommendations he […]

Ideas – what to do about these pesky things. What if they point out a failure or shortcoming of the company? Not as big of a concern is ideas that would compliment and build on a culture or system that is working great. Control by legal, marketing or communications are usually some of the bigger […]

To me, one of the most frustrating aspects of WebSphere Portal is the installation process.  Don’t get me wrong, it has been greatly improved over the years to the point of being point and click for the basic install.  Still, it takes a long time to get the basic software installed (2-3 hours).  Then you […]

It’s a few weeks old but IBM had a press release about being the worldwide market share leader for social platforms. What I would be interested to know is how IDC scopes social platforms.  Is it the social networking tools created by IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Jive, Telligent and others?  Does it include instant messaging?  Does […]

I came across a new new YouTube video titled IBM Connections vs. Microsoft SharePoint: Social Personal File Management posted by Brandon Seppa on June 21, 2011.  This video is clearly an IBM produced video that touts the file handling features of IBM Connections vs Microsoft SharePoint 2010. The video is 31 minutes long and covers […]

Perficient announced today that we have acquired JCB Partners (JCB), a $15 million annual revenue business and technology consulting firm focused on enterprise performance management, analytics and business intelligence solutions, primarily leveraging the IBM Cognos suite of software products. More than 23,000 leading companies and organizations around the world choose Cognos performance management solutions and leverage business intelligence software to […]

Well I finally have taken the time to download the first beta for WebSphere Portal 8.  You can download the beta VM image here:  IBM Customer Experience Suite, IBM WebSphere Portal, and Web Content Manager Open Beta. Installation of the VM image was very easy.   I wish all my portal installs went this way.  The […]

A few months ago I wrote up this list and will begin to address ways social champions can address the 20 reasons NOT to collaborate. These are the good old days.  Just a new version of the good old days.  Remember how the internet was going to replace the person and the businesses (.com’s) that […]

We all remember when IBM’s Watson beat the two all time grand champions of Jeopardy (if you don’t then see the video above). However, as Watson moves into various industries we wonder what Watson would look like in the healthcare industry. Today we got the answer to that question from Randall Wilcox of IBM at […]

This past week, IBM officially released Beta 1 of WebSphere Portal version 8 for public consumption.  The beta is open to the public for testing.  Here is some information about this first Beta from Lauren Wendel’s blog post on IBM’s WebSphere Portal Blog: “Version 8.0 Beta offers users a more seamless and rich user experience. […]