Posts Tagged ‘IBM’

Brian Solis spoke at the IBM Get Social event in Santa Clara, CA.  He’s an analyst at the Altimeter and focuses his research on media, social media, and ongoing impacts to that.   Overall, his presentation was really good.  He takes a pragmatic approach to social business and highlights the difference between just having a facebook […]

Stefan Liesche and Jeff Seifert presented on Portal Now and creating an exceptional web experience.  They’ve had a quick hit offering where you can get a portal up and running in about three weeks.  In keeping with the continual change we see, they have updated it to take into account these change.  But first, a […]

IBM is combining their various commerce products to create a more cohesive offering. I’m not the biggest expert but it’s obvious they are extending functionality and integrating capability.   They held a session on Smarter Commerce and their offerings.  From what they had a few years ago with just WebSphere Commerce, they’ve grown to cut across […]

Yes, I’m a portal and collaboration guy so you may be wondering what I’m doing at a conference focused on commerce, middleware, and other plumbing.  Truth is a lot of the people interested in plumbing have a huge need for portal and collaboration so I come to support Perficient as we talk to clients about […]

IBM’s Impact conference focused on a variety of integration, commerce, analytics, and other solutions provided by IBM is next week. Perficient will be there.  We won the Smarter Decision Management award last year and we are always hoping to do better each year. For more information on what’s happening there and to track it, you […]

IBM’s Impact conference focused on a variety of integration, commerce, analytics, and other solutions provided by IBM is next week. Perficient will be there.  We won the Smarter Decision Management award last year and we are always hoping to do better each year. For more information on what’s happening there and to track it, you […]

Sharon Bellamy over on the Connections Blog noted some key enhancements coming in the next release of IBM’s social software product, Connections.  Key but not from a feature standpoint is the rebranding of Lotus Connections to IBM Connections. New capabilities Moderating community content Community owners are provided with new capabilities for the moderation of a […]

In a previous post, I talked about Gartners prediction of a “seismic shift” in the portal market.  In one of the last session of the Gartner Portal, Content & Collaboration 2011 Summit, Gene Phifer spoke about the future of portals.  Gene is convinced that the portal market (and mashup market) will be “subsumed” by a […]

Gary Dolsen of IBM and David Yoo of Kaiser Permanente spoke about social business and great web experiences. I will admit to being biased because Kaiser is my client and we’ve worked hard on helping them create a great portal platform for kaiserpermanente.org Gary Dolsen 95% of standout organizations will focus more on getting closer […]

Client side aggregation using AJAX interactions seems to be a must have these days.  Everyone wants to be like iGoogle or pick your favorite client side aggregated site.  Now while this is wonderful for portal, it is not always appropriate to use and can severely impact performance.  For example, here is a high level typical […]

Most portals have a lot of functionality. When you take a portal like IBM’s WebSphere Portal, there is a huge amount of functionality both for use by the business people who manage the portal and by the people who make manage the “guts” of the thing.   You might only use a small portion of what […]

Via LinkedIn from Adam Ginsburg, IBM Product Manager is a YouTube video showing how to create a simple status update app on your portal. The status update would query and write to Lotus Connections, Twitter, and Facebook.  You gotta love the open API that lets you do this. I also love the way they use […]