Posts Tagged ‘IBM’

IBM recently released their updated Multilingual solution for Portal and Web Content Management V7.   If you are familiar with previous versions of MultiLingual Solution, you will be comfortable with this latest version. The basic concept behind localizing content is to have multiple WCM libraries, each set up to serve a different locale.  One library is […]

This may be a portal blog but in at least 4/5 of our projects, we hit a services layer.  We need that data and those transactions to meet user requirements.  So I’m always interested in what’s happening in the middleware fields.  Anyway, eWeek has an article about IBM flexing their middleware muscle while setting new […]

If you haven’t heard, IBM offers a cloud-based service for WebSphere Portal  7.0 via their Smart Business Cloud offering.  In this article Paul Kelsey provides step-by-step instructions to implement your Portal 7.0 in the cloud. Some highlights of IBM’s Smart Business Cloud for WebSphere Portal include the following features that always seem to cause initial […]

Here are portal-based conferences coming in 2011: Gartner Portals, Content and Collaboration Summit – March 28-30 2011 Liferay East Coast (U.S) Symposium – May 10-11 2011 All Liferay Symposiums World-wide IBM Exceptional Web Experience Conference 2011 – May 15-19 2011 Microsoft Sharepoint Conference – Oct 3-6 2011 If you know of others that I missed, […]

So not that anyone is still running an old version of software out there like Websphere Portal 5.1.  But if you have any doubts or concerns, then this is the page for you. http://www-01.ibm.com/software/support/lifecycle/ Thanks to Craig Pessman for the link.

When you offer a social networking tool to the market.  When your market is geared towards businesses that have to worry about security, policies, and government regulation, you cannot just copy consumer oriented tools.  Mac Guidera and Joseph Liu spent some time walking through some of the capabilities from a compliance and auditing perspective in […]

When I look at Forms products I see a huge return on investment especially if it can be paired with an easy to use workflow tool.  Just as the market continues to evolve, IBM continues to work on their Forms tools. What’s New IBM renamed it to IBM Forms.  It is now the Forms tool […]

I attended a session by Larry Bowden, VP of their exceptional web experience effort and the guy who is key behind IBM’s whole vision for Northstar.  That vision is slowly taking shape and coalescing into specific plans that will result in product enhancements to meet that vision.  Here’s a synopsis of what he said: Key […]

I attended a session by Larry Bowden, VP of their exceptional web experience effort and the guy who is key behind IBM’s whole vision for Northstar.  That vision is slowly taking shape and coalescing into specific plans that will result in product enhancements to meet that vision.  Here’s a synopsis of what he said: Key […]

One of the key trends you see within IBM is the concept of connectors.  You shouldn’t be forced to use a web interface to use a web based tool when you could connect to it from email, Office, Windows, and other platforms.   Suzanne Livingston on the Connections Blog just posted on the refresh of their […]

IBM continues to enhance and refresh their software product related to Portal and Collaboration.   They have a couple releases coming in the next few days.  Forms is about to release version 4.0 and Quickr has a point release in 8.5.1. Lotus Forms 4.0 I’m a big fan of forms software, especially when it’s paired with […]

For most people who look at IBM’s social software product, one of the first questions asked is, “How can I customize this to fit my needs?”  Usually those questions focus on branding, adding in extra top level navigation, federating the search, and adding in widgets on the home and other pages.  IBM released a white […]