Posts Tagged ‘Integration’

Microsoft’s SharePoint has become the de facto collaboration solution leveraged by most companies today. In fact Gartner states that 60% of companies are using SharePoint.  With its user-friendly interface and growing features SharePoint has grown into strong player in the ECM space, however in certain areas customers still need the power of a traditional ECM platform that […]

IBM’s IOD conference has become one of those annual traditions that marks a milestone in the year for our IBM partnership. Maybe it’s because of the time of year or just the amount of effort that goes into the conference by both Perficient and IBM, but each year we’re reminded introspectively of just how much […]

I have been doing Enterprise Application Integration my whole career, and while there is certainly a great collection of tools and resources available to us, there’s something missing.  Regardless of language and technology stack, there’s a need to answer certain questions before beginning any integration project.  This simple, obvious and crucial process has been overlooked […]

Typically, there are three ways to integrate external applications into a portal.  Below, I show these methods and describe how Liferay implements each option. Presentation Level iFrame – an iFrame portlet is included out of the box. Requires SSO to be in place. Authentication information can be supplied to the portlet, so the administrator would […]

Josh Asbury presented Liferay’s mobile capabilities this afternoon.  Josh is Director of Corporate Sales for Liferay. If you done any work on the mobile front, you know there are basically three approaches to mobile-enable your websites: Responsive Design – works on most devices and lower implementation costs, but can’t take advantage of the device features […]

SSO within Liferay can be implemented via SAML, OAuth, CAS or OpenID.  Liferay has supported CAS and OpenID for a couple of versions.  SAML is new in 6.1 and OAuth is in the development stage. Liferay Portal supports SAML 2.0 through a plug-in.  The plug-in is available for EE version and is not available in […]

            Thursday, October 18, 2012 – 1:00 – 2:00PM CT REGISTER Join Perficient and Premier Healthcare and hear how Premier is integrating business processes with social and analytical tools from IBM to create a competitive advantage and pioneer a better way of providing care. Learn how to leverage IBM Social […]

You may be interested in my other posts in this series Kickoff UI In this post, I want to focus on the back end integration.  No portal can act on its own.  Most portals need to make calls to various backend systems.  Some do it better than other. Vertical Portals with Integration Vertical portals have […]

In the previous parts we discussed about Cloud Computing definition and Cloud Applications. Having so many applications on Cloud and enterprise, there is demand for integration of these applications to exchange data and complete the business process. In this section I am going to discuss about IBM Cast Iron, the Cloud integration tool, to integrate […]

In a recent post we introduced the REST service as an integration option growing in popularity. Use cases for this type of integration typically include exposing REST services for mobile app consumption and for cloud based/3rd party integrations.  The question quickly arises – how can I secure these services?  SOAP services have multiple well-defined standards […]

From Twitter to WordPress.com, many of the biggest and most popular web applications have developed RESTful application programming interfaces (APIs). While REST is enjoying a recent surge in popularity, it is not a new technology or approach. In fact, the term was originally coined in Roy Fielding’s 2000 dissertation. And though that is the first […]

So I’ve been very interested in deeper integration between Portal and Connections. That means that the beta out on Community Pages is of particular importance.  Jon Brown of the Connections team and Stefan Liesch of Portal and Content team fame gave the presentation. IBM has seen the concept of a social portal evolve.  Social Portal […]