In the past few years, I’ve heard a litany of common requirements from client to client. They include social, mobile, and personalization. While social and mobile gather all the buzz, we spend a surprising amount of time focusing on what a personalized experience really means. I find a lot of people understand what personalized is […]
Posts Tagged ‘Personalization’
Horizontal vs Vertical Portal, Personalization
This is an ongoing series. Here are the predecssors: UI Backend Integration Search Multi-site support Content Management It used to be that the most common question regarding portal was about Single Sign On (SSO). Lately, Personalization (PZN) seems to have overtaken it. Almost every client I talk to these days ranks personalization very high in […]
Interesting Post on Contextual Relevance and the Butterfly Effect
I read a lot of different sources in my bid to stay relevant in this fast changing portal and social world. John Prince had an interesting article on the butterfly effect as a guest blogger on the Oracle WebCenter blog. He starts out by noting how very small changes have large impacts. He missed a bus […]
Should You Allow Your Users to Customize?
Probably eight out of ten clients start out asking for customization of some kind. Usually, the customization broken into two categories: Give users a page like My Yahoo! or iGoogle. Let them add portlets or widgets at will and let them customize the portelts themselves like we do with weather or stock Let users define […]
12 Things You Can Do to Get Your Portal to Production Quickly: Part 5 – Use the Capabilities Portal Provides Out of the Box
Welcome to day number 5 in our series. Sometimes out of the box portal capabilities are not perfect. Perhaps some of them don’t even meet 90% of your requirements. Does this mean you should develop a custom home grown solution? Well, not unless you want to spend a lot more money and take a lot […]
The Power of WebSphere Portal Personalization
Personalization (PZN) in WebSphere Portal is one of its most powerful yet overlooked capabilities. I am surprised how often it is not even considered for everyday scenarios and instead complex custom code is written . Personalization is often for viewed as simply selecting content from Web Content Management (WCM) based on site areas and matching […]