Posts Tagged ‘portal’

Change has become a constant in marketing, and many marketers are becoming increasingly reliant upon their company’s web presence to drive results. A usable, conversion-oriented website is key to driving leads and sales from online and even offline campaigns. And modern content management systems (CMS) make it easier for marketers to update content, improve search […]

At Connect 2013 I attended Chris Berry’s and Mark Hampton’s session titled Deliver Rich, Multi-Channel Websites in Minutes with IBM Web Content Manager Content Template Catalog (CTC.)  The CTC  is a large set of predefined templates and content that provides a fully populated content driven site in portal 8 which can be used as is […]

Lisa Crawford from Florida Blue (formerly Blue Cross Blue Shield of FL) presented an excellent session at IBM Connect 2013 on the evolution of their portal platform and the ROI they have received over they years.  I’ve worked with Lisa on a number of projects and the work she leads implementing IBM solutions is one […]

Here is a bold statement: I bet everyone reading this post has had a client, a colleague, or a line of business say to them in the last 10 days that they wanted this or that initiative to be more “Social”. They probably said something along the lines of “I like that idea, but how […]

Perficient recently worked with Given Imaging to redesign its corporate website, GivenImaging.com, on SharePoint 2010. Given Imaging had first partnered with Perficient to improve its CapsuleEndoscopy.org website, which is dedicated to advancing PillCam® capsule endoscopy and built on the SharePoint platform. Here is an excerpt from the case study describing the challenge: Built on the […]

IBM Connect had a great session on implementing portal themes in WebSphere Portal 8.  Stephan Hesmer, Portal Frontend and Design Lead from IBM presented a technical session on implementing themes and skins.  Portal themes are an extremely powerful, efficient and effective way to implement user experiences in WebSphere Portal. Key points that resonated from the […]

IBM released the first update to Portal and Web Content Manager since their major release of Portal 8 back in September 2012.  They announced the release on on Friday January 25th.  Here’s a brief overview of what they released and we’ll get more detail throughout the week.  I should note that this release is in […]

Perficient’s Portal Principal, and all around nice guy, Mike Porter recently released a blog post series on 5 Approaches to Portal Personalization. Having worked on plenty of Healthcare portals, he incorporated use cases specific to our industry that I think you would enjoy. Below are these 5 approaches. Click on the heading to read his […]

Are you one of the thousands who will descend on Orlando, Florida next week to attend IBM Connect 2013?  If you are, then you may have been trying to make sense of all the information IBM has been publishing about the conference.  I know as a business partner, we receive lots of emails on a […]

In part 1 and part 2 of this series, I introduced many of the technologies used to build a social intranet.  In part 3, I talked about three scenarios and list some of the technology that would be involved in each social intranet.  For this last part of the series, I want to talk about what some of […]

We interrupt our regularly scheduled series on SharePoint Careers to direct you to a series my colleague, Mark Polly, is writing on Social Intranets.  It’s definitely worth checking out, and a higher-level take on a subject we’ve explored in this space many times over– a good companion piece to everything we’ve published (and will continue […]

In part 1 of this series (see Social Intranet Technologies, Part 1), I talked about many different technologies or systems that make up a social intranet.  In this post, I want to expand the list of technologies, and discuss briefly several technologies that often get overlooked, but can be an important part of a great […]