Posts Tagged ‘portal’

I’ve been seeing a lot of interest in the concept of a Social Intranet lately.  The intranet is your company’s internal content network.  In many cases, it is nothing more than a series of links to other systems.  In more sophisticated intranets, companies publish corporate news and announcements, departments have their own pages to share […]

This post is sort of part 2 of my other post on migration using Metalogix.  I was working with the Migration Manager to move data out of the Vignette Collaboration platform, but the steps I describe below can actually be used with any other source platform (or no source platform at all!). If you are building […]

Some time ago I one of my projects involved migration from the Vignette Collaboration platform to SharePoint 2010. Vignette Collab was no longer going to be supported by the vendor and my client wanted to move to a new platform. They were already using SharePoint elsewhere, so SharePoint was chosen as the destination platform. The goal was to keep […]

In previous versions of IBM WebSphere Portal, one missing feature had been the ability for a new user to self register. It was one of the standard checklist items in a Request For Proposal (RFP) – does your system allow for self registration? We spent countless hours building this capability for many, many clients. IBM […]

This question, “Can SharePoint be used for public websites (in addition to intranets)?”  comes up a lot.  The knock on previous versions of SharePoint (2010 and before) has always been that it can be expensive, it doesn’t do search engine optimization (SEO) well, it has trouble with mobile, multiple language support is weak, etc.  While […]

What was that law about an object at rest?  Well, when my own mind is at rest– that is, when I’m not consumed with doting on my kids, digging up obscure music, or reveling in the resurgence of Notre Dame football– my mind tends to wander to SharePoint.  In the wake of the phenomenal and […]

I just caught a great session here at SharePoint Conference 2012 where the good folks at Kroger (a large retail grocer in the central/eastern US) laid out what was basically a case study of how deploying Yammer has energized and enabled their workforce. What interested me about this session was the uniqueness of it– prior […]

Today I am going to talk about application model in SharePoint 2013. There are tons of hundreds of articles, videos, blogs and msdn how-to videos available online and they are pretty good too. The reason for sharing my thoughts on the subject is to give you a concise, holistic view in couple of paragraphs that […]

It won’t surprise anyone that I’m a longtime fan of analyst services like those of Gartner and Forrester. They’ve had a very positive impact on my career in consulting.  In fact, one of my formative career experiences was developing a web portal content architecture used by Giga Information Group, the technology advisory founded by Gideon […]

The SharePoint Conference kicks off on Sunday November 11th and the Perficient team will be there in force. From demo’s showing what can be accomplished with SharePoint 2013, our Rockstar giveaway where someone will win a Home Theater System to interactive sessions with community members, booth 904 will be a hub of activity. From the […]

In the last few months, we’ve spent a lot of time on this blog discussing social intranets, SharePoint social business concepts and solutions, and web content management in SharePoint 2013. Given the interest in these topics, I thought I’d point our more SharePoint-admin-inclined readers to some similar content elsewhere that provides a fairly concise summary […]

Hot off the presses from Mary Jo Foley over at ZDNet: TechNet and MSDN subscribers can officially download SharePoint 2013 (and other Office family goodness) as of right now. Yes, right now. As in, “this minute”. That’s right. It’s not even mid-November yet, and they’re already here. Talk about overdelivering. As you read this, someone […]