Posts Tagged ‘portal’

Over on developerWorks, Thomas Hurek and Falk Posch just posted a new white paper titled: Administering IBM WebSphere Portal 8.0: A comprehensive workshop.  The document is over 130 pages long, so it covers a lot of areas in which portal administrators will be interested.  Here is a list of the topics: Introduction What is WebSphere Portal? […]

Yep, you read that right.  Development on SharePoint 2013 (as part of the larger Office 2013 family of products) is DONE and it’s being released to the market very, very soon. Read the whole story on Kirk Koenigsbauer’s blog.  The key note here is for enterprise customers: “Volume Licensing customers with Software Assurance will be […]

At the Liferay 2012 North America Conference Ed Chung, VP of Product Management, gave us an overview of what Liferay plans are for the next version of Liferay Portal, Social Office, and Sync. Below is the planned release schedule for 6.2.  Of course the timeline can change, but its the best guess at this point. Liferay […]

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 […]

Gartner has recently published the 2012 version of their Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals.  So far, I haven’t found the Gartner report on their reprint site and none of the vendors have provided links to it yet.  Here is the link to the report on Gartner’s site, but you’ll have to be a Gartner subscriber […]

We don’t get to blog much about SAP NetWeaver Portal, however, for those companies that use it or rely on SAP, it can be an important product to them.  SAP announced in September that they were making available a cloud version of NetWeaver Portal. SAP has enabled the portal to securely and reliably connect with […]

Packt Publishing has recently published the book IBM Websphere Portal 8: Web Experience Factory and the Cloud.  I am proud to say that I was an editor for this book, which let me give feedback to the authors and publisher on its contents. The book takes the approach of developing a complete portal application from start […]

Unfortunately, the NFL won’t give my Green Bay Packers back the win that was stolen from them by the replacement refs earlier this week, but I’m going to do my small part to balance out the karma of that.  I have something to give to you, loyal readers.  Yes, it’s a present– my list of five things you […]

To really understand the value of social intranets today, you have to understand where they came from.  Today we’re going to spend a little time taking a look back at where intranets have been and where they’re going, because having that context can be a real boon when you’re staring at an intranet redesign project. […]

(This post is Part 2 in a two-part series.  For Part 1, click here.) In our previous episode, we quickly reviewed the concept of data analytics as applied to social computing software—how it enables both admins and the software companies themselves to prescriptively target feature configurations or updates to user demographics that will benefit from them. […]