Posts Tagged ‘portal’

Since we work with several different portal products, I’m often asked about the performance of Liferay portal when it comes to scalability.  I think most people who ask this question are under the impression that the big players (IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, Adobe, etc) do scale very well.  Indeed those vendors do spend a good amount […]

Spring provides a flexible Portlet MVC framework. By using it in our WebSphere portal application development, we benefited not only from the Portlet MVC framework itself, but also from other features such as IoC supported by Spring. In this post I would like to share a problem we faced when integrating Spring Portlet MVC framework […]

Oracle has fully jumped into the Customer Experience market and is claiming a revolution!  We now have the age of the customer.  Oracle says “Customers have many choices today. So it is critical to make their experiences as simple, consistent, and relevant as possible as they move throughout the customer lifecycle, from buying to owning—and […]

Oracle has fully jumped into the Customer Experience market and is claiming a revolution!  We now have the age of the customer.  Oracle says “Customers have many choices today. So it is critical to make their experiences as simple, consistent, and relevant as possible as they move throughout the customer lifecycle, from buying to owning—and […]

IBM has long had a Solutions Catalog or application store, which includes portlets and other code for their products.   Some solutions are free from IBM and others, while some solutions you have to purchase.  You can look at the Solutions Catalog here. In addition to the Solutions Catalog, IBM is now offering what they […]

Managed pages are one of the many new capabilities in WebSphere Portal 8.  A key goal of this capability is to provide a great user experience for business users managing pages and content.  I attended a session at the IBM Exceptional Web Experience on managed pages which was lead by Stefan Hepper, Portal / WCM […]

Stefan Hepper presented a session at the IBM Exceptional Web Experience Conference on techniques to integrate external content management systems with IBM WCM.  He first presented on integration of ECM systems into WCM. There are several use cases where this integration is important: Author content in external ECM system and deliver it using WCM Target […]

Now that WebSphere Portal V8 has shipped, you should wonder what is the migration process to get to Portal 8. I’m attending the IBM Exceptional Web Experience Conference session titled Migrating to IBM WebSphere Portal V8, so I’ll pass along what I learn. First, the upgrade is going to require additional servers because it is […]

Larry Bowden kicked off IBM’s biggest launch of a new version of Web Experience in 10 years.  Mobile, Social, Analytics and Content are all hitting at the same time, and the IBM Web Experience Suites are positioned to take advantage of this convergence. Here are some stats that Larry presented: Social Networking reaches 82% of […]

IBM recently published a new presentation on their mobile strategy for social businesses.  This presentation is a comprehensive look at the available IBM mobile technologies across their broad spectrum of systems, including WebSphere Portal, Lotus Notes, Domino, IBM Connections, Sametime, Sterling Commerce, Cognos and Coremetrics. IBM has a three prong strategy when it comes to […]

IBM has been reworking WebSphere Portal themes for a long time now.  The feedback I get on themes in Portal 7 is they are too complicated, too slow, and not well documented.  With WebSphere Portal 8, IBM is addressing these concerns with a new theme architecture.  IBM is touting the new theme as very modular, […]

I’ve started experimenting with the new IBM WebSphere Portal 8 (Enable version).  My first adventure that I’d like to share with you was downloading and installing this new version.  I’ve installed previos versions of Portal many, many times starting with version 5.0.  So I jumped onto the IBM website, found the install images and started […]