Yesterday, at the Gateway to Innovation conference in Saint Louis, MO, two of our clients presented to an audience on how SharePoint specifically helped their organizations 1) grow and scale, and 2) collaborate and integrate data and processes. Andrew Richards, Director of the Information Systems Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences at Washington University presented […]
Posts Tagged ‘portal’
Version 8 Beta Feature Focus Session 4 – Upgrading to Version 8
Lauren Wendel has posted on an upcoming Beta Education Session on IBM’s WebSphere Portal’s next generation. Everyone is always worried about upgrade so this is your chance to get the early scoop. We’ve been very pleased to host collaborative education sessions that provide our Customer Experience Suite, WebSphere Portal, Web Content Manager and IBM Forms […]
Liferay Portal 6.1: More than 500,000 Downloads in 3 Months
Liferay announced yesterday that Liferay Portal 6.1 Community Edition has been downloaded over 550,000 times since it was launched earlier this year. Liferay says this is a record number for any of its products and is more than double that of version 6.0 in the first three months. We reviewed some of the new features […]
Oracle WebCenter Update
Oracle held a customer briefing today, March 26, 2012 highlighting updates to the WebCenter suite of products. If you are not familiar with WebCenter, it has four main components: Sites, Portal, Content and Social. I posted a blog in November 2011 titled Oracle Web Center Explained! with details about WebCenter. This briefing covered the 11g R1 […]
Adobe CQ5.5 Now Available
I blogged in February a Sneak Preview of Adobe CQ5.5 and yesterday Adobe announced that this new version is available immediately. With this new announcement, Adobe is providing out of the box integration with many other products in the Adobe Digital Marketing Suite, including: Insight for analyzing large volumes of data in real-time Scene7 for converting rich media […]
WebSphere Portal Mobile Accelerator Update
IBM announced the availability of v7.0.2 of Mobile Portal Accelerator. Here are some details from IBM. New features: Support for WebSphere Portal V7.0.0.2 Updated Multi-Channel Server V6.3 Support for Media Access Server V6.3 Support for IBM Rational® Application Developer V8.0.4 Has built-in theme that provides an enhanced and consistent multichannel experience with WebSphere Portal Enhanced […]
Gartner PCC – 6 Portal Pitfalls
Jim Murphy held a standing room only session this morning covering the 6 pitfalls with portals. I’m curious, was it standing room only because lots of people have encountered pitfalls, or are all these people just starting out with portal and want to avoid these pitfalls? My guess is that many of these people already […]
Do not Neglect Portal Performance and Load Testing
Poor performance in a portal production environment will quickly become your number one complaint from your employees, partners and customers. Given an option, your user community will look elsewhere and not come back. Performance testing and load testing are often left to the last minute or skipped all together. If 2 weeks before launch you […]
Gartner PCC – Employee Portals – Revenge of the Intranet
The afternoon session of the Gartner conference started off with a collaboration by Gene Phifer and jim Murphy talking about Employee Portals. Originally, most portals were aimed at employees. More recently vendors and business have been turning to Customer portals. But with the rise of social capabilities, the Employee Portal and Intranet are again a […]
Gartner PCC – Using Generation 7 Portals to Engage Customers
Jim Murphy and Ray Valdes are presenting on the topic of Generation 7 Portals. Portals have been around since 1998 and have evolved over 7 generations according to Jim. Gen 7 Portals include the following features, which have been built on the previous generations: Analytics Portal-less Portals Context aware Portal ubiquity Emerging UXP Widgets dominate […]
Gartner PCC – User Experience Platform Update
Gene Phifer spoke about the trends in what Gartner calls the User Experience Platform (UXP). The big change from last year appears to be a split in the emerging UXP market into Suite vendors and Lean vendors. Gartner sees many vendors, such as IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle expanding more and more into the Suite side […]
Implement a Terms of Use Acknowledgement in WebSphere Portal
A very common requirement in a portal solution is a terms of use acknowledgement (TOU) which gates entry into the portal until the user accepts terms and conditions. The next time the user logs on, they will not be required to accept the conditions again. There is not a built in “out of the box” […]