Posts Tagged ‘portal’

Today I attended a Webinar given by Adobe showing a sneak peek at CQ5.5.  Almost a year ago I blogged about how Adobe CQ5 had arrived.  Adobe CQ5.5 will include significant improvements especially for digital marketers. Adobe plans to announce CQ5.5 in March,  2012 and there will be lots more new features than what I […]

IBM released Beta 3 for IBM WebSphere Portal and Web Content Manager recently.  Beta 3 has an interesting new feature: IBM Forms.  Will forms be included in the base product or is it just part of the full Customer Experience Suite? Here is the list of new features included in Beta 3: IBM Forms Beta […]

We’ve seen a lot of interest in Adobe CQ5 lately. One question that comes up a lot is about CQ5’s portal capabilities.  Michael Porter blogged last year about the trend of Web Content Management systems to become more portal-like (see Web Content Management’s Trend Towards Portals). It is true that overall CQ5 has lots of traditional […]

From Desktops to Mobile and Smart Phones – Lessons Learned This session at Lotusphere 2012 was presented by Usman Memonand focused on lessons learned and best practices many organizations face today when moving to mobile platforms.  Some of the key lessons learned are highlighted here. Development Approaches and Considerations Users are attempting to access your […]

WebSphere Portal Mobile Themes Live from Lotusphere, Tyler Tribe and Jonathan Lidaka gave a presentation titled “Deliver Rich Mobile Experiences with IBM WebSphere Portal Mobile Theme.”  First, let’s start with some mobile statistics. Mobile Statistics Within 5 years, 80% of all people will have a mobile device By 2020, 10 billion mobile connected devices Mobile […]

Themes in WebSphere Portal continue to undergo significant changes.  In the past few releases we have seen the following enhancements to themes introduced: Splitting theme from the wps.ear into separate applications that can be managed independently of the Portal code Introduction of Client Side Aggregation (CSA) which builds a page using Javascript on the browser […]

Before We Begin Integrating OBIEE and Portal has been tricky due the lack of publicly available OBIEE documentation on the HtmlViewService, therefore, I wanted to write this post to describe the implementation of an OBIEE Chart portlet and provide a sample implementation.   I will cover some of the lessons learned and provide solutions to issues […]

Integrating to any large system can pose a number of challenges.  Over time, we’ve had to integrate to SAP, Siebel, Peoplesoft, and a variety of other systems.  One thing we’ve learned is that it’s always possible but also brings with it a number of challenges.  Today I wanted to focus on integration to Peoplesoft.   Part […]

Anyone who has gone through a WebSphere Portal upgrade and has portlets which use JSF has likely had some issues.  I am currently working on a portal 6.0.x to 7.0.x migration and want to share a massive JSF challenge to hopefully spare others some pain.  The problem created is that  <hx:requestLink /> tags are blocked […]

On October 28, 2011, Gartner updated their Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals. While not much has changed from 2010 in the leader’s quadrant, there are a few new names on the chart in the other quadrants.  In the pictures here you can see the 2010 version compared to 2011. Microsoft, IBM and Oracle continue to […]

Microsoft ships SharePoint with a lot of out-of-the-box features.  However, no out-of-the-box portal is going to give you everything you want out-of-the-box.   So at some point in your implementation of SharePoint you are going to need to do some custom development.  Have you thought about your development strategies for SharePoint? If not, Forrester has […]

WebSphere Portal 8 Beta now includes integration with OpenID and OAuth identity providers for authentication services.  What does this mean to Portal users? OpenID and OAuth are services available from sites such as Google, Yahoo, OpenID, and Facebook.  With this integration, your portal users can use their Google ID, Yahoo ID, Open ID or Facebook ID […]