Posts Tagged ‘portal’

#2 in our twelve part series tells the story of how not to use core portal capabilities which are provided out of the box.  As consultants, it is our job to communicate to business how portal technology can solve their problems and best implement their requirements with minimal cost and effort, not blindly brute forcing […]

Glenn Kline and I recently presented a session on some classic portal mistakes we’ve seen over the years.  We’ve decided to parse out the 12 mistakes into 12 days of posts on the topic.  Today, marks the first of these posts. What Happened I was working on a fairly large portal project at an insurance […]

Glenn Kline and I recently presented a session on some classic portal mistakes we’ve seen over the years.  We’ve decided to parse out the 12 mistakes into 12 days of posts on the topic.  Today, marks the first of these posts. What Happened I was working on a fairly large portal project at an insurance […]

We are going to be spending some time focusing on integration.  Inevitably people ask, “But can you integrate with product x, y, or z?”  Our answers is almost always yes with a lot of qualification.  Everyone wants out of the box integration that just works but no vendor ever really has a good answer.  Because […]

In Q3, IBM will be shipping their Portal 7 Mobile theme (insert applause).  This powerful theme takes advantage of the almost-ubiquitous used mobile web-kit.  This compliments IBM’s Mobile Portal Accelerator (MPA) which provides a much broader solution for multiple mobile device support.  The Mobile Theme provides a lightweight toolkit for extending portals to Android, iPhone […]

I attended the search engine optimization session by Andreas Prokoph, Lead architect for search in Portal and WCM, at the excellent web experience conference in Orlando.  It was very informative on how search engines work and what doesn’t work.  Here are some of the key messages of interest from the session. How does a high […]

I’m working with a new client who is asking “Why Portal?”  I checked our archives and my colleague Mike Porter posted a blog entry a couple of years ago on the many features common in portals (See Why a Portal).  But Mike’s post did not answer this particular client’s question.  What I needed was a […]

BCBSF in many ways is the epitomy of a great web experience.  They have created a variety of valuable online tools that can be found via web sites, internally, and on mobile sites.  Lisa Crawford of BCBSF and Glenn Kline of Perficient went through how they maximize ROI at BCBSF. Where they were in 2008: […]

I attended an excellent session called Extending your IBM Portal Exceptional Web Experience to iPhone, Android, and Blackberry Devices at the excellent web experience conference.  This presentation focused on delivering rich web site to specific mobile devices and some of the alternative approaches for accomplishing this with portal.  The main focus was on using custom […]

Excellent Web Expericnce Conference Must Attend Sessions For anyone attending IBM’s Excellent Web Experience Conference 5/16-5/19 in Orlando, FL, Perficient is presenting at three sessions including two with customers. TECH-B21 – You did What?  Avoid the Unacceptable and Make it Exceptional Tuesday, May 17th at 3:15 in conference room Ireland A Glenn Kline, Technical Director, […]

Excellent Web Expericnce Conference Must Attend Sessions For anyone attending IBM’s Excellent Web Experience Conference 5/16-5/19 in Orlando, FL, Perficient is presenting at three sessions including two with customers. TECH-B21 – You did What?  Avoid the Unacceptable and Make it Exceptional Tuesday, May 17th at 3:15 in conference room Ireland A Glenn Kline, Technical Director, […]

At Perficient, we view governance as a critical piece of a portal implementation.  We often recommend building out your governance model early in a portal project to avoid many of the pitfalls that we see when governance is an afterthought.  In fact, we have been brought into many clients to help fix a poor portal […]