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Top 10 Portal Architecture Questions

OK, so I’ll admit first off that you really should ask more than 10 questions.  But you have to start somewhere.  Since a portal has the capacity to bring together so many moving parts, these questions can be quite broad.  So here are my top 10. How many people will be using the portal and […]

Top 5 Reasons to Invest in Enterprise 2.0 Technologies

Here is an interesting post from Vince Casarez, who is vice president of Enterprise 2.0 Product Management from Oracle: http://www.oracle.com/us/dm/h2fy11/topfiveinvest-198471.html?msgid=3-3070671364 After all the Portal acquisitions from Oracle, we’re really starting to see the stack come together nicely. It’s good to see others are seeing it as well.

Top 5 Most Valuable People on a Portal Project

Projects get done because people complete all tasks necessary to launch.  Projects get done on time because the resources assigned to a project are both accountable and competent.  A tpyical portal project can have something like 15-20 different roles.  When I name a top 5 it’s not because I don’t value the other roles, it’s […]

Oracle Buys ATG

Oracle announced their intention to buy ATG about a week ago.  For a while now we’ve seen legacy ATG sites converting to content management, portal and other commerce systems.  We still find plenty of admins saying you will have pry that software from their hands.  We also find plenty of users needing to upgrade as […]

To Use or Not Use a Portal Product’s Content Management System

So lately I’ve seen a lot of interest in what content management product to use with specific portals.  Most portal products give you some form of web content management to make life easier in building your portal site.  The supplied WCM tools range from simple to richly functional.   You could choose to use a completely […]

To Use or Not Use a Portal Product's Content Management System

So lately I’ve seen a lot of interest in what content management product to use with specific portals.  Most portal products give you some form of web content management to make life easier in building your portal site.  The supplied WCM tools range from simple to richly functional.   You could choose to use a completely […]

More on Version 7 of IBM’s Mobile Portal Accelerator

IBM has released the latest version of their mobile portal product. I had the chance to sit in on a session describing updates to the product.  Here are some notes on what’s in the upgrade: The key value points comes from re-use of content across multiple form factors and from re-use of WebSphere Portal since […]

More on Version 7 of IBM's Mobile Portal Accelerator

IBM has released the latest version of their mobile portal product. I had the chance to sit in on a session describing updates to the product.  Here are some notes on what’s in the upgrade: The key value points comes from re-use of content across multiple form factors and from re-use of WebSphere Portal since […]

Portal Mobility: What to consider as your enterprise goes mobile

IBM and Perficient mobile and portals experts hosted a webinar yesterday about going mobile. The team addressed: How companies are leveraging the IBM Mobile Portal Accelerator (MPA) How MPA easily extends the WebSphere Portal platform with services to seamlessly deliver scalable, mobile solutions optimized for display across a wide range of mobile devices, including the […]

IBM Industry Toolboxes

OK,  I should have published this a while ago. I just noticed it’s still in draft mode. IBM has been adding to their strategy with portal lately by providing industry specific toolboxes suited to specific suites.  It includes case studies, white papers, ROI /Value Analysis and most importantly, key assets to be used on your […]

What New in IBM’s Web Content Manager (WCM) Product

With the upcoming September 1, 2010 release of WebSphere Portal comes a new version of WCM.  Actually, the largest changes in the new release come from WCM.  The UI is very different and much easier to use.  They’ve put a lot of thought in making this something that really works for you.  For example, a […]

What New in IBM's Web Content Manager (WCM) Product

With the upcoming September 1, 2010 release of WebSphere Portal comes a new version of WCM.  Actually, the largest changes in the new release come from WCM.  The UI is very different and much easier to use.  They’ve put a lot of thought in making this something that really works for you.  For example, a […]

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