Posts Tagged ‘portal’

As a marketer, the focus on engagement and shift to a more connected, digital experience is incredibly interesting to me. Not long ago, the online experience was fairly simple – you had a website, and you pointed your customers to that site. Your static content was adequate at the time. Fast forward to 2014… what […]

In two previous posts, I gave a Kapow overview and an outline of the extraction and transformation process. This article will cover the upload of migrated content into Sitecore. Once data is extracted and transformed, the clean data is sitting in database tables ready to be uploaded into Sitecore. Sitecore has an Item Web API […]

Glenn Kline of Perficient and Phani Kanakala from Florida Blue presented a case study of how Florida Blue, Florida’s largest healthcare payer, uses IBM Digital Experience to engage consumers.  Florida Blue’s mission is “To improve the health and well-being of Floridians and their communities”.  This really is a good reason to engage customers. Florida Blue […]

Doug Geiger is IBM’s VP for Development for Digital Experience.  He talks about the new features available in IBM Digital Experience 8.5: New Authoring toolbar to make content creation easier BrightCove integration to publish steaming video to the BrightCove distribution network Multi-channel delivery with IBM Worklight – everything is multi-channel out of the box Portlet […]

IBM’s Digital Experience Conference got underway today in Anaheim.  For those that have followed IBM WebSphere Portal in the past, Digital Experience is a really set of individual point products that include WebSphere Portal, Web Content Manager, Forms, etc. If you have really, really followed IBM’s portal you will probably know Larry Bowden as the long-time […]

In my previous Kapow migration post, I gave an overview of the tool. In this post, I’ll give a short technical explanation of the migration process I developed. Keep in mind that my upload target was Sitecore, so some of my setup was Sitecore-specific. First, an inventory of all the current pages in the site […]

In my many years of writing Web Content Management sites, a number of clients have discussed migrating content from an old site into a new site via some kind of automatic migration, but always ended up doing a manual migration. This past spring, we finally had a client who decided to use Kapow as the […]

I missed the following post on Perficient’s Spark Blog, but it is a good read for anybody connected to WebSphere Portal.  Older versions of portal had a reputation of not working with the latest advances in user interface tools and techniques, such as responsive design, jQuery, etc.  Starting with v7 and really taking off in […]

Earlier today, CMSWire.com published an article written by my colleague, Rich Wood. Rich heads up our modern applications team here at Perficient, and he’s basically a gold mine of information when it comes to enterprise solutions for intranets, extranets, and public internet sites. Thankfully, he likes to share that knowledge with the rest of us […]

I came across the following article at Forbes.com: If Google Health Failed, Why Will Your Health Company Succeed? The first thing that caught my attention was the premise of the headline: Google is big, smart and has a lot of resources. If they can’t get a health portal right who can? I immediately thought, “Well lots of […]

Carol Rozwell, VP Distinguished Analyst at Gartner provided insights into her research on human brain activity and how this knowledge can be used to help increase digital experience in the solutions we deliver at the Gartner Portal, Content and Collaboration Summit last week. She answered to key questions. What does recent research teach us about […]

This morning at the Gartner Portal, Content, and Collaboration Summint, Gartner analyst Jim Murphy, presenting 7 Portal Pitfalls. He’s also written numerous papers on the topic. It’s also interesting to note that our own Michael Porter and Glen Kline also maintain a list of Portal misdemeanors. This was the most popular event I’ve attended this far. […]