Posts Tagged ‘portals’

One of the more notable projects I have been on was a portal design project. The customer wanted to use SharePoint to drastically improve the productivity, effectiveness, and reach of everyone in their health system. Their goal was to deploy an intranet based on great technology to do this. During one of the interviews, a […]

Liferay announced some time ago that they were going to build Marketplace – an online application store for the Liferay.  They even posted a YouTube video previewing Marketplace back in May 2011. Liferay Marketplace has arrived officially.  You can access Marketplace at this address: http://www.liferay.com/marketplace Marketplace has many applications ready to download.  Some are free apps […]

In this article we will explore how to make parent-child list relationships in SharePoint 2010, at both the list level and the user interface form level. At the list level, we will describe how to use a Lookup field to create the relationship at the list level. At the user interface level, we will document […]

Microsoft’s latest release of SharePoint (SharePoint 2010) has been gaining more and more traction lately in the collaboration/portal space as well as the public website/ digital marketing space. As such, organizations are trying to maximize their investment by enhancing their SharePoint solution with custom functionality and improved user experience. Let’s be frank, the out-of-the-box SharePoint […]

Let’s consider two kinds of portals: one is a place where stuff is, the other is a place where people exist. Most portals start out as the former, and they tend to stay that way. In most organizations, the portal is a place where stuff is. You go there when you need some stuff, or […]

Reading this L.A. Times article about a recent study performed by researchers from Harvard’s Department of Psychology entitled “Disclosing Information about the Self is Intrinsically Rewarding” made me think not so much about the consumer implications and explanations for the popularity of social media outlets such as Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, Instagram, and Pinterest, but rather […]

The SharePoint Workspace 2010 and Groove Server 2010 technologies from Microsoft are designed to address this common business scenario: An organization has documents, lists, and other assets stored in SharePoint 2010, but the organization also has a good number of users who are often working in a situation where they are not maintaining an active […]

Imagine you are outside on a moonlit night, maybe near an old farmhouse, or a favorite camping spot. There is no one around but you. The moonlight and the quiet create a vast sense of space. All you hear is the open, empty sounds of the night. The main sound you hear all around you, […]

Last year, I was leading a SharePoint strategy session with a client. During one of the meetings the Chief of Staff, a visionary and highly regarded physician, asked the Director of IT if they could setup a website where they could post the next year’s physician contracts. Each physician could sign on, read the contracts, […]

Oracle has fully jumped into the Customer Experience market and is claiming a revolution!  We now have the age of the customer.  Oracle says “Customers have many choices today. So it is critical to make their experiences as simple, consistent, and relevant as possible as they move throughout the customer lifecycle, from buying to owning—and […]

Oracle has fully jumped into the Customer Experience market and is claiming a revolution!  We now have the age of the customer.  Oracle says “Customers have many choices today. So it is critical to make their experiences as simple, consistent, and relevant as possible as they move throughout the customer lifecycle, from buying to owning—and […]

Don’t Miss Perficient at IBM’s Exceptional Web Experience Conference. Booth #106 Perficient is ideally positioned to make web experiences exceptional! Hundreds of Fortune 2000 and large enterprise clients choose Perficient to create web experiences for their customers, partners, and internal constituents. The Perficient experience includes: Healthcare, Financial Services, Telecom, Retail and Manufacturing expertise Nationally recognized […]