Posts Tagged ‘portals’

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 […]

Here at the Connected Health Symposium the showroom floor is atwitter with conversations around patient engagement. Everyone is discussing ways to best engage patients and, not surprisingly, what the price tag of such ambitious efforts will amount to. I am confronted with enthusiastic smiles when I point to data that shows that engaging patients actually […]

The rapidly shifting role of patients within the care model has resulted in demand for easier access to healthcare professionals. Innovations in social media and collaborative technologies provide healthcare organizations with the ability to disperse information quickly and appeal to individuals who are seeking cost-effective healthcare services, especially in remote or rural communities. There are […]

When somebody says “Healthcare Portal”, what does that mean to you?  Unfortunately the word portal has been used so broadly that it generally is confusing.  Here are examples of how the word portal is used in various contexts: In the new federal healthcare law, the government is mandating that a health exchange portal be created. […]

The 2011 Connected Health Symposium is only days away. Our team will be in Boston for the October 20-21 event. This is an exciting time for patient engagement. We are witnessing a transformation in the role of the patient within the care model. This event promises to be a great opportunity to share innovative ideas […]

Rob Klopowitz and John Rymer recently released a report at Forrester titled SharePoint Adoption: Content and Collaboration is Just the Start. For this report the authors surveyed 510 IT professionals about their experiences with SharePoint.  There are some very interesting findings I will highlight below. The core values of SharePoint are: Managing unstructured content like […]

Rob Klopowitz and John Rymer recently released a report at Forrester titled SharePoint Adoption: Content and Collaboration is Just the Start. For this report the authors surveyed 510 IT professionals about their experiences with SharePoint.  There are some very interesting findings I will highlight below. The core values of SharePoint are: Managing unstructured content like […]

The healthcare industry is experiencing revolutionary changes stemming from the rapidly shifting role of the patient within the care model. This is resulting in demand for easier access to healthcare professionals, access to online medical information and alternatives to contain costs and improve the quality of care. Innovations in social media and collaborative technologies provide […]

This week alone I fielded three requests from healthcare organizations looking to embed social media into their traditional portal collaboration strategies. The interest can be divided into these camps: Organizations looking to implement enterprise portal solutions that provide colleagues with a way to communicate in a dynamic way. This is oftentimes being done more specifically […]

Liferay Sync is a new product coming from Liferay later this year. With Sync, you designate a folder on your PC as the Sync folder. You also configure a connection to your Liferay server and document library. When you are done, any file deposited into that folder on your desktop will be uploaded automatically to […]

XMLPF stands for XML Portlet Factory and is an open source tool that can build Liferay portlets from XML definition files.  The software creates database CRUD portlets based on the definitions contained in an XML file.  Here is a link to the project website: http://www.xmlportletfactory.org/   An example portlet is shown to the right.  XML Portlet […]

Over in CNNMoney.com, Kevin Kellehar is trying to argue that Google is a really a web portal (see Face it Google, You’re a Portal).  The logic is that if you aggregate content on the web, then yes, you are a portal.  Yahoo and MSN are web portals too, but we kinda knew that.  But Google?  […]