Posts Tagged ‘portals’

As a follow up to my recent post about Connections 5.5, I thought this report was a good companion piece, Forrester IBM Connections Total Economic Impact (TEI). One of the challenges our customers often face for internal projects is justification. A new e-commerce site can be measured and the ROI driven by hard dollar results. Similarly […]

You may have missed the release of Connections 5.5 earlier this month. This week seems like a good time to contemplate projects that you will tackle in 2016. Connections 5.5 was released on December 18th and IBM did a nice job with two webinars, both available on demand, that cover both IBM Docs 2.0 as well as Connections 5.5. The […]

Several years back, the IT research and advisory firm Gartner came up with the phrase “Lean Portal.” The term was invented to draw contrast to the traditional portals of the time, which were generally regarded as complex, expensive, and bloated with unnecessary features. Lean portals, by contrast, are those that are quick to implement, utilize modern web […]

WebCenter 11g (11.1.1.8 and earlier) provides two distinct ways to build portals – portal builder and portal framework. The first approach relies on the pre-build “portal builder” application to construct portals (previously called “spaces”) primarily through a web-based administrative interface, while the latter relies on developers to design, configure and deploy their own custom Oracle ADF portal […]

Oracle talks about WebCenter Portal and BPM as a portfolio to enable digital business. Portal provides the self-service capabilities through multiple channels and is enterprise ready. Oracle said they had a good year this year with the 11g version of portal. For the strategy, Oracle looks at who is the portal developer and what tools […]

Ross Stores used Oracle WebCenter Portal and Content for their intranet and wanted to drive more employee engagement. Ross Dress for Less has 1,259 stores in 33 states and is the largest off-price apparel and home fashion retailer. For their employees, they needed ways to support discrete business processes and provide access to information for […]

David Le Strat, Oracle’s Senior Direct of Product Management presented the strategy and roadmap for Oracle’s Digital Experience products including WebCenter, BPM and Oracle Documents Cloud Service, Oracle Process Cloud Service and Oracle Sites Cloud Service.  Oracle’s strategy starts with the digital experience, but also includes agility and engagement and finally operational capabilities. Oracle shipped […]

Today through Friday, I have the opportunity to attend the IBM Leadership Alliance in Boston. The Leadership Alliance will be focused on Mobile, Social, Analytics, Content and Forms as well as Cloud. I am excited to see what IBM is going with products such as Verse, Connections, WebSphere Portal, WebSphere Content Manager and Forms Experience Builder. […]

This post describes and contrasts responsive web design and portal page variants then offers best practice recommendations around them with respect to WebCenter portals. Wikipedia describes responsive web design (RWD) as “an approach aimed at crafting sites to provide an optimal viewing and interaction experience—easy reading and navigation with a minimum of resizing, panning, and scrolling—across […]

  You’ve heard that saying before, right? Okay, it’s slightly different than the original one, which refers to IBM (one of our partners, too). But it’s true: to our knowledge, no client has ever regretted their implementation of the Google Search Appliance (GSA) solution. In fact, it’s quite the contrary. We consistently hear positive feedback […]

  In marketing, the amount of traffic to a website, blog, or other digital asset is important. Generally speaking, the more the merrier. It often defines success. What if I were to tell you that the same goes for your Intranet portals? You know, the places you go to search your company’s research papers, clinical […]

This is the third and final post in a series related to the implementation of Oracle WebCenter in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. In the first two I covered the setup of a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Instances that reside in it. In this post, I’ll cover the […]