Posts Tagged ‘Technical’

I attended the search engine optimization session by Andreas Prokoph, Lead architect for search in Portal and WCM, at the excellent web experience conference in Orlando.  It was very informative on how search engines work and what doesn’t work.  Here are some of the key messages of interest from the session. How does a high […]

Jonathan Booth, an Architect who develops the Portlet Factory development tool at IBM, presented on how you can use Portlet Factory to create Mobile Applications.  I’m not going to blog the entire presentation but instead give some highlights and key bits of information on what and how they use it. My first impressions are that […]

BCBSF in many ways is the epitomy of a great web experience.  They have created a variety of valuable online tools that can be found via web sites, internally, and on mobile sites.  Lisa Crawford of BCBSF and Glenn Kline of Perficient went through how they maximize ROI at BCBSF. Where they were in 2008: […]

Sean Newby is a leading Senior Technical Architect at Perficient and periodically creates “Perficient Pointer” technical tutorials on the Perficient channel on YouTube.  His latest is a 4 part series on installing the trial version of WebSphere Portal 7 on a CentOS virtual machine. If you have trouble viewing the embeded video below, you can […]

Cody Burleson has a great video post with links to other posts on the subject of User Impersonation.  Impersonation allows you to be logged in as a one user while acting as another user.  This comes in really handy for any customer service rep who handles issues related to a web site.  The CSR can […]

Search is one of the most compelling features of a true enterprise SharePoint deployment.  In the last 6 months, our clients have expressed more and more interest in looking across the entire spectrum of search options available with SharePoint.  The question normally asked: SharePoint or FAST?  In some cases, the choice is clear.  Large document volume […]

More organizations are investing greater portions of their Intranet deployment budget on improved search functionalities.  Within the SharePoint 2010 product stack, the FAST for SharePoint option provides a whole host of enterprise search capabilities.  FAST for SharePoint not only supports more robust search results but more visual results including visual “previews”.   In the case of […]

You may know eXo from their partnership with JBoss Enterprise Portal. They provided significant content management capabilities to enhance the portal.  They continue to head down what seems to be a unique route with their portal, content, collaboration, and SOA platform.   They are also diving into the cloud with a fury. CMSWire has an article […]

Client side aggregation using AJAX interactions seems to be a must have these days.  Everyone wants to be like iGoogle or pick your favorite client side aggregated site.  Now while this is wonderful for portal, it is not always appropriate to use and can severely impact performance.  For example, here is a high level typical […]

WebSphere Portal 7 includes two new cool features: tagging and rating.  With these new features you can easily allow users to tag and rate portal pages and web content items.  Lets take a look at both of these features in action. Tagging a Portal Page   When using the new Page Builder theme, tagging is […]

Personalization (PZN) in WebSphere Portal is one of its most powerful yet overlooked capabilities.  I am surprised how often it is not even considered for everyday scenarios and instead complex custom code is written .  Personalization is often for viewed as simply selecting content from Web Content Management (WCM) based on site areas and matching […]

In my previous post, Integrating WebSphere Commerce and Lotus Connections – Part 1, I talked about getting started integrating WebSphere Commerce and Lotus Connections, specifically single sign on, branding, and product integration. In this part, I will address approaches for integrating a shopping cart and account services.