Posts Tagged ‘wcm’

For the entire history of the portal, when someone asked, “When should I use a portal instead of a content management system?”, the answer was easy.  When you have to login, surface applications, personalize the experience, and otherwise do more than simple content display, then use a portal.  However, that’s been changing of late.  This […]

We often encounter companies who are trying to improve their web sites by implementing some sort of content management system.  Portal vendors will sell them on the benefits of using portal technologies to integrate applications with content.  Non-portal vendors will sell their products based on traditional content management features, such as site management, page creation, […]

Many of our Portal clients face the same dilemma:  They are implementing a new portal platform, but need to bring content into portal from a variety of places.  In most of these situations, they have an existing content management system that they can’t (or won’t) migrate into portal’s CMS. Last month I blogged about how […]

I like this sort of thing mainly because I hear business users number one complaint, “Why do you make it so hard to create my content?”    The technology has improved to the point where we can do something about it.  Now we just need to focus on more than bits and bytes. Ephox is holding […]

Most portals have a lot of functionality. When you take a portal like IBM’s WebSphere Portal, there is a huge amount of functionality both for use by the business people who manage the portal and by the people who make manage the “guts” of the thing.   You might only use a small portion of what […]

IBM recently released their updated Multilingual solution for Portal and Web Content Management V7.   If you are familiar with previous versions of MultiLingual Solution, you will be comfortable with this latest version. The basic concept behind localizing content is to have multiple WCM libraries, each set up to serve a different locale.  One library is […]

WebSphere Portal can easily display content from its own robust web content management system (WCM).  But surveys have found that more than 50% of companies have more than one content management system they want to integrate with Portal.  There are several out-of-the-box solutions that you can use to pull content from other systems and display […]

I recently blogged about content management in portals. Chris DeBracy, one of the lead architects in our Oracle practice gave me some additional information about how Oracle’s Web Center Suite integrates Oracle UCM (the old Stellent product). There are all kinds of ways to display UCM content in WebCenter Suite using little or a lot […]

So lately I’ve seen a lot of interest in what content management product to use with specific portals.  Most portal products give you some form of web content management to make life easier in building your portal site.  The supplied WCM tools range from simple to richly functional.   You could choose to use a completely […]

So lately I’ve seen a lot of interest in what content management product to use with specific portals.  Most portal products give you some form of web content management to make life easier in building your portal site.  The supplied WCM tools range from simple to richly functional.   You could choose to use a completely […]

With the upcoming September 1, 2010 release of WebSphere Portal comes a new version of WCM.  Actually, the largest changes in the new release come from WCM.  The UI is very different and much easier to use.  They’ve put a lot of thought in making this something that really works for you.  For example, a […]

With the upcoming September 1, 2010 release of WebSphere Portal comes a new version of WCM.  Actually, the largest changes in the new release come from WCM.  The UI is very different and much easier to use.  They’ve put a lot of thought in making this something that really works for you.  For example, a […]