Posts Tagged ‘wcm’

Stefan Hepper presented a session at the IBM Exceptional Web Experience Conference on techniques to integrate external content management systems with IBM WCM.  He first presented on integration of ECM systems into WCM. There are several use cases where this integration is important: Author content in external ECM system and deliver it using WCM Target […]

Well, if you a regular reader of our blog, you’ll know that I started my WebSphere Portal installation (see Installing WebSphere Portal 8) but forgot to check the system requirements.  So I stopped when Installation Manager told be that Windows Server 2003 was not supported.  Well I got a couple of comments that basically said, […]

Lately the topic of gamification has been getting a lot of press.  Even here on the Perficient blogs, we’ve had some great gamification posts and white papers, covering a full spectrum from specific technology platforms (IBM Connections), entire solutions (Intranet) to the broad industries (Healthcare).  As an avid gamer, I love that something I have […]

Yesterday I pre-ordered my copy of Professional Sitecore Development, a book being written by John West, and releasing on May 22, 2012.  I have to say, I couldn’t be more excited to receive it in the mail.  As an experienced .NET and Sitecore developer, I can safely say – you never know everything, and probably […]

A quick tip post here, as I go about looking through some of my older posts from my personal blog. Standard Values are an awesome thing for Sitecore architects.  Most likely, anyone who’s developed a Sitecore site has set “$name” as a default Standard Value to at least one field of his templates.  The proper […]

Oracle held a customer briefing today, March 26, 2012 highlighting updates to the WebCenter suite of products. If you are not familiar with WebCenter, it has four main components: Sites, Portal, Content and Social.  I posted a blog in November 2011 titled Oracle Web Center Explained! with details about WebCenter. This briefing covered the 11g R1 […]

My colleague Candace recently wrote a guest post on Workflow Security in Sitecore, where she referenced the common desire of a Content Manager to have intelligent, context-specific emails generated around Sitecore Workflows.  Here’s her follow up on how to produce such emails. Sitecore provides email functionality out of the box with its workflows.  It’s really […]

As time progresses, the data being stored on any database application will continue to grow and grow.  This will inevitably lead to reduced performance, and most likely some garbage data will be taking up space.  Ultimately, the DB may even become unwieldy and unmanageable.  Now, this probably won’t happen overnight, and may not even happen […]

I blogged in February a Sneak Preview of Adobe CQ5.5 and yesterday Adobe announced that this new version is available immediately.  With this new announcement, Adobe is providing out of the box  integration with many other products in the Adobe Digital Marketing Suite, including: Insight for analyzing large volumes of data in real-time Scene7 for converting rich media […]

It’s a safe assumption to say that any organization looking to revamp its website is going to have some level of hesitancy in adopting a new technology platform to run that website.  Even though Sitecore is seen as both a leader and a visionary in the Web Content Management (WCM) sector per the November 2011 […]

If you’ve ever worked with large amounts of data within Sitecore, chances are you’ve worked with Lucene Indexes (or the newly branded Sitecore.Search namespace and indexes).  If you haven’t worked with these, it’s worth the time (and initial frustration) to learn about them, as they really do improve performance when querying the Sitecore content tree.  […]

The following is a guest post written by Candace, a colleague of mine who is also a part of the Perficient Sitecore Competency Center. Initially, I found setting up a workflow in Sitecore confusing and frustrating.  I hope this article helps you avoid some of that frustration.  Chapter 3 of the Workflow Reference is fairly clear […]