Posts Tagged ‘wcm’

The afternoon session of the Gartner conference started off with a collaboration by Gene Phifer and jim Murphy talking about Employee Portals.  Originally, most portals were aimed at employees.  More recently vendors and business have been turning to Customer portals.  But with the rise of social capabilities, the Employee Portal and Intranet are again a […]

Whenever we work with a client on a Sitecore implementation, it is inevitable that at some point in the process, the question of scheduling future publishes will come up.  The question is usually phrased something like “Does Sitecore allow me to schedule an item to be published in the future?”  Every time it comes up, […]

Sitecore just released a new white paper, Content Management: The (New) Governance Manifesto, which they wrote in conjunction with ISITE Design and non-linear creations.  If you’re considering adopting a CMS technology, or have already begun down the path of implementing a CMS, I would highly recommend this white paper.  It’s not written to be focused […]

The Sitecore Competency Center team at Perficient has worked on projects in the past where we needed to integrate data that would not be stored within Sitecore with items from Sitecore.  We’ve learned a few lessons from doing this, and I hope to share some with you in this post. The first lesson is to […]

Today I attended a Webinar given by Adobe showing a sneak peek at CQ5.5.  Almost a year ago I blogged about how Adobe CQ5 had arrived.  Adobe CQ5.5 will include significant improvements especially for digital marketers. Adobe plans to announce CQ5.5 in March,  2012 and there will be lots more new features than what I […]

In the past, one of the weak points in IBM WebSphere Portal is its handling of documents or files.  Prior to verison 6.1, Portal came with a Portal Document Manager (PDM) portlet that did a fair job in letting you manage a file store in Portal.  PDM had many faults too – it wasn’t all […]

Often overlooked in IBM’s Web Content Management system is its ability to deliver web sites three different ways: Pre-rendered – in this mode, IBM WCM creates standard HTML pages for your site and delivers them to a standard web server.  For static content or brochureware, this is an excellent way to deliver web content.  In […]

Back in October I blogged about IBM’s new Content Template Catalog for WebSphere Portal.  Now that I’m at Lotusphere, I just attended a session with more details. An interesting piece that I didn’t cover the first time was inclusion of SEO features.  New in Portal 7.0.0.2 is the ability for WCM to add title and […]

By far one of the biggest complaints I hear from clients is how hard it is to author and manage content.  There’s so much you can do to improve the authoring experience but it all starts with what the vendor provides.  Last month, IBM release a new content authoring homepage to the Solutions Catalog.  For […]

I am currently working on a project for a customer where we are migrating a very complex portal from WebSphere Portal 6.0.1.3 to 7.0.0.1.  There is quite a bit going which has to be migrated including Personalization rules, JSF portlets, Spring MVC portlets, customized WebSphere caches and shared libraries, customized WebSphere Portal configuration, content nodes, […]

Welcome to day number 5 in our series.  Sometimes out of the box portal capabilities are not perfect.  Perhaps some of them don’t even meet 90% of your requirements.  Does this mean you should develop a custom home grown solution?  Well, not unless you want to spend a lot more money and take a lot […]

Forrester recently release their Web Content Management Wave.  It’s striking less for the rankings and more for the information about trends and why they ranked the vendors the way they did.  I won’t reveal the Wave itself since I don’t have rights to distribute but I will note a few key findings. Welcome to CXM […]