Posts Tagged ‘websphere portal’

Poor performance in a portal production environment will quickly become your number one complaint from your employees, partners and customers.  Given an option, your user community will look elsewhere and not come back.  Performance testing and load testing are often left to the last minute or skipped all together.  If 2 weeks before launch you […]

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 […]

Gene Phifer spoke about the trends in what Gartner calls the User Experience Platform (UXP).  The big change from last year appears to be a split in the emerging UXP market into Suite vendors and Lean vendors. Gartner sees many vendors, such as IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle expanding more and more into the Suite side […]

Splunk hosted a webinar earlier today on their Splunk for WebSphere Application Server 2.0 application. This is an application they wrote that extends Splunk’s already powerful capabilities to provide WebSphere-specific searches and reports. If you’re not familiar with Splunk, you should take a look. In a nutshell: Your IT infrastructure generates massive amounts of data. […]

 A very common requirement in a portal solution is a terms of use acknowledgement (TOU) which gates entry into the portal until the user accepts terms and conditions.  The next time the user logs on, they will not be required to accept the conditions again.  There is not a built in “out of the box” […]

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 […]

Buried in some of the many announcements IBM puts out on a weekly basis, you will find that they just changed the entitlements for two of their baseline portal packages.  Both Portal Enable and Portal Extend now include the ability to use the profiles and file services from the social networking tool, IBM Connections.  Here’s […]

IBM released Beta 3 for IBM WebSphere Portal and Web Content Manager recently.  Beta 3 has an interesting new feature: IBM Forms.  Will forms be included in the base product or is it just part of the full Customer Experience Suite? Here is the list of new features included in Beta 3: IBM Forms Beta […]

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 […]

We’ve seen a lot of interest in Adobe CQ5 lately. One question that comes up a lot is about CQ5’s portal capabilities.  Michael Porter blogged last year about the trend of Web Content Management systems to become more portal-like (see Web Content Management’s Trend Towards Portals). It is true that overall CQ5 has lots of traditional […]

  What’s coming in IBM Connections?  At Lotusphere 2012 IBM laid its plans for Connections in a general session. Of course, they had a disclaimer that the product is still under development, so these features may change by the time the final product is released. The theme for the new version include: Social platform evolution […]

  What’s coming in IBM Connections?  At Lotusphere 2012 IBM laid its plans for Connections in a general session. Of course, they had a disclaimer that the product is still under development, so these features may change by the time the final product is released. The theme for the new version include: Social platform evolution […]