Posts Tagged ‘websphere portal’

From Desktops to Mobile and Smart Phones – Lessons Learned This session at Lotusphere 2012 was presented by Usman Memonand focused on lessons learned and best practices many organizations face today when moving to mobile platforms.  Some of the key lessons learned are highlighted here. Development Approaches and Considerations Users are attempting to access your […]

  I’m at Lotusphere 2012 and attending a session on Portal themes.  It occurs to me that we’ve had a new and ‘better’ theme in almost every version or fix pack. Portal 7.0.0.2 continues that pattern. IBM continues to try to tweak the theme to make them faster and better. Now we have a Theme […]

  The mobility problem Too much diversity for a small set of new pages or JavaScript to handle. From infrastructure point of view, there are a lot of different apps that need to be mobilized. MPA solutions Extends IBM Portal to mobile devices One set of code delivered to many different devices. Developer needs to […]

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 […]

WebSphere Portal Mobile Themes Live from Lotusphere, Tyler Tribe and Jonathan Lidaka gave a presentation titled “Deliver Rich Mobile Experiences with IBM WebSphere Portal Mobile Theme.”  First, let’s start with some mobile statistics. Mobile Statistics Within 5 years, 80% of all people will have a mobile device By 2020, 10 billion mobile connected devices Mobile […]

Themes in WebSphere Portal continue to undergo significant changes.  In the past few releases we have seen the following enhancements to themes introduced: Splitting theme from the wps.ear into separate applications that can be managed independently of the Portal code Introduction of Client Side Aggregation (CSA) which builds a page using Javascript on the browser […]

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 […]

@ansmt tweeted about this and I found it interesting.  IBM has a Redpaper out about caching using IBM Portal and DataPower XC10.  Many may think of a portal as a vibrant community with lots of changing content, ratings, tags, and applications.  However, the reality is that most sites these days have some level of content […]

IBM has a YouTube of Wheaton Worldwide’s presentation and case study.  Their portal includes key content and a learning management system integrated to the portal.  But the new functionality really integrated their business functions into the portal.  That’s what I really like about this case study. Wheaton’s portal enables their business and uses the web […]

Integrating to any large system can pose a number of challenges.  Over time, we’ve had to integrate to SAP, Siebel, Peoplesoft, and a variety of other systems.  One thing we’ve learned is that it’s always possible but also brings with it a number of challenges.  Today I wanted to focus on integration to Peoplesoft.   Part […]

Lately IBM has been publishing videos on YouTube to help teach you about Web Experience Factory.  WEF is IBM’s rapid development tool for building multi-channel and multi-device applications. This the product formerly called Portlet Factory, but since it does so much more than build porltets, the name change reflects its real purpose – to build […]

Anyone who has gone through a WebSphere Portal upgrade and has portlets which use JSF has likely had some issues.  I am currently working on a portal 6.0.x to 7.0.x migration and want to share a massive JSF challenge to hopefully spare others some pain.  The problem created is that  <hx:requestLink /> tags are blocked […]