Posts Tagged ‘websphere portal’

Don’t Forget Your Users Does anyone think it is easy to design a great user experience when you do not involve real users?  I am really suprised at just how many customers think it is and then wind up re-working much of their portal after releasing to production.  While this may be a shortcut to […]

Don’t Forget Your Users Does anyone think it is easy to design a great user experience when you do not involve real users?  I am really suprised at just how many customers think it is and then wind up re-working much of their portal after releasing to production.  While this may be a shortcut to […]

Janice James, one of Perficient’s experts in User Centered Design, forwarded to me an article about a new study on the state of intranet portals.  This study was conduct by Jakob Nielsen, who has been described as the “guru of web page usabililty”.  Overall, he has done  67 case studies to support the recommendations he […]

Janice James, one of Perficient’s experts in User Centered Design, forwarded to me an article about a new study on the state of intranet portals.  This study was conduct by Jakob Nielsen, who has been described as the “guru of web page usabililty”.  Overall, he has done  67 case studies to support the recommendations he […]

Welcome to part 1 of Mike Porter’s and my 12 part series on getting your portal solution to production quickly.  Each business day over the next two and a half weeks we will bring you real world approaches or best practices to help get your portal solution to production quickly.  Without any further delay, on […]

Recently Mike Porter and myself posted a 12 part series called 12 Things You Shouldn’t Do on a Portal Project which was based on a presentation we gave in May, 2011 at IBM’s Excellent Web Experience Conference.  The series was so well recieved we decided to do another 12 part series which discusses 12 things you […]

To me, one of the most frustrating aspects of WebSphere Portal is the installation process.  Don’t get me wrong, it has been greatly improved over the years to the point of being point and click for the basic install.  Still, it takes a long time to get the basic software installed (2-3 hours).  Then you […]

Measuring the effectiveness of a portal initiative has always been a long sought-after goal.   The real to measuring effectiveness is to get people to agree on what it means to be effective.  Is that number of page hits? length of time on the page? increases in order activity? Pradeep Behl at IBM published a white […]

Well I finally have taken the time to download the first beta for WebSphere Portal 8.  You can download the beta VM image here:  IBM Customer Experience Suite, IBM WebSphere Portal, and Web Content Manager Open Beta. Installation of the VM image was very easy.   I wish all my portal installs went this way.  The […]

We have shown you a variety of ways in which you can screw up your portal project.  Glenn Kline and I had fun documenting them.  Of course, we had less fun living through them or consoling clients who were living through them but time heals all wounds and now we can laugh about it.  We’d […]

This past week, IBM officially released Beta 1 of WebSphere Portal version 8 for public consumption.  The beta is open to the public for testing.  Here is some information about this first Beta from Lauren Wendel’s blog post on IBM’s WebSphere Portal Blog: “Version 8.0 Beta offers users a more seamless and rich user experience. […]

Ajax is a good thing, right?    Well, not always. What Happened A financial company had a content based intranet and the implementer decided that absolutely everything should be done using Ajax.   The home page had about a dozen portlets on it.  Some were personalized but most simply displayed non personalized content which did not change […]