Posts Tagged ‘websphere portal’

For all that I love portal and collaboration technology, I recognize there are time when you shouldn’t use it.  It can be heavy if it’s a one-off type application.  Portal can be difficult to implement if you are trying to recreate an entire application from scratch.  It can be really difficult and time consuming if […]

The job of portal developers are to develop for portal, right?  But what happens when they can’t develop? What Happened A major insurance company had a portal administrator who was adamant that nobody other than him could touch any of the environments in any type of administrative capacity, even basic portal administrator in a development […]

The job of portal developers are to develop for portal, right?  But what happens when they can’t develop? What Happened A major insurance company had a portal administrator who was adamant that nobody other than him could touch any of the environments in any type of administrative capacity, even basic portal administrator in a development […]

My colleague Mike Porter blogged recently about Integrating OBIEE with Portal.  This inspired me to take a look at how to integrate Cognos with Portal.  I spoke with another Perficient colleague, Dave Jones, about his experience with Cognos and Portal.  Dave provided some useful options that I’ve published below. I think one of the biggest […]

Here is a story of how a major hotel chain instantly got a huge ROI on portal… in the wrong direction! What Happened A major hotel chain had a metric that for every second they could cut from call handle time netted $108,000 a year in savings.  It is easy to see how converting the […]

On the 4th day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a never-ending portal strategy.  A portal strategy is a good thing, right?  Well, not if it never ends. What Happened I worked with a major insurance company that spent 3 months putting together an amazing 2 year portal strategy.  The strategy covered architecture, […]

#2 in our twelve part series tells the story of how not to use core portal capabilities which are provided out of the box.  As consultants, it is our job to communicate to business how portal technology can solve their problems and best implement their requirements with minimal cost and effort, not blindly brute forcing […]

We are going to be spending some time focusing on integration.  Inevitably people ask, “But can you integrate with product x, y, or z?”  Our answers is almost always yes with a lot of qualification.  Everyone wants out of the box integration that just works but no vendor ever really has a good answer.  Because […]

In Q3, IBM will be shipping their Portal 7 Mobile theme (insert applause).  This powerful theme takes advantage of the almost-ubiquitous used mobile web-kit.  This compliments IBM’s Mobile Portal Accelerator (MPA) which provides a much broader solution for multiple mobile device support.  The Mobile Theme provides a lightweight toolkit for extending portals to Android, iPhone […]

I attended the search engine optimization session by Andreas Prokoph, Lead architect for search in Portal and WCM, at the excellent web experience conference in Orlando.  It was very informative on how search engines work and what doesn’t work.  Here are some of the key messages of interest from the session. How does a high […]

I’m working with a new client who is asking “Why Portal?”  I checked our archives and my colleague Mike Porter posted a blog entry a couple of years ago on the many features common in portals (See Why a Portal).  But Mike’s post did not answer this particular client’s question.  What I needed was a […]

Jonathan Booth, an Architect who develops the Portlet Factory development tool at IBM, presented on how you can use Portlet Factory to create Mobile Applications.  I’m not going to blog the entire presentation but instead give some highlights and key bits of information on what and how they use it. My first impressions are that […]