Posts Tagged ‘websphere portal’

BCBSF in many ways is the epitomy of a great web experience.  They have created a variety of valuable online tools that can be found via web sites, internally, and on mobile sites.  Lisa Crawford of BCBSF and Glenn Kline of Perficient went through how they maximize ROI at BCBSF. Where they were in 2008: […]

I attended an excellent session called Extending your IBM Portal Exceptional Web Experience to iPhone, Android, and Blackberry Devices at the excellent web experience conference.  This presentation focused on delivering rich web site to specific mobile devices and some of the alternative approaches for accomplishing this with portal.  The main focus was on using custom […]

We are at the Portal Excellence Conference which has now been appropriately renamed to the Web Experience Conference.  IBM is explicitly admitting that it takes more than just portal software to create a web experience so they’ve expanded the discussion to portal, web content management, search, web analytics, user experience, and a number of other […]

Excellent Web Expericnce Conference Must Attend Sessions For anyone attending IBM’s Excellent Web Experience Conference 5/16-5/19 in Orlando, FL, Perficient is presenting at three sessions including two with customers. TECH-B21 – You did What?  Avoid the Unacceptable and Make it Exceptional Tuesday, May 17th at 3:15 in conference room Ireland A Glenn Kline, Technical Director, […]

Excellent Web Expericnce Conference Must Attend Sessions For anyone attending IBM’s Excellent Web Experience Conference 5/16-5/19 in Orlando, FL, Perficient is presenting at three sessions including two with customers. TECH-B21 – You did What?  Avoid the Unacceptable and Make it Exceptional Tuesday, May 17th at 3:15 in conference room Ireland A Glenn Kline, Technical Director, […]

At Perficient, we view governance as a critical piece of a portal implementation.  We often recommend building out your governance model early in a portal project to avoid many of the pitfalls that we see when governance is an afterthought.  In fact, we have been brought into many clients to help fix a poor portal […]

I came across this article: ECM + WCM = Your Portal Strategy by Kimberly Samuelson. I might be jaded or maybe its because I work so closely with capital-p Portals, but I can’t agree that a portal strategy consists of simply blending Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Web Content Management (WCM).  To me a Portal […]

Sean Newby is a leading Senior Technical Architect at Perficient and periodically creates “Perficient Pointer” technical tutorials on the Perficient channel on YouTube.  His latest is a 4 part series on installing the trial version of WebSphere Portal 7 on a CentOS virtual machine. If you have trouble viewing the embeded video below, you can […]

Cody Burleson has a great video post with links to other posts on the subject of User Impersonation.  Impersonation allows you to be logged in as a one user while acting as another user.  This comes in really handy for any customer service rep who handles issues related to a web site.  The CSR can […]

I just had a white paper published on IBM DeveloperWorks that shows how to implement a Dojo DataGrid within WebSphere Portal.   Here ia link to the article titled:  Implementing a Dojo dataGrid in IBM WebSphere Portal applications. In the whitepaper, I show you how to create a basic grid using an ItemFileWriteStore.  I also discuss […]

I just read a great post on the Collaboration Soapbox blog by Louis Richardson titled “How to get your head out of your inbox“.  In the article Richardson explains how he is using social networking tools to reduce the amount of email he receives.  The basic concept is this:  when you get a piece of […]

In a previous post, I talked about Gartners prediction of a “seismic shift” in the portal market.  In one of the last session of the Gartner Portal, Content & Collaboration 2011 Summit, Gene Phifer spoke about the future of portals.  Gene is convinced that the portal market (and mashup market) will be “subsumed” by a […]