Posts Tagged ‘websphere portal’

One of the most popular sessions at IBM Connect every year is “What’s New in IBM WebSphere Portal and Web Content Manager.” This year John Boezeman, CTO of IBM Digital Experience,  gave us a great presentation on the innovations that have been delivered over the past year. This is all made possible by the continuous delivery […]

This year during the Digital Experience Conference the integration scenarios of Commerce Server has been a hot topic. When integrating with Commerce there are 3 suggested scenarios. Some advantages of utilizing Digital Experience for the Commerce server include: Single environment to author all content for either Portal or Commerce sites. Includes both e-spots and full pages […]

Phani Kanakala of Florida Blue and Charles Mahoney of Perficient presented a member portal case study at the 2015 IBM Digital Experience Conference.  Florida has continually evolved their digital experience since releasing their first member portal on the IBM Digital Experience platform in 2008.  Florida Blue is the largest health insurance provider in Florida with […]

The IBM Digital Experience Conference is full of beneficial technical information.  The IBM WebSphere Portal Performance Team Lead, Hunter Presnall presented on Caching Techniques.  These are some of the high points from the presentation. With every version of WebSphere Portal performance is always an important item.  Caching is a very important part for helping any […]

The 2015 IBM Digital Experience Conference had a very informative intranet case study by The Kroger Co. delivered by Kroger’s lead developer, Arturo Araya.  The Kroger Co. spans many states with store formats that include grocery and multi-department stores, convenience stores, and jewelry stores. They are 24th on the Fortune 100 with 2,625 stores in […]

This blog provides a different approach on implementing impersonation in portal applications. Impersonation, as we know, is a Portlet service, which lets the user (A) access the portal application as another user (B) by logging in as him or her (B). Out-Of-Box Impersonation Portlet provided by WebSphere Portal lacks flexibility and customization features specific to […]

Gartner has released its Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals 2014 and it contains some interesting surprises.  For the first time in several years, Gartner has moved IBM and Liferay ahead of the other vendors in both vision and execution ability. The leaders for 2014 are still the same leaders as in 2013 and 2012. For […]

In this series, I’m showing how Portals don’t have to be heavyweight.  In Part 1, I wrote about how to make the infrastructure lighter by using cloud or IBM’s Pure System.  In Part 2, I introduced the concept of using IBM’s Web Content Manager system to build very simple portlets. Now in this final installment, […]

In part 1 of this series, How to Implement Lighter Weight Portals, I wrote about the infrastructure and installation aspects of Portals. To make the tasks of managing and installing portals, I recommended cloud solutions and for IBM, their PureApplication system both in the cloud and on-premise. In Part 2, I turn my attention to […]

One of the complaints we often hear about horizontal portal systems is they are complicated and feel “heavy”. What makes a system feel heavy and how can we lighten the load? In a typical portal application we have to integrate multiple applications, content and document management systems, security, search, personalization, page management, etc, etc. is […]

Last week Forrester published their first Wave on Digital Experience Platforms.   I was at the IBM Digital Experience Conference and it sounded like IBM was expecting good news from Forrester in this wave.   In fact, Stephen Powers from Forrester was the Keynote speaker at the conference and one of the principal authors of the […]

I don’t know how I missed it but Harish Bhavinachikar has a nice post on what you can do with modern UI tools in WebSphere Portal.  It’s on our Spark Blog but addresses something that keeps coming up again and again.  Frankly, the front-end tools have changed considerably in the last couple years.  Modern UI […]