Posts Tagged ‘websphere portal’

We often encounter companies who are trying to improve their web sites by implementing some sort of content management system.  Portal vendors will sell them on the benefits of using portal technologies to integrate applications with content.  Non-portal vendors will sell their products based on traditional content management features, such as site management, page creation, […]

Client side aggregation using AJAX interactions seems to be a must have these days.  Everyone wants to be like iGoogle or pick your favorite client side aggregated site.  Now while this is wonderful for portal, it is not always appropriate to use and can severely impact performance.  For example, here is a high level typical […]

Most portals have a lot of functionality. When you take a portal like IBM’s WebSphere Portal, there is a huge amount of functionality both for use by the business people who manage the portal and by the people who make manage the “guts” of the thing.   You might only use a small portion of what […]

WebSphere Portal 7 includes two new cool features: tagging and rating.  With these new features you can easily allow users to tag and rate portal pages and web content items.  Lets take a look at both of these features in action. Tagging a Portal Page   When using the new Page Builder theme, tagging is […]

Personalization (PZN) in WebSphere Portal is one of its most powerful yet overlooked capabilities.  I am surprised how often it is not even considered for everyday scenarios and instead complex custom code is written .  Personalization is often for viewed as simply selecting content from Web Content Management (WCM) based on site areas and matching […]

IBM recently released their updated Multilingual solution for Portal and Web Content Management V7.   If you are familiar with previous versions of MultiLingual Solution, you will be comfortable with this latest version. The basic concept behind localizing content is to have multiple WCM libraries, each set up to serve a different locale.  One library is […]

If you haven’t heard, IBM offers a cloud-based service for WebSphere Portal  7.0 via their Smart Business Cloud offering.  In this article Paul Kelsey provides step-by-step instructions to implement your Portal 7.0 in the cloud. Some highlights of IBM’s Smart Business Cloud for WebSphere Portal include the following features that always seem to cause initial […]

WebSphere Portal can easily display content from its own robust web content management system (WCM).  But surveys have found that more than 50% of companies have more than one content management system they want to integrate with Portal.  There are several out-of-the-box solutions that you can use to pull content from other systems and display […]

If you don’t regularly check the IBM Portal wiki or subscribe to updates via RSS, you might not have seen the WebSphere Portal v7 Tuning Guide that was just released.  Many of the sections are similar to the previous editions, but there are also new sections for areas such as: Disabling features you might not […]

Every non-trivial implementation of WebSphere Portal (are there any trivial ones?) will need some degree of automation, mostly around release management.  Most customers have three or more portal environments: Development, Production, and one or more in the middle.  In the last few years, we’re seeing a greater demand for Disaster Recovery environments as well.  Promoting […]

I attended a session on the various products IBM offers and how they interact with Exchange, Sharepoint, etc.  My reality is that no company is a completely homogeneous entity.   I typically see multiple vendors and a large overlap of solutions.  But when you talk collaboration, you want your email system to work with your […]

Jason Wicker of IBM has posted a comprehensive set of security concepts and considerations for IBM WebSphere Portal.  While much of this information exists in various forms throughout the v6.1 and v7.0 InfoCenters and Redbooks, Jason captures it all in one place. I’d recommend that Portal customers and consultants use that article as a security-related […]