Posts Tagged ‘websphere portal’

A nice article was recently published on IBM’s WebSphere Portal wiki about using a mixture of HTTP and HTTPS pages on a WebSphere Portal site.  The reasoning for that approach is basically that you need to encrypt certain sensitive traffic, but don’t want to encrypt traffic for the entire site for performance reasons. Before you […]

In the past few years, we have seen a lot of our new and existing customers show interest in having someone else run their WebSphere Portal infrastructure.  They’re happy with their investment in Portal, but may have any number of reasons why they don’t want to manage it themselves anymore. As you start to talk […]

Since portals are very comfortable with the concept of extending a site using portlets, web parts, or widgets; having a portlet catalog or app store seems to be a no brainer.  I actually posted on this about a year and a half ago lamenting how poor the various vendors have done in giving solutions.  The […]

So lately I’ve seen a lot of interest in what content management product to use with specific portals.  Most portal products give you some form of web content management to make life easier in building your portal site.  The supplied WCM tools range from simple to richly functional.   You could choose to use a completely […]

So lately I’ve seen a lot of interest in what content management product to use with specific portals.  Most portal products give you some form of web content management to make life easier in building your portal site.  The supplied WCM tools range from simple to richly functional.   You could choose to use a completely […]

IBM has released the latest version of their mobile portal product. I had the chance to sit in on a session describing updates to the product.  Here are some notes on what’s in the upgrade: The key value points comes from re-use of content across multiple form factors and from re-use of WebSphere Portal since […]

IBM has released the latest version of their mobile portal product. I had the chance to sit in on a session describing updates to the product.  Here are some notes on what’s in the upgrade: The key value points comes from re-use of content across multiple form factors and from re-use of WebSphere Portal since […]

OK,  I should have published this a while ago. I just noticed it’s still in draft mode. IBM has been adding to their strategy with portal lately by providing industry specific toolboxes suited to specific suites.  It includes case studies, white papers, ROI /Value Analysis and most importantly, key assets to be used on your […]

Rob Will, the Chief Architect for WebSphere Portal gave an overview of what’s new.  Portal 7 is out as of September 1, 2010 so this is the latest and greatest. Portal’s base purpose still hasn’t changed. It’s all about getting the right functionality to the user in whatever context they may be in.  Portal just […]

Rob Will, the Chief Architect for WebSphere Portal gave an overview of what’s new.  Portal 7 is out as of September 1, 2010 so this is the latest and greatest. Portal’s base purpose still hasn’t changed. It’s all about getting the right functionality to the user in whatever context they may be in.  Portal just […]

For anyone planing on going to the Portal Excellence Conference in July 2010, registration is open.  Perficient will be there and we should be presenting  in at least a couple sessions.

WebSphere Portal is the flagship portal product from IBM and lives in the Lotus brand.  Portal version 6.1.5 was released in November 2009 and has a number of enhancements built around the user experience. In sessions today, Larry Bowden went through their main goals and what’s going to be happening:  Here’s a quick hit: What […]