Posts Tagged ‘websphere portal’

IBM recently released a Redbook on “Building and Implementing a Social Portal”  As you know, Redbooks are basically technical guides on a variety of subjects. This one was written by eight different IBM’ers and IBM Business Partners. Why is this of interest you might ask?  When IBM released version 8 of Websphere Portal, they solved […]

As identified in another post Full login filter testing for local developer environments, the requirement may arise that developer environments need to fully test implicitLoginFilter without deploying code to another environment.  This post walks thru the code and setup of a form based TAI. Create a new class which implements TrustAssociationInterceptor. In this class we […]

As identified in another post Full login filter testing for local developer environments, the requirement may arise that developer environments need to fully test implicitLoginFilter without deploying code to another environment.  This post walks thru the code and setup of a form based TAI. Create a new class which implements TrustAssociationInterceptor. In this class we […]

A majority of enterprise portal implementations utilize some kind of external authentication mechanism. To meet the ever demanding requirements in these same environment the need rises to execute custom code during login process.  Starting in WebSphere Portal 6.1 opened up this capability with the Implicit and Explicit loginfilters. (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/techarticles/0905_buchwald/0905_buchwald.html) Many environments do not require different code in […]

Michael Porter (@porteronportal) and Saren Sakurai (@saren) of Perficient spoke at the last day of IBM Connect 2013.  The title of the talk is the Social CMO: Engaging the Consumer.  The goal of digital marketing is the right message to the right audience at the right time on the right device. 4 primary objectives of […]

At Connect 2013 I attended Chris Berry’s and Mark Hampton’s session titled Deliver Rich, Multi-Channel Websites in Minutes with IBM Web Content Manager Content Template Catalog (CTC.)  The CTC  is a large set of predefined templates and content that provides a fully populated content driven site in portal 8 which can be used as is […]

Lisa Crawford from Florida Blue (formerly Blue Cross Blue Shield of FL) presented an excellent session at IBM Connect 2013 on the evolution of their portal platform and the ROI they have received over they years.  I’ve worked with Lisa on a number of projects and the work she leads implementing IBM solutions is one […]

Thomas Stober, IBM Lead Architect WebSphere Portal Foundation, gave a presentation at IBM Connect 2013 titled “Enhance WebSphere Portal Delivery with Real time Active Analytics Insights”.   Of course, site analytics tracks user interaction with your site and can be a key input to help you optimize your portal design.  It also can play an […]

The session at IBM Connect 2013 Create Multi-Channel Websites with Rational Application Developer (RAD,) IBM WebSphere Portal and Worklight, covered many of the latest tools and techniques for developing multi-channel applications.  A multi-channel application is one that supports multiple client platforms most often multiple mobile devices and traditional browsers.  Much of this session focuses on […]

IBM Connect had a great session on implementing portal themes in WebSphere Portal 8.  Stephan Hesmer, Portal Frontend and Design Lead from IBM presented a technical session on implementing themes and skins.  Portal themes are an extremely powerful, efficient and effective way to implement user experiences in WebSphere Portal. Key points that resonated from the […]

Are you one of the thousands who will descend on Orlando, Florida next week to attend IBM Connect 2013?  If you are, then you may have been trying to make sense of all the information IBM has been publishing about the conference.  I know as a business partner, we receive lots of emails on a […]

In part 1 and part 2 of this series, I introduced many of the technologies used to build a social intranet.  In part 3, I talked about three scenarios and list some of the technology that would be involved in each social intranet.  For this last part of the series, I want to talk about what some of […]