Posts Tagged ‘websphere portal’

Packt Publishing has recently published the book IBM Websphere Portal 8: Web Experience Factory and the Cloud.  I am proud to say that I was an editor for this book, which let me give feedback to the authors and publisher on its contents. The book takes the approach of developing a complete portal application from start […]

IBM just published their tuning guide for WebSphere Portal 8.0.  There have been lots of improvements made to Portal 8, especially in re-architecting the JCR database for WCM.  If you have a Portal 8.0 installation or are planning to implement Portal 8.0, this tuning guide should be a must read for your team. The tuning guide […]

Gartner recently issued their 2012 version of the Web Content Management Magic Quadrant.  This year’s version looks similar to last year’s version with Oracle, SDL, SiteCore, Adobe, HP (Autonomy), Extron, and OpenText all making the Leaders quadrant.  IBM and Microsoft are in the Challengers quadrant once again. You can see the entire report on Gartner’s […]

IBM recently posted a new tutorial on developerWorks about how to use IBM Worklight to deliver WebSphere Portal pages.  The title of the article is very long, but here it is: Deliver an exceptional mobile web experience using WebSphere Portal and IBM Worklight, Part 1: Integrating a hybrid mobile application with WebSphere Portal pages by Jaye […]

IBM’s web content management system has long had a feature called syndication.  Syndication is used to move content from one server to another.  In the typical environment, content is authored in one server, goes through a workflow process and finally gets approved.  Once approved, that content then needs to be delivered to the production servers […]

I’m doing some research on all things branding and theming with IBM’s WebSphere Portal for a client.  I ran across this in depth article at Base 22.  Cody Burleson has taken a lot of time to document it so I thought I’d point some of you his way.   Cody has also compiled a list […]

I recently ran into a puzzling issue with WebSphere Portal 7.0.2 while I was trying to export a portal page using xmlaccess from one portal and import it into another.  This page had some basic Web Content Management (WCM) rendering portlets on it.  The problem was that when I imported the xml into my target […]

I recently ran into a puzzling issue with WebSphere Portal 7.0.2 while I was trying to export a portal page using xmlaccess from one portal and import it into another.  This page had some basic Web Content Management (WCM) rendering portlets on it.  The problem was that when I imported the xml into my target […]

Andrew Wright posted at story at ragan.com titled Are intranets a waste of time or valuable? Survey says … where he looks at data concerning the usage of an intranet vs perceived value. We have been called into many companies to help them improve their intranet because of a variety of reasons.  A lot of the time, […]

If you missed IBM’s Exceptional Web Experience conference in May, you’ll be glad to know that IBM is posting many of the presentations on the Portal Wiki.  This is an excellent chance to see the actual video of the presentations and not just the presentation file. Stefan Hepper presented a nice session on how to […]

IBM has created a site to help get people familiar with their Web Experience suite.  The site is called Getting Started with Your Web Experience.  In the site, you will find tutorials on various parts of the web experience, including installing WebSphere Portal 8, configuring a database, and customizing the portal.  The site must be […]

IBM released WebSphere Portal 8 in May just before the IBM Exceptional Web Experience (xWebx) conference in Austin, TX.  I’ve posted several blogs about this version and have installed it several times (see the related posts). But there are two add-ons which are not yet updated for WebSphere Portal 8 and for which we are […]