Once the development team have been given the directive “thou shalt use WebSphere Portal” where does that leave them in terms of managing the builds and releases of the Portal artifacts.  I managed to find a really useful presentation that I used to help facilitate a discussion on this topic. Release Management for WebSphere Portal [...]

Question: Where can I find documentation to help tune IBM WebSphere Portal and Lotus Web Content Management for improved performance? Answer: WebSphere Portal and Lotus Web Content Management performance tuning guides and supplemental content

This is a great demo of WebSphere Portal. The demo runs through a bunch of cool features such as Livetext, mutimedia content, integration with external sociual networking sites, personlaisation and customization. I just wish my mobile phone provider provided the same level of service – ho hum. Live text multimedia content single sign on with [...]

Matthew Brown, Principal Analyst & Research Director, from Forrester Research will kick off the interactive discussion with highlights of his research on the current portal market, how customers are using portal solutions, and how to evaluate the true cost ofownership of an open source portal. Following Matthew, a dynamic panel of your peers, representing multiple [...]

I stumbled upon this presentation from Sowre an IBM Business Partner.  They have a lot of customers so I thought it would be useful to share this with the wider community. All the examples are screen shots of implementations. The original PDF can be found here. I uploaded to slideshare as a means of sharing. [...]

At the IMPACT conference this year there was a session on Web Analytics.  It provides an overview of the metrics avaialble in portal and a couple of products Omniture, Core Metrics and Webtrends. Integrating IBM Web Sphere Portal With Web Analytic Hosted And Non Hosted Sites V1 R8 View more Microsoft Word documents from chrissparshott.

You can run development instances of WebSphere Portal and WCM for free on Amazon EC2. (You have to pay for access to Amazon EC2). There is a video form “IBMCloud”on YouTube that goes through the steps you need to follow to set this up. You can also run production images (AMIs)of WebSphere Portal and WCM [...]

Looks like Portal.Next is in beta although Portal v7 wont be out for another year!  I am downloading the code and will have a play when time allows but I thought I would share these links with you Poortal / WCM folk.  Almost forgot, the team is looking to build vm images and post on [...]

Prompted by my moan at the Lotus community in a previous post on not giving enough back to the community I wanted to document the process of installing Linux on vmware and then installing Lotus Quickr 8.1 onto Linux.  Over time I may add additional presentations on how to do customisations or execute demonstrations.   [...]

Why do Web Analytics? Customers who want to perform web analytics on an on premise portal environment usually want the following types of information  How effective are the new campaign initiatives? Which items have the highest clickthrough ratio?  What is the clickthrough ratio?  Which items have the highest view to purchase ratio?  What is the [...]