A nice article was posted last night by bchaput, focussing on the highlights of the WebSphere Portal keynote session delivered by Larry Bowden (Lotusphere, Orlando)
Me and a collegue will present a seminar at februari 11th entitled, “Can your enterprise handle Generation Y”. In this seminar we’ll present you a look at the new kind of employee in your organisation and how websphere portal and additional products can help you with this.
The seminar will be held at Cronos, Veldkant 33A, 2550 Kontich, Belgium.
More information can be found at: this website
Panasonic has made it choice to switch to LotusLive:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2010/01/lotuslive-has-scored-a-big.php
Last week, I did a proof-of-concept for a client that had a team who was responisble to investigate the
use of a portal in their organisation.
Because the team didn’t had earlier experience with portals, they gave us a usefull insight how companies look
at portals:
Why are they interesting in a portal server
What are their success factors for using a portal server
how critical do they want their portal to be
if they decide to use a portal server. Which portal suits their needs.
Before the PoC, the client saw the portal as a mashup with extra functionality.
Unfortunately this is not true. A portal needs a dedicated view, build on a specified portal api.
In order to have the added functionality a portal has to offer, you should speak the portal’s language.
Keeping your web application untouched and mash them togheter is like rebuilding a portal’s functionality, but
more restricted and not standarized. But it was a usefull insight from both the client’s as our point of view.
When looking at the success factors, the client was interested in inter-portlet communication, Single Sign On and advanced theme/branding.
Because the client has a userbase of 1000+ employees, they look for a very scalable and mature portal product.
Based on this requirements, I advised them to go for WebSphere Portal 6.1. It is portal 2.0-compliant and it has an excellent Single Sign On-
integration. We also took into account that WebSphere Portal is widely used in the client’s sector (health/insurrance), which makes them most suitable.