Here’s a good article on revamping your intranet. It starts by identifying the warning signs of a fading intranet and then outlines a good approach for tackling the problem. The sixteen steps outlined are in-line with the major steps we’ve used with clients on enterprise content management and portal projects.
Category: Portal
Thoughts on portal solutions.
Here’s an article by Drew Falkman on cheap or free portal offerings. The article covers Jetspeed (which we’ve implemented internally), jPorta, Liferay, and RedHat CCM which is the new name for the open source content management system, ArsDigita.
IBM Hones WebSphere Portal. Seeks to offer Web alternative to Microsoft Office. [Technology News from eWEEK and Ziff Davis]
Okay, I’m skeptical. Remember Lotus’ attempt to put office apps in Java applets (eSuite)? No? Didn’t think so.
ISEs Give Developers a Helping Hand. Some of the vendors in the Web services arena are looking at the integrated service environment (ISE) as a new way to help developers create applications from services. [Technology News from eWEEK and Ziff Davis]
Gartner creates a magic quadrant for Integrated Service Environments (ISEs) which are IDEs for web services.
The version of IBM WSAD that comes on the IBM WebSphere Portal for Multiplatforms 4.1.1 CD is WSAD 4.0.3.
Portal developer resources
IBM DeveloperWorks includes tutorials and other resources on a variety of technologies including Java, XML/XSL, Web Services, WebSphere, Lotus, Linux, Rational, and many others
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/
o’Reilly’s XML site
http://www.xml.com
XSLT tutorials and resources
http://www.xslt.com
Webmonkey XML topics
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/xml/?tw=xml
Site for XML developers. Includes links to other resources.
http://www.xmlhack.com
XSLT spec, tutorial
http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/
CSS
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
Java tutorial
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/
Java, JSP, XML forums and FAQs
http://www.jguru.com
J2EE Community
http://www.theserverside.com
IBM WebSphere Portal Zone
http://www7b.software.ibm.com/wsdd/zones/portal/
Death knell for Enterprise Portal pure players?. IT-Director.com Apr 16 2003 6:31AM ET [Moreover – Knowledge management news]
Argues that portal vendors should be divided into two categories: those that offer infrastructure and those that don’t.
Enterprise portals: Navigating the Seven Cs. ZDNet Mar 26 2003 8:32AM ET [Moreover – Knowledge management news]
General–but good–advice on internal portal initiatives.
IBM WebSphere Portal production documentation
From IBM’s web site:
- IBM Lotus Extended Search 4.0 ships! This release now includes:
new search links for Lotus Discovery Server(R), QuickplaceTM 3.0, Sametime(R) and IBM WebSphere(R) Portal Search Engine - new platform support for Linux (Redhat)
- support for creating the configuration database with Oracle
- updated search samples, web services and SOAP client support
- performance and load balancing improvements
- support for SSO security (DominoTM and WebSphere)
- support for creating custom discoverers, translators, links, and plug-ins with JavaTM
What’s new in Extended Search 4.0
[IBM]