Portlets - AI, ML, VR & more

Today I saw the announcement of "Google Sites" in my mailbox. I use Google Apps services for few of my domains. Just if you are not aware of what Google Apps is, Google Apps is a collaboration platform that can be subscribed by the companies instead any installation locally. In other words, it is kind of hosted portal for an enterprise. It provides quite a few important collaboration features like Email, Calendar, Task, Docs etc. Now the latest addition to this set is Google Sites. Google Sites is a tool for quickly creating new websites and sharing information. Here is how Google defines it - "Google Sites is the easiest way to make information accessible to people who need quick, up-to-date access. People can work together on a Site to add file attachments, information from other Google applications (like Google Docs, Google Calendar, YouTube and Picasa), and new free-form content. Creating a site together is as easy as editing a document, and you always control who ha...

In the SharedInsights conference, me and my colleague Hari talk about key issues in portal arena like the need for portlets marketplace, lack of enterprise search and collaboration applications in the portal space etc. Please check out the podcast here.

In the SharedInsights conference, me and my colleague Hari talk about key issues in portal areana like a need for portlets marketplace, lack of enterprise search and collaboration applications in the portal space etc. Please check out the podcast here.

iSeries integration with portals is one need that keep coming to us time to time. As always, IBM's product line is so confusing that it is very difficult to find out the product(s) that exactly fit to your requirement. On top of that, finding information on IBM products on web is not easy. As always their documents are so confusing and very difficult to find. So for the benefit of readers, I want to share some details on the products for iSeries (System i or AS/400) integration available from IBM. Following is the list of the products available for integration purpose - 1. iSeries Access Family components: -- iSeries Access for Web --The iSeries version of WebSphere Host Publisher -- WebSphere Host Access Transformation Server Limited Edition (HATS LE) 2. WebSphere Host On-Demand (a part of WebSphere Host Integration Solution) 3. IBM WebFacing Tool (part of WebSphere Development Studio Client ( WDSc )) 4. Full functioned WebSphere Host Publisher packaged with the Host ...