Introducing Enterprise³

For some time now you've probably noticed our linking to a new sister blog titled Enterprise³. As we've grown from our original event of Portals, Content and Collaboration, our partners and participants have helped us to realize the unique combination of disciplines and expertise within an organization as they develop and manage a strategy for these unique tools in the enterprise. Now that we've established this corresponding blog we want to officially invite you to join us and subscribe to our feed as we shut down this PCC blog.

We’re welcoming you to our new service, Enterprise³. Companies are currently in the stage where they are releasing the second round of tools to be used in their enterprise. In the past, there has been a lot of confusion about the reasons for such functionality and this has often lead business leaders to move slowly or incorrectly as they invest and adopt in these new capabilities within their organizations. Therefore, this is a new stage in the evolution to the PCC community focused on in-depth perspective into the world of portals and collaboration within the enterprise.

As members of PCC we were focused on bringing you:

Seminars on scripted language
Workshops for developers
Intranet building 101
Out of box versus customized
Taxonomy for Taxonomists
Case Studies addressing technical failures

Now with our new focus of Enterprise³, our goal is to expand beyond these offerings and bring you:

Collaborative workshops for business users and developers
Seminars for business uses about IT agility
Business user ad customer driven portal project plans
Helping IT get ‘the buy in’ from upper business management for new tools
Social media hot topics like Second Life and Virtual Worlds seminars an dhow they apply to business users and business needs
Creating dynamic content
Aligning technology with business strategy
Portal user interface and design
Breaking the communication code between IT and business

As you've already seen, we've been building up the Enterprise³ blog with the same quality content that you find here. Beginning today, this will be our last post on this blog but you can join us on the Enterprise³ blog, where we hope you'll join us there and continue to actively participate as you have here. Thank you and we look forward to seeing you at Enterprise³.

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A New Day

What a week. While we haven’t blogged from the event, that’s not to say there isn’t so much going on and even making headlines. If you haven’t seen the press release or the newswire, Day’s new software project, Communiqué Advanced Collaboration (CQ AC), was introduced this week at our very own Portal, Collaboration and Content Conference. Day, who leads the way in global content management in infrastructure software, introduced this new package, abbreviated as CQ AC, which focuses on the management of Enterprise 2.0 tools. The software allows business social computing to come easier to a company by introducing a Wiki, blog, and calendar capabilities in one software package. It’s exciting to have in attendance companies who make a major announcement like this. There’s so much happening it’s hard to stop and take it all in.

Welcome Shawn Shell, Principle, Consejo, Inc.

Here’s just a quick note to all, we’re linking to the Consejo, Inc. blog, Making Information Technology Work for Organization, with contributions by Shawn Shell, principle with Consejo. Shawn will be joining us at the PCC Conference next month, and will be leading a discussion on Integrating Collaborative Microsoft Workgroups into an Enterprise Portal. We’re looking forward to hearing his points on an effective strategy for integrating. Consejo’s experience working with small- and medium-sized businesses should give us a unique perspective on their particular challenges.

I hope you all will head over to Consejo’s blog, and be sure to join Shawn’s presentation at PCC Conference on November 6th.

An Earful on PCC

As we get closer to the start of the Portals, Collaboration and Content conference, I thought I’d let you know of some great new items we’ve pulled together.

We’ve pulled together several podcasts from the last conference; they include interviews with presenters and attendees.

Rajen Sheth, Product Manager, Google Enterprise. Rajen is a smart guy. He worked at VMWare (now a division of EMC) and Microsoft. During his podcast, Rajen talks about his keynote session titled, How Web 2.0 is Transforming the Enterprise. Rajen also focuses on ways companies can succeed through customer co-creation, the "socializing" of information currently trapped in spreadsheets and e-mail and software as a service. All in all, one of my favorite interviews.


Colin White, Founder of BI Research and PCC Conference Chairman There are few people that know as much about the portal space as Colin White. He's been the PCC Conference chairman for the last eight years and he knows everyone in the industry. In this podcast, Colin talks about what it takes to put the Portals conference together, why he thinks that companies like Microsoft, Yahoo! and Google will have a tough time penetrating the enterprise, and where he sees portals, content management and collaboration going in the near future.


Jay Simons, Senior Director, Product Marketing, BEA Our CEO, Barry Libert, would get along well with Jay. Jay speaks in threes and is concise in the way he presents his message. In this podcast, Jay focuses on how the portal, CMS and collaboration or social computing space are evolving. In particular, he discusses how consumer web 2.0 applications are starting to drive innovation in the enterprise market.


Steve Wilson, Senior Director Global Web Communications, McDonald's Corp. An award winner from last year's PCC Conference, Steve reviews McDonald's content management platform/portal, the challenges of reaching 1.6 million employees with corporate messaging and the benefits of creating a 400 person internal community of workers who are focused on creating content daily for the Golden Arch's internal sites.


Neil Cohen, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Akamai During our interview, Neil talks about the impact of the "chatty" nature of Web 2.0 tools and technologies on the internet backbone and how Akamai's technologies can counter balance the affects of these tools and technologies.


Phil Kemelor, Principal Analyst, CMS Watch & Principal of PKWeb Communications Phil discusses his recent books, The Web Analytics Report, and The Executive's Guide to Website Measurement and Testing which provide details on leading web analytic vendor companies, what companies should look for when searching for a web analytics package and how leaders should go about measuring their websites. During our conversation, Phil also touches on some of the topics he addresses in his conference presentation titled, Measuring Success with Web Analytics.


Diane Davidson, Director Customer Marketing, WebEx Diane discusses the importance of real-time, online, voice-to-voice collaboration to the success of companies' portal and community projects. Diane also highlights the benefit of recording meetings or interviews and then re-using that content as transcripts, podcasts, webcasts oron-demand training.


C. J. Liu, Technical Project Manager, Kronos C. J. was one of the attendees at our PCC Conference. In our interview, he was able to provide a unique view of how the conference will help him with the portal implementation his company is working on. In particular, conversations with other attendees, speakers and technology vendors provided best practices, common pitfalls and general advice about portals -- all key factors in helping Kronos succeed with their current implementation.


Seth Earley, CEO and Founder, Earley Associates Seth talks about his role at the Portals conference as a speaker/educator, new trends in the content management space and how to avoid the "hype" of technologies in the marketplace. Seth also addresses the value of minimizing the possible disruptions of Web 2.0 technologies on employees and business partners.


Santi Pierini, SVP Marketing, Day Software Day Software powers McDonald's Corporation's CMS system among many others. During our conversation, Santi provides insight on how the relationship with McDonald's has evolved, his experience at Shared Insights' Portals Conference and where he sees the future of the industry heading.


Sabine Schilg, Director, Portal & Interaction Services Group, IBM Sabine shares insights on how line-of-business heads and IT leaders can help their companies and their users by collaborating on business requirements when building a portal. Sabine also talk about how IBM provides business accelerators like practical dashboards that map to business goals and collaboration tools that allow for "mash ups" that help solve real world business problems.


Tony Byrne, President & Founder, CMS Watch My interview with Tony was short and sweet -- he had a panel to moderate 15 minutes after our interview started so we were on a tight time line. During our podcast, Tony spends some time talking about CMS Watch's unique business model as an independent analysis firm that only works with buyers, not vendors and how this can create some challenging relationships. Finally, Tony discusses the constant innovation that is occurring in the portals, collaboration and content space and how impressed he is by the teams managing these complex implementations.


Hari Vyakarnam, VP Business Development & Punit Pandey, Director of Engineering, Yash Technologies Hari and Punit (our only "tag team" podcast) review the conference, the sessions and the other attendees. The duo from Yash also discuss key issues like a lack of enterprise search and collaboration applications in the portal space. After the interview, I promised Punit that I would throw in a plug for his blog as I understand he is considered quite the "guru" in the portlet space.