Oracle buys ATG!

Didn't expect this coming! Should wait see how Oracle is going to reshape ATG, though not until 2011 till the transition is completed.

ATG Blog

Here you go:
http://www.atgsolutionsstrategy.com/

worth a visit if you follow ATG.

ATG eCommerce Suite named #1

Little old, but a good thing to know. Forrester researchers ranked ATG eCommerce site as #1 against the competitors like IBM, Oracle, SAP, Microsoft!

Thats news. Now, we need to wait and watch, how the ATG Marketing gears up after this pleasant surprise.

ATG Portal - Copying Portlets

I have been wondering why one of the Leading portal of times has not kept pace with the competitors! ATG was the pioneer in many streams, technologies. The portals like IBM Portal Server and BEA Weblogic's Portal server have moved ahead a lot making usage of Portal very easy.

Though the features provided by ATG Portal still are of high quality, I find the usage a little difficult. We had a requirement of copying the ATG portlets which is not supported by ATG. There's a workaround though - create multiple instances of the portlet.


Will ATG look at making it more simpler?

Portal Dashboard - What's the ideal number of portlets?

What is the ideal no. of portlets to be displayed on the dashboard? I think it should not be more than eight. That's my opinion.

I have seen a few customers making the dashboard heavy with as many as 12 portlets. With all the configurations required to process the synthetic portlets, it becomes a bottleneck for the performance of the site.

Also, the user will be stuffed with too many information on one screen making it least presentable. Chances are there that the user might miss a portlet!

What do you think it should be? Any comments?

ATG Personalization with Siteminder on BEA Weblogic

Came across a situation where we were looking for ATG with Siteminder. The problem was that the personalization repository used was not in the control of ATG. We did find a work around. Prepared a J2EE application that would reside on BEA Weblogic. And integrated this with siteminder at one side and ATG at the other end. With this we could achieve the single sign on facility that was much needed for our client.