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From Deborah
Corcoran, National Practice Manager for
Resource Deployment Services to IBM
Put Davalen on your calendar now!
In Q1, our Davalen technologist's calendars
were extremely full, Monday - Friday, as they
were performing Davalen mini Messaging
Environment Assessments (MEA) at customer sites.
Many customers have upgraded to Notes 8.5.1.
due to all of the new social networking
applications, which are part of this latest
release. Clients are making sure they start
with a "clean and updated" environment.
Clients were pretty excited about reviewing
the results of the assessment, and finding
out what was going on within their Domino
infrastructure. Many interesting items came
up, such as orphaned emails, dead email
boxes, legacy apps that were no longer being
used and that could be possibly slowing down
their systems, etc.
So if you haven't scheduled with us, give us
a call to set up an informal, yet
informational discussion with our folks and
to schedule a "mini MEA."
And of course, if you are finding that you
may require some technical staffing
assistance to help bridge your work load gap,
please give me a buzz and we can discuss
various "just in time" staffing options for
your business.
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From Peter
Wilkerson, Search & Discovery Practice
Area Manager
Starting a new search project can by a trying
experience. There are many pieces to
consider, see my blog for an in-depth
analysis on the layers
of search. In other posts and
conversations I say that the best place to
start is to identify your business objectives
and always keep them in mind. That advice
still holds but those goals might be
expressed in abstract terms, and be hard to
connect with what you want to accomplish with
search.
A pragmatic way to begin is to start with
designing the search query interface and the
responding search results page. These two
pages will define a) what you expect the end
user to be able to do and b) what metadata is
needed to drive the search experience. As you
look at these pages you can begin to get a
sense of what data and metadata you need and
then you can see what you have available. The
gap will need to be filled through some data
enrichment process. As you begin to focus on
the organic result set portion of the search
response page you can start to see what
special filters are needed - filters such as
security, pricing, access. You may also be
able to start to identify search-boosting
scenarios based on user role, context and state.
There is more to implementing search than
designing the initial query interface and the
search results page - but starting there is a
way to help new projects get off the ground
-- and get old projects back on track
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From Dave
Jacob, Managing Partner,
WebSphere
Recently I have had several interesting
conversations with clients concerning our
capabilities as a Portal/Portlet Factory
consulting partner. With all of our success
with the Top Gun Portlet Factory curriculum
in the marketplace, we are often perceived as
only a training company when in fact 80% of
our business is related to our consulting and
service offerings.
Our courseware, however, continues to grow as
we now offer the Top Gun class thru IBM and
business partners in the US, Canada, Brazil,
Australia and the Netherlands. Shortly, we
expect our next expansion to be in India,
China and Korea as demand for Portlet Factory
training and mentoring continues to expand
worldwide.
This past month we had a student from
Australia enrolled in the Top Gun training.
Instead of having to take the class in the
middle of the night, we were able to use the
Davalen Virtual Classroom and students and
performance was excellent and stable. I was
pleasantly surprised.
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About Davalen: We Speak Business. We Understand Technology. TM Davalen, LLC, has been a trusted partner in collaborative software consulting solutions for the enterprise since 1993. An IBM Premier Business Partner, Davalen provides RapidValue Services for Lotus Domino, WebSphere Portal, Retail & Enterprise Search, and Web Content Management. The RapidValue Services are designed to ensure clients receive the most value from their investment in IBM software. With masterclass training in IBM software brands, Davalen provides an elegant blend of system architecture, mentoring and agile implementation assistance. With offices across the U.S and Brazil and classes operating in the Netherlands, Canada, Australia, and Europe, Davalen instructors and consultants have won numerous training awards from IBM for their deep understanding of advanced IBM technologies.
Contact Davalen today to learn how we can help your business understand its technology.
Davalen, LLC
email:
rjarvis@davalen.com
phone:
800.827.8451
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