In June 2011, Priocept gave two presentations at Sitecore’s DreamcoreEU 2011 event in London. We spoke about the multilingual ecommerce Sitecore website we built for Virgin Mobile in Qatar in the Middle East. Here are the videos from the two sessions: one focused on the business case and user experience, and the second covers the more technical aspects of the project.
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September 16, 2011
Matthew Skelton
Priocept’s Principal Consultant, Matthew Skelton, talks about Sitecore’s excellent support for multi-lingual websites including Arabic.
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July 18, 2011
David Lampkin
Now that Internet World 2011 is over, we can look back on a hugely successful week at Earl’s Court in London. Read for photographs of our stand and the seminar last week.
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May 18, 2011
Matthew Skelton
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) continues to be a major player in the field of Enterprise document management and collaboration, with the latest version, SharePoint 2010, including some powerful new features. However, before choosing SharePoint as the platform for a public E-Commerce-enabled content-managed website, business stakeholders should assess frankly and realistically how well SharePoint’s strengths and weaknesses stand up against the real business requirements.
In particular, high development and maintenance costs, exacerbated by the scarcity of skilled SharePoint resources, coupled with relatively poor WCM editing capabilities and awkward E-Commerce integration, should lead many companies to adopt a “hybrid” approach, with a dedicated WCM platform providing the public website, communicating with SharePoint “behind the scenes” via a data connector, thereby getting the best value from their SharePoint investment.
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July 1, 2010
Matthew Skelton
MOSS SharePoint 2007 and its successor SharePoint 2010 are complex technology products which can produce significant business benefit if used correctly, but better alternatives exist for many applications, notably Web Content Management (WCM). Organisations should evaluate carefully the use of SharePoint features for their business needs.
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June 30, 2010
Matthew Skelton
Windows Server AppFabric is Microsoft’s implementation of a distributed cache, the most well-known example of which is memcached, as used on LiveJournal, Wikipedia, Twitter, etc.
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March 16, 2010
Matthew Skelton
The Caching Manager is a powerful part of the Microsoft Enterprise Library for ASP.NET.
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March 11, 2010
Matthew Skelton
A quick summary of the key new features in ASP.NET 4.
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February 23, 2010
Matthew Skelton
Sitecore has launched its Online Marketing Suite (OMS) in the UK. Sitecore is one of Priocept’s key CMS partners, and we were at the launch party last Thursday, where the new OMS was showcased and demonstrated.
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October 9, 2009
Matthew Skelton
We have published a new case study on RNS Submit, a system built by Priocept for the London Stock Exchange (LSE).
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June 11, 2009
Matthew Skelton
