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BroadVision 8.2 Released We are pleased to announce the general availability of BroadVision 8.2 full installer as well as Upgrade Patch. The BroadVision 8.2 full installer is meant for new installations and the BroadVision 8.2 Upgrade Patch can upgrade a BroadVision 8.1 AB installation to BroadVision 8.2. BroadVision 8.2 includes several new features, enhancements and fixes.	Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Broadvision 8.1AB Released I am pleased to announce the availability of BroadVision 8.1AB Service Patch downloadable from CSP. The BroadVision 8.1 AB Service Patch provides fixes for over 100 bugs and also includes enhancements.	Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Broadvision 8.1AB beta installer for Windows Vista released I am happy to announce the availability of 8.1 AB beta installer for Windows Vista Operating System.	Monday, December 1, 2008
eMerchandising 8.1AA Available I am pleased to announce the availability of eMerchandising 8.1AA! eMerchandising 8.1AA includes Updated Runtime Engine & Caching, New Messaging APIs, a Test Discounts Page, New DSA Solutionsm, Discount Rounding, Multi-Value Custom Conditions, and more. Additional information is available in the eMerchandising 8.1AA Release Notes.	Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Broadvision 8.1 Migration Kit Released I am pleased to announce the availability of BroadVision 8.1 Migration Kit which is available for download. The migration kit supports migration from BroadVision 8.0 AC to Broadvision 8.1 with 8.1 AA patch levels. The migration kit is database independent and supports JBoss application server.	Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Introducing eMerchandising 8.1! eMerchandising 8.1 New Features I am pleased to announce the FCS availability of eMerchandising 8.1! eMerchandising 8.1 is a new full release (this is not an upgrade or patch) that provides significant enhancements over eMerchandising 8.0, including Custom Discount and Sale conditions, enhanced Sale functinality, and Discount Codes. A more comprehensive description is provided in the attached document. The eMerchandising 8.1 documentation is available in the Product Documentation section.	Friday, February 22, 2008
Broadvision 8.1 available for HP-UX on Intel Itanium processor I am pleased to announce the availability of Broadvision 8.1 for HP-UX 11.i v2 operating environment on the Intel Itanium processor. With this, Broadvision 8.1 supports both PA-RISC and Itanium platforms on HP-UX.	Friday, February 22, 2008
BroadVision 8.1 Released I am pleased to announce the general availability of the BroadVision 8.1 product line. This product release represents significant progress in our ability, and that of our customers, to implement and maintain BroadVision-based web applications much more cheaply and quickly. Beyond important enhancements in core Kona platform areas such as app server support and JVM upgrades, 8.1's key new feature is Kukini, a web development framework focused on reducing even further the amount of custom code needed to develop and/or expand a BV-based web application. Coupled with the Kona platform and the K2 methodology, Kukini is a powerful tool to do things faster, cheaper and better.	Friday, February 22, 2008
Two New QuickSilver Whitepapers Check out the Whitepapers section in the Knowledge Base for new two papers: " XML Publishing with BroadVision QuickSilver" and "BroadVision Technical Documentation Solutions". The first document discusses how to leverage QuickSilver to manage your XML content and the second provides information on how QuickSilver can fit into the overall BroadVision product architecture.	Tuesday, September 12, 2006
What's New on the CSP is easy as 1-2-3 Over the weekend, we added a new feature to the CSP: "New CSP Content", which is accessible right between the CSP Blog and Manage Newsletter Subscription links in the Navigation menu of the Home Page. This program will display a list of new content added to the CSP in the past two weeks. In the next couple of weeks, we'll be able to add "Highest Rated Content" and "Most Emailed Content", both of which will hopefully give you quick access to content that your fellow site visitors find valuable.	Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Web 2.0 on BroadVision's Brain? You'll notice more and more Web 2.0 "stuff" creeping into the CSP. We have a new whitepaper that outlines the business value of Web 2.0. You can read it by clicking on the "BroadVision and Web 2.0 Whitepaper" link in the Related Items section on this page (to the right!). Also, You might notice a new feature in the CSP: Content Rating! Read more about this new feature below...	Tuesday, August 15, 2006
More Web 2.0 in the CSP We just added a preview of some upcoming functionality in the core 8.0 product: content preview. This is an Ajax-powered feature that allows the visitor to get a "preview" of the content item being listed in the block. For example, if you scroll over the content titles. in the "Support Announcements & Alerts" area of the "Announcements & Alerts" block, directly to the right of the CSP blog on the main Home Page of the CSP, you should see some more information, including author, abstract and main body of the content item. Not all areas of the CSP have this feature enabled but any block on a page that lists content by title-only will have this Ajax-enabled preview function turned "on". More Web 2.0-based features will be coming out over the next couple of months!	Monday, August 14, 2006
Portal 8.0AB is released! Portal_8_Whats_New.pdf I am pleased to announce the availability of Portal and Process 8.0AB. This release provides migration tools that will enable customers to migrate to the 8.0 products much more quickly. Please review the documentation in the Related Items area to learn more about the product.	Wednesday, August 2, 2006
Guided navigation I've had a lot of discussions with customers recently about "guided" or "attribute-led" navigation. This is where you allow visitors to the site to find content through a variety of different browsing routes, based on content characteristics. The most common application of this is retailers providing several routes for customers to find the same products, for example browse TVs by price, brand, screen size, etc. But it has applications beyond retail - any site that has a large amount of well-tagged content can use this technique to help users find the right content more quickly. Take a look at the podcast in the Knowledge Base.	Friday, July 21, 2006
New Feature Added To CSP...and Process Powered! I just added the ability for logged in users to send links to email addresses, with the body of the message containing a link to the content item. This will make it much easier to share interesting and useful information with associates. The sample code is referenced in the Related Items area to the right.	Thursday, July 20, 2006
Accessing the CSP via RSS A new feature has been added to the CSP Blog: RSS access! You'll notice on the main page of the CSP that there is an RSS image directly to the right of the "Search" block. Click on this to get to the RSS feed. A new browser window will open up and then all you will need to do is copy and paste the URL into your favorite RSS newsreader. Once you do that, you'll be able to get blog updates directly without always having to login into the CSP. Over the coming months, we'll be adding RSS elsewhere, making it easier for you to get information, e.g. Support updates through RSS.	Friday, July 14, 2006
Integrating with SAP Probably the most frequently asked question about BroadVision and integration is about connecting to SAP. There are many BroadVision customers who have integrated to SAP in a variety of different ways, and a "one size fits all" approach doesn't really work because implementations of SAP vary so dramatically. So we have been working with an SAP integration partner in Switzerland, E2E to provide a flexible approach to BV/SAP integration. E2E's product allows the integration to SAP to be modelled as a UML diagram, and then deployed without coding. There's a podcast about this in the Knowledge Base section of the site.	Friday, June 30, 2006
Talking about Digital Rights Management... Much of the discussion in the industry about Digital Rights Management focuses around protection of music where most files costs less than $1. But there are several BroadVision sites out there that have content which is worth hundreds or thousands times more. So we have been looking at ways of protecting this high value content sold or subscribed to through BV sites. There's a podcast in the Knowledge Base on this subject, showing how BroadVision plus Adobe LiveCycle Policy Server can protect documents in this way.	Thursday, June 22, 2006
Introducing BroadVision Dynamic Incentive Builder For those Commerce customers out there, you might want to check out the new e-commerce capability offered by BroadVision. The BV Dynamic Incentive Builder (patent pending) is a new way to setup and manage complex and flexible pricing rules. Recently, BV produced a whitepaper that provides more details around this new capability. I just posted this to the Customer Support Portal in the Whitepapers section of the Knowledge Base.	Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Producing web services in BroadVision 8 ContentService.jws perl script I'm often asked about the best way to produce web services from BroadVision apps. In v8 it's really easy, because the product has Apache Axis embedded in it. Here's a very simple example of how to use it, with a short perl script that consumes the service.	Monday, June 19, 2006
Simpler Microsites channelNav.jsp DynaMicrositeBody.jsp Microsites are a Portal collaboration feature that gets underused. I think one of the reasons for this is that the interface can sometimes look too complicated for simple collaboration. How often do you actually need all 6 of to-dos, announcements, documents, discussions, meetings, checklists? So, here's my "5 Step Guide To Dumbing-Down Microsites". It's based on Portal 8.0, but the techniques also apply to earlier versions.	Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Sample code One of the best ways to learn BroadVision is through sample code. Personally, I use samples all of the time, for learning as well as for "starting points" for the demos I put together. Recently two sections were added to the "Downloads" page. Check out "Certified Samples" and "Non-certified Samples" for sample code that you can use to either learn more about BroadVision or to jump start your own customizations!	Tuesday, May 30, 2006
BroadVision and Ajax Everyone's talking about Ajax at the moment. So why should we be any different? In case you've been visiting other planets recently, and have missed all the fuss about Ajax, it stands for "Asynchronous Javascript and XML". Basically, a variety of existing web technologies that have hit the mainstream, in part due to the innovative user interfaces Google have been building. Learn more about the benefits of Ajax, and how it can be used in BV sites from the podcast presentation in the knowledge base.	Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Adding RSS to your site A lot of people have been asking me about RSS recently. Although it's been around for a while, RSS is really beginning to take off as part of the "Web 2.0" movement. I saw a quote from a guy at Microsoft saying "if you do a marketing site and you don't have an RSS feed today you should be fired". Maybe a little extreme, but it's certainly getting more important, and this will only increase once IE7 is released, which has built-in RSS capabilities (Firefox, of course, has it already). The good news is that it's fairly easy to add it to your site. There's a podcast presentation about the benefits of RSS and how to implement it with BroadVision in the Knowledge Base.	Friday, May 26, 2006
Welcome to the CSP "blog"! This is a new feature of the BroadVision Customer Support Portal. Knowledge experts within BroadVision will be publishing new and interesting content in this blog. The purpose is to highlight important additions to the CSP, e.g. an interesting dicussion on-going in the Forums, as well as provide tidbits of information about BV products and customer implementations. Stay tuned for frequent updates to this blog!	Friday, May 26, 2006