IBM Websphere Portal

Presented By: Jawwad Jafri

Sapphire Consulting Services

The Portal Application

Portals provide users with single, security-

rich, personalized interface that combines

numerous sources of information from within a company`s firewall

and from the internet at large.

Help employees and business partners work

more efficiently, streamline business

processes and enable companies to implement new, highly responsive

product and service delivery offerings.

Enables organizations to

quickly implement new business designs

that are engaging, flexible and high

performance.

Websphere Portal 6.1

Increases the productivity

• Users can access information, applications and people by combining multiple features and capabilities in one place.• Users can organize, manage and share their content.

Merges the advantages of SOA and Web 2.0.

• Wider set of user communities from internal employees to business partners and customers.

Builds and extends portal solutions.

Leverages existing assets, content and processes

Quick and Easy Deployment• Preconfigured pages, • Internet and intranet

portal site templates• “Out of the box” portlet

applications

Applications supporting daily business• Email,• Calendaring,• Instant messaging, • Integrated presence

awareness, • Bookmarking, • Reports and • Team spaces.

Webpshere Portal for Business Users

Centralize access to information, application and

processes

Present them in a way relevant to

each user

Personalize interface,

Organize the content,

Manage profiles,Assemble composite

applications and Publish and share documents with

colleagues.

Portal Customization

Through Portlet Palette whose access is controlled by IT admin

Collaborations

Team Collaboration:• IBM Lotus

Quickr document management features and teamrooms can be accessed through portlets, allowing users to create and share documents, hold moderated discussions, manage group calendars,etc.

Social Networking: • Integration with IBM

Lotus Connections software allow users to access all features of social networking software

Real time collaboration: • Integration

with IBM Lotus Sametime gives users access to instant messaging, presence awareness and Web Conferencing through portlets.

Email and application integration: • IBM Lotus

Notes • Lotus Domino

Web Content Management and Personalization

IBM Lotus Web Content Management SoftwareIBM WebSphere Personalization

Client Side Aggregation-AJAX based client side

aggregation

Rich User Interface- Web 2.0, integration with Google gadgets, semantic tagging

FOR IT Managers and Administrators

Open standards based framework

Supports wide range of :• Databases• Directories• Platforms and • Security

protocols

Broad interoperability• Leverage

existing IT investments

Performance features

Monitoring the performance of portal and portlets during execution• To track usage and

performance

Isolate portlets by running them on

separate JVMs

Authentication Options Microsoft Windows

desktop single sign-on (SSO)

Remember me cookie

Step-up authentication Custom made

scenarios for stricter authentication rules to individual pages and portlets.

Resource Management

Greater flexibility and

visual one click controls.

Resource management portlet for admins• Allows admin to move

pages easily from staging servers to production servers with rollback support.

• The users authorized by the admin can review the pages at each stage.

Search Capabilities Includes a search

engine developed by IBM

Allows searches from various internal as well as external sources.

Search results are presented in context of their specific page and portlet configuration.

Includes the new REST search services

Extending the reach and capability of IBM Web sphere Portal Software Integrates with Lotus Domino and Lotus

Quickr software. IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition brings

together Websphere Portal and Lotus Domino Content Enterprise content management, database and

other enterprise information

For Application Developers

The Websphere Portal includes• Preintegrated portlets• Cross portlet integration• Easy creation tools• Platform for constructing composite application• Result: Application developers don’t have to start from scratch

Implementing composite application in portal Application templates promote the rapid

assembly of collaborative applications. Open standards of Eclipse application

framework plus the capabilities.

Static page integration delivers new options for HTML supportStatic Page Integration• Helps

reduce time to market

• Increase portal flexibility

• Reducing skill required for development

• Leverages existing investments

Allows page

creation using static HTML

or other marku

p langua

ges

The develope

r can then add the web 2.0, live text and portlet

capabilities by simple

drag and drop

operation

Enhanced Workflow Options

IBM Business Process Accelerator• Speeds up business

processes by delivering electronic forms as part of composite applications• Credit approval, supply

chain order• Supports Process Server

and IBM FileNet P8

Process Engine from Websphere BP Process Choreographer• In Websphere Portal

Enable and Extend Software

• For Visualization • IBM WebSphere

Integration Developer (available seperately)

Integration with external Web Applications

External web information appears as native portal application through Web application integrator tool.

• Lotus Connections software• Lotus Domino Web Access software• Intranet Web Server applications• Lotus Quickr Software

The external web applications include

Client Side Programming

Performance rendering• Portlet changes

are handled locally

Does not require extensive

knowledge of Java code

Allows users to • Mark up content• Make

immediate changes to portlet without refreshing

Live Text Tags

Live Text -Semantic TagsContextual Information

Content from external sources can also be embedded

REST Services

Provides the remote

access to portal models and artifacts.

Includes• Layout, • Portlet,• Content,

Navigation ,

• Wire and • User Profile

Leverage technologies such as Dojo widgets and

enable creation of mashups

Allows role based

navigation

Mashup Integration Integration with IBM

Mashup Center Assemble information

from various sources into flexible , dynamic applications

Lotus Mashup software helps business users to assemble enterprise, Web, personal and departmental information from various sources into flexible, dynamic applications.

Web 2.0 Theme

Out-of-the-box Web 2.0 portal theme

Leverages client side aggregation

Users can manipulate portlets and widgets locally

Mobile Portals

WebSphere Everyplace Mobile Portal Enable software

Integrates portal capabilities with device optimized rendering

Content independent of mobile device

Dynamic adaptation of content to specific device

IBM Accelerators To help reduce implementation time and

speed time to market Dashboard Accelerator

Performance dashboard Displays scorecards,KPIs and other real time

metrics Role based and personalized interface Builders can integrate Business Intelligence data

from IBM Cognos, Hyperion and Business Object sources

IBM Business Process Accelerator Combines Electronic forms with workflow software Automates business processes Streamline data flow Making employees more productive

IBM Content Accelerator Provides a powerful online content creations and

management environment Websites,intranets,extranets and portals

IBM Collaboration Accelerator Enables team collaboration and social networking

in a portal environement Users can access Team workspaces, document libraries, presence

awareness, instant messaging, web conferencing, profiles and directories, blogs, wikis, shared bookmarking etc.

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