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IBM WebSphere Portal Version 6.1 Frequently Asked Questions

February 2009

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Offering overview

Licensing and pricing

Relationship with other IBM offerings

WebSphere Portal Offerings and included component license questions

Miscellaneous product questions

Beta Resources – WebSphere Portal 6.1.x updates

Note: Several of the statements in this document deal with the future direction of IBM products.

IBM plans are subject to change.



IBM WebSphere Portal Version 6.1 Offering Overview

Q. What is IBM WebSphere Portal? A. Web portals allow partners, employees and customers to chose their user experience, with personalized applications based on role, context, actions, location, preferences and team collaboration needs. IBM WebSphere Portal software provides a composite application or business mashup framework and the advanced tooling needed to build flexible, SOA-based solutions, as well as the unmatched scalability required by any size organization.

WebSphere Portal software delivers these business benefits while getting you started with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) goals. SOA implementations leverage open standards to represent IT and LOB assets as standards-based services independent of the platforms they operate on, and they use an architectural style that supports integrating your business as linked, repeatable business tasks, or services. WebSphere Portal software helps you create and maintain these services as portlets, which are grouped and presented to users as composite applications that are delivered in the context of a given role or task to be executed. The end result can be that tasks are executed more efficiently, because IT can deploy customized composite applications quickly and businesses can use existing assets to support changing business requirements.

WebSphere Portal brings together a range of leading-edge technologies designed to give you a flexible, open, extensible framework to build successful business-to-employee (B2E), business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) portals. By providing industry-leading portal solutions for your on demand business, IBM helps you improve employee productivity, cut costs and strengthen relationships with your customers and trading partners.

Q: What are the key messages I want to make sure my customer understands about WebSphere Portal Version 6. 1

WebSphere Portal Version 6.1 software helps you: Deliver exceptional Web experiences - Take advantage of new, nimble Web 2.0

technologies and philosophies that put new business models in reach.

Extend your business assets - Create and deploy custom-branded, market-driven solutions comprised of existing and net-new business assets, and re-purpose and reuse as appropriate.

Grow as you go - "Snap on" business-specific capabilities that speed time to value and allow you to pursue new market opportunities – all while reducing the of cost of deploying portals.

Run your business efficiently - Built on WebSphere software so that enterprise-class applications, processes and transactions can reside on a proven, reliable, scalable and high-performance foundation.

Q: What are the highlights of WebSphere Portal Version 6.1, and how will they allow customers to do what they could not do before?

A.



WebSphere Portal V6.1 provides an exceptional user experience, facilitates reuse of Web assets and existing IT assets, and improves ease of deployment. It enables organizations to quickly implement new business designs that are engaging, flexible, and high performance. Enhanced Web 2.0 capabilities enable desktop-like responsiveness and much more intuitive and participatory composite business applications that leverage both Web and corporate information sources.

New installation options, customization tools, a site deployment wizard, and out-of-the-box jumpstart templates all contribute to less effort, less cost, and faster time to value.

Support for WebSphere Application Server V6.1, and new enhancements for site layout and management, security configuration, portlet deployment and management — all lead to greater reliability, manageability, and performance. IBM continues its leadership role in the development and implementation of the most recent portal open standards, such as JSR286 and WSRP 2.0.

IBM Lotus Web Content Management 6.1 software, integrated with WebSphere Portal 6.1 offers new capabilities including enhanced administration, new content author and rendering features that enable more flexible design and contextual presentation of content. This release also includes new workflow features and API extension points providing new author process management and customization options.

WebSphere Portal Server 6.1 also includes WebSphere Portlet Factory software, providing a dedicated development environment for the creation, customization, deployment and maintenance of portlets that draw from existing enterprise applications, databases and other sources. With the release of WebSphere Portal Version 6.1 software, the development environment introduces enhancements designed to significantly improve developer productivity.

Please reference the WebSphere Portal 6.1 Reviewer’s Guide http://www-01.ibm.com/software/websphere/portal/ and WebSphere Portal 6.1 InfoCenter for complete details new release features: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/zones/portal/proddoc.html

Q: When was IBM WebSphere Portal Version 6.1 released to market?

A: The announcement letter for WebSphere Portal 6.1 (June 24, 2008) can be found here: http://w3-103.ibm.com/software/xl/portal/viewcontent?type=doc&srcID=KE01&docID=R320043K18769Z79

Q. How is WebSphere Portal Version 6.1 packaged and licensed? A. WebSphere Portal Version 6.1 is provided in several offerings: WebSphere Portal Server,

WebSphere Portal Enable, WebSphere Portal Extend, WebSphere Portal Express and IBM WebSphere Portal Enable for z/OS, Version 6.1. WebSphere Portal Enable for z/OS Version 6.1 will be available from IBM during Q4 2008.

WebSphere Portal Version 6.1 Server is also provided with options for several IBM accelerator solutions offerings:

IBM accelerators are packages that simplify the process of acquiring specific products, technologies and capabilities that map to specific business requirements served by WebSphere Portal Server-based business solutions. With these new offerings, we are building on our leadership in helping customers deliver highly scalable, role-based portals. In addition to selling Portal as a powerful platform for speeding


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composite application development, we are now going to market with solution-specific portal offerings that align with the business scenarios customers most commonly deploy.

For more information regarding IBM Accelerator solutions please reference the IBM Accelerator FAQ and associated resources located here on XL Portal: http://w3-103.ibm.com/software/xl/portal/viewcontent?type=doc&srcID=KE01&docID=D100052S29654Z86

WebSphere Portal Server 6.1 software is an appropriate offering for organizations looking to improve effectiveness, with core portal services and a scalable architecture. It delivers role-based access to applications and content that can help improve the productivity of LOB and IT staff. It enables organizations to quickly implement new business designs that are engaging, flexible, and high performance. Enhanced Web 2.0 capabilities enable desktop-like responsiveness and much more intuitive and participatory composite business applications that leverage both Web and corporate information sources. New installation options, customization tools, a site deployment wizard, and out-of-the-box jumpstart templates all contribute to less effort, less cost, and faster time to value.

It includes the following features, components and products:

Core portal services that aggregate applications and content and deliver them a role-based applications

New web 2.0 features enhance performance and ease-of-use situational mashup development, including Client Side aggregation support, REST services, and support for contextual Live Text tagging

Search services that index and search portal content and files so users can easily find critical information

Personalization rules engine that enables users to see specific content and navigation based on their role

Security services that provide single sign-on and granular access control to all portlet and portal resources

Access to hundreds of portlets from IBM and IBM Business partners to access applications, databases, e-mail systems, and more. These portlets are either included with the package or available for download from the WebSphere Portal Business Solutions Catalog. This includes but is not limited to WebClipping, RSS, Domino Web Access, Microsoft Exchange portlets, Bookmarks, IBM Portlet for Google Gadgets, Content Feeds, Lotus Connections Multi-Service portlet, and many others.

Application templating allows composite portal applications to be deployed to different communities, who can then modify aspects of the application to suit their specific needs.

New Site Wizard tool enables administrators or business users to create and manage independent virtual portal sites quickly and easily, without programming, by selecting a site template, an initial look and feel and other options.

New Theme Customizer tool enables business users to easily define selections that control Web site layout, navigation structure, branding and more.

WebSphere Portlet Factory and WebSphere Portlet Factory Designer software deliver portlet development capabilities to further help customers achieve faster time-to-value, accelerated deployments, and greater employee productivity from their WebSphere Portal implementations

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WebSphere Portal Server is licensed per Value Unit and per user via 20 user packs. License information may be viewed on the IBM Software License Agreement site: http://www-03.ibm.com/software/sla/sladb.nsf/search

WebSphere Portal Enable software is for organizations looking for advanced portal services and integrated web content management solutions to help improve their effectiveness and lower the IT costs of deploying composite applications. WebSphere Portal Enable software includes all the features and components of WebSphere Portal Server listed above plus the following:

IBM Lotus Web Content Management software, with a restricted license for portal use, provides the tools needed to create and manage the web content on the portal site. It includes the authoring, approval, integration with portal personalization and scalability services, approval workflow, and publish tools needed to make sure your portal is more accurate and updated frequently.

Entitlement to Lotus Quickr, with a restricted license to the server based document management features of Lotus Quickr*, and access to Lotus Quickr feeds via RSS and ATOM feed readers, enabling portal users to leverage document management capabilities in which users can easily share, view, and organize files of all types ranging from documents to spreadsheets within the Portal community.

*Beginning with the release of WebSphere Portal 6.1.0.1 in December 2008, WebSphere Portal Enable customers will be provided the additional entitlement to use of Lotus Quickr Connectors with their Portal Enable solution, except for the ECM connectors such as FileNet and IBM Content Manager Enterprise Edition connectors.

Portal workflow allows tasks to be presented to portal users as part of a composite application with all the relevant information needed to complete the task efficiently. The workflow is based on restricted license of BPEL engine from IBM WebSphere Process Server.

Limited Use entitlement for OminiFind Enterprise Edition adds rich query processing and semantic search capabilities with advanced search features to enhance relevancy of results, and extends the reach of Portal search sources to collaborative resources: Lotus Domino®, Lotus Quickr, web, also Unix and Windows File system sources. OmniFind Enterprise Edition also provides higher scalability options (to millions of documents).

Please refer to the license document and other sections of this document for specific license restrictions on the components listed above.

WebSphere Portal Enable Is licensed per Value Unit. License information may be viewed on the IBM Software License Agreement site: http://www-03.ibm.com/software/sla/sladb.nsf/search



WebSphere Portal Extend software is the industry leading portal solution and provides the broadest set of portal services, which meet the demanding requirements for B2C, B2B, and B2E portal deployments. It includes integrated team collaboration, electronic forms and advanced search features that help organizations improve employee productivity and customer services. WebSphere Portal Extend software includes all the features of WebSphere Portal Server and WebSphere Enable software plus the following components:

IBM Lotus Forms software, with a restricted license for portal use, allows your employees, customers and partners to store, view and fill out electronic forms from the portal interface.

IBM Lotus Sametime Entry software, with a restricted license for portal use, provides portal users with the ability to start instant messaging in the context of a business process. By clicking on a users name in a portlet, they can tap into knowledge of their associates or ask a question of a customer services representative.

IBM Lotus Quickr software, with a restricted license for portal users*, delivers the ability to create secure work spaces with in your portal site, providing them with a "Place" to coordinate, collaborate and communicate on any project or ad hoc initiative. Document management features and IBM Lotus Quickr teamrooms can be accessed through portlets, allowing users to create and share documents, hold moderated discussions, manage group calendars and more. Portal Extend users can also access Lotus Quickr feeds via RSS and ATOM feed readers, enabling portal users to leverage document management capabilities in which users can easily share, view, and organize files of all types ranging from documents to spreadsheets within the Portal community.

* Beginning with the release of WebSphere Portal 6.1.0.1 in December 2008, WebSphere Portal Enable customers will be provided the additional entitlement to use of Lotus Quickr Connectors with their WebSphere Portal Enable and Extend solutions, except for the ECM connectors such as FileNet and IBM Content Manager Enterprise Edition connectors. .

Limited Use entitlement to IBM Lotus Forms Server, Viewer and Designer software, enabling organizations of all sizes to accelerate process automation efforts, increase efficiencies, reduce operational costs.

Limited Use entitlement for OminiFind Enterprise Edition software adds rich query processing and semantic search capabilities with advanced search features to enhance relevancy of results, and extends the reach of Portal search sources to collaborative resources: Lotus Domino, Lotus Quickr, also web, Unix and Windows File system sources. OmniFind Enterprise Edition also provides higher scalability options (to millions of documents).

WebSphere Portal Extend is licensed per Value Unit. License detail for WebSphere Portal Extend Version 6.1 may be found on the IBM Software License site: http://www-03.ibm.com/software/sla/sladb.nsf/search

Please reference additional pricing and packaging information for WebSphere Portal Server, Enable and Extend on XL Portal:

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WebSphere Portal Express, Version 6.1

WebSphere Portal Express offers collaboration, document management, Web content management, online presence awareness, and application integration in a single, easy-to-deploy solution. Designed for






organizations of under 1,000 users or departments within larger organizations, WebSphere Portal Express Version 6.1 will help organizations achieve faster time to value with enhancements that make the product easier to install, configure, deploy, and support. WebSphere Portal Express helps organizations deliver information and applications to individuals and teams, so they can do their jobs better.

WebSphere Portal Express Version 6.1 features provide:

• Employees, customers, and partners with access to Web sites onwhich the information and applications they need can be consolidatedand organized for easy access and use.

• Web content management capability that helps reduceimplementation time and costs by placing content creation andmanagement firmly in the hands of content experts, for "author once,publish everywhere" control. The result is more accurate portalcontent that can be updated more frequently.

• Prescriptively designed, out-of-the-box Internet and intranet exampleDocument management capability to enable individuals and teams to share and savedocuments in a central location.

• Instant messaging and online presence awareness capabilities that allow users to find andchat with colleagues without picking up the phone.

• Development tools and capabilities that allow customization of existing applications and thecreation of new custom applications that help address an organization's unique needs.

WebSphere Portal Express 6.1 includes all of the capabilities of WebSphere Portal Server 6.1 and adds:



IBM Lotus Sametime Entry software, with a restricted license for portal use, provides portal users with the ability to start instant messaging in the context of a business process. By clicking on a users name in a portlet, they can tap into knowledge of their associates or ask a question of a customer services representative.

IBM Lotus Web Content Management software, with a restricted license for single server portal use, provides the tools needed to create and manage the web content on the portal site. It includes the authoring, approval, integration with portal personalization and scalability services, approval workflow, and publish tools needed to make sure your portal is more accurate and updated frequently.

Entitlement to Lotus Quickr*, with a restricted license to the server based document management features of Lotus Quickr*, and access to Lotus Quickr feeds via RSS and ATOM feed readers, enabling portal users to leverage document management capabilities in which users can easily share, view, and organize files of all types ranging from documents to spreadsheets within the Portal community.

* Beginning with the release of WebSphere Portal 6.1.0.1 in December 2008, WebSphere Portal customers will be provided the additional entitlement to use of Lotus Quickr Connectors with their WebSphere Portal Enable, Extend and Express solutions, except for the ECM connectors such as FileNet and IBM Content Manager Enterprise Edition connectors.

Optional: At additional charge, WebSphere Portal Express Users may purchase an Idle Standby license. The idle standby license may be used to deploy WebSphere Portal Express in a cloned or clustered environment for the purpose of failover only. Implementing Idle Standby functionality requires purchase of the separate Idle Standby License Option, in addition to licensing the primary server. If pursuing this option, customers are are required to purchase a single Idle Standby License Option for each server in order to implement an Idle Standby Server, regardless of whether the primary Express servers are currently licensed under the per User License Option or the per Processor Value Unit License Option.

For more information regarding WebSphere Portal Express 6.1 license entitlements please reference the IBM Software License site: http://www-03.ibm.com/software/sla/sladb.nsf/search

WebSphere Portal Enable for z/OS, Version 6.1

WebSphere® Portal Enable software for z/OS® is an enterprise portal solution for organizations wanting to improve the effectiveness of their operations. WebSphere Portal is the industry's leading portal platform because it delivers a complete set of portal platform services with the availability and scalability demanded by the top global companies. WebSphere Portal Enable for z/OS Version 6.1 includes all of the capabilities of WebSphere Portal Server Version 6.1. The platform new features and improvements can help you quickly deploy powerful portal applications on the z/OS that can be quickly customized to meet changing business requirements:



Core portal services that aggregate applications and content and deliver them a role-based applications

New web 2.0 features enhance performance and ease-of-use situational mashup development, including Client Side aggregation support, REST services, and support for contextual Live Text tagging

Search services that index and search portal content and files so users can easily find critical information

Personalization rules engine that enables users to see specific content and navigation based on their role

Security services that provide single sign-on and granular access control to all portlet and portal resources

Access to hundreds of portlets from IBM and IBM Business partners to access applications, databases, e-mail systems, and more. These portlets are either included with the package or available for download from the WebSphere Portal Business Solutions Catalog. This includes but is not limited to WebClipping, RSS, Domino Web Access, Microsoft Exchange portlets, Bookmarks, IBM Portlet for Google Gadgets, Content Feeds, Lotus Connections Multi-Service portlet, and many others.

Application templating allows composite portal applications to be deployed to different communities, who can then modify aspects of the application to suit their specific needs.

New Site Wizard tool enables administrators or business users to create and manage independent virtual portal sites quickly and easily, without programming, by selecting a site template, an initial look and feel and other options.

New Theme Customizer tool enables business users to easily define selections that control Web site layout, navigation structure, branding and more.

WebSphere Portlet Factory and WebSphere Portlet Factory Designer software deliver portlet development capabilities to further help customers achieve faster time-to-value, accelerated deployments, and greater employee productivity from their WebSphere Portal implementations

WebSphere Portal for z/OS Enable Version 6.1 also includes:

IBM Lotus Web Content Management software provides the tools needed to create and manage the web content on the portal site. It includes the authoring, approval, integration with portal document manager and personalization, approval workflow, and publish tools needed to make sure your portal is more accurate and updated frequently.

Entitlement to Lotus Quickr, with a restricted license to the server based document management features of Lotus Quickr*, and access to Lotus Quickr feeds via RSS and ATOM feed readers, enabling portal users to leverage document management capabilities in which users can easily share, view, and organize files of all types ranging from documents to spreadsheets within the Portal community.

*Beginning with the release of WebSphere Portal 6.1.0.1 in December 2008, WebSphere Portal Enable for z/OS Version 6.1 customers will be provided the additional entitlement to use of Lotus Quickr Connectors with their WebSphere Portal Enable for z/OS solutions, except for the ECM connectors such as FileNet and IBM Content Manager Enterprise Edition connectors.



Please refer to the product license document for WebSphere Portal for z/OS Enable Version 6.1 on the IBM Software License Agreement site, and other sections later in this document for specific license restrictions on some of the package components listed above.

WebSphere Portal Enable for z/OS Is licensed per MSU Value Unit. Please reference additional pricing information here on XL Portal:

http://w3-103.ibm.com/software/xl/portal/viewcontent?type=doc&srcID=KE01&docID=N777377B24728I79

With the WebSphere Portal for z/OS Enable Version 6.1 release, the IBM® Getting Started Sub-capacity Pricing for z/OS® IPLA software offering will be available. It provides entry pricing forcustomers with low usage on select IBM WebSphere® programs and the applicable Subscriptionand Support annual maintenance charge, licensed by the International Program LicenseAgreement (IPLA).

Getting Started Sub-capacity Pricing helps you:• Deploy small projects on z/OS with improved price/performance• Provide greater software licensing flexibility by improving alignment between software use andsoftware charges• Increase LPAR capacity without changing software charges for a constant workload

• Transition smoothly to traditional sub-capacity pricing as workload grows

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Please reference additional pricing and packaging information for WebSphere Portal Server, Enable and Extend, Enable for z/OS and Express versions on XL Portal using this offering component and license comparison document on XL Portal:

http://w3-103.ibm.com/software/xl/portal/viewkitcontent?srcID=KP01&kitID=G266504U19267O80&contentID=K924702B55575D77&contentType=element&contentTitle=Technical%20marketing%20support


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Q: What is the WebSphere Portal Version 6.1 offering price?

A: WebSphere Portal 6.1 offerings are available using processor value unit and per user pricing:

DescriptionUSDSRP (*)

WebSphere Portal Express 20 Auth Users Lic & SW Maintenance 12 Months

WebSphere Portal Express Processor License and SW Maintenance 12 Months

WebSphere Portal Express Idle Standby License

$2,370 per 20-User-Pack

$412 per processor value unit

USD $4000.00 per server

WebSphere Portal Server Processor License & SW Maintenance 12 Months

$555 per processor value unit OR $2,790 per 20-User-Pack

WebSphere Portal Enable Processor License & SW Maintenance 12 Months

$1,060 per processor value unit

WebSphere Portal Extend Processor License & SW Maintenance 12 Months

$1,450 per processor value unit

WebSphere Portal Enable for z/OS Version 6.1

$ 5900 per MSU value unit

Reference this XL Link for additional information and part numbers:http://w3-103.ibm.com/software/xl/portal/viewcontent?type=doc&srcID=KE01&docID=F033985I17496Z85

Q. If a Portal customer is under current maintenance, do they get V6.1 for free?

A. Yes

Q. Can customers tradeup from WebSphere Portal Server Version 6.1 to WebSphere Portal Version 6.1 Enable or Extend?

A. Yes. There are part numbers set up in passport so customers can trade-up from Server to Enable, Server to Extend and Enable to Extend. If a customer wishes to convert from Portal Server per user license to a Processor Value Unit license of Portal Server the request needs to be submitted via special bid.

Q. What support exists for customers who wish to install a copy of WebSphere Portal for backup purposes – for example to manage server failure and failover



situations if they occur? Are they required to purchase another software license for this purpose?

A. If a customer wishes to install the software on a machine for back-up purposes only and it is NOT active in any way it falls under a “warm use” definition and there is no charge. In this case the customer would have a delay before it could switch over to use this back-up server in a production mode as it would take time to update the data files etc. If the server is mirroring transactions/updating files, synchronizing data etc. it will require a separate license.

As a practice we have the following definitions and allowable actions concerning the copy of the program used for backup purposes:

• Cold - a copy of the program may be stored for backup purposes on a machine as long as the program has not been started. There is no charge for this copy.

• Warm - a copy of the program may reside for backup purposes on a machine and is started, but is "idling", and is not doing any work of any kind. There is no charge for this copy.

• Hot - a copy of the program may reside for backup purposes on a machine, is started and is doing work. However, this program must be ordered. There is a charge for this copy.

Relationship with other IBM Offerings:

Q: Is WebSphere Portal Version 6.1 appropriate for Notes/Domino customers?

A: Yes. WebSphere Portal Version 6.1 software provides value to many of your Notes/Domino customers and represents a natural evolution to a portal-based application environment. Notes and Domino customers can leverage WebSphere Portal software as a strategic integration platform and control point for all applications, including Lotus Domino. WebSphere Portal leverages customer’s existing investment in Domino applications by functioning as the delivery vehicle for virtually all applications, collaboration, content, and information. Integration portlets for mail, calendar and applications, integraration wizards, Web services support and updated portlets can make it easier to re-use existing Domino-software-based assets within Portal based applications. WebSphere Portal 6.1 support for Live Text tags is also exposed to Lotus Notes 8.0.1 clients, providing common technology to create a highly contextual user experience, in which words, names and other text can be tagged and linked to relevant actions or information. In this way the combination of Lotus Domino and WebSphere Portal can help customers improve employee productivity, lower application deployment costs, expand the utility of applications through re-use, which can help enable faster responsiveness and strengthen relationships with their customers and trading partners.

Q. My customer has purchased Workplace Services Express. Is there an upgrade path to WebSphere Portal offerings?

A. Yes. IBM Workplace Services Express was withdrawn from marketing since January 8, 2008, and was effective April 2008). The replacement product is WebSphere Portal Express. Customers who were current on Software Maintenance for IBM Workplace Services Express at



that time will receive their next Software Maintenance renewal quotes for the following replacement products:

• Customers with 20 user packs of Workplace Services Express will receive a 20 user pack of WebSphere Portal Express and 20 user licenses of Lotus Quickr

• Customers with 100 Processor Value Unit Licenses of Workplace Services Express will receive 100 Processor Value Unit Licenses of WebSphere Portal Express and 100 Processor Value Unit Licenses of Lotus Quickr Extranet

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Q. Is the offering IBM CEO MESSAGING AND PORTAL USER FROM LOTUS CEO COMMUNICATIONS still available to customers for purchase?

A. No, the IBM CEO MESSAGING AND PORTAL USER FROM LOTUS CEO COMMUNICATIONS TRADE UP LICENSE + SW SUBSCRIPTION & SUPPORT 12 MONTHS, D611YLL is withdrawn from market effective Q4, 2008. No replacement or migration process is required or desired. Following this removal, work will commence to remove the Messaging and Portal CEO bundle, which has outlived its usefulness and is part of a portfolio simplification process.

Comparison with Offerings from other Vendors

Q: Who are the biggest competitors to WebSphere Portal?

A. Portal competitors include Portal offerings from Microsoft, Oracle and, SAP and open source offerings.

IBM WebSphere Portal continues to be consistently ranked in the leadership position in the Portal market as ranked by IDC, Gartner and other analyst evaluations for its strategic vision, commitment to open standards, and ability to execute sales, service and support of it’s offerings. Please consult the IBM WebSphere Portal page for the most recent market data and reports: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/websphere/portal/

For more information about WebSphere Portal competitors, please visit the competitive analysis page on XL Portal for WebSphere Portal here:

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Q What is new in WebSphere Portal Version 6.1 that differentiates IBM from other vendors?





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A. The first thing to point out to customers when in a competitive situation is our demonstration of leadership in the portal market.

Based on the capabilities of WebSphere Portal Version 6.1, and demonstrating continued leadership and vision IBM has been awarded the leadership position in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Portals 2006, 2007 and again in 2008, for the 7th consecutive year. According to Gartner*, WebSphere Portal has been successfully deployed by a large customer base across a wide range of complex deployment scenarios, including high-scalability environments.

WebSphere Portal supports mashup creation (via Lotus IBM Mashup Center) and leverages other complementary offerings,including Lotus Connections (for social networking), to injectWeb 2.0 technologies into the enterprise IBM (Obtained from report: Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portal Products, 2008 Gartner, 9-12-2008)

With over 6000 customers, IBM has many customer references from some of the world’s largest portal deployments. We also have data from the competitive project office that shows that WebSphere and WebSphere Portal can handle more requests and transactions than other vendors.

Additional information on each of the Portal competitor vendor solutions, and IBM WebSphere Portal competitive positioning and sales approaches may be obtained:

XL Sales Portal :

http://w3-103.ibm.com/software/xl/portal/!ut/p/c1/04_SB8K8xLLM9MSSzPy8xBz9CP0os3hvL3c_A3cfQwML4wADAyMPi8CAwBAjQwN_U6B8JG55AyNidPv5G4W6mXgaGlqYuRoaGJl5mDj5hHkauLsYE6PbAAdwNCCgOxzkV_xuB8njcx1IHo_9fh75uan6BbmhoREGmQHpjoqKAHrobjc!/dl2/d1/L2dJQSEvUUt3QS9ZQnB3LzZfS0pHTjBHTDEwODNQMDAySDhRUFFUMjEwUzY!?nb=ca&ni=lotus&ca=websphereportalcategory&dg=competitiveinformation&dt=competitiveinformation

WebSphere Portal Competitive Page:

http://w3.ibm.com/software/xl/portal/viewcontent?type=doc&srcID=XW&docID=S883503H50978A44

Understanding Sharepoint Sales Tactics: (July 10) http://w3-9001.ibm.com/events/apt/apt2.nsf/doc/JASM-7EUG3H

How does WebSphere Portal meet customer needs better than SharePoint? Let me count the ways

This document is available at the CPO website: http://w3.ibm.com/sales/competition/compdlib.nsf/weball/6FAF81BC945F4F25002573CD00793461?OpenDocument





Miscellaneous Marketing Questions

Q: Where can I get access to the WebSphere Portal Version 6.1 code so that I can demonstrate it to customers?

When released, the product code is available on IBM Software Downloads:http://w3.ibm.com/software/xl/portal .

Q: Where can I get WebSphere Portal Version 6.1 marketing collateral?

A: WebSphere Portal Version 6.1 marketing collateral is available on XL Sales Portal at:

http://w3-103.ibm.com/software/xl/portal/viewkitcontent?srcID=KP04&kitID=D444547Q79835I33

WebSphere Portal marketing collateral and white papers are available externally at:

http://www.ibm.com/software/genservers/portal/library/

Q. Where can I get WebSphere Portal Enable for z/OS marketing collateral?

A. The Sales and Marketing kit for WebSphere Portal Enable for z/OS is available on XL Portal and externally at the above URL link.

Q. What demonstration resources are available?

Finding DemosHow do I find the right demo for my next customer call?

A. IBM Demo Finder centralizes pointers to various demonstrations that have been posted to other sites. Go to http://demofinder.ibm.com/ and search for DITL to see all the Day in the Life demos today. Since most of the Day in the Life demos were targeted to specific industries, the Demo Finder searches for many specific industries will now have more demos found. Our goal is to enable you will go to Demo Finder for a unified search of all our demo resources

Access the Portal Sparklers wiki : https://w3.tap.ibm.com/w3ki/display/PortalSparklers/Home

The Portals and Mashups Sparklers space is organized into several areas:1. Customer and analyst Quotes by Industry 2. Market penetration Statistics by Industry 3. Market penetration Sparklers by Product (cross-industry) 4. Portal Customer External Sites with examples of our products in use 5. Awards earned by our products

Q. What education resources are available:

A. IBM Accelerator and WebSphere Portal 6.1 Virtual Training "T3" series (Technical Enablement sessions) were held on June 11 and 12, 2008. Thanks to so many of you for joining - the sessions enjoyed record registration and attendance levels. The sessions were conducted electronically; presentations/recordings are now available on XL Portal for IBM sales/support teams and on the IBM Partner World Quickplace for access by IBM Business partners. Follow this link for access to the two day agenda, presentations and recordings which covered IBM Accelerators and integration with WebSphere Portal and new features enabled to the WebSphere Portal 6.1 and IBM Accelerator 6.1 release platform:


https://w3.tap.ibm.com/w3ki/display/PortalSparklers/Awards_

https://w3.tap.ibm.com/w3ki/display/PortalSparklers/Portal+Customer+External+Sites_

https://w3.tap.ibm.com/w3ki/display/PortalSparklers/Sparklers+by+Product_

https://w3.tap.ibm.com/w3ki/display/PortalSparklers/Statistics+by+Industry_

https://w3.tap.ibm.com/w3ki/display/PortalSparklers/Quotes+by+Industry_

http://www-306.ibm.com/software/genservers/portal/library/

http://w3-103.ibm.com/software/xl/portal/viewkitcontent?srcID=KP04&kitID=D444547Q79835I33

http://w3-103.ibm.com/software/xl/portal


Replay and presentations are posted on XL Portal here:http://w3.webahead.ibm.com/medialibrary/media_set_view?id=1100&oB=3&oD=1&pN=2

Miscellaneous Product Questions

Q: What components, currently included in the WebSphere Portal, Version 6.0, are no longer included in the Version 6.1 release? A: Some components of WebSphere Portal, Version 6.0, are not included in WebSphere Portal, Version 6.1 and future versions. In most cases, the components are being replaced by new technology/components that provide greater value to customers. In some other cases, customers did not recognize the value of the components and have not deployed them widely. Therefore, it makes sense to invest in other areas so we can deliver value that will be recognized and deployed by Portal customers. IBM will not include the following components, currently included in one or more of the WebSphere Portal Version 6.0 Server, Enable and Extend, Express and WebSphere Portal Enable for z/OS Version releases in the next releases of WebSphere Portal, Version 6.1 offerings.

Workflow Builder portlet (included with WebSphere Portal Server 6.0 Extend)

The Workflow Builder provided a pre-defined set of task definition and view capabilities to enable user based creation of simple, sequential workflows not requiring transactional processing. In most cases, customers found their workflow requirements more complex than the capabilities exposed in the Workflow Builder technology.

To match customer requirements IBM continues to invest in usability and features of the portal’s Task List portlet, provided in the WebSphere Portal Enable and Extend release since Version 5.1. The Task List portlet provides a central inbox for management of role-driven user workflow, and includes APIs for custom integration with BPEL compliant workflow engines, including IBM’s WebSphere Process Server.

WebSphere Portal 6.1 includes an updated Task List portlet, and also a new portlet (Manage Processes). The enhanced Task List portlet, displayed on the My Tasks page, displays all of the tasks assigned to the current user. Users can filter the list to show all tasks, claimed tasks, and tasks not claimed. By default, the list identifies each task by name, description, due date, creation date, assigner, priority, and status. The Details icon displays additional information about the task. When a user claims a task and clicks the name link of a task, the task page instance for the task opens. The new Manage Processes portlet allows users to monitor individual processes and start new process instances. Depending on the user’s privileges, individual process instances can be stopped, deleted, or analyzed down to the details of individual tasks performed.

MarketWatch portlets (previously included with all WebSphere Portal 6 offerings)

Earlier versions of WebSphere Portal and WebSphere Portal Express releases included demonstration portlets from IBM Business Partner Marketwatch. These trial use portlets enabled customers to optionally configure access to News, Stock, Weather and other general business information through portlets, and renew their subscription to these services directly with Marketwatch after the trial period. These portlets have been useful to customers but have not been prominently exposed in the user interface of recent WebSphere Portal releases. Customers interested in incorporating Marketwatch news and information services, or information services from other IBM Business partners providing news services, such as Yellowbrix, listed on the WebSphere Portal Business Solutions Catalog: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/brandcatalog/portal/.



Common PIM portlet support for Lotus Domino and Microsoft Exchange Mail or Calendar (IMAP support is retained in WebSphere Portal 6.1 releases).

Domino Web Access portlet and the IBM Portlet for MS Exchange are the recommended IBM provided portlets for access to Domino and MS Exchange applications. IBM also provides a portlet for access to MS Outlook Web Access on the IBM WebSphere Portal Business Solutions catalog.

Portal Document Manager

In WebSphere Portal Version 6.1 Express, Enable, Extend and Enable for z/OS releases the Portal Document Manager component is no longer provided. IBM is providing replacement technology via entitlements to Lotus Quickr, IBM’s strategic document management and team collaboration offering. Please see offering detail sections earlier in this document for additional detail regarding WebSphere Portal 6.1 offering entitlements to Lotus Quickr.

Customers requiring migration support from use of Portal Document Manager content in WebSphere Portal 5.1 or 6 releases to use Lotus Quickr J2EE 8.0.1 or Lotus Web Content Management 6.1 will be provided a migration tool to support these use cases in early 2009. IBM teams whose customers require this support may contact Krishnan Hariharan [email protected], IBM Offering manager for Lotus Web Content Management, or Lauren Wendel, [email protected], IBM product manager for WebSphere Portal.

Q. Were performance gains realized in WebSphere Portal and Lotus Web Content Management Version 6.1 as compared to the previous 6.0.x versions?

A. Yes. In a range of scenarios tested across several typical OS platform and hardware configurations, several key improvements were noted:

1. Lotus Web Content Management rendering performance improvement of 64% over Portal 6.0.1.3.

2. WebSphere Portal performance improved 16% when tested with sites consisting of thousands of pages

3. WebSphere Portal performance improved 14% using the new Web 2.0 theme4. Understanding of 32-bit vs. 64-bit Performance. ( 64-bit improves performance on

portlets with high memory demands, reduces performance on portlets with lower memory demands )

5. Ability to exploit latest server architecture. Testing revealed that Portal page aggregation and overall performance can improve exponentially using the latest hardware, whether it's an Intel server, pSeries server, etc.6. WebSphere Portal Enable for z/OS Version 6.1 reveals a 180% performance improvement

versus the 6.013 Version.

IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory FAQ Section:

Q. How is WebSphere Portlet Factory packaged with WebSphere Portal Version 6.1?A. Customers purchasing Version 6.1 of WebSphere Portal Server, WebSphere Portal Enable, WebSphere Portal Extend, WebSphere Portal Server Express, on a CPU or value unit (VU) basis will be entitled to 1 WebSphere Portlet Factory Designer license per enterprise, for use by a single developer. Additional Portlet Factory Designer licenses may be purchased separately.

Additional licenses of WebSphere Portlet Factory Designer can be purchased at the SRP of $5300 U.S. http://w3-103.ibm.com/software/xl/portal/viewcontent?type=doc&srcID=KE01&docID=L838891A92426F94


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Agreements and entitlements to WebSphere Portlet Factory Designer through previous purchases of WebSphere Portal releases will be honored.

Q. Are site analytics capabilities included in WebSphere Portal for Version 6.1 releases?

A. Yes. WebSphere Portal, Version 6.1 creates standards based access logfiles in NCSA combined log format that capture activity of WebSphere Portal installation and run-time operations. These standard log files can be used with website usage reporting tools of customers’ choice to generate custom reports analyzing the activity of WebSphere Portal installation and use operations. Technical documentation outlining use case scenarios and example reports prepared with information recorded to the WebSphere Portal log records will be provided as additional guidance for customers and partners.

Please reference additional materials available on the IBM developerWorks WebSphere Portal Zone:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/techjournal/0609_liesche/0609_liesche.html

Q. Are there Web Site Analytics technologies available from IBM Business Partners supporting analysis of WebSphere Portal activity and application usage patterns?

A: Yes. IBM Business Partners have developed add-on solutions to extend WebSphere Portal application activity and application use pattern analysis and reporting. IBM Business Partners providing extended web analytics solutions for WebSphere Portal include Coremetrics Surfaid, Computer Associates/Wily Technology, Inc. and others. Additional information on these and other IBM Partner solutions for WebSphere Portal solutions can be obtained from the IBM WebSphere Portal Business Solutions Catalog at:

http://catalog.lotus.com/wps/portal/portalworkplace

Other approaches may be used to leverage the capability of analytics engines with WebSphere Portal applications. An example is integration with Google Analytics. Google Analytics is free of charge via a Google Account ID. (If required, tailored services packages for Analytics can be purchased from one of Google's partners.) To integrate Google Analytics with WebSphere Portal the following is required:

Create a Management Portlet that allows the assignment of Google Analytics accounts to different Virtual Portals (or a single Google Analytics account to the entire Portal etc)

When rendering pages in Portal, insert the Google Analytics JavaScript code along with the correct Analytics account Id into the page. From within the Management Portlet the Administrator can open the Google Analytics website to view reports etc.

IBM also sells IBM Tivoli Composite Tivoli® Composite Application Manager for WebSphere®. Tivoli Composite Application Manager for WebSphere is an application management tool that helps maintain the availability and performance of business-critical applications. It helps you quickly pinpoint, in real time, the source of bottlenecks in application code, server resources, or external system dependencies. Additional information is available at:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/tiv/itcamws/

WebSphere Portal Offerings and included component license questions:


http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/tiv/itcamws/

http://catalog.lotus.com/wps/portal/portalworkplace

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/techjournal/0609_liesche/0609_liesche.html


IBM WebSphere Process Server

Q. WebSphere Process Server is packaged with WebSphere Portal Enable, Version 6.1 and WebSphere Portal Extend 6.1. What restrictions are applied to the use of this code with WebSphere Portal?

A. A copy of WebSphere Process Server software is included with the WebSphere Portal Enable Version 6.1 and WebSphere Portal Extend, Version 6.1. WebSphere Portal Enable and Extend customers are entitled to use only the following WebSphere Process Server software components:

Business Process Choreographer Common Event Infrastructure Cloudscape database WebSphere Process Server client

This entitlement does not authorize customers to use other WebSphere Process Server software components with WebSphere Portal Version 6.1 releases with out purchasing a separate WebSphere Process Server license.

The restricted use of WebSphere Process Server components as entitled in WebSphere Portal 6.1 Enable and Extend releases, entitle the customer to the following use cases. Customers may not use the WebSphere Process Server components included and entitled with WebSphere Portal 6.1 Enable and Extend for other purposes.

For each purchase of WebSphere Portal 6.1 Enable or Extend, one (1) copy of the component Business Process Choreographer may be installed on a separate machine for use with the WebSphere Portal 6.1 applications. Such applications are limited to running business processes that consist solely of business activities performed by Portal users or Portal provided services. For example, users cannot use Business Process Choreographer to run business processes that contain activities that call to a non-Portal back end server.

Customers requiring greater functionality to support workflow applications with WebSphere Portal may purchase full WebSphere Process Server licenses.

http://www-01.ibm.com/software/integration/wps/

Q. How is IBM Lotus Web Content Management entitled with IBM WebSphere Portal 6.1 Enable and Extend releases?:

A. Customers receive 100 limited entitlement Lotus Web Content Management value units for every 600 WebSphere Portal Enable or Extend value units purchased (not available for Portal Express). For example, customers receive the Lotus Web Content Management entitlements as follows:

• 100 Lotus WCM VU entitlements for the first 100 through 600 VUs of Portal Enable or Extend

• 100 Lotus WCM VU entitlements for the next 700 through 1200 VUs of Portal Enable or Extend

• 100 Lotus WCM VU entitlements for the next 1300 through 1800 VUs of Portal Enable or Extend, etc.

Lotus Web Content Management can be installed on a different machine than the Portal Server but can only be used to create, manage, and deploy content to the Portal. The entitled use of WCM acquired with



Portal Enable and Extend purchases prohibits the use of pre-rendering to HTML for use outside of the Portal.

EXAMPLES:

• A customer who buys 800 VUs of Portal is entitled to 200 VUs of WCM, deployed however they choose: on a

dual-core 100-VU machine, or on a single-core, 200-VU machine, etc.

• A customer who buys 1500VUs of Portal is entitled to 300 VUs of WCM, deployed however they choose.

WebSphere Portal Express 6.1 is licensed on a single server basis. WebSphere Portal Express users are entitled to install Lotus Web Content management on the Portal Express Server, and the Portal Express server must be used as the only production server that displays the content.

WebSphere Portal Enable for z/OS Version 6.1 users may use IBM Lotus Web Content Management to to manage the creation and publication of content within the Portal Enable for z/OS 6.1 environment. With this entitlement, users may may not use the component to manage the creation and publication of content to an external, non-Portal supported website. If such functionality is desired, customers may purchasing a separate IBM Lotus Web Content Management Proof of Entitlement(s) (POE) which are available only for non-z/OS platforms.

Q. What is the purpose of providing WebSphere Portal 6.1 Enable, Extend, Enable for z/OS and Express customers with restricted IBM Lotus Web Content Management license entitlements?

IBM is including Lotus Web Content Management software in WebSphere Portal to meet the “basic scalability” web content management capabilities required for a production portal system. For some portal deployments, this basic scalability will be all that is needed- an internal portal where most of the content is provided by portlets linking to enterprise applications could be an example of this. Many other Portal deployments (e.g. content-oriented intranets and websites) will require additional Workplace Web Content Management licenses.

Q. What if my customer wants to publish to non-portal sites or requires additional CPU’s for their Portal deployment?

A. They must purchase full Lotus Web Content Management licenses at the full price of $424 USD per processor value unit. http://w3-103.ibm.com/software/xl/portal/viewcontent?type=doc&srcID=KE01&docID=D055946R13099F08

With the purchase of an entitlement to full WCM, usage rights extend beyond using WCM only in the IBM Portal environment framework to also using it to create stand alone web sites

• In effect, once a customer purchases an entitlement to the full version, the previous 1:6 WCM entitlements revert to full WCM licenses

Q. Is there a release that supports Lotus Web Content Management SMB customers?


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A. Yes, we will continue to support the SMB customers with the SMB-oriented Standard Edition offering, Lotus Web Content Manager Standard Edition (WCMSE), which is available on the WebSphere Portal 6.1 platform.

Additional details:

WCMSE is intended to be a companion offering to WebSphere Portal Express, targeted at the SMB market. The goal is to create an offering that allows IBM to sell the value of IBM web content management to the SMB market. The intent of WCMSE is to provide an enterprise with a single-server WCM solution where all WCM happens on that one machine. This is managed via some limits to the terms and conditions of the offering. WCMSE is exactly the same code as WCM, but with the restrictions in the license, outlined as follows:

"WCMSE may not be used in conjunction with any other copies of WCM received through entitlements in IBM Programs such as WebSphere Portal Enable or WebSphere Portal Extend. However, You may use WCMSE in conjunction with IBM WebSphere Portal Express provided You follow the license restrictions for this offering. "

This means that WCMSE cannot be used with WCM purchased in other packages. Portal Enable and Extend are listed as examples ("such as...)", but that is not the comprehensive list. Another would be use of WCMSE with WCM regardless of how the entitlements to WCM were acquired. This rules out using WCMSE as an authoring server whose content is syndicated to a production WCM server (with a full WCM license).

You may not use more than one hardware server to serve WCMSE content. "WCMSE content" shall mean content that is created, maintained or delivered using WCMSE.This means that you cannot use multiple WCMSE servers together. This rules out having a WCMSE authoring server and another WCMSE production server with content syndicated between them.

It is allowed to use virtual machine technology to enable two or more copies/instances of WCMSE to be installed on the same machine. This would enable you to have an authoring environment and a production environment. There is a limit of 400 PVUs total to be employed for WCMSE.

IBM Lotus Forms:

Q. How is Lotus Forms packaged with WebSphere Portal Version 6.1 Extend?

A. A restricted license of Lotus Forms Server v3.0.1, Lotus Forms Designer V3.0.1 and Lotus Forms Viewer v3.0.1 software is included in entitlements of WebSphere Portal Extend, Version 6.1 software. For every 1 to 10 licenses of WebSphere Portal Extend that a customer owns, they will be able to install/deploy:

1 copy of Lotus Forms Server 2 user licenses of Lotus Forms Designer 4 user licenses of Lotus Forms Viewer

While there are no functional restrictions on these products, they must be used as part of a WebSphere Portal deployment. If customers need additional licenses of Lotus Forms products, they may be purchased separately.



IBM DB2 (included Restricted use component) with WebSphere Portal releases:

Q. How may customers use the restricted use version of DB2 Enterprise with WebSphere Portal releases? (Server, Express, Enable and Extend).

A. WebSphere Portal customers may use the included copy of IBM DB2 Enterprise Edition solely for use to support portal configuration data required for execution of the program. The license text is included below, and also may be found by searching for WebSphere Portal, then 6.1 versions on the IBM Software License Agreement site.

For IBM DB2 Restricted Enterprise Edition (see Other IBM Programs)DB2 Restricted Enterprise Edition includes portions of DB2 Enterprise Server Edition. You are authorized to install and use one copy of DB2 Restricted Enterprise Edition only in association with Your licensed use of the Program for the storage and management of data used and generated by the Program, and not for other data management purposes. DB2 Restricted Enterprise Edition is to be used only by the internal components of the Program. For example, DB2 Restricted Enterprise Edition can be used as a repository for configuration information generated by the Program and cannot be used to build or extend custom applications that store business data; this license does not permit inbound connections to the database from other applications for queries or report generation. You are authorized to install and use DB2 Restricted Enterprise Edition on a single processor which may be other than the Licensed Processor, but in any case only in connection with Your licensed use of the Program. You are not authorized to install any separately purchasable features that are available for DB2 unless You purchase a fully licensed version of DB2.If You use the DB2 Restricted Enterprise Edition with a separately licensed DB2 Version 9 data server, the license terms of that data server take precedence over these terms.

Q. My customer wishes to implement DB2 High Availability Disaster Recovery (HADR) to support their portal deployment. Assuming they purchase more than one WebSphere Portal offering license, which would provide more than one DB2 Restricted Enterprise Edition entitlement, may they deploy one DB2 entitlement in support of Portal configuration data, and the other to support HADR failover support of that Portal configuration data?

A. IBM DB2 Enterprise Edition includes features to support HADR failover capability, which is implemented through the high availability disaster recovery (HADR) database replication feature. HADR is a high availability solution that protects against data loss by replicating changes from a source database, called the primary database, to a target database, called the standby database. The HADR feature comes with DB2 Enterprise Server Edition, so in turn, the 'Restricted Enterprise Server Edition' also contains the feature.

A table listing features included with IBM DB2 offerings can be located here: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/db2luw/v9/topic/com.ibm.db2.udb.uprun.doc/doc/r0023732.htm

IBM WebSphere Application Server:

Q: How is WebSphere Application Server included and licensed for use with WebSphere Portal releases?



A. For all WebSphere Portal releases except WebSphere Portal Enable for z/OS Version 6.1, WebSphere Application Server is included with WebSphere Portal, restricted for use with the Portal. The key summary points from the license are included below

The Program is accompanied by a portion of WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment product (Application Server). The Program includes the Application Server components on the following CD-ROMs and/or DVDs:

- WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment

- WebSphere Application Server Supplements

- WebSphere Application Server Toolkit (Windows and Linux/Intel platforms only)

- Edge Components

For each Program server PoE, You are entitled to install and use, from the media provided with the Program, one copy of each of the WebSphere Application Server components required to support Your licensed use of the Program. You are authorized to install and use these components on a single processor which may be other than the Licensed Processor, but in any case only in connection with Your licensed use of the Program.

Please check the license text on the IBM SLA site for more detail covering the list of restricted and unrestricted use WAS components that may be used in support of WebSphere Portal deployments.

General Product Questions:

Q. How can WebSphere Portal Version 6.1 customers leverage our mobile offerings? What is the roadmap for this support?

A. For companies such as service providers and enterprise customers with requirements to provide offline access across a broad range of mobile devices, IBM offers WebSphere Everyplace Mobile Portal Enable, which integrates portal capabilities with device optimized rendering. Content can be developed independent of the specific device and then is dynamically adapted for the capabilities of each specific device. Therefore, content developers can create content or services once, and the content or services can be presented on a wide range of devices without any additional rework. This is accomplished by using a thorough device repository in combination with a high performance rendering technology that translates the device independent content to the presentation capabilities of the specific device. Developing device independent content and services are more cost effective because they can be written once and rendered across devices. The device repository supports over 5,600 mobile devices and updates are provided via included subscription update service.

WebSphere Everyplace Mobile Portal Enable (WEMP) 6.0.1 is available. This release will be updated in 1H 2009 to support the WebSphere Portal 6.1 platform. Contact Lauren Wendel, product manager ([email protected]) with any questions.

External web site: http://www.ibm.com/software/pervasive/ws_everyplace_mobile_portal_enable/about/?S_CMP=wspace

IBM WEMP Support site: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/pervasive/ws_everyplace_mobile_portal_enable/support/


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Techworks education http://techworks.dfw.ibm.com/americas/DSTR-77DMK5

Other technologies, such as WebSphere Portlet Factory, can be used as an approach to provide basic enablement of Portal applications to mobile devices (with commonly used applications and mobile devices): An example may be found on IBM developerWorks:

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/pfwiki.nsf/dx/websphere-dashboard-framework-developing-dashboards-for-blackberries

Lotus Connections client for Blackberry (developed by RIM) http://na.blackberry.com/eng/services/server/domino/connections.jsp

WebSphere Portal Version 6 and higher releases also provide support for offline portal synchronization capability integration with Lotus Expeditor. Lotus Expeditor is the base client platform for the composite desktop and end user experience across IBM. It builds on the open standards defined by OSGi and Eclipse to include support for J2EE developers as well as integration services for .NET, and VB developers. Lotus Expeditor provides the Expeditor runtime environment for desktops, laptops, tables, PDA’s and smart phones. Portal administration can be used to manage the deployment of portlet applications to the client. These applications can be native client applications written to the Eclipse plug-in model or can be portlet applications written for the portal server, but also able to be run in the client. The Expeditor client includes a portlet container for running portlets in the client. When portlets are written to this model and use the IBM provided repository and synchronization services, users are able to take their applications with them when they disconnect from the corporate network. Lotus Expeditor platform also provides support for display of composite applications, such as dashboard applications. Developers can build an Expeditor WAB (Web Application Bundle) from a Lotus ActiveInsight Dashboard Framework/WebSphere Portlet Factory JSR168 project and use its portlets/web applications on Rich Client Platforms such as Expeditor 6.1.x and Notes 8 Client.

Lotus Expeditor 6.1.2, a component of the Portal’s Enterprise Suite Accelerator, provides additional out of box offline portlet synchronization examples, and property broker support to load local portal resources, and performance enhancements. IBM product site: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/products/expeditor/?S_TACT=105AGX13&S_CMP=ART

Q. What development Frameworks are supported by WebSphere Portal ?

A. From a development perspective, WebSphere Portal will continue to support Struts and JSF. There are too many extended frameworks available, in different versions, for IBM to test for compatibility (Cocoon, IceFaces, Facelets, MyFaces Spring, Wicket etc). However, WebSphere Portal Version 6 and higher releases supports all JSR 186-based frameworks that use that standard.

Applications using other frameworks should be evaluated and verified to determine that they are compliant with the JSR 168 implementation, like testing them on the JSR 168 Reference Implementation Pluto at Apache.

WebSphere Portal also enables you to implement the popular AJAX programming pattern. You can use AJAX enabled builders in WebSphere Portlet Factory, libraries in Rational Application Developer or you can implement AJAX yourself.


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Q. How does Lotus Mashups relate to WebSphere Portal?

A. Lotus Mashups and WebSphere Portal are complementary products. Lotus Mashups is ideally suited for situations in which innovation and implementation speed outweigh governance and application “perfection.” Applications created in Lotus Mashups, or via IBM Mashup Center, are often tactical or opportunistic (i.e., situational) and built without a formal development process.

WebSphere Portal, on the other hand, is best used to create strategic, transactional, mission-critical applications. Applications are built using a more traditional development lifecycle (formal requirements gathering, full test, etc.). And, finally, Portal applications require IT operational support and governance.

If a mashup created by Lotus Mashups is deemed worthy for broader adoption, or if it needs to have an additional level of control applied, it can be seamlessly deployed to WebSphere Portal, where it can be managed and governed by IT.

IBM WebSphere Portal Widget Portlet provides customizable, personalized, and managed access to widgets that are compliant with the iWidget Specification, thus extending the existing capabilities of WebSphere Portal to provide flexible integration with web components, independent of their technology. Users can leverage widgets on their portal pages side by side with portlets, Gadgets or other web components, enabling the creation of portal-based mashups tailored to the situational requirements of an enterprise.http://www-01.ibm.com/software/brandcatalog/portal/portal/details?catalog.label=1WP1001PI

In the future, we also intend to support the Lotus Mashups browser-based tool running on top of WebSphere Portal Server.

For more information about Lotus Mashups, please consult the IBM Mashup Center wiki: http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/mashupswiki.nsf/

Q. What resources are available to customers to evaluate future versions of WebSphere Portal?

A. WebSphere Portal Version 6.1 was first introduced to customers in an open Beta program on IBM developerWorks. This was a very successful effort, enabling thousands of Portal customers, partners and services teams to participate in the initial and follow on beta releases. At this time, subject to change, IBM intends to continue to make subsequent releases available for early evaluation through the open beta format, accompanied by a question and answer discussion forum.

The next update release, WebSphere Portal 6.1.0.1 Beta download is now available (as of September 30 2008). Current general release plans include support for: z/OS platform support, WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 7.0 (toleration level support as the underlying Application server), IBM DB2 9.5, Oracle 11g R1 11.1.0.6, Windows Active Directory 2008 (excludes Application mode), Firefox 3 browser, Apple Safari 3 and higher browser,Opera 9.5 browser (on Vista OS),Windows IIS 7 ,Apache HTTP Server 2.2 (for use with WAS 7 environments only), and support for Domino 8.5 as an LDAP server. This beta version is posted here for download: https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/iwm/web/preLogin.do?source=swerplotus-wpx602ob3

The following 6.1.0.1 beta release detail is available for customers, partners and IBM teams: https://www14.software.ibm.com/iwm/web/cc/earlyprograms/lotus/wps61beta/

WebSphere Portal and Lotus Web Content Management InfoCenter:

WP 6.1, 6.0.x, 5.1.x InfoCenter documentation (public)


http://www-01.ibm.com/software/brandcatalog/portal/portal/details?catalog.label=1WP1001PI_


http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/zones/portal/proddoc.html


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