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Agenda
● What is a Portal? Why Portals?
● WebSphere Portal Overview, Features and Components
● WebSphere Portal Architecture
● Packaging
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Today: disparate user experiences
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Portal Definition
A well-known point of access to many different resources, presented in a consistent, integrated and personalized manner.
WebSphere Portal
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Key Benefits and Capabilities of Enterprise Portals
User Perspective
Dynamic experience
Collaboration
Customization
Personalization
Engaging UI
Single Sign-on
People Awareness
Integration “at the glass”
Secure Access, SSO
Role-based Deployment
Scalability & Reliability
Administration
Navigation
Application interfaces
Aggregation IT Perspective
Other web content
CRM Application
Databases
Content Management
eHR
Web Services
Syndicated Content
Collaboration
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Agenda
● What is a Portal? Why Portals?
● WebSphere Portal Overview, Features and Components
● WebSphere Portal Architecture
● Packaging
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Best Java Enterprise Portal Technology
Readers choice Award INFORMATION INTEGRATION PLATFORMS & PORTALS
Performance Management
Portals and Knowledge Management
Dashboard Framework
2006 CRN Channel Champion Best Development tool
IBM WebSphere Portal
Best Enterprise Portal Platform - WebSphere Portal
WebSphere Portal – market leading Enterprise Portal
Market Leadership ● #1 in Enterprise Portal Software market*● Over 5000 customer Portal installations● Double digit market growth**● Large leads in Customer Self-Service, Partner Self-Service,
Employee Self-Service, and Dashboards *● >2000 SMB customers
Partner Leadership ● Over 1,463 IBM Business Partner solutions in the IBM
WebSphere Portal Business Solutions Catalog ● 30 ISVs have OEM’d WebSphere Portal
Technical leadership ● Largest portals in the world (20 million -1 billion)● Smallest full-feature portals in the world, 20-user
pack● Provides the front-end, or user interface, for IBM’s innovative
SOA strategy● Drives portal standards- Leads JSR-286, Chairs WSRP 2.0.,
Co-Chaired JSR-168, Chaired WSRP 1.0.
*Reports, DataQuest, AMR, IDC** IDC, Worldwide Enterprise Portal Software 2006-2010 Forecast Update and 2005 Vendor Shares: When
Less is More. #202688, Kathleen Quirk, July 2006.
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Market Leadership – Gartner’s View
WebSphere Portal now ranked as Market Leader in Gartner's 2008 MQ for Enterprise Portals.
Leadership position held for 6 consecutive years.
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A Few of the 6,000+ WebSphere Portal Customers
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WebSphere Portal – Functional Architecture
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Building a Portal Page
PersonalisedPortlets
Navigation
Theme
Security
Customisation
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Portlet PrincipleEach portlet is a separate Web application
● Developed independently
● Can be placed anywhere on the page
● Dynamic deployment; dynamic configuration
Portlets support multiple markups
● Phones, Organizers, Voice
● Unique views for each device
● Business logic can be shared
Web 2.0
● Portlets support Client Side Aggregation to retrieve and share information without server round-trips
● Portlets can refresh individually
● Support for AJAX and DoJo
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Web Content Management
● Inline Editing for infrequent users
● User-friendly, simple templates for entering content
● Full text, attribute and taxonomy search
● Simplified process for including personalization rules in content and layout
● Views allow users to find their content easily
● User interface can be customized easily to provide tailored experience
● Link Management and RSS Integration
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Portal Document Management
● Provided by IBM Lotus Quickr
● User can navigate through a hierarchy of user-defined folders and documents.
● Add, delete or modify folders
● Easily add documents of any format from local file system
● Share documents with teams
● Collaborate on documents and team places
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Theme Customizer
Change the banner: logo, color, typography, border, background
Change the typography: default size, color and style, headline size, color, etc.
Change the navigation: orientation, tab colors, tab text
Change the colors: page color or background, highlight color
Change the buttons: text, color, selected and unselected states
Show and hide footers, gutters, links, breadcrumbs, etc.
Theme Customizer - Easily change the look of a portal page - no HTML, JavaScript or XML coding required!
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Portal Search helps raise productivity● Usability
Site map provides Secure “outline” of Portal hierarchy
Search API (SIAPI) published externally for applications
Relevance ranking
● Integrate External Search Engines
● External Search of Portal Content Better search results from
Google and other search engines
Photos from Flickr
Web Search Results
Search Results
from PortalSuggested
Links
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WebAppIntegrator
• User clicked on “Doorway on Jester” tab and was sent to Doorway web app on server Jester.
• the HTML <script> tag executed and “injected” markup for Portal navigation, Launch menu, and page breadcrumbs into Doorway web app.
• Note that the page tab labeled “Doorway on Jester” is correctly selected as the current page.
• Clicking on any Portal specific navigation tab will take you back into Portal. Clicking on any Portal URL page tab will hit the underlying URL.
Solution for integration of external web applications with Portal Server
Allows external web applications to display and make use of Portal navigation artifacts
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Create new Portal Sites with New Site Wizard
The New Site Wizard combines several administrative actions into a single portlet:• User enrollment• Virtual Portal creation• Portal content import
Quickly create new Virtual Portals with Portal Sites and customize to suite your needs
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Web 2.0 Support
Superior enhanced User Experience
– Improved response times – AJAX, REST, client–side aggregation, C2A
– Enhanced flexibility – easy end user customization through drag & drop, Google gadgets, etc.
– Smart markup and dynamic menus through semantic tags
Drive Innovation and Productivity through Social Software
– Lotus Connections portlets
– Quickr blogs, wikis, and forums
Improve time to value, time to market
– Business user situational application development through the Portlet Pallette, drag & drop page composition, and composite application templates
– Business user contribution of WCM content
– More assets (REST, ATOM, gadgets) available to choose from.
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Customer identification with your website can
increase loyalty
Customer identification with your website can
increase loyalty
Remember meThe site recognizes me without login…The site recognizes me without login…
…requires user authentication…
Access to sensitive service or operation,...
… before access is provided.
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Tooling for Portal Development
● Rational Application Developer● An open, comprehensive development environment for building
e-business applications● Portal Tools are fully integrated to support portal and portlet
development● Provides Portal Test Environment
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IBM WebSphere Portlet FactorySpeeds SOA Value and Deployment of WebSphere Portal
● Automation for multi-page, complex portlets without coding – speeds development/deployment
● Change simplified for evolving business requirements – increases efficiency of IT, LOB and users
● Reuse for generation of new portlets from existing portlet models on demand – serve more business and user requirements for more value
● SOA for integration/delivery of existing applications and portlet interfaces as reusable services – flexibility for increased ROI
Using the tool [Portlet Factory] also saved Allmerica $1 million in development costs, Clifton adds. The technology enabled Allmerica to build the portal in four months, whereas using API technology would have taken about 16 months, he estimates.
Mike Clifton, Vice President of IT, Allmerica InsuranceSource: Insurance & Technology, May 2005http://www.insurancetech.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=160906146
Using the tool [Portlet Factory] also saved Allmerica $1 million in development costs, Clifton adds. The technology enabled Allmerica to build the portal in four months, whereas using API technology would have taken about 16 months, he estimates.
Mike Clifton, Vice President of IT, Allmerica InsuranceSource: Insurance & Technology, May 2005http://www.insurancetech.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=160906146
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Build Real-time Personalized Dashboards
Sales Vice President
Regional Mgr
Local Sales Mgr
Alerts personalized
Scorecard shows regional info only
Data filter adapts
Graph displays revenue for
selected office
Scorecard shows office info only
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Workplace Dashboard Framework is a set of reusable assets, robust administration tools, and dashboard-specific features that speed the creation of custom dashboards.
Record List & Detail
Hierarchy Drill Down
Status Indicator
Status Page
Summary Row
Summary & Drilldown
Query Filter
Repository of Reusable Design Components
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WebSphere Portlet Catalog
http://catalog.lotus.com/wps/portal/portal
● Over 1,500 Pre-made portlets
● 270 ISV’s Providing Portlets
● 26 ISVS have OEM’d IBM Portal
● 1,200 Partners Trained on Portal
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Faced with rising complexity within its supplier-facing processes, Volkswagen needed to make its procurement employees more productive to stay ahead of the competition
Challenge
“We need knowledgeable workers who can focus their energies on high-value activities and driving new efficiencies, spending as little time as possible seeking and wading through information.”- Dr. Martin Hoffman, Group Executive Director for Purchasing Process and Information Management,
Volkswagen AG
Customer Quote
20 percent increase in procurement staff productivity Achieved 100% payback within one year Significant decreases in materials purchasing and inventory costs
Value
An On Demand Workplace that includes an enterprise wide portal for employees and suppliers whose sensing, analytic and workflow capabilities have radically streamlined the way employees access and act on information
Solution
Volkswagen AG
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Architecture Overview WebSphere Portal V6.1
PortalDatabase(s)
User profile
DatabaseLDAP Directorie(s)
Page Aggregation
Themes and skins
Page Handler
Dynamic UI Manager
Rules
Portlet Container and Services
Portlet API
Content access
Search
PortletPreference
Collab-oration
AJAXProxy
Webclipper
Admin
SiteAdmin
CredentialVault
SingleSign-on
XML AccessPortal ScriptREST / APP
J2EE
JCA
WebServices
EJB
JMS
JDBC
Servlet
Security Caching
EnterpriseData, Applications,Internet Content
Process Server
Remoteportlet producer
AU
TH
EN
TIC
AT
ION
Desktopand mobileBrowsers,
Mashups and offline Clients
Remoteportlet
consumer
.
.
PolicyPortalModel
TemplateComposition
ComponentHandler
ApplicationRuntimeAUTHORIZATION
Feed Provider
JSR286
WSRP 1.0
+ 2.0WSRP 1.0
+ 2.0
Widgets
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Product support pages
WebSphere Portal:
http://www.ibm.com/software/genservers/portal/support/
WebSphere Portal Zone on developerWorks:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/zones/portal/
*New!* WebSphere Portal Support Wiki (goes live at eGA):
http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/portalwiki.nsf
Web Content Management:
http://www.ibm.com/software/lotus/support/workplace-webcontent-mgmt/support.html
Web Content Management Best Practices Wiki:
https://info2.lotus.com/lotus/quickr
Product Documentation:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/zones/portal/proddoc.html