1. IBM Websphere Portal
Presented By: Jawwad Jafri
Sapphire Consulting Services

2. The Portal Application
Portals provide users with Help employees and
single, security- business partners work
Enables organizations to
rich, personalized interface more efficiently, streamline
quickly implement new
that combines numerous business processes and
business designs that are
sources of information enable companies to
engaging, flexible and high
from within a company`s implement new, highly
performance.
firewall and from the responsive product and
internet at large. service delivery offerings.

3. 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.
Builds and extends portal solutions.
Leverages existing assets, content and processes
• Wider set of user communities from internal employees to
business partners and customers.

4. Quick and Easy Applications
Deployment supporting daily
business
• Preconfigured pages,
• Internet and intranet portal site • Email,
templates
• Calendaring,
• “Out of the box” portlet
• Instant messaging,
applications
• Integrated presence awareness,
• Bookmarking,
• Reports and
• Team spaces.

5. Webpshere Portal for Business Users
Personalize interface,
Organize the content,
Manage profiles,
Centralize access to
Present them in a way Assemble composite
information, application
applications and
relevant to each user
and processes
Publish and share
documents with
colleagues.

6. Portal Customization
Through Portlet
Templates for
Palette whose Theme
custom internet
access is Customizer tool:
and intranet
CSS, JSP, Skins.
controlled by IT
sites.
admin

7. Collaborations
Social Networking:
Team Collaboration:
• IBM Lotus Quickr document • Integration with IBM Lotus
management features and Connections software allow users to
teamrooms can be accessed access all features of social
through portlets, allowing users networking software
to create and share
documents, hold moderated
discussions, manage group
calendars,etc.
Email and application integration:
Real time collaboration:
• IBM Lotus Notes
• Integration with IBM Lotus
• Lotus Domino
Sametime gives users access to
instant messaging, presence
awareness and Web Conferencing
through portlets.

8. Web Content Management and
Personalization
IBM Lotus Web Content Management
Software
IBM WebSphere Personalization

9. Rich User Interface- Web
Client Side Aggregation-
2.0, integration with
AJAX based client side
Google gadgets, semantic
aggregation
tagging

10. FOR IT Managers and Administrators
Supports wide Broad
range of : interoperability
Open standards • • Leverage existing IT
Databases
based framework • investments
Directories
• Platforms and
• Security protocols

11. Performance features
Monitoring the
performance of portal
and portlets during Isolate portlets by running them on
execution separate JVMs
• To track usage and
performance

12. 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.

13. Resource Management
Resource management portlet for
admins
Greater flexibility and visual one
• Allows admin to move pages easily
click controls. from staging servers to production
servers with rollback support.
• The users authorized by the admin
can review the pages at each
stage.

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. Implementing composite application in
portal
Application templates promote the rapid assembly of

collaborative applications.
Open standards of Eclipse application framework

plus the capabilities.

18. Static page integration delivers new options
for HTML support
Static Page The
Integration developer can
• Helps reduce then add the
Allows page
time to market
creation using web 2.0, live
• Increase portal
static HTML text and
flexibility
portlet
or other
• Reducing skill
markup capabilities by
required for
development languages simple drag
• Leverages
and drop
existing
operation
investments

19. Enhanced Workflow Options
IBM Business Process Accelerator Process Engine from
Websphere BP Process
• Speeds up business processes by
Choreographer
delivering electronic forms as part of
composite applications • In Websphere Portal Enable and
• Credit approval, supply chain order Extend Software
• Supports Process Server and IBM • For Visualization
FileNet P8 • IBM WebSphere Integration
Developer (available seperately)

20. Integration with external Web Applications
External web information
appears as native portal
application through Web
application integrator tool.
The external web
applications include
• Lotus Connections software
• Lotus Domino Web Access
software
• Intranet Web Server applications
• Lotus Quickr Software

21. Client Side Programming
Performance Allows users
rendering to
Does not
• Portlet changes • Mark up content
require
• Make
are handled
extensive
locally immediate
knowledge of changes to
Java code portlet without
refreshing

22. Live Text Tags
Live Text -Semantic Tags
Contextual Information
Content from external sources can also be embedded

23. REST Services
Leverage
Includes
Provides the technologies Allows role
• Layout,
remote access such as Dojo based navigation
• Portlet,
to portal models widgets and
• Content, Navig
and artifacts. enable creation
ation , of mashups
• Wire and
• User Profile

24. 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, person
al and departmental
information from various
sources into
flexible, dynamic
applications.

25. Web 2.0 Theme
Out-of-the-box Web 2.0 portal theme
Leverages client side aggregation
Users can manipulate portlets and widgets locally

26. 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

27. 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


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

29. 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.

30. Industry Webportals