1.IBM WebSphere Portal Joel Demay IBM Software Group [email_address]

2. Agenda

What is a Portal? Why Portals?

WebSphere Portal Overview, Features and Components

WebSphere Portal Architecture

Packaging

3. Today: disparate user experiences 4. Portal Definition

A well-known point of access to many different resources, presented in aconsistent, integratedandpersonalizedmanner.

WebSphere Portal 5. Key Benefits and Capabilities of Enterprise Portal s 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 6. Agenda

What is a Portal? Why Portals?

WebSphere Portal Overview, Features and Components

WebSphere Portal Architecture

Packaging

7. 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 OEMd 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 IBMs 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.

Best Java Enterprise Portal Technology Readers choice Award INFORMATION INTEGRATION PLATFORMS & PORTALS Performance Management Portals and Knowledge Management Dashboard Framework 2006CRNChannel Champion Best Development tool IBM WebSphere Portal Best Enterprise Portal Platform - WebSphere Portal 8. Market Leadership Gartners View WebSphere Portal now ranked as Market Leader in Gartner's 2008 MQ for Enterprise Portals. Leadership position held for 6 consecutive years. 9. A Few of the 6,000+ WebSphere Portal Customers 10. WebSphere Portal Functional Architecture 11. Building a Portal Page Personalised Portlets Navigation Theme Security Customisation 12. Portlet Principle

Each 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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! 16. 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 Portal Suggested Links 17. WebAppIntegrator

User clicked on Doorway on Jester tab and was sent toDoorwayweb app on server Jester.

the HTML

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 ServerAllows external web applications to display and make use of Portal navigation artifacts 18. 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 19. Web 2.0 Support

Superior enhanced User Experience

• Improved response times AJAX, REST, clientside 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.

20. Remember me Customer identification with your website can increase loyalty The site recognizes me without login requires user authentication Access to sensitive service or operation,... before access is provided. 21. 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

22. IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory Speeds SOA Value and Deployment of WebSphere Portal

Automationfor multi-page, complex portlets without coding speedsdevelopment/deployment

Changesimplified for evolving business requirements increasesefficiencyof IT, LOB and users

Reusefor generation of new portlets from existing portlet models on demand serve more business and user requirements for morevalue

SOAfor integration/delivery of existing applications and portlet interfaces as reusable services flexibilityfor 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 Insurance Source:Insurance & Technology , May 2005 http://www.insurancetech.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=160906146 23. Build Real-time Personalized DashboardsSales 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 24. Workplace Dashboard Frameworkis a set of reusable assets, robust administration tools, and dashboard-specific featuresthat speed the creation of custom dashboards.Repository of Reusable Design Components Record List & Detail Hierarchy Drill Down Status Indicator Status Page Summary Row Summary & Drilldown QueryFilter 25. WebSphere Portlet Catalog http://catalog.lotus.com/wps/portal/portal

Over 1,500 Pre-made portlets

270 ISVs Providing Portlets

26 ISVS have OEMd IBM Portal

1,200 Partners Trained on Portal

26. Volkswagen AG 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 productivityAchieved 100% payback within one yearSignificant 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 27. Architecture Overview WebSphere Portal V6.1 Portal Database(s) Userprofile Database LDAPDirectorie(s) Page Aggregation Themesand skins PageHandler DynamicUI Manager Rules Portlet Container and Services Portlet API Contentaccess Search Portlet Preference Collab- oration AJAX Proxy Web clipper Admin Site Admin Credential Vault Single Sign-on XML Access Portal Script REST / APP J2EE JCA Web Services EJB JMS JDBC Servlet Security Caching Enterprise Data, Applications, Internet Content ProcessServer Remote portletproducer AUTHENTICATION Desktop and mobile Browsers, Mashups andoffline Clients Remote portletconsumer Policy Portal Model Template Composition Component Handler Application Runtime AUTHORIZATION Feed Provider JSR286 WSRP 1.0 + 2.0 WSRP 1.0 + 2.0 Widgets .. 28. 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