IBM WebSphere
Portal
IBM WebSphere Portal provides a single source for collaboration and access to improve communication among employees, customers, partners, and suppliers.
Through WebSphere Portal, organisations can generate a portal specific to the needs of the user across multiple devices to provide business applications, content, workflow, and people awareness to customers, employees, business partners, trading partners, and suppliers.
At a glance, IBM WebSphere Portal:
- Helps build scalable and reliable portals that improve employee productivity and increase customer loyalty:
- Delivers a single, point of personalised interaction with applications, content, processes and people
- Integrates business processes and portal users via orchestrated workflow
- Features IBM Workplace Web Content Management for maintaining, updating and controlling the portal
- Provides powerful collaboration capabilities such as instant messaging, team workplaces, people finder and e-meetings
- Enables quick portal integration with backend systems via portlet builders and open standards
WebSphere Portal provides a framework for dynamic access to information and applications, that organisations can use to coordinate, channel and exchange information through a single point; allowing business to respond in real time to current conditions and information.:
Through WebSphere portal, applications and content can be combined into a unified presentation, accessible from a wide variety of devices.The information on the portal can be customised based on the user or job roles, security needs, device settings, personal preferences, and administrative settings.:
It is also possible to define a workflow to support business processes:
While WebSphere Portal binds the work environment into a cohesive interface, it also provides services to enhance operations, making the unified interface much richer than if the individual components were used separately. Features such as cooperative portlets enable swifter business process by allowing applications within the portal to exchange information either autonomically, or under the control of the user.:
WebSphere Portal is a core part of IBM Workplace. Other related products, such as WebSphere Voice and the WebSphere Everyplace products, work with WebSphere Portal to enable users to access applications running on virtually any operating system. Users can access the portal from all types of devices, such as Web browsers, rich clients, mobile phones, and PDAs.
WebSphere Portal for Multiplatforms is available in two offerings:
WebSphere Portal Enable
Portal Enable is the base offering and provides:
- Common portal services including back-end integration, portlets, administration, access control, and presentation that are required across portal environments
- Portal-based content management and personalisation so portal users get an unique experience with the latest information
- Document management to improve the currency of portal content and the value of files shared by portal users
- Productivity components to view, create, convert and edit basic documents, spreadsheets and presentation files from with in portal interface
- Scalability and reliability of WebSphere Application Server to provide mission-critical portal services
WebSphere Portal Extend
WebSphere Portal Extend adds to the Portal Enable offering by delivering:
- Powerful collaborative services including instant messaging, team workplaces, and people finder that allow users to quickly make business decisions with other employees, customers and trading partners
- Extended search capabilities to improve the productivity of your employees
- Web analysis features to help measure, report and improve effectiveness and quality of your portal deployment
Business Benefit:
- Reduced business costs by improving employee productivity and simplifying application deployment
- Extended business connectivity and communications
- Faster and better decisions by integrating business processes and portal users via orchestrated workflow
- Higher customer and trading partner satisfaction with a personalized, dynamic, and reliable portal experience
- Increased revenue enhancement through effective cross-selling and improved customer service