IBM WebSphere
Portal Extend for Multi-Platforms
WebSphere Portal Extend for Multiplatforms, Version 5.1 includes all the robust features of WebSphere Portal Enable and introduces advanced collaboration capabilities, enterprise search functions and portal usage analysis. These functions help improve employee productivity and strengthen relationships with customers and trading partners.
WebSphere Portal Extend features the Collaboration Center - a set of ready-to-use collaborative portlets that can be used right out of the box providing instant value for portal users. The Collaboration Center integrates portlets for finding, connecting, and working with people inside and outside the organisation.
The Collaboration Center is fully integrated in WebSphere Portal and includes a range of new collaboration portlets:
- People Finder portlet. An on-line company directory and organisational navigator. People Finder lets users find any employee by name and see the employee's contact information, background, areas of expertise, and context within the company's organizational chart (manager and peers)
- My Lotus Team Workspaces (QuickPlace) portlet lists workplaces, which are provided by Lotus QuickPlace right on the portal page. Users can search across all of the team workspaces they belong to, or can quickly see what's new in a workplace, join a workplace, or create a new workplace
- Web Conferencing portlet provides integrated tools for managing on-line meetings. From within the portlet, people can join existing on-line conferences, see active meetings they need to join, or schedule new meetings. Licenses for Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing are required to use this portlet
All of these portlets are integrated and enabled with presence awareness, which indicates if a portal user is available for an instant messaging session. This allows users to start a chat session with someone they have found through the people finder and then turn it into a web conference, without switching between applications.
WebSphere Portal Extend also provides functions that improve the ROI of an organisations portal deployment:
- Robust Web analysis technology provides vital business intelligence about customers using the portal
- WebSphere Portal Extend delivers extended search capabilities across relational databases such as DB2 Universal DataBase and Oracle, Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino databases, Web search engines, and text or HTML documents