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Information Portals
presents a single access point to a
corporation’s information resources. IBM’s WebSphere Portal
provides services that support the publishing, organization, and
retrieval of information typically called content management.
Simply stated, content management is a way to manage documents. The
portal can present a customized set of information sorted to match a
user’s interests and usage patterns. Portals maximize the return
from a corporation’s investments in trading partners, suppliers, and
customers, because the information these people need is available
when and where they need it. It can help increase sales by
extending the time visitors spend viewing a web site.
In addition, portals improve employee productivity and increase
customer loyalty because they can quickly add and find information
on their own. Employees, customers, and partners can
collaborate securely using teams or communities, and can find
uniform answers to business questions. You will be able to react quickly to
changing market conditions and out-maneuver the competition by
rapidly making changes as your business evolves.
WebSphere Portal offers a
single point of personalized interaction with applications, content,
processes and people for a unified user experience. WebSphere Portal
brings together the best-of-breed technologies and the depth of
resources that IBM has to offer. It provides a flexible, open, and
extensible framework to build successful business-to-employee (B2E),
business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) portals.
WebSphere Portal was
designed to meet the needs of all enterprises from small and medium
businesses to the largest enterprises that demand the most scalable,
secure, and robust infrastructure.
Benefits
Customers choosing WebSphere Portal can realize substantial
improvement in speed and flexibility in the marketplace from the
following benefits:
- Better service to customers and partners
- Acceleration of time to value realization
- Reduction of business cycle time
- Improved business adaptability and resiliency
WebSphere Portal benefits include:
- Rapid response to changes in the marketplace using a
wide range of integrated modular capabilities
- Higher user satisfaction with personalized, dynamic,
and reliable portal access
- Enhanced revenue by providing the human interface for
collaborative e-business on demand
- Accelerated time to value by providing timely
responses to customers', business partners', and employees' need
for information and access to business processes
- Reduced business costs by improving employee
productivity and reusing existing assets
- Fast return on investment with out-of-the-box
utilization
Create Content
Geared Toward Your Visitors
Now you can build a Web site that allows users to select which
applications they view and how they want to view them. Your site
becomes easier to use. Irrelevant content is filtered out and
pertinent content can be quickly located.
The content publishing feature in WebSphere Portal gives business
users the tools to manage content for WebSphere Portal and other Web
sites. This simple Web content management technology helps to
increase business user productivity and site appeal by taking some
of the burden off of the IT staff and empowering non-technical users
to quickly create Web specific content. Combined with
personalization rules, content on the site can be timely and more
relevant.
The WebSphere Portal Document Manager provides a way for portal
users to share, organize, and edit files of all types ranging from
documents to spreadsheets within the Portal community. This
communication enhancer offers category subscription services, simple
approval processes for file contribution, automatic dialog boxes for
contributing Portal search, and versioning so that users can track
the evolution of a piece of content and access control for managing
viewing privileges of different content items.
Improve
The Productivity Of Users Executing
Business Processes
Text editing and spreadsheet functions are critical to many business
processes, however, these functions are not integrated with other
systems and expensive to maintain with existing solutions.
Provided with WebSphere Portal, WebSphere Portal Productivity
Components allow users to view, create, convert and edit basic
documents, spreadsheets and presentation files from the same portal
interface used to interact with information, applications and people
across their business. The Productivity Components are integrated
with the content publishing feature so files can be indexed,
categorized and searched by other portal users.
Reduce Integration
Cost
IT cost reduction can be achieved with easy to use cooperative
portlets, based on click-to-action technology. Click-to-action
allows the user to perform portlet or application integration on the
screen by clicking on information in one portlet and automatically
transferring the information to another portlet for processing.
Another cost savings can be realized with the Portal Application
Integrator which allows business users to define the interaction a
portlet will have with the objects from Enterprise Information
Systems, relational databases and Domino databases.
Enterprise Information Systems:
Relational databases:
Extend Portal
Features Available
- Parallel, distributed, and heterogeneous searching
capability
- Individual and shared team workspaces with built-in
collaborative capabilities
- Collaborative functional services for other portlets
- Web site analytics
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Portal metrics
Increase
Productivity Through Robust
Collaboration Capability
A Lotus(R) Collaboration Center eliminates the barriers
between applications as well as the barriers to productivity. The
Lotus Collaboration Center allows the organization to build and
deploy collaborative intranet and employee portals. Communication
and collaboration tools help give all members of the organization
instant access to the people and information they need.
Preconfigured portlets integrated with the employee portal can help:
- Find people easily and connect with them instantly using an
employee directory that includes reports-to chain information.
- Set up and administer Web conferences, group calendars, and
assigned tasks.
- Create and manage customizable online workplaces for
individuals, teams, or communities within a personalized portal.
- Send and receive instant messages from colleagues, and track
their online availability.
- Discuss and collaborate about documents stored in document
libraries.
- Share information between packaged portlets.
With award-winning collaboration technology, WebSphere Portal
Extend helps portal users work together and act on information as
they view it. The benefit to your company can be fewer barriers and
greater productivity.
Save Time With
Extended Search Functionality
WebSphere Portal Extend provides extended search capabilities that
allow you to search across an expanded variety of data stores:
- DB2(R) Universal DatabaseTM
- Oracle
- Lotus Notes(R) and Lotus DominoTM
databases
- Popular Web search engines
- Text or HTML documents
Optimize
Portal Effectiveness
Portal Extend includes robust Web analysis technology to help you
obtain and leverage critical knowledge to optimize your portal. This
offering enables you to:
- Make informed decisions about Web initiatives.
- Maximize B2E, B2C and B2B Web site effectiveness for IT,
marketing and sales executives.
- Capture, store, measure, report and chart Web site visitor
trends and preferences.
Portals
are now moving from just displaying information to processing data
and presenting information in the form and format that makes sense
to you and your customers. These new capabilities mean that
the Portal Offering delivers more collaboration capability and
increases the value of portals in business process management.
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