Portals Enabling Composite Applications Mike LaFleur Senior Sales Consultant

Agenda What is a portal? What is a composite application? What does a composite application look like? Questions?

What is a portal?

What is a composite application?

What does a composite application look like?

Questions?

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Introduction to Enterprise Portals Consumer Portals Search Internet Browse Web directory Personalize page of Internet services Unite groups and communities Integrate Internet services Internet applications platform (finance.yahoo.com, weather.yahoo.com) Corporate Portals Search corporate repositories Browse document/knowledge directory Personalize page of Corporate services Unite groups and communities Integrate application services Enterprise applications platform (HR portal, Sales Productivity Application)

Search Internet

Browse Web directory

Personalize page of Internet services

Unite groups and communities

Integrate Internet services

Internet applications platform (finance.yahoo.com, weather.yahoo.com)

Search corporate repositories

Browse document/knowledge directory

Personalize page of Corporate services

Unite groups and communities

Integrate application services

Enterprise applications platform (HR portal, Sales Productivity Application)

The Portal as User Interface Paradigm

Portal Primer Serve audience in a contextually relevant way Adapt incrementally to business changes Portlets offer componentized and reusable building blocks; standards future-proof investment Portal services unify authentication, availability of resources, profiling, navigation for every incremental application

Serve audience in a contextually relevant way

Adapt incrementally to business changes

Portlets offer componentized and reusable building blocks; standards future-proof investment

Portal services unify authentication, availability of resources, profiling, navigation for every incremental application

Enterprise Portal Use Cases - Gartner B2E/G2E Still the most popular type of enterprise portal Knowledge portals Dashboards Next-generation intranets Primary gateway to employee resources Access to LOB processes Self-service B2C/G2C E-business portals Constituent portals Home page upgrades and e-business site replacements Self-service Desktop portals B2B/G2B Supplier portals Distributor portals Design partner portals B2B transactions for SMBs

Still the most popular type of enterprise portal

Knowledge portals

Dashboards

Next-generation intranets

Primary gateway to employee resources

Access to LOB processes

Self-service

E-business portals

Constituent portals

Home page upgrades and e-business site replacements

Self-service

Desktop portals

Supplier portals

Distributor portals

Design partner portals

B2B transactions for SMBs

What Makes Portal a Portal? User Experience Services Personalization and contextualization: Delivering individual and relevant experiences to users saves time and boosts productivity Communities: Packaging content and services for users with common interests and needs creates business unit resource centers and natural application deployment platform Multiple User Experiences: Turns the portal from a single application into a multi-application framework

Personalization and contextualization:

Delivering individual and relevant experiences to users saves time and boosts productivity

Communities:

Packaging content and services for users with common interests and needs creates business unit resource centers and natural application deployment platform

Multiple User Experiences:

Turns the portal from a single application into a multi-application framework

What Makes Portal a Portal? Content Services Content Publishing: Democratize the tools for contributing to the portal and applications Content Management: Gather content from, and store content to, multiple repositories Search: Everything indexed, categorized, organized and findable

Content Publishing:

Democratize the tools for contributing to the portal and applications

Content Management:

Gather content from, and store content to, multiple repositories

Search:

Everything indexed, categorized, organized and findable

What Makes Portal a Portal? Integration Services Portlets: Standardize on reusable building block fro user experiences and applications Composite Applications: Capture collaborative business processes that involve legacy systems Development and Business User Tools: Provide tools for every level of participant, from hard-core developer to business user

Portlets:

Standardize on reusable building block fro user experiences and applications

Composite Applications:

Capture collaborative business processes that involve legacy systems

Development and Business User Tools:

Provide tools for every level of participant, from hard-core developer to business user

Why Portals Matter to Users Application personalized to user’s role and business responsibilities Single point of access to all information, people and applications Single password Available from anywhere Consistent look-n-feel and navigation across all applications and resources, easier to learn and use Ability to work across systems without changing application interface Integrated search and directory for quick access to information Integrated role and task-oriented interface, with everything you need to work productively

Application personalized to user’s role and business responsibilities

Single point of access to all information, people and applications

Single password

Available from anywhere

Consistent look-n-feel and navigation across all applications and resources, easier to learn and use

Ability to work across systems without changing application interface

Integrated search and directory for quick access to information

Integrated role and task-oriented interface, with everything you need to work productively

Why Portals Matter to IT Unified Infrastructure: Security, Profiling, Management and Governance, Analytic Integrated architecture: Identity, Content, Data Reusability of application assets Out-of-the-box UI: on-the-glass composite Economies of scale Each new app inherits underlying benefits Development costs decrease for each additional app

Unified Infrastructure:

Security, Profiling, Management and Governance, Analytic

Integrated architecture:

Identity, Content, Data

Reusability of application assets

Out-of-the-box UI:

on-the-glass composite

Economies of scale

Each new app inherits underlying benefits

Development costs decrease for each additional app

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Portals Evolve Business Process IT Portal: Presentation IT Resources Corporate Communications Plumtree Collaboration Business Portal: Participation Content Submission Portlet Development Collaboration Collaboration Documents

Portal: New Home for Web 2.0 “Mash-Up’s” in the Enterprise - Gartner Web 2.0 Next evolution of the Web Greater user participation Openness Lightweight technology Decentralized, distributed process Mash-up Essentially, a composite application Will move from consumer to enterprise Led by vendors like Google Intermingling of the consumer world with the enterprise world?

Web 2.0

Next evolution of the Web

Greater user participation

Openness

Lightweight technology

Decentralized, distributed process

Mash-up

Essentially, a composite application

Will move from consumer to enterprise

Led by vendors like Google

Intermingling of the consumer world with the enterprise world?

Portal Technology Drives Multiple Solutions Functional Portal Applications Audience Focused Community Applications Project Teams, User Groups Composite Applications Integrated Enterprise, Extended Enterprise

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