1. BEA Portal with
Content Management
Delivering Categorized Corporate
Information
Erwin Chiong
Nataraj Jeedigunta
Documentum
echiong@documentum.com
njeedigunta@documentum.com

2. Vision - Definition
• Create a Product Operations portal that
provides a central point of access to
information, tools, and resources in support
of Product Operations staff
• The portal will be really useful, intuitively
easy to use, rich in content, up-to-date, and
relevant

3. Benefits
Site UtilizationSite UtilizationSite UtilizationSite Utilization
Administrative Costs
Education Costs
CommunicationCommunicationCommunicationCommunication
Content Production
and Delivery Costs
ProductivityProductivity
and Satisfactionand Satisfaction
Relevant Content
Int. Support CostsInt. Support CostsInt. Support CostsInt. Support Costs
Forrester Report

4. What Users look for in a Portal?
Forrester Report

5. Schedule and Resources
September NovemberOctober December
Kick-off 1st
Prototype
2nd
Prototype
January
Launch
PO Portal
• 2 full time developers
• 2 part time infrastructure and content architects
• 0 portal administrator
• 200 users

6. Portal Demo

7. Portal Demo

8. Portal Demo

9. Portal Demo

10. Portal Demo

11. Portal Demo

12. Portal Demo

13. Portal Demo

14. The Result…
• Better
communication
• Lowered bug counts
• Increased
productivity

15. How did we do it?
• Portal
• Ease of use
• Personalization
• Taxonomy
• Collaboration
• Administration
• Content Management
• Authoring
• Versioning
• Workflow
• Lifecycle Mgmt
• Search
• Security
• Scalability

16. • Weblogic Server 6.1
• Weblogic Commerce
Server 4.0
• Portal Framework
• Personalization
• BEA Portlet Adapters 4.3
• BEA eConnectors 4.3
• WebCache 4.3
• WebPublisher 4.3
• Engagement Server 4.3
• CPS 4.3
• eContent Server 4.3
• XML framework
• Taxonomy engine
How did we do it? (cont’d)

17. Personalization Server Run-Time
Architecture

18. Portal Management (cont’d)

19. Personalization Server Run-Time
Architecture

20. Content Management
DCTM eConnector for BEA
• Manage content rules
• Access publish content
Personalization Server (WLCS)
Docbase
integration
WebCache
Integration
Documentum JDBC Driver.
DFC
DMCL
Native
RDBMS
Driver
Docbase
WebCache
Database

21. Content Management (cont’d)
DCTM BEA Portlet Adapters
• Access DCTM
Repositories
BEA Portal
DFC
Repository
eContent
Server
DQL API
Adapter
Application Server
JDBC
Services
Portlet
Dispatcher
Portlets
Web Forms Forms Class
JSP/
Java

22. XML Taxonomy Drives Content
Personalization selection &
presentation
Content Management (cont’d)
DCTM XML Engine

23. Proceed to Room 4 if you
have more questions after
the presentation

24. Contact
Information
Erwin Chiong: echiong@documentum.com
Nataraj Jeedigunta: njeedigunta@documentum.com