A portal server solution has been found to be better in terms out of box features, need of modern enterprise-especially considering near future competitors offerings, faster development, ease of use, security, scalability, branding, usability... and lot more..

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Parvin Baishkiyar
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Presenting
Why Portal?
Assessment of Portal Server over Websphere
Why Portal solution is preferred
for Modern and Agile Enterprise

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A portal server solution has been found to be
better in terms out of box features, need of
modern enterprise-especially considering
near future competitors offerings, faster
development, ease of use, security,
scalability, branding, usability... and lot more..
Agenda

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● Vehicle that provides latest technology for
exceptional user experiences User Power Center
Semantic Web
● Longevity Mashups
Social networking
● Business Impact Web 2.0
SOA
Process Integration
Collaboration
Personalization
Content management
Application Composites
Single point interaction
Web masters
Consolidation point
Portals, arguably the most unique
SW in the market

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● A highly flexible theme and skin framework
● Sites and page creation facility
● Role based security for pages, portlet ..
● Tight security and yet flexible to allow extension
● Ease of deployment, migration, reuse of pages
& places
● Supports everything which a typical application
server does
● 100's other desirable features - Out of Box
Almost all needed features are
present

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Collaboration
Content
Industry
Self-Service Dashboard
Process Learning
Enterprise Suite
Portal - High Level Features

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“I need my teams to work together “I need to increase the
“I need to deliver low touch value of my website by de-
more effectively and efficiently, while
or no touch processing of
easily accessing relevant corporate livering real-time, person-
transactions – to custom-
ers, partners, or employ- applications” alized data based on user
ees.” attributes”
Placeholdr for the
Future set of
offerings
“I need to track my organ-
ization's goals and per-
“I need to expose business formance against them to
processes in context of the more effectively drive res-
information, applications, ults”
and data that line of busi-
ness needs to make de-
cisions.”
“I need a cost effective
way to deliver personal-
“I need a flexible IT platform where I ized, online training “just
can pick and choose those key acceler- in time” within the context
of my employees’ ongoing
ators needed for delivering my portal in-
activities.”
tranet, extranet, or internet site.”
Key Value Propositions

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Clients
Produce and Consume Services
Web Portlets
Mobile Devices composite applications Web Content Mgmt
Expeditor Web Services
role-based
REST REST Services
process-
driven Gadgets and Widgets
Feeds
in context
Remote Portlets
IBM WebSphere HTML/PHP
Portal
Critical enabler: Connections
Openness Documents
Standards based access to
integration and innovation

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● IBM Portal offerings are flexible and open;
designed so organizations can deploy a sus-
tainable web experience platform, then add
new capabilities when they need them.
● Eliminates the need to wait for the next major
web experience release(s) to get new fea-
tures
● May be added to most existing deployments
without requiring a migration/upgrade
● Speeds availability of the latest Social, Mo-
bile, Analytic, Content, Integration & more
Ease of upgrade and adding new
features

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● True RAD development – using JSF Portlets or
WPF one can delivery complex functionalities
very quickly
● Easier to deliver incrementally
● 100's of OOB portlets available
● Can easily use 3rd party portlets, widgets – a
whole marketplace of possibilities
● Re-use common functionalities from multiple
places, like payment, credit check..etc
Development

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● For same functionality, the development time
required is much lesser
● There is less security that application code
needs to worry
● The applications dont have to worry about page
navigation, authorization, authentications
● If one uses WPF/JSF, development effort
reduces drastically.
● UI can follow OO design principles, make it
easier to design and aggregate
Development is much faster

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● Also portal have many framework, security,
users, portal services, which can be reused at
multiple places and also reduce coding
requirement.
● Using the OOB themes & skins, style classes,
we can easily customize the look & feel
requirement compared to webserver
● Simplied deployment helps testing during
development phase.
● Helps in parallel development due to standard
interface between portlets
Development is faster continued..

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● Exceptional Web Experience with latest Web
2.0 features for a richer, more responsive user
interaction
● Respond quickly to new business opportunities
with faster, easier (wizards) and more flexible
reuse of Web-based assets and existing IT
investments
● Reduce deployment costs, and maintenance
with advanced site and performance
management capability
● Reuse web pages with Static Page Integration
Exceptional Web Experience

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Portal Server provide a
framework for:
● delivering role based, composite applications
contextual process
driven, composite role-based
process-
applications driven
● …that make more in context
people, more IBM Portal
productive, in the
context of what they do
everyday.
Role Based, Contextual,
Composite

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● Easy integrate with almost anything.
● 100's of integration solutions
● SAP, Process Server, People
● Seamless coordination between automated and
people/information driven business processes
● Easily integrate with
 Web 2.0 (Feeds, ATOM, AJAX,...)
 Plain HTML, WOA, etc.
 Gadgets and Widgets (iWidgets)
A Easy to use Integration
Platform

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● Integrated content management, make it
very easy to retrieve and display content.
● Usual advantage of content management
system
● Ability to give author visual updates of con-
tent using easy to use rendering portlet and
in-line editing features.
Integrated content management
facility

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● Interactive and scalable applications that
easily integrate data from multiple back-end
systems.
● Visual application construction and User
Interface modification capabilities enabling
fast, simple application construction.
● Transformation capabilities providing easy
integration and manipulation of data
sourced from multiple back-end systems
Portlet Factory – Rapid
Application development

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● Launch multiple brands from same platform
using virtuals portal facilities
● Deliver customized pages with unique
theme/skins
● Easily manage brand changes – single place to
update logo, color, style, images …
● Give customized solutions to your corporate
customers, with customs theme and branding
● Easily give different offering to diff customers
using personalization and credentials
Branding, Addition, customized
corporate solutions

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● Allows themes & skins to be self contained and they
can be updated dynamically, without restarting portal.
● Make pages publish-able in a consistent/predictable
fashion
 Support many daily updates, and publishing whole sites
 Version-able and Archive-able
 Workflow pluggable
 Be able to go back to previous version very quickly
 Allow test/friendly users to validate a publish occurred correctly
● Friendly/Predictable/Readable URLS
 Ability to specify a friendly name on pages
 Static HTML theme and other page types
Site management made easier

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A lightweight mashup platform, supporting line of business
assembly of simple, flexible, and dynamic web applications –
with the management, security, and governance capabilities IT
requires
●
Create new applications by reusing ex-
isting data and services
●
Unlock Enterprise, Web, Personal, and
Departmental Information
●
Develop widgets from enterprise sys-
tems
●
Discover and share mashups, widgets,
feeds, and services
●
Transform Information into new feeds
Mashup Center

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E-mail, Documents, Instant Telephony, Shared Electronic
Calendar, Presentations, Messaging, Video, VOIP Documents forms
Contacts Spreadsheets Web Conferencing
Contact Shared Communities, Activites/ Scorecards, Composite
Information, Bookmarking Discussions Project Business Intelli- Applications
Skills, Expertise Blogs/Wikis Management gence Business Mashups
Delivering Collaborative
Capabilities Via Lotus Integration

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● There are many OOB useful functionalities,
which is tested & optimize for high performance
● Developing those functionality on your own
requires lot of time, effort and still very likely to
contain issues and bugs
● Security, customization and personalization
gives robust, well tested security and access
control
● Many vulnerabilities are already taken care.
● Less Custom Development
Better Quality & Performance

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● Portal service is classical example of service oriented
architecture, which can reused by multiple portlets
● Give ability of themes, skins, places, widgets or
portlets to easily reused at multiple places.
● Also same code runtime can be easily reused at
multiple places.
● Can easily integrate with other portlet using many
mechanisms - event, url, portal services, user objects,
session etc
● Portlets can be even reused across servers
● Portlets can also be used in normal web applications
Reuse

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● Again many functionality are available OOB
which is required by most applications.
● Developing these functionalities on your own
requires lot of design, development and testing,
which costs. Faster development cycle.
● Re-use save memory, server licenses & high
performance enables it to be even reused
further
● Reliability means increase revenue as
customers are more satisfied, less bug also
means more savings
Cost Saving

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● We covered at length Why Portal solution is
preferred for Modern and Agile Enterprise
● There is nothing plus point which portal server
dont have as portal server extends websphere
● Applications server on its own cannot meet
most of needs of mordern integrated
applications needs
● Creative solutions are possible using portal.
● Agility, speed, less cost, faster rollouts......
Thank You