An enterprise portal provides single sign-on access to integrated transactional services, content, and business tools for customers, partners and employees. It serves as a central access point within a service-oriented architecture. C2B2 is a consulting firm specializing in portal design, development and support. They provide expertise in commercial and open source portal platforms throughout the project lifecycle.

1. Laying the Foundations for Enterprise
Portals
Portals
As defined by the JSR 286 portlet specification:
‘A portal is a web based application that commonly provides personalisation,
authentication, content aggregation, from different sources and hosts the presentation
layer of information systems.’
An Enterprise portal is a key component of a Service Oriented Architecture providing
integration “at the glass” of transactional services, enterprise content and business
collaboration to provide a single point of access for customers, partners and
employees to all aspects of an organisation’s systems, knowledge and services.
About Us
C2B2 is a specialist, independent,
C2B2’s Portal Expertise
middleware consultancy
C2B2 have some of the UK’s leading experts in Java portal technology and are dedicated to ensuring your
often asked to speak on portlet developments. C2B2’s Founder Steve Millidge was solution goes live: Fast, Reliable,
a member of the Java Expert Group for JSR 286 defining the next generation of the Manageable and Secure.
Java Portlet api. C2B2’s Head of Consulting Matt Brasier was a member of the Java
Expert Group for JSR 301 defining a bridge between JSF and portlets.Through their Our consultants are experts in
participation at these groups C2B2 have links with the key people developing portlet the leading commercial and open
products in both the commercial and open source world. source Java middleware platforms
from Oracle, Red Hat and VMWare/
C2B2 have worked on a number of large scale portal implementations including
SpringSource and have in-depth
portal deployments for a large telco, a major UK government department, a major
knowledge of configuring them
publisher, a major provider of library software and a major developer of social
for Scalability, Performance,
networking software.
Availability, Serviceability and
Security.
C2B2 Services
We provide a full range of services,
C2B2 provide a full range of services to support your portal platform deployment, supporting you throughout the
throughout the project lifecycle and into operation. We can also advise on licensing project life cycle. Our consultants
whether commercial or open source. concentrate on getting your
Java middleware right, freeing
up project developers to get
Design Development
the business functionality right,
Proof of Concept Coding Support
massively reducing the risks
Portal Design App Server Integration
in project implementation,
Portal Federation Portlet Development
deployment and operations.
Portlet Design SOA Integration
Environmental Design Security Integration
Web ScaleArchitecture Mentoring
Single Sign On Design Troubleshooting
Training Development Support
WSRP Design
Test Production
Environment Set Up Production Deployment
Non-functional Testing Operational Monitoring
System Tuning Operational Support
Application Tuning Capacity Planning
Failure Testing Upgrade Planning
Security Testing Troubleshooting
Cloud Testing Large scale clustering
Transition to Operation Patch Management
ITL Management
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