Portals provide access to relevant information, applications, and human assets through a personalized interface. They can be used internally within a company on an intranet or externally to connect a company to partners or customers. Common portal features include page design, user roles, discussion forums, calendars, and content management. Portals can be customized for basic look and feel changes, intermediate configuration of features, or complex integration with backend systems. Xebia provides expertise in portal design, configuration, development, content management, and uses an agile approach to iteratively deliver tested features.

1. Portal 2.0
Portals for your business delivered faster with our Agile Approach
using
Liferay, JBoss Portal and Websphere Portal

2. What is a portal?
Gartner defines a portal as a quot;Web software infrastructure that provides
access to, and interaction with, relevant information assets (for example,
information/content, applications and business processes), knowledge
assets and human assets by select targeted audiences, delivered in a
highly personalized manner.quot;

3. How to use a Portal?
Intranet Extranet
Company to Employee, Employee to Company to Partners, Company to field
Employee staff, Partners to Partners
Portal
Collaborative Websites Content Management
and Publishing
Knowledge sharing, research, team
building, Networking, Document creation, review, publishing and
archiving

4. Benefits
• Create rich websites with minimum effort and
costs
• Build an active collaborative community
within your company
• Build customer/employee self service
interfaces integrated with backend systems
• Publish and share the latest information using
CMS

5. Common Portal Features
• Page Design and Layout
• Users, Roles and Face book
• Discussion Forum, Tagging, Blogs
• Shared calendars
• Chats and Messaging
• Content Management and Publishing
• Portlets for Maps, Weather, Dictionary

6. Levels of Customization
Integration with Complex
backend systems
using Portlets,
Custom Mash-ups
Configuration of out
of the box features
like
wiki, workflow, RSS
readers
Basic Look & Feel,
Page Layout
Simple

7. Advantages of JEE Based Portals
• Development according to standards (JSR-168, JSR-286)
– Interportlet communication, Portable
• Use proven open source frameworks, like spring,
hibernate and wicket (“keep your prior investments”,
for maintainability)
• Integrate easily with your existing database and
security systems
• Use cutting edge, highly productive technology like
Grails where applicable/needed
• Backend integration through standards, like WS, EJB,
ESB or customized protocol, e.g. REST.
• Support for FLEX and AJAX for great user experience

8. Our Expertise
• Portal look & feel, and page flow design
• Configuration of advanced features such as
security and workflow
• Customized portlet development based upon
– Java, GWT, Google Maps
– APIs of Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, Open Social etc.
– Integration with ESB and backend systems
• Content Management and Workflow
Customization

9. Our Approach
• Start with high level requirements
• Define key integration areas
• Design user experience and page flow
• Work in small iterations of 2-3 weeks
• Deliver tested and working features after
every iteration
• Cost effective because of our Agile Offshore
Approach

10. Sample Screens
A sample of Enterprise portal implemented on Websphere Portal

11. Sample Screens
A sample of rich media based portal
implemented on Liferay

12. Portal Product Knowledge
• Liferay
– Open source, Commercial Support
– Rich collaboration features
– Named visionary by Gartner
• JBoss Portal
– Open Source, Commercial Support
– Backed by a strong organization
• Websphere Portal
– Commercial Support
– Expensive
– Plenty of References

13. For More Information and Demo
India
• Anurag Shrivastava (ashrivastava@xebia.com)
• Xebia India
• +91 9910 174582
Europe
• Edward van de Pas (evandepas@xebia.com)
• Xebia Global Services
• +31 616 962711