IBM released Beta 3 for IBM WebSphere Portal and Web Content Manager recently. Beta 3 has an interesting new feature: IBM Forms. Will forms be included in the base product or is it just part of the full Customer Experience Suite?
Here is the list of new features included in Beta 3:
IBM Forms Beta
- Provides an agile and easy to use web experience for building and managing compelling, interactive data capture/forms that fit within the overall Portal web experience.
- Offers businesses the ability to respond to changing business requirements without expensive, time-consuming development cycles.
- Empowers business users to build and manage their own applications to collect and analyze structured information from customers, partners and employees.
- Engages users with attractive, Web 2.0 interfaces that provide a guided, adaptive and personalized user experience.
Web analytics
- More flexible options to tag pages, portlets or web content and measure their usefulness through Campaign and Custom tags.
- User-friendly overlay statistics provide an in-line view to track effectiveness of a web property. New overlay report enhancements display time series with multiple metrics.
IBM Installation Manager
- Manage the software life cycle with IBM Installation Manager: Install, Update, Rollback, Modify, and Uninstall.
- Faster installation performance and better integration with other IBM products.
- New option to install with ‘Live Install Repositories’ without downloading install images.
You can find the download and documentation links in IBM’s developerWorks forum for Portal Beta.
will filenet be integrated into the Websphere Portal 8 .
when will websphere portal will released
You can already access filenet from WCM in Portal 7. I’m not sure what you mean by integrated, though. We expect Portal 8 to be released this summer, but that will be up to IBM.
what i meant filenet features integrated into WPS
That picture is muddled right now. Originally we thought IBM was going to use Quicker for document management in portal. But that has not proven successful yet. (Quickr would hook into Filenet as the backend store.)
Now it seems that IBM is moving toward using Connections for this. They recently started bundling Connections Files and Profiles into Portal. This has some features of Filenet, but not all.
I think we have to wait for the Portal 8 announcements in May to see IBM’s direction in this area.
New option to install with ‘Live Install Repositories’ without downloading install images.
this may not be true . most of the datacenters do not allow the internet connection outside the datacenter . this feature looks good on the Laptop . we faced this issue with WAS v7 installation
can you please point me “to do exercises ” for me to practice ,iam preparing for Websphere portal certification . iam person with experience on Application server . i have installed portal 6.1 , But didn’t do the everyday administration tasks on portal
ConfigEngine.bat configure-express
above command worked for you in beta ?
Mark,
how is it possible to access filenet from WCM in WP Portal 7 or 8? Would it be through CMIS?
CMIS is one option. You could also get Filenet to output RSS type feed. Or you could write custom Java code (JSP) to include in WCM.