IBM Ships the Latest Version of its Mobile Portal Accelerator

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Hot on the heels of their latest portal release is the latest update to the mobile portal that runs on top of WebSphere Portal.  Here’s the press release.

IBM® Mobile Portal Accelerator 7.0 software (formerly IBM WebSphere® Everyplace® Mobile Portal Enable software) is an integrated, server-side infrastructure offering that enables the design and deployment of mobile web solutions, including the enablement of mobile web technologies for:

* Multichannel access of web portal content
* Write once, render on multiple devices

New features:

* Support for WebSphere Portal 7.0 platform
* Support for rendering of Lotus® Web Content Management (WCM) Version 7.0 content to mobile devices
* Updated Multi-Channel Server Version 5.3
* Updated Media Access Proxy
* New mobile out-of-the-box solutions and examples
o Deployment best practices, cluster installation, using virtual Portals, updated troubleshooting guide
o How-to documents: Create a mobile theme layout, “XDIME” enable an existing portlet
o How-to documents: Integrate web services, Javascript features, and Stream video content

* Updated Mobile Portal Toolkit support for Rational® Application Developer and Rational Solutions Architect V8.0 mobile devices

* Updated runtime and development code

IBM Mobile Portal Accelerator Device Update V7.0 provides device attribute information used by the multi-channel server to effectively interact with mobile devices. There are currently over 7000 devices defined and updated in the subscription database – with the latest devices and updates added as they reach the market.