Enterprise portal solutions allow businesses to increase employee productivity by allowing users access to key applications and content from one location. Many companies are turning to portal solutions to serve as a front end to backend processing systems and presenting one standard face to its employees and customers. Portal solutions continue to evolve to fit the needs of customers, partners, and employees. Organizations need to integrate applications, content, and social collaboration while making it available to multiple channels.
IBM WebSphere Portal is an industry standard solution used for delivering engaging web content and applications in an integrated and personalized web experience. WebSphere Portal V8.0 supports workflows, content management, social, mobile web delivery, simplified usability and administration, open standards, security and scalability. Its new powerful Intelligent Pages bring together essential web experience capabilities that can help you. These capabilities provide an exceptional and unique web experience:
- Deliver exceptional web experiences: If you are working with customers, business partners or employees, WebSphere Portal brings together unique capabilities.
- Improved Reach: Bring solutions to your employees and customers with multichannel web experiences. Either using PC, laptops, smart phones or tablets.
- Building social communication: Infuse social communication within context of personalized content and applications; providing social that can influence communication and productivity.
- Grow Business assets: Create and deploy custom-branded, market-driven solutions comprised of existing and net-new business assets.
- Run your business efficiently: Built on WebSphere software so that enterprise-class applications, processes, and transactions reside on a proven, reliable, scalable, and high-performance foundation.
- Company Growth: Use business-specific capabilities speed time to value and allow you to pursue new market opportunities while reducing the cost of deploying portals.
Quickly create and manage powerful, integrated, and content-driven web experiences
- Managed Pages simplify the creation and management of portal pages and web content using a new integrated toolbar.
- New page draft and approval process lets you preview and approve changes to pages before publishing.
- Create Web Content Manager pages & content with point-and-click simplicity with the new Content Templating user interface.
- Web Experience Factory builders for development of solutions including new Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) Builder to easily access CMIS standard data stores like Filenet and Microsoft SharePoint.
- New easy to use Configuration Wizard for Administrators provides faster time to value for your organization.
- IBM Installation Manager provides a faster, streamlined install, uninstall, modify and update process for administrators. It determines available packages including products, prerequisites, fix packs, interim fixes, and other updates.
Go where your employees and customers are with multichannel experiences
- WebSphere Portal Mobile Experience is a new theme that helps you control the look and feel, page & content navigation on leading smart phones. It includes mobile web interaction patterns such as swipe and swap.
- Web Experience Factory V8.0 provides new user experience with Dojo Mobile tooling for building engaging mobile experiences.
- Web Experience Factory V8.0 provides new Client Side Architecture reducing reliance on bandwidth and improving responsiveness of mobile applications.
Enable social communication where and when it can most influence communication & productivity. Quickly gather real time information and make insightful business decisions
- New Community Page support lets you more readily scope and place IBM Connections portlets in the right Portal and Web Content Manager context.
- OpenID Authentication enables portal users to authenticate with public social network credentials, such as a Facebook ID.
- Web Analytics Page Overlays deliver in-place, real-time web page and channel delivery analyses.
- Flexible options to tag pages, portlets, or web content and measure their usefulness through Campaign and Custom tags.
Easily gather critical business data from anywhere to create powerful, integrated web experiences and help your customers and employees quickly find the right information
- Integrate with enterprise content mgmt. and other systems through Web Content Manager support for the CMIS standard.
- Integrate SAP NetWeaver Portal navigation seamlessly with new WebSphere Portal Integrator for SAP.
- New Web Experience Factory builders for development of solutions allows easy access to standard data stores like FileNet and Microsoft SharePoint.
- Search Enhancements provide more granular search index algorithms that optimize WebSphere Portal and Web Content Manager search results allowing people to find the information they are looking for with greater speed and ease.
There are many portal solutions in the industry that serve various purposes. Each organization show perform an internal assessment to better understand the needs of their employees and their customers. Establishing a portal solution requires the involvement of both the business and technology community as well as support from executive management. IBM WebSphere Portal and its complimenting components can be found as a foundational portal platform in most companies. As with any tool, it is important for companies to embrace that tool, communicate its benefits to its employees and encourage the proper use of the tool.
