WebSphere Portal Business Overview

IBM Software Group

IBM WebSphere Portal

Joel Demay

IBM Software Group

[email protected]

© 2008 IBM Corporation 2

Agenda

● What is a Portal? Why Portals?

● WebSphere Portal Overview, Features and Components

● WebSphere Portal Architecture

● Packaging


Today: disparate user experiences


Portal Definition

A well-known point of access to many different resources, presented in a consistent, integrated and personalized manner.

WebSphere Portal


Key Benefits and Capabilities of Enterprise Portals

User Perspective

Dynamic experience

Collaboration

Customization

Personalization

Engaging UI

Single Sign-on

People Awareness

Integration “at the glass”

Secure Access, SSO

Role-based Deployment

Scalability & Reliability

Administration

Navigation

Application interfaces

Aggregation IT Perspective

Other web content

CRM Application

Databases

Content Management

eHR

Web Services

Syndicated Content

Collaboration


Agenda

● What is a Portal? Why Portals?

● WebSphere Portal Overview, Features and Components

● WebSphere Portal Architecture

● Packaging


Best Java Enterprise Portal Technology

Readers choice Award INFORMATION INTEGRATION PLATFORMS & PORTALS

Performance Management

Portals and Knowledge Management

Dashboard Framework

2006 CRN Channel Champion Best Development tool

IBM WebSphere Portal

Best Enterprise Portal Platform - WebSphere Portal

WebSphere Portal – market leading Enterprise Portal

Market Leadership ● #1 in Enterprise Portal Software market*● Over 5000 customer Portal installations● Double digit market growth**● Large leads in Customer Self-Service, Partner Self-Service,

Employee Self-Service, and Dashboards *● >2000 SMB customers

Partner Leadership ● Over 1,463 IBM Business Partner solutions in the IBM

WebSphere Portal Business Solutions Catalog ● 30 ISVs have OEM’d WebSphere Portal

Technical leadership ● Largest portals in the world (20 million -1 billion)● Smallest full-feature portals in the world, 20-user

pack● Provides the front-end, or user interface, for IBM’s innovative

SOA strategy● Drives portal standards- Leads JSR-286, Chairs WSRP 2.0.,

Co-Chaired JSR-168, Chaired WSRP 1.0.

*Reports, DataQuest, AMR, IDC** IDC, Worldwide Enterprise Portal Software 2006-2010 Forecast Update and 2005 Vendor Shares: When

Less is More. #202688, Kathleen Quirk, July 2006.


Market Leadership – Gartner’s View

WebSphere Portal now ranked as Market Leader in Gartner's 2008 MQ for Enterprise Portals.

Leadership position held for 6 consecutive years.


A Few of the 6,000+ WebSphere Portal Customers


WebSphere Portal – Functional Architecture


Building a Portal Page

PersonalisedPortlets

Navigation

Theme

Security

Customisation


Portlet PrincipleEach portlet is a separate Web application

● Developed independently

● Can be placed anywhere on the page

● Dynamic deployment; dynamic configuration

Portlets support multiple markups

● Phones, Organizers, Voice

● Unique views for each device

● Business logic can be shared

Web 2.0

● Portlets support Client Side Aggregation to retrieve and share information without server round-trips

● Portlets can refresh individually

● Support for AJAX and DoJo


Web Content Management

● Inline Editing for infrequent users

● User-friendly, simple templates for entering content

● Full text, attribute and taxonomy search

● Simplified process for including personalization rules in content and layout

● Views allow users to find their content easily

● User interface can be customized easily to provide tailored experience

● Link Management and RSS Integration


Portal Document Management

● Provided by IBM Lotus Quickr

● User can navigate through a hierarchy of user-defined folders and documents.

● Add, delete or modify folders

● Easily add documents of any format from local file system

● Share documents with teams

● Collaborate on documents and team places


Theme Customizer

Change the banner: logo, color, typography, border, background

Change the typography: default size, color and style, headline size, color, etc.

Change the navigation: orientation, tab colors, tab text

Change the colors: page color or background, highlight color

Change the buttons: text, color, selected and unselected states

Show and hide footers, gutters, links, breadcrumbs, etc.

Theme Customizer - Easily change the look of a portal page - no HTML, JavaScript or XML coding required!


Portal Search helps raise productivity● Usability

Site map provides Secure “outline” of Portal hierarchy

Search API (SIAPI) published externally for applications

Relevance ranking

● Integrate External Search Engines

● External Search of Portal Content Better search results from

Google and other search engines

Photos from Flickr

Web Search Results

Search Results

from PortalSuggested

Links


WebAppIntegrator

• User clicked on “Doorway on Jester” tab and was sent to Doorway web app on server Jester.

• the HTML <script> tag executed and “injected” markup for Portal navigation, Launch menu, and page breadcrumbs into Doorway web app.

• Note that the page tab labeled “Doorway on Jester” is correctly selected as the current page.

• Clicking on any Portal specific navigation tab will take you back into Portal. Clicking on any Portal URL page tab will hit the underlying URL.

Solution for integration of external web applications with Portal Server

Allows external web applications to display and make use of Portal navigation artifacts


Create new Portal Sites with New Site Wizard

The New Site Wizard combines several administrative actions into a single portlet:• User enrollment• Virtual Portal creation• Portal content import

Quickly create new Virtual Portals with Portal Sites and customize to suite your needs


Web 2.0 Support

Superior enhanced User Experience

– Improved response times – AJAX, REST, client–side aggregation, C2A

– Enhanced flexibility – easy end user customization through drag & drop, Google gadgets, etc.

– Smart markup and dynamic menus through semantic tags

Drive Innovation and Productivity through Social Software

– Lotus Connections portlets

– Quickr blogs, wikis, and forums

Improve time to value, time to market

– Business user situational application development through the Portlet Pallette, drag & drop page composition, and composite application templates

– Business user contribution of WCM content

– More assets (REST, ATOM, gadgets) available to choose from.


Customer identification with your website can

increase loyalty

Customer identification with your website can

increase loyalty

Remember meThe site recognizes me without login…The site recognizes me without login…

…requires user authentication…

Access to sensitive service or operation,...

… before access is provided.


Tooling for Portal Development

● Rational Application Developer● An open, comprehensive development environment for building

e-business applications● Portal Tools are fully integrated to support portal and portlet

development● Provides Portal Test Environment


IBM WebSphere Portlet FactorySpeeds SOA Value and Deployment of WebSphere Portal

● Automation for multi-page, complex portlets without coding – speeds development/deployment

● Change simplified for evolving business requirements – increases efficiency of IT, LOB and users

● Reuse for generation of new portlets from existing portlet models on demand – serve more business and user requirements for more value

● SOA for integration/delivery of existing applications and portlet interfaces as reusable services – flexibility for increased ROI

Using the tool [Portlet Factory] also saved Allmerica $1 million in development costs, Clifton adds. The technology enabled Allmerica to build the portal in four months, whereas using API technology would have taken about 16 months, he estimates.

Mike Clifton, Vice President of IT, Allmerica InsuranceSource: Insurance & Technology, May 2005http://www.insurancetech.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=160906146

Using the tool [Portlet Factory] also saved Allmerica $1 million in development costs, Clifton adds. The technology enabled Allmerica to build the portal in four months, whereas using API technology would have taken about 16 months, he estimates.

Mike Clifton, Vice President of IT, Allmerica InsuranceSource: Insurance & Technology, May 2005http://www.insurancetech.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=160906146


Build Real-time Personalized Dashboards

Sales Vice President

Regional Mgr

Local Sales Mgr

Alerts personalized

Scorecard shows regional info only

Data filter adapts

Graph displays revenue for

selected office

Scorecard shows office info only


Workplace Dashboard Framework is a set of reusable assets, robust administration tools, and dashboard-specific features that speed the creation of custom dashboards.

Record List & Detail

Hierarchy Drill Down

Status Indicator

Status Page

Summary Row

Summary & Drilldown

Query Filter

Repository of Reusable Design Components


WebSphere Portlet Catalog

http://catalog.lotus.com/wps/portal/portal

● Over 1,500 Pre-made portlets

● 270 ISV’s Providing Portlets

● 26 ISVS have OEM’d IBM Portal

● 1,200 Partners Trained on Portal


Faced with rising complexity within its supplier-facing processes, Volkswagen needed to make its procurement employees more productive to stay ahead of the competition

Challenge

“We need knowledgeable workers who can focus their energies on high-value activities and driving new efficiencies, spending as little time as possible seeking and wading through information.”- Dr. Martin Hoffman, Group Executive Director for Purchasing Process and Information Management,

Volkswagen AG

Customer Quote

20 percent increase in procurement staff productivity Achieved 100% payback within one year Significant decreases in materials purchasing and inventory costs

Value

An On Demand Workplace that includes an enterprise wide portal for employees and suppliers whose sensing, analytic and workflow capabilities have radically streamlined the way employees access and act on information

Solution

Volkswagen AG


Architecture Overview WebSphere Portal V6.1

PortalDatabase(s)

User profile

DatabaseLDAP Directorie(s)

Page Aggregation

Themes and skins

Page Handler

Dynamic UI Manager

Rules

Portlet Container and Services

Portlet API

Content access

Search

PortletPreference

Collab-oration

AJAXProxy

Webclipper

Admin

SiteAdmin

CredentialVault

SingleSign-on

XML AccessPortal ScriptREST / APP

J2EE

JCA

WebServices

EJB

JMS

JDBC

Servlet

Security Caching

EnterpriseData, Applications,Internet Content

Process Server

Remoteportlet producer

AU

TH

EN

TIC

AT

ION

Desktopand mobileBrowsers,

Mashups and offline Clients

Remoteportlet

consumer

.

.

PolicyPortalModel

TemplateComposition

ComponentHandler

ApplicationRuntimeAUTHORIZATION

Feed Provider

JSR286

WSRP 1.0

+ 2.0WSRP 1.0

+ 2.0

Widgets


Product support pages

WebSphere Portal:

http://www.ibm.com/software/genservers/portal/support/

WebSphere Portal Zone on developerWorks:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/zones/portal/

*New!* WebSphere Portal Support Wiki (goes live at eGA):

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/portalwiki.nsf

Web Content Management:

http://www.ibm.com/software/lotus/support/workplace-webcontent-mgmt/support.html

Web Content Management Best Practices Wiki:

https://info2.lotus.com/lotus/quickr

Product Documentation:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/zones/portal/proddoc.html