WebSphere

WebSphere Portal Enable

As the most flexible IBM offering, WebSphere Portal Enable allows you to quickly build highly scalable portals that simplify and speed a user’s access to personalized information and applications. WebSphere Portal Enable can scale to more-advanced portal offerings as your needs dictate. It can integrate with collaboration, security and extended search systems from other vendors, while still providing a single access point for information, applications and people.

WebSphere Portal Enable document manager enables portal users to share, search, organize and edit word-processing, spreadsheet and presentation files. The files can then be indexed, categorized and searched by other portal users.

With this productivity enhancement, you can:

• Develop simple approval processes for file contribution.
• Integrate document management with instant messaging, so work associates can discuss documents with authors.
• Provide versioning so users can track the evolution of content.
• Offer access control to manage viewing and editing privileges of different content items.

WebSphere Portal Enable also includes a new business-process integration capability to deliver orchestrated workflow as part of a user’s portal experience. Business-process integration combines a robust workflow engine with a dynamic portal experience to speed up the running of business processes. Most workflow systems just tell you what task you must perform and then you have to search for the information before completing the process. WebSphere Portal can present the task and dynamically provide access to all the applications and information needed to complete the process or make the decision. Through business-process integration, WebSphere Portal now combines people and applications at a process level—further improving productivity and helping to ensure that processes run faster.

Reduce IT costs

You can help reduce your IT costs with easy-to-use cooperative portlets, based on click-to-action (C2A) technology. C2A features in WebSphere Portal Enable allow users to integrate portlets or applications on the screen by clicking information in one portlet and automatically transferring the information to another portlet for processing. You can also help reduce costs with WebSphere Portal Enable application integrator, which allows business users to define the interactions a portlet can have with the objects from enterprise applications, relational databases and Lotus Domino databases.

WebSphere Portal Enable helps lower your cost of supporting multiple portal sites by allowing you to create virtual portal sites on one instance of WebSphere Portal. Each Web site has its own URL, look and feel, pages and portlets, users and groups, and search index. All sites share the same IBM WebSphere Application Server instance, portal software and hardware, which helps lower your capital and maintenance costs while expanding the business value of WebSphere Portal to new user communities.