To help maximize the return on your IT investments and keep a competitive edge, IBM offers advanced portal solutions with flexible pricing options. Small companies—or even a single department—can provide timely access to the same rich content, data and applications that employees, customers and trading partners expect from any company, regardless of size. WebSphere Portal - Express enables small and midsize businesses to more rapidly deploy B2E, B2B and B2C portals on a variety of platforms. To help you improve employee productivity and make team-wide communication more efficient and effective, IBM also offers WebSphere Portal - Express Plus with built-in instant messaging and team collaboration tools.

With WebSphere Portal - Express, you can quickly deploy a highly functional and easy-to-use intranet portal to connect your entire team to the applications and information employees need. Make relevant, timely information readily accessible to help employees work faster and smarter—while maintaining control over sensitive information, helping you keep maintenance and operational costs down and improve productivity.

You can also leverage WebSphere Portal - Express to quickly build portals that help integrate trading-partner systems with your business processes, applications, employees and data. You can show updated inventory levels, pricing and product information in real time, enable suppliers to report changes to existing order status that automatically update your order management system, and offer shipping information in a convenient calendar.

Providing a protected, unified user experience
Portals you build, deploy and maintain using WebSphere Portal software leverage security-rich technology to support high-volume, personalized transactions. With authentication and access-control services for Web-based and enterprise applications and resources, you can safeguard customer, supplier, employee and trading-partner connectivity, and build trust.

You can also more effectively manage the growth of your on demand business as your IT systems become more complex. Control escalating management costs and directly tackle the difficulties of implementing security policies across a wide range of Web and application resources. The result? Your customers can use your portals safely and reliably, while you help reduce deployment time and cut maintenance costs for new applications.