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Defining portals

andy — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:34:10 +0000

Portal is all about bringing the right content and the right tools to the right set of people at the right point of time. It is a webplatform consisting of several pages and subpages, each containing several portlets. These portlets provide functionality like normal web applications would, but they all use one consistent view. This makes it a lot easier for users, because they only need to learn to work with only one system.

A portal brings the desktop-experience to the web. Much like the dashboard in your favourite car, you have all the information you need to know at hand. You don’t want to search these information while your driving. You need to know how the car is doing and some functionality so you enjoy your travel time. While driving yours, you are not interesting in the statistics of someone else’s car.

Using portals can be very powerfull for companies integration the applications they have. And adding new stuff should be quite simple. Remember, your company is only as strong as the ability it has to handle new business needs as quickly as possible.

More about portal development on andyvdh.optis.be

Connections 2.5 Portlets for IBM WebSphere Portal

admin — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:14:50 +0000

The IBM Lotus Connections 2.5 Portlets for WebSphere Portal delivers the Lotus Connections rich set of social software services for use within a WebSphere Portal environment. WebSphere Portal users can integrate the Activities, Blogs and Bookmarks services of Lotus Connections to:

Create and work with Lotus Connections Activities within WebSphere Portal. Users can easily set prioritization, Activity status and to do items for their Activities. Also, have the ability to manage the membership to add and leverage the expertise and experience of others in the organization by working together.
Within WebSphere Portal users can view and create Lotus Connections Blog postings and comments.
Easily create, edit and discover Bookmarks in Lotus Connections that have been qualified by others with similar interests and expertise.

IBM Lotus Gains in Global Collaboration Against Microsoft

admin — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:43:33 +0000

“IBM collaboration software is winning against Microsoft worldwide. We’ve expanded our customer and partner base significantly, and our footprint within companies with both environments,” said Bob Picciano, general manager, IBM Lotus Software. “Companies are looking at the aggregated value of IBM’s Web 2.0, collaboration, and social software for their own roadmap to the future.”

Read the full story here

Lotus Connections and SuccessFactors Webcast

admin — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:40:03 +0000

Luis Benitez posted an article about the joint forces of IBM and SuccesFactors.

Upcoming event – Introducing Web 2.0 in Your Company

admin — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:12:32 +0000

The ‘Introducing Web 2.0 in Your Company’ Proof of Technology (PoT) provides a hands-on experience for those needing to understand how social software can foster innovation in the business environment. Participants will gain an appreciation of how Lotus Connections software helps business people with common work objectives or professional interests to find each other and share what they know. It will also show customers how IBM® Lotus® Quickr, “the fastest way to share everyday content with teams”, makes it easier to collaborate without barriers.

Offering an integrated set of five Web 2.0 based components – Profiles, Dogear (for social bookmarking), Communities, Activities, Blogs – Lotus Connections opens new channels for productive relationships. It helps users enlarge their collaborative, knowledge-sharing networks, enables businesses to tap the collective intelligence of their people, and facilitates faster, more agile business execution. Lotus Quickr is a Web 2.0-based team collaboration offering that transforms the way everyday business content, such as documents and rich media, can be shared to enable more effective team collaboration.

This PoT is designed to demonstrate the joint capabilities of IBM Lotus Connections andvIBM Lotus Quickr, showing how sharing and searching for information can be a transparent and natural extension of the way users work everyday.

Event details
Date	October 7, 2009
Time	09:00 – 17:00
Address	IBM Forum Brussels, Avenue du Bourget / Bourgetlaan 42, 1130 Brussels

For more information and enrollment, please visit this website

Upcoming event – Discover the IBM WebSphere DataPower Appliances

admin — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:02:15 +0000

This one-day Proof of Technology (PoT) provides a hands-on experience for those needing to understand how DataPower® appliances can help ease and accelerate the deployment of enterprise SOA implementations. The labs demonstrate a broad spectrum of functionality, allowing students to see first hand how DataPower is configured for various security and integration scenarios. Students will gain an understanding of how DataPower appliances fit into network topologies, as well as what functionality the device provides and how it’s configured.

Event details
Date	21 September 2009
Time	09:00 – 17:00
Address	IBM Forum Brussels, Avenue du Bourget / Bourgetlaan 42, 1130 Brussels

Agenda
Introductions and Overview
Lab 2: Working with XML
Lab 3: Securing XML Message Content
Lab 4: Protecting Web Services
Lab 5: WebSphere® MQ and Transformation Extender Integration
Wrap-up Q&A

For more information and enrollment, please visit this website

Download Lotus Connections 2.5

admin — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:54 +0000

To install Lotus Connections 2.5, please have a look at the following website:

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24023958

IBM Lotus Connections 2.5

admin — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:24:21 +0000

All you need to understand Lotus Connections …

- The reviewer’s guide: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/documentation/connections/dw-l-reviewersguide/index.html

- Installation guide: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=3265&context=SSYGQH&dc=DA400&uid=pub1gc14725800&loc=en_US&cs=UTF-8&lang=en&rss=ct3265lotus

- User guide: http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lcwiki.nsf/dx/getting-started-with-lotus-connections-2.5

WebSphere Portal NOW

admin — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 06:15:46 +0000

The WebSphere Portal NOW is a reusable software template and a well-defined services process, which allows for deployment of a fully working portal and content solution for customers in less than a month. Benefits to customer:

Scalable solution that supports collaboration, feeds, and role-based access.
Low cost and fast implementation of a content-rich Portal-based site.
Reduce process cycle time through faster access to targeted information.

For more information about this solution, please send an email to info@optis.be