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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.

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

WebSphere Portal – Tips, tricks, and traps

admin — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:55:46 +0000

Tips, tricks and traps you can use in every WebSphere Portal project …

Click here (IBM ID & password needed)

Web 2.0 portlet and portal programming

admin — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:48:22 +0000

This article shows you how to exploit the benefits of the Web 2.0 tooling support in IBM® Rational® Application Developer V7.5 for portlet and portal applications running on IBM® WebSphere® Portal V6.1. In a typical portlet application, each request to the server causes a complete refresh of the browser page, which leads to page flickering and performance gaps. Web 2.0 technology enables you to create more dynamic and responsive applications with a superior user experience. The technology aims to turn Web browsers into semi-rich clients by projecting user interface logic for page rendering, navigation, aggregation, and cross-portlet interaction into user’s browsers.

The Web 2.0 tooling support provided with Rational Application Developer aids and expedites the process of creating such dynamic and responsive portlet and portal applications. Tooling support has been provided so that you can:

Design portlets that interact using Client-Side Click-to-Action, which is a new event paradigm introduced in WebSphere Portal V6.1 for cooperation between portlets.
Insert Person Menu and the capability to extend the Person Menu.
Use an Ajax proxy for portlet applications.
Use a client-side programming model to retrieve portlet preferences efficiently, performing portlet state changes on the client side.

More information, click here

Gartner ranked IBM #1 in Web Portal Software market share

andy — Mon, 25 May 2009 05:41:15 +0000

IBM announced that IT analyst firm Gartner, Inc., has ranked IBM as the worldwide market share leader in the Portal Products and User Interaction Tools enterprise software segment. The ranking was based on total worldwide software revenue for 2008.

Click here for more details

WebSphere Portal on WikiPedia

admin — Wed, 13 May 2009 06:47:38 +0000

At this moment, WebSphere Portal is introduced on WikiPedia.

If you want to know more about WebSphere Portal, click here

Integrating Adobe Flex and IBM WebSphere Portal

admin — Wed, 13 May 2009 04:47:24 +0000

Recently a new article was published on developerWorks. This article walks through the steps you need to take in order to integrate Adobe Flex into IBM WebSphere Portal.

You can read the article here.

Cloning a WebSphere Portal V6.1 installation

admin — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 05:26:17 +0000

This article describes how to clone an installation of IBM® WebSphere® Portal V6.1 that has been configured specifically for certain deployment needs. The intended audience is portal administrators who would like to build a standardized installation of WebSphere Portal in their organization and use it as a template from which to mass-produce additional preinstalled and preconfigured portals.