What are portals?
Web portals allow partners, employees and customers to chose their user experience, with personalized applications based on role, context, actions, location, preferences and team collaboration needs. IBM WebSphere Portal software provides a composite application or business mashup framework and the advanced tooling needed to build flexible, SOA-based solutions, as well as the unmatched scalability required by any size organization.
Build and extend your portal business applications

- Newly enhanced accelerators that easily snap on to WebSphere Portal help speed time to value and reduce the cost of deploying portal based business solutions.
Learn more (US) - IBM Mashup Center helps IT departments reduce their portal application backlog and improve productivity by empowering line of business, self-service application development
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Portal products
- WebSphere Portal Server:Web portal software with core portal services that aggregate applications and content as role-based applications
Other portal products
- WebSphere Portal Enable:adds content and document management, and workflow functions
- WebSphere Portal Extend:adds powerful collaborative and electronic forms features
- WebSphere Portal Express:Web portal software for small and mid-size businesses
- WebSphere Portal Enable for z/OS:Leverage the performance and reliability of z/OS
- WebSphere Everyplace Mobile Portal Enable:Extending WebSphere Portal to a wide range of mobile devices
Solutions and components
- IBM Dashboard Accelerator:Real-time, active, performance dashboards
- IBM Business Process Accelerator:An end-to-end solution that accelerates process automation
- IBM Content Accelerator:Enterprise Web content management and search
- Other IBM accelerators for WebSphere Portal software (US):Solution-specific offerings that speed time-to-value
- WebSphere Portlet Factory:Simplified portal application development
- IBM Mashup Center:Unlock data. Remix content. Unleash productivity
Upgrades/migrations
Learn about WebSphere Portal
- Demo:WebSphere Portal Version 6.1
- Webcast (US):An Evaluation of Buy versus Build for Portal Solutions - An IDC Perspective
- Webcast (US):Free Open Source Portals: Myth, Hype, or Reality?
- e-Book (US):Exploring IBM accelerators for WebSphere Portal
Tools and services
- IBM Industry Toolboxes for WebSphere Portal (US):Industry-specific case studies, demos, software templates and more
- WebSphere Portal NOW (US):Jump start the deployment of a content-rich portal
- Amazon Web Services (US):WebSphere Portal Server & Lotus Web Content Management cloud offering
- Other services offerings (US)



