WebSphere Portal

WebSphere Portal V8.0 new powerful Intelligent Pages bring together essential web experience capabilities that can help you:

Quickly create and manage powerful, integrated, and content-driven web experiences

• Managed Pages simplify the creation and management of portal pages and web content using a new integrated toolbar.

• New page draft and approval process lets you preview and approve changes to pages before publishing.

• Create Web Content Manager pages & content with point-and-click simplicity with the new Content Templating user interface.

• New Web Experience Factory builders for development of solutions including new Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) Builder to easily access CMIS standard data stores like Filenet and Microsoft Sharepoint.

• New easy to use Configuration Wizard for Administrators provides faster time to value for your organization.

• New IBM Installation Manager, providing a faster, streamlined install, unintstall, modify and update process for administrators. IBM Installation Manager determines available packages including products, prerequisites, fix packs, interim fixes, and other updates.

Go where your employees and customers are with multichannel experiences

• WebSphere Portal Mobile Experience is a new theme that easily helps you control the look and feel, page & content navigation on leading smart phones. It includes rich mobile web interaction patterns such as swipe, carousel, accordion, and swap using CSS3 and HTML5 to enable a complete web experience.

• Web Experience Factory V8.0 provides new user experience with Dojo Mobile tooling for building engaging mobile experiences.

• Web Experience Factory V8.0 provides new Client Side Architecture reducing reliance on bandwidth and improving responsiveness of mobile applications.

Enable social communication where and when it can most influence communication & productivity

• New Community Page support lets you more readily scope and place IBM Connections portlets in the right Portal and Web Content Manager context.

• OpenID Authentication enables portal users to authenticate with public social network credentials, such as a Facebook ID.

Quickly gather real time information and make insightful business decisions

• Web Analytics Page Overlays deliver in-place, real-time web page and channel delivery analyses.

• Flexible options to tag pages, portlets, or web content and measure their usefulness through Campaign and Custom tags.

Easily gather critical business data from anywhere to create powerful, integrated web experiences

• Integrate with ECM and other systems through Web Content Manager support for the CMIS standard.

• Integrate SAP® NetWeaver Portal navigation seamlessly with new WebSphere Portal Integrator for SAP.

• New Web Experience Factory builders for development of solutions including new Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) Builder to easily access CMIS standard data stores like Filenet and Microsoft Sharepoint.

Help your customers and employees quickly find the right information

• Search Enhancements provide more granular search index algorithms that optimize WebSphere Portal and Web Content Manager search results allowing people to find the information they are looking for with greater speed and ease.

WebSphere Portal Enable, includes features of WebSphere Portal Server plus:

• Integrated Web content management capabilities that enable you to rapidly build next-generation Web sites with enhancements that can be used throughout the content life cycle.

• Document libraries that allow users to easily share, view and organize files within the portal community.

• Advanced portal search across a wide variety of search sources.

WebSphere Portal Extend, includes features of WebSphere Portal Enable plus:

• Individual and shared workspaces that allow you to collaborate and exchange ideas on projects, improving team productivity.

• Instant messaging so you can chat with other portal users and take action related to a task or application.

• Editable electronic forms that can help you streamline your business processes by allowing your employees, customers and partners to fill out, view and store forms electronically.

The latest software and hardware requirements can be found in the WebSphere Portal Documentation.