WebSphere Portal

Version 6.1 and 6.1.5 of WebSphere Portal include a number of features to help you make the most of your portal investment.

Flexible access

• To existing enterprise data and applications

• To external news feeds or Web data

Live text tagging

• Allows access to relevant supporting information with a single click, without leaving the page you are viewing

Portal Representation State Transfer (REST) services

• Allows incorporation of composite mashup applications, including service feeds from other Web applications

A site wizard

• Allows you to create and deploy independent virtual portals

A one-click site management application

• Featuring rollback and versioning capabilities to simplify moving portals from staging to production

Expanded site layout support

• Enables you to incorporate existing static HTML, built with familiar HTML and PHP development tools

• Opens up the portal to additional content sources

Support for the latest portlet open standards

• Java™ Specification Request (JSR) 286

• Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) 2.0

A Web application integrator

• Enables you to easily embed existing Web applications into your portals

Enhanced usability features

• Drag-and-drop customizations

• Semantic tags that enable smart mark-ups and dynamic menus

New portlet development and deployment capabilities

• Templates

• A Theme Customizer portlet

• WebSphere Portlet Factory software

Page Builder

• Simplifies page creation, making it easy for business users to create pages and add content to pages

Portal "Lite" Mode

• Helps improve cost-of-ownership by dramatically reducing portal start-up time

Integrated Site Analytics support

• Helps to optimize portal applications via integration with popular 3rd party solutions

WebDAV support

• Expands development ease-of-use by enabling direct editing of portal pages using tools such as Dreamweaver®

Template Page capability

• Speeds page creation by allowing portal pages to act as templates when creating other new portal pages

Mashup Integration support

• Provides rendering/creation of Mashups directly in portal as a portal page