Whether you’re looking at IBM WebSphere® Portal capabilities for the very first time or you’re a longtime user, the latest release has something for you.
WebSphere Portal Version 8 enables organizations to create, manage, and deliver powerful online web experiences that are engaging, flexible, and high performance. Building upon the solid foundation of previous releases, WebSphere Portal V8 includes new capabilities and updates that can provide your users with a more social, mobile and integrated experience, and provide insightful real-time analytics, giving the right knowledge to make the right decisions.
What's new in IBM WebSphere Portal V8:
- Managed Pages features provide a simplified way to create and manage portal and web content pages using a new integrated toolbar. Draft and approval processes include workflow, version control, and syndication to deliver a robust and integrated method to drive web site management.
- New optimized theme presents a modularized framework for greater control of web site design, staging and production.
- WebSphere Portal Mobile Experience theme easily extends web content to smartphones. The new mobile theme enables control over the the mobile web page look and feel, page and content navigation, and also includes rich mobile web interaction patterns such as swipe, carousel, accordion, and swap using CSS3 and HTML5 to enable a complete web experience.
- New Community Page support lets you more readily scope and place IBM Connections portlets in the right Portal and Web Content Manager context for more relevant community influence and productivity.
- OpenID Authentication enables portal users to authenticate with public social network credentials, such as a Facebook ID, extending web presences to new social channel audiences.
- New Web Analytics Page Overlays deliver in-place, real-time web page and channel delivery analyses. Options to tag pages, portlets or web content and measure their usefulness through campaign and custom tags enables greater insight over web site content value and user and channel interactions.
- Blog, article and wiki capabilities through business ready content templates add popular social capabilities and streamline subject matter contributions.
- Enhanced Web Content Manager Templating interface enables point-and-click creation of rich, engaging and social web experiences.
- Integrate with ECM and other systems through Web Content Manager support for the CMIS standard.
- IBM Installation Manager support: WebSphere Portal V8.0 and Web Content Manager are installed using new IBM Installation Manager, providing a faster, streamlined install, uninstall, modify and update process for administrators. IBM Installation Manager determines available packages including products, prerequisites, fix packs, interim fixes, and other updates.
- Search Enhancements provide more granular search index algorithms that optimize WebSphere Portal and Web Content Manager search results.
- New Configuration Wizard for Administrators.
- Simplified migration that helps eliminate lengthy migrations by handling migration from WebSphere Portal V6.1.5 or V7 as an in-place software upgrade.
- Included Web Experience Factory V8 provides:
- A new user experience with Dojo Mobile tooling for building engaging mobile experiences.
- New Client Side Architecture reducing reliance on bandwidth and improving responsiveness of mobile applications.
- New Web Experience Factory builder for development of solutions that integrate Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) content including CMIS standard data stores like Filenet and Microsoft Sharepoint.
Why buy or upgrade today?
WebSphere Portal and Web Experience Factory V8 bring together the essential capabilities that help you create, manage, and deliver powerful online web experiences, including social when and where it can most influence productivity; mobile to take your web experiences to where your users are, targeted content; and insightful real-time analytics, giving the right knowledge to make the right decisions.
Buy or upgrade today to take advantage of:
- New Managed Pages features that enable web site content to be updated, previewed, versioned, published, and rolled back.
- Enhanced, out of the box theme, modularized for design flexibility.
- Mobile experience theme that optimizes web content delivery to smartphones.
- Community Page support that enables social communication in context, where and when you need it.
- Content-driven web content templates that deliver content relevant to each user, in a way that is compelling to each user.
- Integration of CMIS standards-based source content and information including Filenet and Microsoft Sharepoint.
- Analytics overlays that offer in-place, real-time web page and channel delivery analyses.
- Socially-infused web experiences with ready to use blogs, article templates and wikis.
- Standards-based OpenID support that enables authentication with public social network credentials, such as a Facebook ID, extending web presences to new social channel audiences.
- Faster install and update operations with new support for IBM Installation Manager. IBM Installation Manager also determines available packages including products, prerequisites, fix packs, interim fixes, and other updates.
- Simplified, "in-place" upgrade from Versions 6.1.5 and 7.
- Configuration wizard, and expanded virtualization support to increase deployment/cost-of-ownership flexibility.
- Rich, interactive and mobile web experience development with new IBM Web Experience Factory V8.
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