| Feature | WebSphere Portal V6.1.5 | WebSphere Portal V7 | WebSphere Portal V8 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virtualization | |||
| VMware support | |||
| Multiple profile support | |||
| Portal Core | |||
| WebDAV | |||
| Active Site Analytics | |||
| Web Analytics Page Overlays | |||
| Article, Blog and Wiki templates | |||
| Page builder feature | |||
| The Tab Menu - Page Builder theme is now the default | |||
| Tab navigation widget with drop down menus, inline page creation, and drag and drop page re-ordering | |||
| Content Search to quickly find and add portlets to the page | |||
| Change Style - choose from a list of pre-defined visual style to apply to the page | |||
| Change Layout - choose from a list of pre-defined page layouts to apply to the page | |||
| Manage Pages Integrated Toolbar – Create, manage, approve and syndicate Portal and Web content pages | |||
| Optimized Theme - modularized framework for greater precision and control of web site design | |||
| Mashup Integration | |||
| Easily add content and function to your portal by integrating mashups. | |||
| Security | |||
| Impersonation allows access to the system as another user to test out new pages and portlets. | |||
| Paging support for Puma user searches | |||
| OpenID Authentication enables portal users to authenticate with public social network credentials, | |||
| Currency | |||
| Portal installs WAS v7.0.0.11 or requires at least that level in an existing WAS | |||
| Express installs DB2 v9.7 WSE | |||
| Portal installs WAS 8.0.0.3 and DB2 9.7 via IBM Installation Manager | |||
| Updated platforms | |||
| Win7, Win 2008 R2 | |||
| SLES 11 | |||
| HP (Itanium and PA_RISC) | |||
| SLES 9, Redhat v4 for Express only | |||
| Supports installing into AIX WPAR | |||
| AIX 7.1 |

