IBM Mobile Portal Accelerator (formerly IBM WebSphere® Everyplace® Mobile Portal Enable) software is an advanced content adaptation product that helps enterprises and service providers deliver portal content to a broad range of mobile devices, providing customized mobile access to portal solutions and services via a highly navigable, personalized Web experience.
Web portals-enabled by IBM WebSphere Portal software-provide partners, employees and customers personalized applications based on role, context, actions, location, preferences and team collaboration needs. Mobile Web portals extend access to portal services and data from many of the approximately 3 billion mobile devices in use to help enterprises maximize business opportunities. Gain market advantage. Increase their customers` loyalty. And increase revenues.
IBM Mobile Portal Accelerator software provides an easy, cost-effective way to deliver content and applications to virtually all mobile devices. It includes out-of-the-box mobile portal samples and tools to develop portlet applications for mobile devices. Its intelligent Multi-channel Server adapts the content for each mobile device based on the specific device characteristics and capabilities, as defined in the software`s device repository. Developers can therefore "write once" and render personalized Web content quickly across over 6000 different mobile device types.
Keep pace with the latest mobile devices
A separately priced, related subscription service--IBM Mobile Portal Accelerator Device Update--entitles customers to receive regular updates to the mobile device repository that include new mobile device definitions and updates as they become available from device manufacturers. The Mobile Portal Accelerator and Mobile Portal Accelerator Device Update service helps organizations quickly deliver personalized content, applications and services to mobile employees, customers and subscribers on the wide variety of mobile devices they use - even the latest devices available - without redeveloping their mobile Web applications.
What`s new in IBM Mobile Portal Accelerator
IBM Mobile Portal Accelerator 6.1 software extends the software formerly known as WebSphere Everyplace Mobile Portal Enable. The new release provides new platform support for IBM WebSphere Portal V6.1 software; seamless integration with Lotus Web Content Management (WCM) content author services; new out-of-the-box mobile-enabled portlets, and several multi-channel server enhancements, improving time to value for customers to quickly delivery mobile portal solutions. The new release features include:
- Support to author and render Lotus WCM content to XML Device Independent Markup Extension (XDIME 2) format for multi-channel server rendering to mobile devices
- An updated and enhanced multi-channel server with support for XDIME 2, and new portrait to landscape and rollover image mobile rendering options
- New out-of-the box mobile portlets: XDIME 2 sample Syndicated Feeds and Stock reporting mobile portlets
- New Multi-Channel Server Framework Client creation of XDIME 2 applications, and sample widgets with rich client-side user interfaces that work on vast range of mobile devices
WebSphere Portal
Accelerators combine with, and enhance, IBM WebSphere Portal, the industry`s leading composite application platform. Choosing WebSphere Portal is an investment in a proven, extensible, standards-based platform from IBM - a platform designed to help keep pace with the demanding online needs of your business.
