You can expand the search capabilities of IBM® WebSphere® Portal by
integrating Watson Content Analytics technology
with WebSphere Portal and by configuring WebSphere Portal to use this technology as
the default search engine.
Attention: This information applies to integrating
the new application framework in
Watson Content Analytics Version 3.5 with
WebSphere Portal Version 8. If you integrated IBM Content Analytics with Enterprise
Search Version 3.0 with
WebSphere Portal,
see the
Version 3.0 documentation for information.
Integration points
The Watson Content Analytics installation program
provides a setup script for integrating with WebSphere Portal.
After you run the
setup script,
Watson Content Analytics can
integrate with
WebSphere Portal in
several ways:
- Search portlet
- WebSphere Portal provides users
with a single access point for interacting with applications, content,
processes, and people. The WebSphere Portal framework
enables new applications, called portlets, to be integrated
and deployed without affecting other applications in the portal.
Watson Content Analytics provides a sample portlet
and its source code that you can use to search enterprise search collections.
You cannot deploy the content analytics miner as a portlet.
After
you deploy the search portlet in WebSphere Portal,
you can use the WebSphere Portal interface
to query collections and view the results. Through WebSphere Portal configuration settings,
you can configure the appearance and operation of the Watson Content Analytics portlet in the same way
that you configure other portlets.
- WebSphere Portal Search bar
- All WebSphere Portal interface
themes include a Search bar. The default behavior of this bar is to
direct all search requests to the default Search Center search engine.
To use the more powerful Watson Content Analytics search
functions for query processing, you can change this default behavior
so that all search requests are redirected to the Watson Content Analytics search portlet.
- Seed list crawlers
- Configure a Seed list crawler
to collect documents from WebSphere Portal servers,
such as WebSphere Portal sites, IBM Web
Content Manager sites, and Quickr® for WebSphere Portal documents. After you create
a collection in the administration console, you can use the Search
portlet or a stand-alone enterprise search application to search the
indexed content. To support document-level security, you must use
the Search portlet in WebSphere Portal,
not a stand-alone enterprise search application.
Benefits of integrating
Watson Content Analytics enhances the WebSphere Portal search environment by providing
support for searching a wider range of data source types. With the
provided portlet, you can search websites plus all of the other data
source types that are supported by your Watson Content Analytics system.
Watson Content Analytics also offers benefits
in scalability. The Portal Search Engine is useful for small-sized
or medium-sized businesses where a single server is sufficient to
support the search and retrieval workload. To support enterprise-level
capacities, Watson Content Analytics can
distribute the query processing workload over multiple servers.
