IBM Web Experience Factory 7.0.1 helps deliver fast, simple development of enterprise multichannel applications for exceptional web experiences
IBM Europe, Middle East, and Africa Software Announcement ZP11-0289June 28, 2011
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IBM® Web Experience Factory 7.0.1, formerly IBM WebSphere® Portlet Factory, delivers the fastest and easiest way to develop multichannel exceptional web experiences across desktop, mobile, and tablet platforms.
Enhancements
- New builders
- Builders for mobile, multichannel solution development including desktop browsers, smartphones, and tablets
- Builders to incorporate analytics into applications to ensure the feedback loop is closed, allowing business owners to track and adjust success based on application usage
- Builders for IBM Web Content Manager allows easy integration of content and authoring capabilities in custom portlets
- Increased developer productivity, with many new features and improvements to make it easier and faster for developers to build exceptional web experiences
- New production code and samples with full source code providing a robust library of both learning and production examples
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IBM Web Experience Factory 7.0.1 enables the creation of custom portlets, widgets, and applications that run in IBM Portal, IBM Mashup Center, and IBM WebSphere Application Server, from a single code base and are accessible on a range of devices including desktop browsers, mobile phones, smartphones, and tablets. Native integration with WebSphere Portal accelerates portal deployment and provides support for key APIs such as request, response, and session in addition to:
- Templates: Enable users to create and reuse composite applications by arranging portlets into templates that can be deployed to different communities (for example, departments, teams, and other groups of users).
- Cooperative portlets: Easily incorporate inter-portlet communication techniques such as click to action and portlet wiring.
- People awareness: Seamlessly integrate collaboration into your portal, enabling users to send instant messages and emails simply by clicking on a person's name.
- Credential vault: Easily leverage the WebSphere Portal Credential Vault or Lightweight Third-Party Authentication (LTPA) tokens to provide single sign-on capabilities.
- Automated deployments: Automatically deploy and redeploy portlet war files to WebSphere Portal - without having to generate any scripts or XML deployment descriptors.
- WebSphere Portal groups, user attributes, and personalization rules: Easily deploy portlets that can automatically adapt depending on the user.
- WebSphere Portal modes: Automatically generate fully functioning user interfaces for each of the portlet modes, including view, edit, and configure.
IBM Web Experience Factory V7.0.1 provides the following benefits:
- Accelerates portal and application deployments, including ability to author a single portlet that is accessible on multiple channels including desktop browsers, mobile phones and smartphones, and tablets.
- Increases developer productivity and reduces development costs.
- Extends portlet, widget, and application creation to a broader development community enabling developers of all skill sets to build multipage, complex portlets and applications without coding.
- Leverages existing enterprise applications and IT assets to quickly create composite, high-value portlets and applications that leverage existing investment in current applications (SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel, Lotus® Domino®), service-oriented architecture (SOA) systems and databases.
- Creates new portlets and applications on demand to generate multiple customized portlets and applications for various users or application contexts without changing underlying code.
- Empowers business users to create, customize, and manage portlets to help remove IT bottlenecks and reduce time to market by empowering business user configuration.
- Automates frequently occurring development tasks that capture commonly used design patterns and company-specific business processes as reusable components for all developers, enforcing application architecture and development best practices.
- Easily complies to open standards to quickly build portlets and applications without needing to know the specifics of the underlying standards such as JSR-168, JSR-286, and technologies such as Ajax and Dojo.
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| Key prerequisites |
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Refer to the Hardware requirements for details.
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| Planned availability date |
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June 29, 2011: Electronic availability
July 14, 2011: Media availability
Refer to the complete letter for national language availability.
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| Description |
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IBM Web Experience Factory 7.0.1 is a model-based development tool that allows developers to quickly create applications that are part of an exceptional web experience.
Being model based allows users to quickly create and modify applications without needing to understand or be knowledgeable in the underlying technologies such as Java™, Dojo, or proprietary back-end technology. Developers learn to use the tool and the items that are ready for immediate use.
Unlike a purely wizard-based system, model-based development allows developers to go back and easily change configuration settings without having to regenerate the entire application form scratch.
IBM Web Experience Factory provides more than 160 builders that are ready for immediate use that both speed up development time and allow developers to leverage technology where they do not have skills. For example, a Web Experience Factory developer can easily develop a Dojo application, maximizing easy-to-use Web 2.0 capabilities without being proficient in the specifics of the Dojo toolkit itself.
In summary, by adopting IBM Web Experience Factory V7.0.1, organizations can dramatically improve their time to market and competitiveness by delivering better solutions faster as part of their exceptional web experiences.
IBM Web Experience Factory extends portal and web application development to a broader audience of developers, covering a larger range of technologies and, ultimately, reducing the load on developers, allowing business owners to respond faster to market demand.
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| Reference information |
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Refer to Software Announcement ZP09-0478, dated November 17, 2009.
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Product description Language GA date
Web Experience Factory V7.0.1 Multilingual July 14, 2011
(French,
Korean,
Chinese -
Simplified,
Spanish,
Portuguese-Brazilian,
German,
Japanese,
Chinese -
Traditional,
English,
Italian)
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| Program number |
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Program VRM Program name number 5724-O03 7.0.1 IBM Web Experience Factory
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| Education support |
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IBM training provides education to support many IBM offerings. Descriptions of courses for IT professionals and managers are on the IBM training website
Contact your IBM representative for course information.
IBM Software Services for Lotus Education provides education to support many Lotus offerings. For a complete list of offerings visit the website at
Technical Skills Software Workshop
No-fee technical skills training workshops (English only) for this product are offered to customers and business partners to gain hands-on skills for installing, configuring, operating, and supporting this product. The workshops are ideal for customers and business partners who are in the process of evaluating, or have already purchased it. Workshops are modeled to be 50% to 70% hands-on labs and are continually updated to current product release.
Workshops are delivered in multiple formats, traditional classroom, self-paced (self-study) and instructor led e-learning, all formats have the same content.
Traditional classroom workshops are scheduled and delivered in-person worldwide at IBM and non-IBM locations throughout the year.
Self-paced/self-study workshops enable the student to view the workshop presentations and execute the labs on their own schedule with no travel required. The presentations have speaker notes and allow the student full control to navigate the information. Students reserve a one week period to run the labs on a remote, supported, live environment. Support is provided through a monitored forum.
Note: A fast Internet connection is required.
For more details on current workshop content, schedules, and to register for any workshop format, visit
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| Offering Information |
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Product information is available via the Offering Information website
Also, visit the Passport Advantage® website
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No publications are shipped with this product.
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Specified operating environment
Hardware requirements
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Software requirements
None.
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Planning information
Software Subscription and Support (also referred to as Software Maintenance) is included with licenses purchased through Passport Advantage and Passport Advantage Express®. Product upgrades and technical support are provided by the Software Subscription and Support (also referred to as Software Maintenance) offering as described in the Agreements. Product upgrades provide the latest versions and releases to entitled software, and technical support provides voice and electronic access to IBM support organizations, worldwide.
IBM includes one year of Software Subscription and Support (also referred to as Software Maintenance) with each program license acquired. The initial period of Software Subscription and Support (also referred to as Software Maintenance) can be extended by the purchase of a renewal option, if available.
Packaging
IBM Web Experience Factory 7.0.1 will be distributed via a media package and electronic software distribution (ESD).
IBM Web Experience Factory 7.0.1 media package is distributed in one package with the following:
- IBM Web Experience Factory 7.0.1 - Product CDs.
- Soft copy product documentation including readme files are included on the product CDs.
- The License Information form number for IBM Web Experience Factory 7.0.1 is L-EROY-86VLPB.
Security, auditability, and control
The customer is responsible for evaluation, selection, and implementation of security features, administrative procedures, and appropriate controls in application systems and communication facilities.
Global Technology Services
Contact your IBM representative for the list of selected services available in your country, either as standard or customized offerings for the efficient installation, implementation, or integration of this product.
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This product is only available via Passport Advantage. It is not available as shrinkwrap.
Product information
Licensed function title Product group Product
category
IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory WebSphere IBM WebSphere
Portal Portlet
Factory
IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory WebSphere IBM WebSphere
Designer Portal Portlet
Factory
Designer
Program name PID Charge unit
number description
IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory 5724-O03 Per Processor
Value Unit (PVU)
IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory 5724-O03 Per Processor
Value Unit for
Linux® on System
z
IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory 5724-O03 Per Authorized
Designer User
IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory 5724-O03 Per Authorized
Designer User for Linux
on System z
Charge metrics definitions
Authorized User
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Processor Value Unit (PVU)
PVU is a unit of measure by which the program can be licensed. The number of PVU entitlements required is based on the processor technology (defined within the PVU Table by processor value, brand, type, and model number at
and the number of processors made available to the program. IBM continues to define a processor, for the purpose of PVU-based licensing, to be each processor core on a chip. A dual-core processor chip, for example, has two processor cores.
Licensee can deploy the program using either full capacity licensing or virtualization capacity (sub-capacity) licensing according to the Passport Advantage Sub-Capacity Licensing Terms (refer to the webpage below). If using full capacity licensing, licensee must obtain PVU entitlements sufficient to cover all activated processor cores* in the physical hardware environment made available to or managed by the program, except for those servers from which the program has been permanently removed. If using virtualization capacity licensing, licensee must obtain entitlements sufficient to cover all activated processor cores made available to or managed by the program, as defined according to the Virtualization Capacity License Counting Rules at
* An activated processor core is a processor core that is available for use in a physical or virtual server, regardless of whether the capacity of the processor core can be or is limited through virtualization technologies, operating system commands, BIOS settings, or similar restrictions.
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Passport Advantage program licenses
IBM Web Experience Factory
Part description Part
number
IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory
IBM Web Experience Factory Processor Value Unit Annual E08P9LL
SW S&S Renewal
IBM Web Experience Factory Processor Value Unit Lic + D0CT7LL
SW S&S 12 Month
IBM Web Experience Factory Processor Value Unit SW S&S D0CT8LL
Reinstate 12 Mo
IBM Web Experience Factory
Part description Part
number
IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory Designer
IBM Web Experience Factory Designer Auth User Annual SW E08PCLL
S&S Renewal
IBM Web Experience Factory Designer Auth User Lic + SW D0CTDLL
S&S 12 Month
IBM Web Experience Factory Designer Auth User SW S&S D0CTELL
Reinstate 12 Mo
Passport Advantage supply
Program name/description Part
number
Web Experience Factory V7.0.1
IBM Web Experience Factory/Web Exp Factory Designer BS0BQML
V7.0.1 MP ML Media Pk
Passport Advantage customer: Media pack entitlement details
Customers with active maintenance or subscription for the products listed are entitled to receive the corresponding media pack.
Web Experience Factory V7.0.1
Entitled maintenance Media packs description Part
offerings description number
WebSphere Portlet Factory IBM Web Experience BS0BQML
Designer Authorized User Factory/Web Exp Factory
Designer V7.0.1 MP ML
Media Pk
WebSphere Portlet Factory IBM Web Experience BS0BQML
Designer Authorized User Factory/Web Exp Factory
Linux for System z® Designer V7.0.1 MP ML
Media Pk
WebSphere Portlet Factory IBM Web Experience BS0BQML
Processor Value Unit Factory/Web Exp Factory
Designer V7.0.1 MP ML
Media Pk
WebSphere Portlet Factory IBM Web Experience BS0BQML
Processor Value Unit Linux Factory/Web Exp Factory
for System z Designer V7.0.1 MP ML
Media Pk
Cross-platform products
Cross-platform products for use on System z
Order the part numbers that follow when the product is used for either the development of code that will be deployed on System z servers or when the product will be communicating or transferring data between a distributed server and a System z server. Otherwise order from the other set of part numbers in this announcement. This set of part numbers provides the identical supply and authorization as the other set in this announcement.
Cross-platform product for use on System z IFL engines
Order the part numbers that follow when the product is intended to run on the Linux operating system on System z IFL engines. If the product is not intended to run on the Linux operating system on System z IFL engines, order from the other set of part numbers in this announcement. This set of part numbers provides the identical supply and authorization as the other set in this announcement.
IBM Web Experience Factory
Part description Part
number
IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory
IBM Web Experience Factory PVU Linux for System z E08PALL
Annual SW S&S Rnwl
IBM Web Experience Factory PVU Linux for System z Lic + D0CT9LL
SW S&S 12 Month
IBM Web Experience Factory PVU Linux for System z SW D0CTALL
S&S Reinstate 12 Mo
IBM Web Experience Factory
Part description Part
number
IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory Designer
IBM Web Experienc Factory Designer AU Linux for System D0CTBLL
z Lic + SW S&S 12 Mo
IBM Web Experience Factory Designer AU Linux for Sys z E08PBLL
Annual SW S&S Rnwl
IBM Web Experience Factory Designer AU Linux for Sys z D0CTCLL
SW S&S Reinst 12 Mo
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Licensing
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Part number products only, offered outside of Passport Advantage, where applicable, are license only and do not include Software Maintenance.
This software license includes Software Subscription and Support (also referred to as Software Maintenance).
License Information form number
Program name Program Form number
number
IBM Web Experience Factory 5724-O03 L-EROY-86VLPB
The program's License Information will be available for review on the IBM Software License Agreement website
Limited warranty applies
Yes
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Volume orders (IVO)
No
Passport Advantage applies
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Usage restriction
Yes. For additional information, refer to the License Information Document that is available on the IBM Software License Agreement website
International Passport Agreement
Software Subscription and Support (Software Maintenance)
Yes. Software Subscription and Support (also referred to as Software Maintenance) is included with licenses purchased through Passport Advantage and Passport Advantage Express. Product upgrades and technical support are provided by the Software Subscription and Support (also referred to as Software Maintenance) offering as described in the Agreements. Product upgrades provide the latest versions and releases to entitled software and Technical Support provides voice and electronic access to IBM support organizations, worldwide.
IBM includes one year of Software Subscription and Support (also referred to as Software Maintenance) with each program license acquired. The initial period of Software Subscription and Support (also referred to as Software Maintenance) can be extended by the purchase of a renewal option, if available.
While your Software Subscription and Support (also referred to as Software Maintenance) is in effect, IBM provides you assistance for your routine, short duration installation and usage (how-to) questions, and code-related questions. IBM provides assistance via telephone and, if available, electronic access, to your information systems (IS) technical support personnel during the normal business hours (published prime shift hours) of your IBM support center. (This assistance is not available to your end users.) IBM provides Severity 1 assistance 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. For additional details, consult your IBM Software Support Handbook at
Software Subscription and Support (also referred to as Software Maintenance) does not include assistance for the design and development of applications, your use of programs in other than their specified operating environment, or failures caused by products for which IBM is not responsible under the applicable agreements.
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System i Software Maintenance applies
No
Educational allowance available
Education allowance does not apply.
Education software allowance does not apply.
Special education prices are available for qualified customers through Passport Advantage.
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- Iran
- Libyan Arab Republic
- Sudan
- Syria
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