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򐂰 Search and categorize - Categorizing repositories of content and searching

them for relevant information

򐂰 Publish and subscribe - The ability to author new content and publish it to

subscribers

򐂰 Administration and security - Basic Web site services such as page

designers, performance monitors, cluster services, and metadata

management

򐂰 Integration - Metadata sharing, XML, connectors, standards, EAI.

WebSphere Portal provides additional services such as single sign-on, security,

Web content publishing, search, personalization, Collaboration Services,

enterprise application integration, support for mobile devices, and site analysis.

WebSphere Portal provides an extensible framework for interacting with

enterprise applications, content, people, and processes. Self-service features

allow end users to personalize and organize their own view of the portal, to

manage their own profiles, and to publish and share documents with their

colleagues.

The WebSphere Portal family

IBM WebSphere Portal product family offers a comprehensive set of products to

provide portal solutions to large enterprises as well as small- and medium-sized

business. IBM WebSphere Portal allows people to interact with the on demand

world in a personalized way.

IBM WebSphere Portal consists of four offerings, each designed to provide the

infrastructure you need to build and deploy highly scalable portals. All four

offerings share a common framework (the Portal Server) plus additional products

and services. The four product offerings can be grouped into two categories as

shown in Figure A-3 on page 251.

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Figure A-3 WebSphere Portal product family

Table A-1 shows the WebSphere components included in each of the

WebSphere Portal products.

Table A-1 WebSphere Portal components

Component Enable Extend Express EXpress

Plus

WebSphere Portal XXXX

WebSphere Application Server

Enterprise V5.0.1

XXXX

Directory Server V5.1 XXXX

Lotus Collaborative ComponentsXXXX

Portal Toolkit V5.0 X X X

WebSphere Portal Content

Publishing

XX

WebSphere Studio Site Developer

V5.0.1

XX

WebSphere Translation Server

V5.0

XX

WebSphere Portal Product Family

WebSphere Portal Express

Plus

WebSphere Portal Express

WebSphere Portal

Extend

WebSphere Portal

Enable

WebSphere Portal

Express

for Multiplatforms

WebSphere Portal

for Multiplatforms

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WebSphere Portal Enable for Multiplatforms

WebSphere Portal Enable for Multiplatforms is the basic portal solution for larger

enterprises. The IBM WebSphere Portal Enable offering lets you quickly build

highly scalable portals that simplify and enhance your access to personalized

information and applications.

WebSphere Portal

WebSphere Portal is a J2EE application that runs on WebSphere Application

Server. Its main function is to serve the WebSphere Portal framework to the

desktops and mobile devices of portal users. WebSphere Portal creates an

environment that provides the connectivity, administration, and presentation

services required.

IBM WebSphere Portal provides a framework that breaks the different portal

components into portlets to accommodate the aggregation and display of diverse

content. Each portlet is responsible for accessing content from its source (for

example, a Web site, database, or e-mail server) and transforming the content so

that it can be rendered to the client.

DB2 UDB Enterprise Server Edition

V8.1

XX

Lotus Collaborative Center V5.0 X X

Lotus Domino Enterprise Server

V5.0.12

XX

Lotus Instance Messaging

(Sametime) V3.0

XX

Lotus Team Workplace

(QuickPlace) V3.0.1

XX

Lotus Extended Search 4.0 X

Tivoli Web Site Analyzer V4.5 X

Component Enable Extend Express EXpress

Plus