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Portal 4:19 am
IBM Lotus Quickr includes a content repository, content management, and team collaboration capabilities. The content libraries helps organizing and sharing the documents for projects and teams. The document management features like versioning, workflow, and customized document types ease management and organization of the documents. In addition, Lotus Quickr content services make it possible to create, manage, update, search, query, and delete Lotus Quickr content. The developers can also utilize these services to access and manipulate content in Lotus Quickr.
Lotus Quickr uses Lotus Web Content Management to store and present online content. Wiki pages, blog posts, announcements, project tasks, and contacts are each stored as Web content. Each is authored using a Lotus Web Content Management authoring template, presented using a Web content management presentation template, and stored in a Web content management site area.
The Web content management APIs are used to extend functions of Web content management, which gives you the ability to manage Web content programmatically. Theses APIs and services enable developers building portlets & services for WebSphere Portal.
Portal 4:05 am
With the wide spread of Web 2.0 and social networking initiatives, Web content management solutions that meet these trends have become very popular. The ability to interact with content in various solutions, from news portals to corporate intranets to blogs, has become essential in enriching the users’ online collaboration capabilities.
IBM Lotus Web Content Management solution lets creation of the news items with the comments and both the recommendation section and its ordering. After creating the site framework, and then creating the related workflow, you can deploy the artifacts to WebSphere Portal and put the collaborative section into production.
Portal 3:23 am
For organizing a HATS project to run as a portlet, the structure and content of the project needs to be altered to meet the portlet specification. Since HATS supports the JSR 168 standard, it automates the process of converting a regular HATS project into a portlet. Note that, the WebSphere Portal Toolkit is a prerequisite for this conversion process. There a two ways that a HATS portlet can be created as follows:
Portal 3:16 am
IBM Rational Host Access Transformation Services (HATS) is well known as transforming traditional green-screen terminal applications (3270 and 5250 host applications with more formal terminology) to the Web, to a rich client, or to browsers on mobile devices quickly and easily.
HATS integration with WebSphere Portal Server lets data flow freely between HATS, WebSphere Portal, and other Portal applications. All of the relevant features of WebSphere Portal are also available for exploitation within HATS by built-in tooling or straightforward Java development.
Portal 2:28 pm
IBM Lotus Connections is a social computing platform designed specifically for business. The software has five key services as profiles, communities, blogs, dogear and activities. Faster executed tasks, decisions which are made with confidence, innovative products and services creation some of benefits of Lotus Connections.
From the other side, IBM WebSphere Portal provides core portal services that aggregate applications and content, and then delivers them as role-based applications to end-users. As a result, WebSphere Portal allows partners, employees and customers to chose their user experience, with personalized applications based on role, context, actions, location, preferences and team collaboration needs.
Integration of Lotus Connections with WebSphere Portal allows surfacing social software and building dynamic networks of coworkers, Business Partners, and customers from a WebSphere Portal environment. In addition to this Lotus Connections conforms with IBM’s Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) strategy, which allows for easy deployment, configuration, and administration into WebSphere Portal.
Portal 5:00 am
In the Webcast published at IBM’s site, buy vs. build a portal issue is discussed by an consultants from IBM and IDC. During the Webcast, the key metrics that need to be factored into a “buy vs build” decision process is also handled. Click here to access to Webcast.
Portal 4:51 am
With IBM WebSphere Portal Version 6.1, IBM is moving toward enhanced self-service, a richer user interface, more Web 2.0 capabilities, expanded support for open standards and improved administration tools. Open-standards-based portal solution means you can work with a wide range of technologies that allows you to build on your existing IT environment, maintain required security levels and support a service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach. It can be considered as IBM merged the advantages of SOA with Web 2.0 capabilities, for letting companies accessing new levels of business agility and innovation.
Besides that, IBM WebSphere Portal Version 6.1 includes new preconfigured pages, Internet and intranet portal site templates, and out-of-the-box portlet applications that help make deployment fast and easy. These applications are designed to address key business challenges and support day-to-day functionality such as e-mail, calendaring, instant messaging, integrated presence awareness, bookmarking, reports and team spaces.
Portal 4:38 am
In WebSphere Portal Family wiki is for IBM WebSphere Portal, WebSphere Portal Express, Lotus Web Content Management, and IBM accelerators for WebSphere Portal solutions.In this new wiki, it is possible to find and contribute best practices, deployment scenarios, technical content resources, hints & tips. To access WebSphere Portal Family wiki click here.
Development and Documentation and Portal 4:38 am
A new whitepaper is available on IBM developerWorks with information on developing themes and skins in Portal 6.
This white paper provides IBM® WebSphere® Portal developers an understanding of the new features and layouts available with the version 6.0.X themes and skins, addressing new functionality such as theme extensions and theme policies. It also covers how […]