IBM WebSphere Portal 6 - What's New!
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IBM WebSphere® Portal Version 6.0 is an enterprise portal solution for organizations that want to improve the effectiveness of their operations. WebSphere Portal is the industry's leading portal platform because it delivers a complete set of portal platform services with the reliability and scalability demanded by the top global companies. The portal platform allows you to quickly deploy powerful portal applications that can be quickly customized to meet changing business requirements.

IBM WebSphere Portal Version 6.0 consists of three offerings:

  • IBM WebSphere Portal Server
  • IBM WebSphere Portal Enable*
  • IBM WebSphere Portal Extend
Key new features
  • Portal interface includes new themes, drag and drop customization, and fly-out menus.
  • IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory Designer allows you to quickly build composite applications from enterprise backend systems.
  • Portal applications can be saved as templates for easy customization and deployment.
  • Searchability improved by external search engines
  • Inline editing of portal content that feeds into a review, approval, and deployment workflow.
  • Portal users can edit electronic forms as part of a business process and store them in the portal document repository.
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office integration with Portal Document manager is included for easy file sharing and storage.
  • Policy-based administration and additional configuration options are available.
  • Performance enhancements to support up to 40,000 portal pages.
Key benefits
  • Improves operational efficiency and productivity by linking the right people, process and information so transactions are executed quickly and accurately
  • Accelerates application and content deployment through new tools and the innovative use of services oriented architecture (SOA)
  • Lowers the overall costs of portal deployment with faster performance and easier administration
  • Delivers responsiveness and reliability from a leader in the enterprise portal market

* In addition to the above WebSphere Portal Version 6.0 offerings, WebSphere Portal Enable for z/OS V5.1 is also available for the IBM z/OS® platform.

WebSphere Portal Enable for z/OS V5.1 delivers the flexibility your on demand business needs, with the benefits of WebSphere Portal Enable for Multiplatforms V5.1.0.1 (except for WebSphere Application Server 6.0 toleration), and the added benefits of the z/OS platform, which include select exploitation of z/OS qualities of service and other enterprise characteristics of the z/OS platform, including support for the zSeries® Application Assist Processor (zAAP).

Related Links
IBM WebSphere Portal - Key Benefits
IBM WebSphere Portal - Overview
Portal 6 Sample Configuration
Portal Value Propositions - Enterprise vs SMB
Portal Value Proposition - Line of Business
Kolaco Portal Services

Demos and Downloads
WebSphere Portal Tour 1 (Movie 7 MB)
WebSphere Portal Tour 2 (Movie 2 MB)
WebSphere Portal Tour 3 (Movie 2.6 MB)
WebSphere Portal Dashboards (Movie 3 MB)
WebSphere Portal Executive Dashboards (Movie 5 MB)
WebSphere Personalization (Movie 4 MB)
WebSphere Document Library (Movie 6 MB)
WebSphere Portal Productivity (Movie 4.8 MB)
WebSphere Process Server (Movie 5.4 MB)

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