WebSphere Portal
Collaboration Tool:
IBM WebSphere Portal aggregates the legacy applications and provides a single
role-based access to all of them presenting the workspace according to user’s
personal preferences.
Target Market:
-
Companies that want their employees to improve productiveness by
providing them with a single access point to all the company’s applications.
-
 Companies that want to enable their internal applications for use by
partners and customers.
Components:
  WebSphere Portal has different licenses that differs by a
number of features included. Advanced packages include all the features of the
smaller versions.
Also, IBM provides editions for small and midsize businesses that adds portal toolkit for
easy portlet development and miss some advanced components:
The table below represents specific features for each
edition:
|
Product,
Sub-Product
Category, Feature |
Server |
Enable |
Extend |
Express |
Express Plus |
|
WebSphere Application Server |
|
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
|
Portal Framework |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
|
Presentation Services |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
|
Integration /
Connectivity services |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
|
Personalization /
Customization controls |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
|
Productivity
components (edit documents without the need of client-side software) |
|
|
|
|
+ |
|
Portlets API |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
|
Role-based access
management / Single sign-in |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
|
Portlets |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
|
SOA support |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
|
Web Services support (publish portlets as Web Serivces,
access Web Serivces via portlets |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
|
Search |
+ |
+ |
+ |
|
|
|
Workflow functions |
|
+ |
+ |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
WebSphere Portal Document Manager |
|
+ |
+ |
+ |
+ |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Portal Toolkit (Only for versions older
then 5.1) / Tools for portlet development* |
|
|
|
+ |
+ |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Collaboration |
|
|
+ |
|
+ |
|
Lotus Sametime Instant Messaging |
|
|
+ |
|
+ |
|
Lotus QuickPlace |
|
|
+ |
|
+ |
|
Team Calendar |
|
|
+ |
|
+ |
|
Manage Projects |
|
|
+ |
|
+ |
|
Discussion Threads |
|
|
+ |
|
+ |
|
People finder |
|
|
+ |
|
+ |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Components |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Workplace Web Content Management
(limited license) |
|
+ |
+ |
|
|
|
WebSphere Portlet Factory Designer |
+ |
+ |
+ |
|
|
|
IBM Workplace Forms |
|
|
+ |
|
|
|
WebSphere Everyplace Mobile Portal
Enable |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mobile Portal Toolkit |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
* Please use
IBM Rational Application
Developer for WebSphere Software V6.0 or
IBM Rational Software
Architect V6.0 for Portal 5.1
Current Version:
WebSphere Portal
V6.0
Hot News:
WebSphere Portal
V6.0 is currently available. It seems to provide more customization tools in
hand of users, allowing them to build workflow processes or build customized
composite applications without programming. This is done through portlets that
each delivers different services and can be compose together in different ways.
Read what is new in the version 6.0
here.
Known Issues:
Competitors:
SAP Enterprise Portal
Oracle Portal
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