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IBM has unveiled software designed to make it easier for companies and solution providers to develop and integrate Web portal technologies.
Portals enable businesses to operate faster and more efficiently by letting people access information, collaborate and communicate across disparate systems in real time via a Web browser.
Enterprises are deploying portals to improve productivity and accelerate business processes by enabling employees, business partners and customers to interact with information, people, processes, and applications through the Web browser. Today, customers require solutions that more rapidly deploy Web-based solutions to maximize their current investments. By making these tools available, IBM is delivering new capabilities that it says “add value enhanced tooling and advanced application support for solutions that are brought forward through their portal.”
IBM says the announcement further demonstrates the advancements IBM's made in WebSphere Portal, which is being used by over 1,800 customers.
“WebSphere Portal will now allow customers to use many of the capabilities found within Lotus Workplace Web Content Management to accelerate the development and delivery of critical business information and lower the cost of managing content,” IBM points out. “By providing these resources within WebSphere Portal, IBM's providing its customers with an additional way to quickly and easily create, publish, manage and archive Web-based content within a corporate intranet, extranet and Internet environment.
“Through the WebSphere Portal Application Integrator tool, IBM will provide enhanced support for Oracle applications via WebSphere Portal. By extending customers' ability to access enterprise applications such as Oracle's HR, finance and manufacturing applications, businesses can extend access to Oracle applications to its employees in a centralized and integrated environment.
“IBM is also improving upon the WebSphere Portal's productivity tools that allow users to view, create, convert and edit basic text, spreadsheets and presentations files without having to leave their portal environment. Customers will now have the ability to import and export Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Word files, as well as IBM Lotus 1-2-3 and Lotus Freelance files.
“In addition, the IBM WebSphere Portal Catalog now has over 1,200 solutions and services to build and deploy portlets that provide near-effortless access to corporate applications such as enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management and supply chain management through the WebSphere Portal.
“Software companies offering services for WebSphere Portal will now be able to make them available worldwide via the WebSphere Portal Catalog. By providing their services via the catalog, IBM's customers will have quick and easy access to cutting edge technology expertise, such as consulting, designing, developing or integrating portal solutions that meet their functional and technical requirements.
“The new portlets and portlet builders announced today include knowledge management, collaboration, and search/retrieval applications. They can push such things as stock tickers, weather forecasts, calendars and news bulletins to a desktop via the portal, or be clicked on to connect users to personal productivity, core business or collaborative applications.
“Today, over 200 software companies are developing portlets for WebSphere Portal, which includes 38 software companies that have recently agreed to create portlets to more tightly link their software applications to WebSphere Portal technology for a broad range of industries,” IBM concludes.
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