IBM Websphere Portal V6.1.5 and IBM Websphere Portal Express V6.1.5 Further Improve the Portal User Experience
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IBM United States Software Announcement 209-412, dated November 17, 2009 IBM WebSphere Portal V6.1.5 and IBM WebSphere Portal Express V6.1.5 further improve the portal user experience Table of contents 1 Overview 7 Publications 2 Key prerequisites 7 Technical information 2 Planned availability date 9 Ordering information 2 Description 19 Terms and conditions 4 Statement of direction 22 Prices 7 Program number At a glance IBM® WebSphere® Portal V6.1.5 provides new features that further empower portal users, delivers improved capabilities for better portal performance and optimization, and adds support for popular Web programming tools and techniques that make it easier to contribute to, and manage, the portal. Combined with the Web 2.0 advances previously introduced in WebSphere Portal, these primary new features help organizations better deliver and manage exceptional Web user experiences. Enhancements • New Page Builder and portal page template creation capabilities • Optional selective portlet start-up dramatically reduces portal start-up time • Support added for mashup creation, editing, and sharing • New WebDav support allows portal page browsing, editing, and storing via external Web design tools • Authorized users can "impersonate" other users, for troubleshooting portal applications • JSR 286 rendering portlet updated and enhanced with improved inline editing support • People Picker search enhanced to support faster search results To order, contact your IBM representative, an IBM Business Partner, or the Americas Call Centers at: 800-IBM-CALL. Reference: IBM WebSphere Portal YE001 WebSphere Portal Express YE001 Overview IBM WebSphere Portal V6.1.5 provides a complete portal solution that builds upon a solid foundation of previous WebSphere Portal releases. Available for IBM WebSphere Portal Server, IBM WebSphere Portal Enable, IBM WebSphere Portal Extend, and IBM WebSphere Portal Express, this new release provides capabilities that further empower portal users to contribute to as well as manage portal content and presentation. It also features improved portal performance and optimization capabilities, which can help contribute to a lower cost of ownership. New support is added for popular Web and Web content tools and techniques that make it easier for IBM United States Software Announcement IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 1 209-412 more resources to contribute to, and manage, the portal. Combined with the Web 2.0 advances previously introduced in WebSphere Portal, these new features help organizations better deliver and manage exceptional Web user experiences. Key new features • New Page Builder and portal page template creation capabilities greatly simplify portal page creation and management, further empowering business users and freeing IT. • Optional selective portlet startup dramatically reduces portal start-up time; integration with popular third-party site analytics solutions help to further optimize portal applications and improve portal cost of ownership. • Added support for mashup creation, editing, and sharing, as well as support for the rendering of mashups available from IBM Mashup Accelerator, directly in WebSphere Portal, provides greater flexibility and increased value. • New WebDav support allows portal page browsing, editing, and storing via external Web design tools; coupled with content authoring via added support for PHP techniques, these new capabilities greatly expand the community of portal developers and contributors to users with associated skills. Other new features and enhancements: • Ability for authorized users to "impersonate" other users, for example, it can help support personnel safely troubleshoot portal applications • People Picker search enhanced to support better and faster search results Key prerequisites Refer to the Hardware requirements and Software requirements sections for details. Planned availability date November 25, 2009: Electronic software delivery December 11, 2009: Media and documentation Description IBM WebSphere Portal V6.1.5 builds upon previous releases to provide an complete portal solution with the portal services necessary to deliver a single point of personalized interaction with applications, content, business processes, and people. The unified, exceptional, user experience can help you improve overall productivity and customer satisfaction. WebSphere Portal rationalizes and simplifies IT infrastructure by delivering a complete set of portal platform services: • Framework services • Integration services • Content services • Collaboration services These services can be leveraged by the entitled WebSphere Portlet Factory Designer to build role-based, portal applications that can help improve the effectiveness of your organization. Because WebSphere Portal utilizes a service oriented architecture (SOA), these applications can use existing assets and can be quickly modified to meet changing roles and business conditions. To meet your requirements, IBM WebSphere Portal V6.1.5 is available in four offerings. IBM United States Software Announcement IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 2 209-412 IBM WebSphere Portal Server IBM WebSphere Portal Server is the foundation offering of the WebSphere Portal product family, with robust portal capabilities that enable you to quickly consolidate applications and content into role-based applications, complete with search, personalization, and security capabilities. With the availability of IBM WebSphere Portal V6.1.5, you get significant investment in WebSphere Portal Server foundation, as well as all the other WebSphere Portal offerings listed below. This new release provides capabilities that further empower portal users to contribute to, as well as manage, portal content and presentation. It also features improved portal performance and optimization capabilities, which can help contribute to a lower cost of ownership. New support is added for popular Web design tools and techniques that make it easier for more resources to contribute to, and manage, the portal. Combined with the Web 2.0 advances previously introduced in WebSphere Portal, these new features help organizations better deliver and manage exceptional Web user experiences. • New Web 2.0 style Page Builder and portal page template creation capabilities greatly simplify portal page creation and management, further empowering business users and freeing IT. • Optional selective portlet application start-up dramatically reduces portal start-up time. • Enhanced support for integration with popular third-party site analytics solutions (WebTrends, Omniture, Coremetrics) helps to further optimize portal applications and improve portal cost-of-ownership. • IBM Mashup Accelerator support for creation, editing, and sharing of mashups directly in WebSphere Portal provides greater flexibility and increased value. IBM Mashup Accelerator is an easy-to-use business mashup platform, supporting line- of-business assembly of dynamic situational applications - with the management, security, and governance capabilities IT requires. IBM Mashup Accelerator is a streamlined integration of IBM Mashup Center V2.0 with WebSphere Portal V6.1.5 that helps organizations empower business users increase their effectiveness, and deliver new applications and capabilities in minutes, hours, and days, instead of months. With IBM Mashup Accelerator, it is possible to use mashups, widgets, and feeds from Mashup Center in Portal pages - helping organizations reduce application backlog, lower costs and development time with a single integrated platform for portal and mashups. It lets organizations quickly assemble mashups, try them out and customize them, then deploy them through WebSphere portal. Acting as an incubator for new applications, it can also be used to create widgets that can be deployed in Mashup Center or WebSphere Portal, and support creation of mashups from inside the WebSphere Portal environment. • New WebDav support allows portal static page browsing, editing, and storing via external Web design tools. • Added support for portal page rendering PHP techniques for Web development greatly expands the community of portal developers and contributors to users with associated skills. • New ability for authorized users to "impersonate" other users increases flexibility to manage changes in business operations, for example, to help support personnel safely troubleshoot portal applications. • New out-of-the-box templates accelerate user productivity, including new wiki and blog templates. • Updated WebSphere Portlet Factory V6.1.5 included. IBM WebSphere Portal Enable - All the features of IBM WebSphere Portal Server plus: • IBM Lotus® Web Content Management, which is included with a restricted license for portal use, enables you to rapidly build next generation Web sites with new enhancements that can be used throughout the entire content lifecycle. Improvements in authoring, management, and delivery enable you to interact with your customers, partners, and employees in new ways. IBM United States Software Announcement IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 3 209-412 • Document management is provided with a restricted use license of IBM Lotus QuickrTM. Your users can easily share, view, and organize files of all types ranging from documents to spreadsheets within the portal community. You can quickly set up document libraries so your teams can easily share your rich