WebSphere Portal Express

Features and benefits

IBM WebSphere Portal Express offers collaboration, document management, Web content management, presence awareness and instant messaging in a single, easy-to-deploy solution with flexible pricing options. Designed for organizations of under 1000 users or departments within larger organizations, WebSphere Portal Express Version 6.1 helps you and your teams collaborate and share documents, deploy and maintain Web sites and access the applications, content and people you need to do your job.

Benefits

• Provides SMB organizations with a single offering to help meet their portal, Web content management and collaboration needs
• Provides employees and customers with timely information and access to applications
• Helps increase employee productivity by allowing staff to work together more effectively
• Simplified installation and improved administration helps lower deployments costs
• Based on industry standards that can grow as your organizations needs grow, helping reduce maintenance, migration and retraining costs
• Easy to deploy and administer new Websites and applications

Features

• Provides employees, customers and partners with access to Web sites on which the information and applications they need are consolidated and organized for easy access and use.
• Web content management capability helps reduce implementation time and costs by placing content creation and management firmly in the hands of content experts, for "author once, publish everywhere" control. The result is more accurate portal content that can be updated more frequently.
• Prescriptively designed, out-of-the-box Internet and intranet example sites that can easily be tailored to an organization's specific needs are now optimized for virtual portal environments.
• Provides document management capability to enable individuals and teams to share and save documents in a central location.
• Instant messaging and presence awareness capabilities allow users to find and chat with colleagues without picking up the phone.
• Development tools and capabilities are included to allow customization of existing applications and the creation of new custom applications that help address an organization's unique needs.

Enhancements

• A Page Builder that simplifies page creation, making it easy for business users to create pages and add content to pages
• Portal "Lite" Mode, which helps improve cost-of-ownership by dramatically reducing portal start-up time
• Integrated Site Analytics support that helps to optimize portal applications via integration with popular 3rd party solutions
• WebDAV support, which expands development ease-of-use by enabling direct editing of portal pages using tools such as Dreamweaver
• A Template Page capability that speeds page creation by allowing portal pages to act as templates when creating other new portal pages
• Mashup Integration support, which provides rendering/creation of Mashups directly in portal as a portal page

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