IBM WebSphere Portal web software application for portlets

IBM WebSphere® Portal for Multiplatforms

As a core component of IBM® Workplace™ technology, the front end of computing that strives to make people more productive in the context of the business they do every day,

IBM WebSphere® Portal for Multiplatforms, Version 6 helps simplify your organisation's technology infrastructure by offering a single point of personalised interaction with applications, content, processes and people. To deliver a unified user experience, and an innovative, adaptive user environment designed to transform productivity, WebSphere Portal brings together a range of leading-edge technologies designed to give you a flexible, open, extensible framework to build successful business-to-employee (B2E), business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) portals.

Based on open-standards

WebSphere Portal software is an open-standards-based framework supporting a range of options across databases, directories, platforms and security, with portlets serving as a key component. The term portlet refers to a small portal application, usually depicted as a small box in the Web page.

IT + Employees = Customisation

This leading-edge family of products, technologies and solutions enables you to customise work environments based on users’ unique roles in your organisation. WebSphere Portal software can help reduce costs by leveraging existing investments in enterprise applications, data and security technology—while you evolve to meet the challenges of today’s on demand business environment.

Portlets are reusable components that provide access to enterprise applications, Web-based content, host and data systems, content-management systems, process-driven workflow applications, and other resources. Web pages, Web services, applications and syndicated content feeds can be accessed through portlets.

WebSphere Portal software includes pre-integrated portlets, cross-portlet integration for all application types, tools that enable you to create new portlets easily and the ability to construct composite applications to manage business processes and workflow transactions spanning multiple enterprise systems. As a result, WebSphere Portal helps organisations move beyond fragmented application silos while hiding the complexity of the IT infrastructure. These advantages help improve employee productivity and business responsiveness, help cut costs and strengthen relationships with customers and partners.