Build composite applications with the market's leading portal

The IBM Webshere Portal Server product is the foundation of all the Websphere Portal product family. It provides core portal services that aggregate applications and content and deliver them as role-based applications.

WebSphere Portal Server Version 6.1 software lets you quickly consolidate applications and content into role-based applications, complete with search, personalisation and security capabilities. You can also apply powerful development capabilities, like those of IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory software, to speed application deployment. IBM accelerators for IBM WebSphere Portal software provide another way to address specific business challenges and simplify portal implementations, helping obtain a faster time to value.

WebSphere Portal Server software provides the ability to create a portal that's right for specific business needs. It provides portal page customisation capabilities, along with click-to-action technology allowing for the creation of highly interactive portal applications. Plus, multisite support enables multiple virtual portals on a single installation.

WebSphere Portal Server software delivers a scalable architecture and innovative portal services such as:

• Flexible access to existing enterprise data and applications, as well as to external news feeds or web data
• Live text tagging, which allows users to access relevant supporting information with a single click without leaving the page they are viewing
• Portal Representational State Transfer (REST) services allow the incorporate of composite mashup applications, including service feeds from other web applications
• A site wizard that allows users to create and deploy independent virtual portals
• A one-click site management application featuring rollback and versioning capabilities to simplify moving portals from staging to production
• Expanded site layout support providing the existing static HTML, built with familiar HTML and PHP development tools, opening up the platform to additional content sources
• Support for the latest portlet open standards, including Java - Specification Request (JSR) 286 and Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) 2.0 protocols
• A Web application integrator that easily embeds existing web applications into portals
• Enhanced usability features, such as drag-and-drop customizations and semantic tags that enable smart markups and dynamic menus
• Templates, a Theme Customiser portlet and WebSphere Portlet Factory software that help speed application deployment through new portlet development and deployment capabilities
• Integration and tooling to create composite, high-value applications that leverage existing investments in legacy applications and databases
• WebSphere Portal Server software includes restricted licenses to the following products:*
  • IBM Tivoli Directory Server software
  • IBM WebSphere Application Server software
  • IBM DB2 databases
  • IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory software