WebSphere

IBM WebSphere Portal Server, IBM WebSphere Portal Enable and IBM WebSphere Portal Extend are three of the industry's most comprehensive portal offerings. WebSphere Portal contains the widest range of portal technologies that help you develop and maintain first-class B2C, B2B and B2E portals. And WebSphere Portal helps to provide a quicker return on your investment with the following business benefits:

• Deliver exceptional Web experiences - Take advantage of new, nimble Web 2.0 technologies and philosophies that put new business models in reach.
• Extend your business assets - Create and deploy custom-branded, market-driven solutions comprised of existing and net-new business assets, and re-purpose and reuse as appropriate.
• Run your business efficiently - Built on WebSphere software so that enterprise-class applications, processes and transactions can reside on a proven, reliable, scalable and high-performance foundation.
• Grow as you go - "Snap on" business-specific capabilities speed time to value and allow you to pursue new market opportunities - all while reducing the of cost of deploying portals.

Benefits

WebSphere Portal Server is the foundation offering of the WebSphere Portal product family. It provides core portal services that aggregate applications and content and deliver them as role-based applications, 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 Representation State Transfer (REST) services that allow you to incorporate 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 that enables you to incorporate 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
• A Web application integrator that enables you to easily embed existing Web applications into your portals
• Enhanced usability features, such drag-and-drop customizations and semantic tags that enable smart mark-ups and dynamic menus
• Templates, a Theme Customizer portlet and WebSphere Portlet Factory software that help you speed application deployment through new portlet development and deployment capabilities
• Integration and tooling that allow you to quickly create composite, high-value applications that leverage existing investments in legacy applications and databases