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TECH NEWS
IBM Accelerators Bring Lotus Collaboration Tools to WebSphere Portal
Three accelerators help connect users to team projects and professional networks.
New business-specific packages called "accelerators" from IBM are designed to help users be productive quickly with WebSphere Portal. Accelerators integrate existing portals and address a business need. The new accelerators leverage features in Lotus Quickr and Lotus Connections to give users tools from a company's Web site to create, connect, and share content, plus get access to community resources and contacts through professional networking tools.
The three new accelerators include:
- Collaboration tools designed to drive team collaboration, organizational knowledge sharing, and improve productivity, using Lotus Quickr, Lotus Sametime, and Lotus Connections from WebSphere Portal. The Collaboration Accelerator includes team workspaces, document libraries, presence awareness and Sametime Instant Messaging, Web conferencing, people profiles and directories, and enterprise social networking features such as blogs, wikis, shared bookmarking, and communities.
- Content tools for customers to build and manage Web sites, intranets, extranets, and portals with features from Workplace Web Content Management, Portal Document Management, and OmniFind Enterprise Edition. Users can create content with intuitive, Web tools and personalize it for site visitors. The Content Accelerator improves productivity and lets organizations keep Web content current and accurate without sacrificing brand identity or corporate Web standards.
- The Enterprise Suite supports multiple portal projects, including Web content management, collaboration, electronic forms, dashboards, advanced search, and offline rich client support. The Enterprise Suite is a combination of accelerators, including Content, Collaboration, and Dashboards and related technology including elements of Lotus Forms and Lotus Expeditor.
With these three accelerators, IBM now offers all five of the accelerators identified as part of its strategy announced in April 2007 for the portal market. The Dashboard accelerator was announced late April while Workforce Management for HR self-service was made available in July. Customers may start with WebSphere Portal Server and an accelerator, such as the Collaboration Accelerator for interaction with people and teams. When they're ready for a new project, they can add other accelerators as appropriate, such as the Dashboard Accelerator for real-time key performance indicators and decision making; or the Self-Service Accelerator to empower employees and reduce administrative HR costs.
"Our simple approach of a single, standards based, portal platform, and easy to integrate accelerators is giving customers the maximum flexibility and choice to address their business needs and are making portals the irresistible choice for advance Web user interactions," said Larry Bowden, vice president of portals and interaction services. "The significant developments we’ve made to the product line in 2007 leverages over 1/2 decade of being a leader in the portal market with compelling new technical advances in SOA, Web 2.0, mashups, and easy of use, preintegration packages that will help our customers keep their portal the best in the industry.
Click here for more information about WebSphere Portal Accelerators.
Keyword Tags: IBM, IBM Lotus, IBM Lotus Domino, IBM Lotus QuickPlace, IBM Lotus Sametime, IBM WebSphere, IBM WebSphere Portal, Portals, Web 2.0
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