Web Portal Software provides unified user experience.
Press Release Summary:
WebSphere® Portal for Multiplatforms v5.0 offers singularized point of personalized interaction with applications, content, processes, and people. It provides flexible, open framework to build successful business-to-employee, business-to-business, and business-to-consumer portals. Unique e-business on demand(TM) portal requirements are addressed through integration of WebSphere Portal Enable and WebSphere Portal Extend.
Original Press Release:
IBM WebSphere Portal for Multiplatforms V5.0 Offers a Unified User Experience
At a glance
WebSphere Portal for Multiplatforms V5.0 benefits include:
· Rapid response to changes in the marketplace using a wide range of integrated modular capabilities
· Higher degree of user satisfaction with personalized, dynamic, and reliable portal access
· Revenue enhancement by providing the human interface for collaborative e-business on demand
· Acceleration of the time to value by providing timely responses to customers', Business Partners', and employees' need for information and access to business processes
· Reduction of business costs by improving employee productivity and reusing existing assets
· Fast return on investment with out-of-the-box utilization
WebSphere Portal for Multiplatforms V5.0 consists of two offerings:
· WebSphere Portal Enable
· WebSphere Portal Extend
Overview
WebSphere® Portal for Multiplatforms V5.0 offers a single point of personalized interaction with the applications, content, processes, and people for a unified user experience. WebSphere Portal brings together the best-of-breed technologies and the depth of resources that IBM has to offer. It provides a flexible, open, and extensible framework to build successful business-to-employee (B2E), business-to-business (B2B), and business-to-consumer (B2C) portals.
WebSphere Portal was designed to meet the needs of all enterprises from small and medium businesses to the largest enterprises that demand the most scalable, secure, and robust infrastructure.
Customers choosing WebSphere Portal can realize substantial improvement in speed and flexibility in the marketplace from the following benefits:
· Better service to customers and partners
· Acceleration of time to value realization
· Reduction of business cycle time
· Improved business adaptability and resiliency
WebSphere Portal for Multiplatforms V5.0 continues the unified portal strategy for IBM. WebSphere Portal for Multiplatforms V4.2 is replaced by WebSphere Portal for Multiplatforms V5.0.
WebSphere Portal for Multiplatforms V5.0 addresses unique e-business on demand(TM) portal requirements with the following offerings:
· WebSphere Portal Enable for Multiplatforms V5.0
Your e-business can build highly scalable portals to help simplify and speed up user interaction with personalized information, business processes, and applications.
· WebSphere Portal Extend for Multiplatforms V5.0
You can share, organize, and create transactions, information, business processes, and applications with other portal users.
Key prerequisites
· IBM-compatible PC with Windows® 2000, Red Hat Linux, or SuSE Linux
· IBM pSeries(TM) with AIX®
· Sun processor with Solaris
· IBM zSeries® or S/390® Enterprise Server capable of running SuSE SLES
Planned availability dates
· August 22, 2003: Electronic software delivery
· September 15, 2003: Media and documentation
