Commertial Portals

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Agenda

• Understanding Portal Technology
• Survey of Portal Market
• Typical Commercial Portal Systems
• Trend of Portal Systems

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What is a Portal System?

• Portal Systems
• entry point for a huge array of resources and
  services.
• a single point of access to information - a
  library of categorized and personalized content
• Yahoo, MSN and AOL

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Yahoo! Typical Portal
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Evolution of Portals
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Evolution of Portals
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Types of Portals

• Horizontal Portals
• target the entire Internet community, called
  "mega portals
• Yahoo!, MSN and AOL
• usually contain search engines and provide
  information about weather, stock quotes or news
• Vertical Portals or vortals
• for specific areas and community members
• offer information and services customized to
  community members about a particular area of
  interest.
• provide a gateway to information related to a
  particular industry, such as insurance,
  automobiles, etc.

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Types of Portals

• Enterprise Information Portals (EIP)
• A customized and personalized Web-based interface
  for corporate intranets
• Users (employees) access to a variety of internal
  and external E-business and E-commerce
  applications, databases, software tools, and
  services.
• e-Business (Extranet) Portals
• Extended enterprise portals
• to extend the enterprise to its customers,
  suppliers and partners.
• e-Marketplace portals
• to connect buyers and sellers by providing
  industry-specific news and related product and
  service information.
• ASP portals
• to rent both products and services.
• Personal (WAP) portals
• Pervasive portals or mobility portals
• portals embedded in cellular phones, wireless
  PDAs, pagers
• Appliance portals
• are portals that are embedded in TVs (WebTV),
  automobiles (OnStar), etc.
• Public or Mega (Internet) portals
• General public portals or mega portals
• Industrial portals

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Major Functions of Portals

• Search and navigation
• Information integration (content management)
• Personalization
• Notification (push technology)
• Task management and workflow
• Collaboration and groupware
• Integration of applications and business
  intelligence
• Infrastructure functionality

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Major Functions of Portals (1/4)

• Search and Navigation
• automatically present its users with the
  information appropriate to the users role
• suggest additional information to the user,
  and/or allow the user to voluntarily personalize
  the information presented by the portal
• allow the user to search for information that was
  not previously known to be relevant to the users
  role, but which may be available through the
  portal
• Information Integration (Content Management)
• should warrant the integration of information
  from disparate sources
• creating the content (authoring), describing it
  (metadata tagging),
• changing and updating it (editing), deciding
  when to display it (scheduling),
• letting several people edit it together
  (collaboration),
• letting the right people do the right things
  to it (workflow),
• stopping the wrong people from manipulating
  it (security),
• keeping track of how it has changed
  (versioning),
• displaying it in the right standard format
  (templating),
• allowing it to be displayed by others
  (syndication),
• allowing it be displayed differently to
  different visitors (personalization) and

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Major Functions of Portals (2/4)

• Personalization
• only the information which is specifically
  tailored to his/her needs.
• should be based on user roles, as well as user
  preferences.
• Personalization of navigation
• shortcuts to specific information, mostly known
  as bookmarks or favorites
• Personalization of data/content
• which stocks do I want to see in my stock ticker
• Personalization of layout
• what information appears where on the screen, in
  which format, color or size
• Notification
• receives information automatically from a portal
  server.
• Push technologies are designed to send
  information and business software directly to a
  users desktop without the user actively
  requesting it.

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Major Functions of Portals (3/4)

• Task Management and Workflow Management
• help users take part in and/or manage formally
  defined business processes.
• achieves a workflow-automated business process.
• Collaboration and Groupware
• ability to communicate with geographically
  dispersed team members across space time inside
  and outside the walls of an organization.
• includes a powerful set of workflow components,
  knowledge management and groupware
• e-Mail, Instant messaging, Calendar and PIM,
  Web and multimedia conferencing, Unified
  messaging and communications, Knowledge sharing,
  Alerts and notifications, ..
• a key requirement for knowledge portals.

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Major Functions of Portals (4/4)

• Integration of Applications/Business Intelligence
• integrate business intelligence and back-end
  tools
• DSS, EIS, Data Warehouse and Visualization using
  data mining and OLAP
• support for e-commerce
• Infrastructure Functionality
• infrastructure associated with manageability,
  scalability, security and availability
• database, repository
• authentication, authorization, security and
  protection, single-sign on
• LDAP, communication protocols,

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User Request Functional Elements of Portals
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Enabling Technologies for Portals
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Service Layer Structure of Portals
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General Architecture of Portal Systems
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Content Management

• A CMS supports the creation, management,
  distribution, publishing, and discovery of
  corporate information.
• It covers the complete lifecycle of the pages on
  your site, from providing simple tools to create
  the content, through to publishing, and finally
  to archiving.
• WebDAV (World Wide Web Distributed Authoring and
  Versioning) Collaborative authoring on the Web

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Collaboration

• Virtual workplaces where teams can communicate,
  collaborate and share information, regardless of
  their geographic location.
• Synchronous and asynchronous collaboration

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Portlets Building Blocks of Portals

• Portlets are web components managed by a
  container, that process requests and generate
  dynamic content.
• Portlets are platform independent Java Servlets
  that can be loaded dynamically into and run by a
  web server.
• Portlets interact with web clients indirectly
  through portals, via a request response paradigm
  implemented by the portlet container (WSRP/HTTP).
• Over 1000 portlet products sprang up providing
  everything including Email, stock Quote, instant
  messaging

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JSR 168 and WSRP

• JSR 168 for Portlet Standard
• Enables interoperability among Portlets and
  Portals
• Defines a set of APIs for Portlets
• WSRP (Web Services for Remote Portlets )
• Standard for interactive, presentation-oriented
  web services
• Enable interactive, presentation-oriented web
  services to be easily plugged into
  standards-compliant portals
• Ensure concepts and data exchanged are aligned
  with other standards in both the portal and web
  service arenas.
• Make the Internet a marketplace of visual web
  services, ready to be integrated into portals

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Architecture for Semantic Web Portals
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System Components

• Portal Server
• Portal platform
• Liferay Enterprise Portal, Apache JetPortal,
  Jajia Portal Server,
• Application Server
• Web server, Database server,
• Apache Tomcat,
• Portlet
• Service components
• Jakarta Pluto, jPortlet (JSR 168, WSRP), RSS,
  Z39.50,
• Content Management
• rich data format, information, knowledge
  management
• WebDAV
• Collaboration
• conferencing (T.120),
• User Interface
• XUL,

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Portal Pages Design

• Portal pages are not Web pages.
• This implies that portals always have more than
  just information to offer, as many Websites do.
• The design of a portal has to be flexible enough
  to meet diverse clients' and users' needs.
• structured enough to accommodate a wide range of
  content and visual elements.
• A good portal should offer an attractive and
  usable default design
• Portals pages are typically based on more
  advanced Web technologies
• Portal pages are virtual work spaces.

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Portal Pages Design

• Entering a Portal

• Organization/Structure

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Portal Pages Design

• Service

• Community

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Portal Pages Design
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Commercial Portal Market Review

• Spreading of Portal systems
• 80 percent of corporations already have portals
  by Jupiter Research survey in February, 2003
• Market Size

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Portal Vendors
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Types of Portal Vendors

• Application Server Suite Vendors
• Solutions from these vendors bring together the
  four key integration infrastructure technologies
  (portal user interface, business process,
  application, and data) into a single package that
  is combined with an application server and
  collaboration services.
• (IBM, Oracle, BEA, and Sun)
• Independent Portal Players
• The pure-play portal vendors offer a packaged
  solution that integrates together the key
  features of an independent portal
  (categorization, search, and personalization)
  with collaboration and content management
  services, and in some cases business intelligence
  tools
• Microsoft, Plumtree, and Vignette
• Application Package Suite Vendors
• that integrates an application vendors
  operational application and business intelligence
  packages into a portal environment
• SAP and Peoplesoft

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Portal Market

• Market Segmentation
• Market Share

Delphi Group
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IBM's WebSphere Portal
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IBM's WebSphere Portal

• IBM's WebSphere Portal is a big player in the
  portal market.
• WebSphere Portal 5.0, improves administration,
  document management, search, and collaboration.
• WebSphere Portal 5.0 integrates five common
  functions Lotus Collaboration Center 5.0 (
  people-finder portlet), Lotus Team Workplaces
  (QuickPlace 3 portlet), Lotus Web Conferencing
  (Sametime 3 portlet), and Lotus Notes e-mail,
  calendar, and TO-DO lists.
• WebSphere Portal introduces a new Document
  Manager including on-demand editors for viewing
  and editing rich text documents, spreadsheets,
  and presentations within the portals user
  interface.
• The WebSphere Process Choreographer provides its
  visual interface to rapidly construct a workflow.
• IBMs Portlet Writing Tool now makes it possible
  to create portlets that communicate with one
  another.
• The WebSphere users can automatically transcode
  the page into WML (Wireless Markup Language) for
  WAP-enabled (Wireless Application Protocol)
  devices or cHTML (Compact HTML) for i-Mode
  phones.

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Plumtree Portal Platform
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Plumtree Portal Platform

• Plumtree is moving into the cross-platform market
  and is focused on Web services.
• Key portal components
• Document directory
• publishes, indexes and categorizes content from
  document databases, file systems, e-mail and the
  Web in a secure, searchable knowledge-base
• Personalized portal pages
• empower each user to create an online workspace
  with the content and application services most
  important to his or her work
• Community pages
• offer shared workspaces for workgroups and
  departments, partners and customers to
  collaborate on projects and share information
• Web-based administration console
• distributes administration to project managers
  and content experts throughout the organization
  and
• Search
• allows users to find content in the portals
  knowledge base and across collaboration projects.

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BEA WebLogic Portal
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BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1

• Provides the best environment for building
  portlets, portal applications and Web services.
• provides easy drag-and-drop capabilities, action
  workflows and detailed customization options.
• all these applications and portlets are built
  using common languages and standards, such as
  JSP, XML and SOAP
• Excellent administration interface
• Broad platform support including UNIX, Linux, and
  Windows
• Includes several powerful capabilities to the
  portal, including content management integration.
  
• New browser-based administration interface made
  it very easy in tests to manage multiple portals
  and applications.
• Can define detailed role and user rights, as well
  as define delegated administrators for different
  areas of our portals.

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Future Trend of Portals

• Ontology-based Semantic Portal
• Integration of the ECP into EIP
• Web services-based Portals
• Wireless Portal

Ontology-based Knowledge Web Services
/Portlets Ubiquitous Computing
Information Integration
EIS
EIP
Semantics Integration
Business Applications
EAI
Application/Service Integration
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