TIMETOWEB Content Management

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TIMETOWEB Content Management
TIMETOACT Group Im Mediapark 2, D-50670
Cologne
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CMS or Portal ?
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• What kind of portal do you need?
• Application-Portal
• Application-Integration Portal
• Information-Portal

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Application-Portal
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• Application that comes with (free) portal
• optimized for its own application
• e.g. SAP HR employee self-services
• e.g. Facility Management portal
• usage beyond its own application is limited
• relatively low cost
• should most often be implemented
• TIMETOACT has no experience with application
  portals

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Application-Integration-Portal I
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• Typical strength
• Application integration in a heterogeneous
  infrastructure (e.g. integrate Siebel CRM with
  custom ERP and SAP financial information system,
  click on a customer name in Siebel-portlet, see
  his backlog in ERP-portlet and his credit line in
  SAP-portlet)
• Transaction support(e.g. Increase credit line)
• Single sign-on(e.g. Sign on to CRM and ERP
  simultaneously)
• Manager Level Users(Managers use many
  applications superficially, i.e. as portlets,
  administrators and clerks use fewer applications
  as fullscreen apps)

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Application-Integration-Portal II
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• Best Application-Integration-Portal is the
  WebSphere-Portal
• Supports important standards, e.g. JSR-168
  (contrary to SAP)
• Is clear market leader
• Comes with usefull add-ons
• Supported by rapid development tools like portlet
  factory
• Should be implemented if typical strength is
  required
• TIMETOACT has good experience with WebSphere
  Portal

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White Paper Portal-Implemantation I
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• InfrastructureOrganization of the portal
  infrastructure, integration of the portal into
  the enterprise infrastructure.
• UI-Customization Adjustment of the portals user
  interface to the own corporatelayout.
• WebSphere Portal 6 Features Decision about the
  usage and implementation of WebSphere add-on
  features and alternative products.

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White Paper Portal-Implemantation II
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• OperationImplementation of requirements for the
  production.
• Application migration Development of a strategy
  and/or several scenarios for the migration and
  integration of existing applications.
• Pilot-applications Development of criteria and
  identification of applications for the early
  integration into the portal.
• Portlet-application development Development of a
  strategy and a concept for the development of
  portlets.
• Shaping of business processes Decision over the
  introduction of IBM WebSphere Process server
  and/or alternative products.

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White Paper Portet-Development
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• The portal selection
• Portlet development
• The spring-framework
• Generic portlet develpment with the JSR168
  portlet API
• Spring portlet MVC
• Java Server Faces (JSF)
• Spring portlet MVC vs. JSF pro and contra
• Conclusion

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Information Portal Requirements I
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• 100 Corporate Identity
• Multilingualism
• Simple content maintenance (inline editing with
  web browser)
• Performance (sub-second)
• Management tools
• Reorganization
• Monitoring
• Data integration
• Lotus Notes, RDBMS, RSS, SAP etc.

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Information Portal Requirements II
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• Content Live Cycle Management, among others
• Change notifications
• Check in, check out
• Approval workflow
• Follow-up
• Version management
• Scheduling (approval, follow-up, revision,
  archiving etc.)

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Information Portal Requirements III
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• Personalization
• active, passive, hybrid
• Knowledge management
• uniform indexing, taxonomy, tagging
• Feasibility information architecture
• Effective navigation
• Corporate structure visualization
• Creating an overview over existing information

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Platform Choice
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Lotus Notes / Domino Portal
Hard- software is available No platform implementation required Established distribution-mechanism (replication) Established user management Usage of existing access rights management Usage of existing administration-skills Usage of existing databases Usage of established processes End-user skills New Hard- software required New platform implementation required ? ? ?
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Platform Choice Lotus Domino
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• Established, proven and mature platform
• High integration e.g. user administration,
  authorization management, clustering, mail,
  monitoring, replication, scheduling, search, etc.
• Open platform LEI, LSX, SAP, RDBMS, RSS,
  WebServices, XML etc.
• Domino 8.5 delivers DXL, DoJo, X-Pages (JSF)
• High performance, high availability
• Fast projects, low costs

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TIMETOWEB CMS Architecture
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• Content Modules
• Collaborative / Web 2.0 Modules
• Flexible
• Easily adaptable
• Very configurable
• Serves also as a framework for individual web
  applications
• Optimal integration of existing Notes databases

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TIMETOWEB Datasource Technology
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• Central TIMETOWEB technology
• Simple integration of legacy data using
  configuration

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TIMETOWEB Web User Interface
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• Intuitive interface
• Real WYSIWYG
• Inline editing
• Fast
• Uses latest JavaScript framework technology
• Can be restricted to paragraph styles

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Information-Portal with CMS
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Information-Portal with CMS
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• Personalized widgets
• Links
• My favorites
• My news
• My location
• My weather
• RSS-Feeds
• Tag clouds
• etc.

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Information-Portal with CMS
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• Personalization of information and layout

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Web 2.0 Social Software with CMS
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• Blogs
• Chatrooms
• Bulletin board
• Forms, mails
• Integrated project-rooms
• Annotation of content
• Newsletter
• Tagging
• RSS-Feeds
• etc.

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Information Architecture with CMS
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• Extension of the sitemap by tagging, tag clouds,
  related documents, etc.
• Cost advantage by optimized search for information

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EmployeePages extension
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• Visualization of the organisational structure
• Master data import
• Employee profiles
• Profile search
• Phonebook
• much more

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EmployeePages extension
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• Sametime integration
• Export VCF, mail-distributor, phone-listings
• etc.

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Chances for cost savings
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• Less editorial expenses
• by an easy to use application
• by fast and easy deposition of information
• Less developing expenses by a fast integration of
  different applications
• Lower access times for the users
• by personalization
• by information architecture
• by knowlege and skill management

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Practical Example Welcome Page
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The welcome page is divided in fixed components
predetermined by the enterprise and moveable
widgets with partial personalizable content. The
arrangements and settings are filed persistent in
each person document. Thereby the personal
welcome page is available from every computer.
Fixed components whose content e.g. could be
evaluated by rights or localization.
By the user moveable and partial personalizable
widgets.
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Infocenter
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Chronological sorting of information. Simple
detection of information by an intuitive
navigation through years and months.
Organisatonal or logical classification.
The extern and intern enterprise news could be
displayed classified by category, division or
rights and sorted by publishing date.
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Shared Documents
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Documents like best practices or guidelines can
be displayed in overviews. For authorized persons
the inserting of new documents is also possible
simple an fast in the web interface.
Content fields can be edited at any time by
Inline Editing.
Simple upload and removal of files.
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Community
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The employees coulds create, edit and manage the
information in their profile. The basic data
could be imported and regulary updated from other
data sources (e.g. SAP, domino directory) to keep
the maintenace effort small. By a categorisation
by groups or tags an effective search for skills
or assignments is possible.
Search within the pool of employees by different
categorisations.
Overview of the contact information of each
employee .
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Employee Profiles
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In the detailed employee profiles could be stored
most diverse information about the single
employees.
Contact information
Information about e.g. skills, expertise,
languages, tags, groups, hobbies, history,
supervisors and so on could be edited fast and
simple by the employee through Inline Editing.
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TIMETOWEB references (summary)
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• Aliseca (intranet)
• Bayer AG (intranet)
• Bayer CropScience AG (intra-, extra- internet)
• Bayer HealthCare AG (approx. 190 intranet
  websites)
• Bayer MaterialScience AG (intra-, extra-
  internet)
• BDEW (extra- internet)
• Berliner Volksbank (intranet)
• Coca Cola Erfischungsgetränke AG (intranet in
  preparation)
• GdP (Extra- Internet)
• Geberit AG (intranet in preparation)
• Gesamtmetall (internet)
• LANXESS AG (global intranet)
• LBS (Intranet)
• Vinnolit (internet)

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TIMETOACT references
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Conclusion CMS vs. Portal
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• CMS (TIMETOWEB) based websites offer a wide range
  of personalization options.
• CMS based websites use widgets and look more like
  portals.
• CMS based websites offer better content
  management than portals.
• CMS based websites are good in aggregating
  information.
• Portals are the right choice for application
  integration.
• Portals are more complex and more expensive than
  a CMS.
• TIMETOACT has know-how, methodology and deep
  skills in CMS and WebSphere Portal

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How can we help you?
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