WebSphere Portal Server

Create exceptional web experiences with dynamic portals

IBM® WebSphere® Portal Server provides custom-branded, enterprise portal capabilities that help you deliver a highly-personalized, social experience for your customers. With WebSphere Portal Server, you can give customers a single point of access to the applications, services, information and social connections they need. WebSphere Portal Server helps you increase visitor response and reduce web operations costs.

WebSphere Portal Server features include:

Core portal services such as role-based access to applications and content, search, personalization and security features.
Context-relevant resources presented through commonly-used web browsers, giving users faster access to resources needed to complete tasks.
Advanced usability features that enable drag-and-drop customizations and integration with social and rich-media websites.
Scalable platform and architecture that deliver Web 2.0 capabilities on next-generation devices and channels.

Core portal services

Enable fast consolidation of applications and content based on user profiles, including search, personalization and security capabilities.
Simplify the movement of portals from staging to production with a one-click site management tool, featuring rollback and versioning capabilities.
Include built-in social and near real-time communications, e-commerce capabilities and analytics support. Portal applications can be optimized using popular third-party products.
Incorporate composite mashup applications including service feeds from other web applications.

Context-relevant resources

Provide personalized access to applications and content to keep customers highly engaged.
Deliver targeted content and dynamic offers based on a user’s behaviors, preferences, purchases and location to help you address new markets.

Advanced usability features

Simplify page creation, making it easier for business users to create pages and add content to pages.
Allow customization of existing applications and the creation of new custom applications to address a user’s unique needs.
Foster online communities with user-added content. Users can organize and evaluate content using the tagging and rating feature within the page builder.

Scalable platform and architecture

Use an enterprise-class WebSphere software foundation with support for open standards.
Enable administration of clustered portal farms with multiple profile support for increased scalability.
Manage data more efficiently with IBM DB2® technology, providing increased data protection and performance for database-intensive operations.
Allow flexible access to existing enterprise data and applications, so you can take advantage of your existing web and IT assets.

WebSphere Portal Server resources

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