portal for your business

Portal 2.0Portals for your business delivered faster with our Agile Approach

using

Liferay, JBoss Portal and Websphere Portal

What is a portal?Gartner defines a portal as a "Web software infrastructure that provides access to, and interaction with, relevant information assets (for example, information/content, applications and business processes), knowledge assets and human assets by select targeted audiences, delivered in ahighly personalized manner."

How to use a Portal?

IntranetCompany to Employee, Employee to Employee

ExtranetCompany to Partners, Company to field staff, Partners to Partners

Collaborative WebsitesKnowledge sharing, research, team building, Networking,

Content Management and PublishingDocument creation, review, publishing and archiving

Portal

Benefits

• Create rich websites with minimum effort and costs

• Build an active collaborative community within your company

• Build customer/employee self service interfaces integrated with backend systems

• Publish and share the latest information using CMS

Common Portal Features

• Page Design and Layout• Users, Roles and Face book• Discussion Forum, Tagging, Blogs• Shared calendars• Chats and Messaging• Content Management and Publishing• Portlets for Maps, Weather, Dictionary

Levels of Customization

Integration with backend systems

using Portlets, Custom Mash-ups

Basic Look & Feel, Page Layout

Complex

Simple

Advantages of JEE Based Portals

• Development according to standards (JSR-168, JSR-286)– Interportlet communication, Portable

• Use proven open source frameworks, like spring, hibernate and wicket (“keep your prior investments”, for maintainability)

• Integrate easily with your existing database and security systems

• Use cutting edge, highly productive technology like Grails where applicable/needed

• Backend integration through standards, like WS, EJB, ESB or customized protocol, e.g. REST.

• Support for FLEX and AJAX for great user experience

Our Expertise

• Portal look & feel, and page flow design• Configuration of advanced features such as

security and workflow• Customized portlet development based upon– Java, GWT, Google Maps – APIs of Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, Open Social etc.– Integration with ESB and backend systems

• Content Management and Workflow Customization

Our Approach

• Start with high level requirements• Define key integration areas• Design user experience and page flow• Work in small iterations of 2-3 weeks• Deliver tested and working features after

every iteration• Cost effective because of our Agile Offshore

Approach

Sample Screens

A sample of Enterprise portal implemented on Websphere Portal

Sample Screens

A sample of rich media based portal implemented on Liferay

Portal Product Knowledge

• Liferay– Open source, Commercial Support – Rich collaboration features– Named visionary by Gartner

• JBoss Portal– Open Source, Commercial Support– Backed by a strong organization

• Websphere Portal– Commercial Support– Expensive– Plenty of References

For More Information and Demo

India

• Anurag Shrivastava (ashrivastava@xebia.com)• Xebia India• +91 9910 174582

Europe

• Edward van de Pas (evandepas@xebia.com)• Xebia Global Services• +31 616 962711