 | IBM WebSphere Portal Express offers collaboration, document management, Web content management, presence awareness, and instant messaging in a single, easy-to-deploy solution with flexible pricing options. Designed for organizations of under 1000 users or departments within larger organizations, WebSphere Portal Express Version 6.1 helps you and your teams collaborate and share documents, deploy and maintain Web sites, and access the applications, content and people you need to do your job. Benefits - Provides SMB organizations with a single offering to help meet their portal, web content management and collaboration needs
- Provides employees and customers with timely information and access to applications
- Helps increase employee productivity by allowing staff to work together more effectively
- Simplified installation and improved administration helps lower deployments costs
- Based on industry standards that can grow as your organization’s needs grow, helping reduce maintenance, migration and retraining costs
- Easy to deploy and administer new Websites and applications
Features - Provides employees, customers and partners with access to web sites on which the information and applications they need are consolidated and organized for easy access and use
- Web content management capability helps reduce implementation time and costs by placing content creation and management firmly in the hands of content experts, for "author once, publish everywhere" control. The result is more accurate portal content that can be updated more frequently
- Prescriptively designed, out-of-the-box Internet and intranet example sites that can easily be tailored to an organization's specific needs are now optimized for virtual portal environments
- Provides document management capability to enable individuals and teams to share and save documents in a central location
- Instant messaging and presence awareness capabilities allow users to find and chat with colleagues without picking up the phone
- Development tools and capabilities are included to allow customization of existing applications and the creation of new custom applications that help address an organization's unique needs
Enhancements - Improved Time to Value - WebSphere Portal Express continues to focus on allowing customers to reduce their time to value by providing a better installation experience, with pre-configured example web sites, and a Wizard for changing the look and feel of the site without requiring any programming skills
- Improved Usability - WebSphere Portal Express' new Web 2.0 user interface allows end-users to more intuitively access applications. There are additional improvements for accessing, creating and editing content
- Improved Performance, Scalability and Robustness - An Idle Standby part number is now available for WebSphere Portal Express to allow customers to improve uptime by having a redundant server. Other enhancements have been made to the performance of the Web Content Management capability. The Web 2.0 interface ensures a lower server load, resulting in overall performance improvements
- Ease of Administration - WebSphere Portal Express provides improved installation and configuration options, leading to less administrative effort to deploy the server. Integration of the IBM Support Assistant provides access to information and tools, reducing the effort to answer technical questions
- Improved Extensibility - New portlets and application development tools are included to allow customers to further extend the capabilities of WebSphere Portal Express applications
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