Many business users today
spend hours trying to find and access all necessary job specific, information
while filtering out irrelevant content. They also often find that application
functionality they need is not available them. What they want is role-based
personalised access to information, processes, applications and collaborative
tools all via a single user interface to help them be more effective in the
workplace. This two-day workshop shows how to design, deploy Enterprise Portal
technology for internal and external use to help companies achieve this.
To understand what a
portal is and the difference between a portal and an intranet or extranet
To understand the portal
product marketplace and how to select products
To know how to use portal
technology to design and deploy role based portals across the enterprise
IT Manager
Enterprise Architect
IT Consultant
Systems Analyst
Systems Manager
IT Project Manager
and all Business Managers responsible
for selecting and implementing portal technology.
An Introduction
to Portals
This session introduces portals and the reasons why they are needed. It explores
portal architectures and components in detail. It also looks at the types of
content that can be accessed and integrated using them and developing a business
case for portal technology.
What is a portal?
Portal architecture,
components and services
Accessing unstructured
content, applications, business intelligence and collaborative tools via a
portal
The business case for
portal technology
Best practices for portal
implementation
Understanding Functional
and Content Requirements
This session looks at the business objectives for using portal technology, the
differing needs of internal and external user communities. It introduces the
need for an information usage study to collect and prioritise community requirements.
Understanding strategic
business objectives
Identifying Internal
and external communities and roles
Collecting requirements
for a portal project - the content usage study
Content types and locations
Prioritisation: mapping
content usage to business objectives and selecting a pilot project
Selecting and Integrating
Portal Products
What is involved in
selecting portal technologies?
Portal technology selection
requirements
The portal marketplace:
BEA Aqualogic Interaction,
SAP Enterprise Portal, Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server, IBM WebSphere
Portal Server, Vignette, Oracle 10g AS Portal, BI Portals, open source
portal products, etc
Making sense of
vendor portal packaging
What is involved in
Portal product Integration?
Recovering from portal
chaos – how to integrate multiple portal products
Portal integration using
JSR168/286, WSRP and Web services
Portal Taxonomies
and Categorisation
This session looks at portal taxonomy development and the techniques and technologies
for categorisation of business content. It discusses approaches to developing
taxonomies, and looks at taxonomy design to achieve good organisation of business
content
What is a portal taxonomy?
The portal taxonomy
– topics and hierarchies
Taxonomy design techniques
- top down vs. bottom up
Manual vs. automatic
content categorisation
How manual and automatic
content categorisation works
Managing portal taxonomies
over the long term
Product examples: Autonomy,
BEA, IBM, Microsoft
Customising a Portal
to Meet Your Business Needs
This section looks at how to customise a portal user interface to match an organisation’s
presentation standards and how to develop portlets for new content sources.
What is portal customisation?
What kinds of portal
customisation can be done?
Customising the portal
user interface
Adding support for mobile
devices
Adding new content sources
and portlets to the portal to access applications, content stores, RSS feeds
etc.
Designing and Implementing
a Portal Security Service
This section looks at the problem of portal security and single sign-on. In
particular it looks at user authentication and authorisation and how to integrate
with already built portal solutions
Approaches to implementing
single sign-on
Portal User authentication
Portal communities
– user groups and users
Portal integration
with cross platform LDAP directories and HR systems
Plugging portals
into your own security management solution
Integrating with
SSO Products e.g. IBM Tivoli, Oracle, EMC, CA eTrust SiteMinder, Microsoft
ADFS
Portal user authorisation
– the more difficult security problem
Dealing with application
specific authorisation vs. portal authorisation
Web services and security
Case studies – what
some companies have done
Integrating applications,
content and collaboration tools with Portals
This session takes a deeper look at integrating content management, applications,
collaboration, and workflow into portals.
Approaches to integrating
content into a portal e.g. Web clipping, Portal content stores, ECMS, RSS
Feeds, EII
Integrating enterprise
content management systems into portals e.g. BEA Aqualogic Collaboration Server,
Vignette, DB2 Content Management System, Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services,
Documentum, Oracle, Interwoven
Types of collaboration
tools and services
Building personal and
collaborative workspaces
Options for integrating
collaboration tools into portals
Integrating applications,
web services and business processes into portals
The marriage of document
workflow and business process management
Web 2.0 – Integrating Wikis and
Blogs
Deploying a Portal
to User Communities: Implementing Portal Personalisation
This section looks at how to use portal personalisation to deploy role-based
personalised workspaces to specific user communities while remaining within
an organisation’s security policies.
What is portal personalisation?
Deployment - the User
Driven Personalisation process
Personalising portals
for user communities
Dynamic assembly of
the relevant portal components
Enabling access to external
users
Delegates will also
be given detailed articles on portal implementation written by Mike Ferguson
and other distinguished portal experts.
Mike
Ferguson is the Managing Director of Intelligent
Business Strategies Ltd. He is an analyst and consultant specialising
in Enterprise Business Intelligence, Enterprise Portals and Business Integration.
With over 25 years of experience, Mike has consulted for dozens of companies,
spoken at events all over the world and written numerous articles.
For an in-house presentation of this or any other IRM UK seminar, please e-mail
jeanette.hall@irmuk.co.uk or
call +44 (0)20 8866 8366.
