E214 Enterprise Portal overview and directions

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E214Enterprise Portal overview and directions

• Sean McCleary
• Senior Product Manager
• Sybase eBusiness Division
• Sean.mccleary_at_sybase.com

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Agenda

• Overview
• Introducing EP 5.0
• Features Portal Interface, Portal Studio,
  Portlets, Enterprise Security, Search, Systems
  Mgmt, Tools
• Technical features and architecture
• Customer benefits
• Availability
• Roadmap
• Summary

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Overview of Sybase Enterprise Portal
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Introducing Sybase EP 5.0Easy-to-use, most open,
highly secure, scalable

• New Sybase Portal Studio
• New Sybase Portlet Builder
• J2EE-compliant
• New advanced security
• New portlets
• Enhanced search
• Enhanced installation
• Enhanced configuration

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Portal Interface

• Presentation
• Portlets framework
• JSP framework
• Tab-based navigation
• Page groups
• Personalization
• Create portlets
• Self registration
• Anonymous user access
• Unlimited pages
• Share pages
• Secure content

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Portal Studio
Even developers and administrators need tools to
simplify the creation of content and the
administration of the portal

• Portal Studio provides
• A powerful and easy-to-use Portlet Manager for
  the creation of Portlets
• A template manager to simplify the presentation
  of content
• A Catalog Manager to deploy portlets and pages to
  multiple portals
• A Page Manager for the creation of guest, default
  and catalog pages

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Portal Studio features

• Federated deployment
• Point and click deployment to multiple portals
• Composite portlets
• create portlets that are made up of multiple
  portlets and easily modify their presentation
  using templates and style sheets
• Federated searches
• Create portlets that join across multiple search
  result sets
• Built-in,customizable workflow
• support for the creation of portlets, templates,
  catalogs and pages
• Off-the-shelf sample portlets, catalogs and
  templates

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Sybase Portlet Builder
A portal needs to have content and applications!

• Create Portlets in minutes without any
  programming or technical expertise
• Create Portlets from the following sources
• Web applications
• JSP/ JAVA files
• XML and HTML docs
• Databases
• Web Services
• Advanced content capture
• Capture only the relevant sections of a page
• Personalize content
• Transform content

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Portlets

• Sample portlets are available from www.sybase.com
• Collaboration (Intraspect, All Instant, Enzenia)
• Content Management (Stellent, Interwoven)
• Content (Screaming Media, Yellowbrix)
• Autonomy
• Siebel
• Business Objects
• Lotus, Microsoft Exchange
• And more

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Enterprise Security
A portal needs to provide secure access to
content and applications!

• Authentication
• Single sign-on
• Certificates
• LDAP
• Authorization
• Role-based
• Role hierarchies
• Support at all levels

• Data confidentiality integrity
• Certificates
• SSL
• Non-repudiation
• Auditing
• Alert events
• Multiple levels
• Consolidated auditing

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Search
A portal needs to provide fast access to relevant
content

• Concept-based natural language search
• Standard and advanced options
• Automatic categorization
• Search related content
• Fast response times
• User Agents
• Channel Agents
• Structured data (ODBC databases)
• Unstructured data (200 document types)
• Scheduling

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Systems Management and tools

• Systems Management
• Manage your portal from the web
• Extensible agent framework
• Web-based console
• Developer tools
• Integrated development tools
• Portal Studio
• Power J
• Power Designer

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Portal framework technical features

• Native support for JSP
• J2EE-compliant architecture
• Scalable and distributed architecture
• Fast page loading
• Portlets refresh independently
• Open architecture
• Certified on Tomcat and EAS
• Tested with Web Logic, Web Sphere
• Netscape 4.7, 6.1, IE 5.0, 5.5 and 6.0
• Internationalized

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Technical architecture
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Customer benefits

• End-users - Build Task Specific Portlets and
  Portal Pages
• The ability to create their own content and
  portlets will help them to be more effective in
  their jobs
• Intuitive navigation will reduce training and
  support costs
• Faster performance will improve productivity
• Developers - Simplified development and
  point/click deployment
• Developers can create powerful portlets within
  minutes and with minimal technical expertise
• Built-in workflow will simplify the
  administration of tasks
• Catalogs ease the deployment of portlets to
  portals
• Administrators - Easy to use and remote web-based
  administration
• All administration tasks available from one
  web-based interface
• Tools will simplify administration and deployment

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Availability
Preview Techwave 2002
Beta Aug/2002
General Availability Oct/2002
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Roadmap
Release October 2002 Version 5.0 Q1 2003 Version 5.5 (Subject to Change) Q32003 Version 6.0 (Subject to Change)
Features Portlet Builder Portal Studio Federated portals Federated searches JSP-based interface Self registration Anonymous access Tab navigation Web Logic Web Sphere Partner Portlets Themes Web Services Capture Services Advanced Security Oracle certification Themes Capture Services New Studio features EAI integration tools Event mgmt framework
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Sybase Developer Network (SDN)

• Additional Resources for Developers
• Single point of access to developer software,
  services, and up-to-date technical information
• White papers and documentation
• Collaboration with other developers and Sybase
  engineers
• Code samples and beta programs
• Technical recordings
• Free software
• Join today www.sybase.com/developer or visit
  SDN at TechWaves Technology Boardwalk

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Sybase Enterprise Portal 5.0 Easy to use, Most
Open, Highly Secure and Scalable
Sybase Enterprise Portal 5.0 provides the most
open, secure and scalable portal and portlet
building solution on the market