[Name]
[Title]
Oracle Corporation
Building an
Enterprise Portal
Problem: Information Chaos
Limits Productivity and Collaboration
 Users
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Access health benefit info
Find that old URL for support
 Teams
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PPT versioning
Web page extern approvals
 Managers
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Regional sales analysis,
evaluation
The Information Age Chaos!
IT Problem: Stovepiped Web Sites
Costly to Manage and Deliver Content and Apps
Extranet
Intranet
Employees:
• Sales
• Operations
• Executive
Internet
Partners:
• Distributors
• Suppliers
Customers:
• Beta customers
• Enterprises
• Small Business
Solution: Unified Portal Framework
Improve Productivity and Reduce Costs
Employees
Enterprises
Partners
Customers
Oracle Application Server Portal
E-Business
Services
Documents
World Wide
Web
Hosted
Services
Enterprise
Applications
Oracle Application Server Portal
Deliver Personalized Content
 4,000+ customers
 #1 in deployed portals
(Jupiter Research, 2003)
 Portal MQ Leader
(Gartner Magic Quadrant, 2003)
 140+ portal ISVs & SIs
 500+ pre-built portlets
Building a Portal
Get Up and Running Quickly; Evolve Overtime
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Define user roles and privileges
Design the portal’s look-and-feel
Integrate applications and content
Deliver your enterprise portal
Define User Roles & Privileges
Provide Access While Ensuring Security
 Identify your “core” portal team
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Administrator, page designer, content contributor, portlet
developer, end user
 Identify end-user roles
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Customers, partners, employees, managers, sales,
marketing, education, etc.
 Authorize groups and users
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Portal, portlet catalog, applications, content, etc.
 Delegate access privileges
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Manage, update, view
Authorize Users
Centralized Identity Management
Ensures Security While Lowering Cost
 Secure centralized access
across entire system
 Customized privileges
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By group, roles, users
Manage, update, view
 Support for 3rd-party solutions
for secure access to legacy
applications
Single Sign-On
Reduce Management Costs; Improve Productivity
 Reduce the cost of resetting
passwords ($300 per user / per
year, IDC)
 Users login once to access
applications & content
Delegate Access Control
Provide Greater Flexibility in Managing Portals
 Enforce corporate security
policies and standards
 Delegate access and style
to departments or partners
 Encourage user
personalization
Finance
Sales
Design a Look-and-Feel
A Consistent Design Improves Productivity
Banner Portlet
 Page groups
 Page styles
 Page templates
Nav.
Portlet
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Define a Page Group
Organize Page Elements
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Styles
Smart Link
Login/out
Page Path
Sub-Page
Nav Bars
Templates
Define Page Styles
Control Color and Font
Page Style
Item Region Style
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Banner
Portlet
Banner
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Nav.
Nav.
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Portlet
Portlet
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Advert
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Portlet
Portlet
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8/21/03
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B.
Lankenau
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8/21/03
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Date:
8/21/03
Favorites
Favorites
Favorites
Favorite
Favorite
Favorite
Stocks
Stocks
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A Portlet Style
Define a Page Template
for Consistent Layout
Building a Portal Page
D E M O N S T R A T I O N
Integrate Apps and Content
Aggregating Relevant Information
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Add applications pre-built as portlets
Publish items using WebDAV
Publish existing Web content
Add a spreadsheet as a portlet
Add Portlets from Portal Catalog
Enable Personalization and Reuse
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Collaboration
Applications
Content management
Syndicated news
Business Intelligence
Workflow & notification
Web Services
Add Content Using WebDAV
Share Information Across the Enterprise
Add Existing Web Content
Reuse Existing Assets
Data and UI
Browse to Source
Web Page
‘Section’ Page,
Choose Clipping
Portal Page with
Web Clipping
Add Content Using OmniPortlet
View Relevant Data in a Useful Format
 Publish and aggregate applications or content
from any source
 Manage consistent presentation regardless of
origin
Integrate
with the
portal
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•
Presentation
Data Source
Chart
Tabular
News
List
…
• Web Service
• XML
• CSV
• JCA
• Ext. CMS
• …
Integrate
with the
application
APIs, WebDAV, Syndication, Search, PDK
Adding Applications and Content
D E M O N S T R A T I O N
Deploy the Portal
Ensure High Quality of Service
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Deploy on low-cost hardware
Cache web pages
Manage the portal from a central location
Leverage Oracle Application Server
Deploy on Low-Cost Hardware
Virtualize Resources with Grid Computing
Clustered
Web Caches
OracleAS
Web Cache
Clustered
Web Servers
Clustered
J2EE Servers
Oracle
OracleAS
HTTP Server Containers for J2EE
No Single Point of Failure
Real Application
Clusters
Oracle
Database
Clustering at Every Tier
Cache Web Pages
Ensure Performance and Scalablity
 Built- in Web cache
 Support growth in
users and transaction
volume
 10x to 100x
throughput
 Shorter response
times
Manage the Portal
Improve Application Performance
Monitor and analyze
application performance:
 “How much time is it taking
to display the web page?”
 “Where is the bottleneck –
at the firewall, Web cache,
or portal
Oracle Application Server
Integrated Middleware Platform
Any Data Source
Clustering &
Caching
Management &
Security
Enterprise Portal
Web Services
Wireless & Mobile
B2B Integration
Application Integration
Rapid Application
Development
Business Services
Framework
Business Intelligence
Customer Success
QUESTIONS
ANSWERS