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A Component Framework for Building Web Science Gateways and Portals 2008-03-01 Indiana University

Portlet-based Grid portals have become a crucial part of the international distributed computing infrastructure to support computational science ("Cyberinfrastructure") provide component-based problem solving environments for scientists. Although Web portals are intended to provide user-friendly environments with easy-to-use interfaces, the development of portals and their portlet components is time consuming. This paper aims to address this problem by providing reusable components for rapid portlet development. This approach, Grid Tag Libraries and Beans (GTLAB), encapsulates common Grid operations with reusable XML tags, providing a dramatically simplified programming interface to common cyberinfrastructure services. GTLAB also provides a way for creating composite tasks that models the requirements of computational science portals.

Tags: Gateways - Hubs

IBM WebSphere Portal White Paper by Strategic Focus Market Research 2007-08-01 IBM

This Strategic Focus Market Research document introduces the reader to the concept of Enterprise Portals as a means of conducting business on the Internet. The discussion continues onto the value of using Enterprise Portals, combined with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) methods, to tie existing processes and applications together to support the Enterprise.

Tags: Middleware, Web Services, EAI, Service-Oriented Architecture

Microsoft Dynamics GP: Planning for Security in Business Portal 2007-05-01 Microsoft

Business Portal extends Microsoft Dynamics GP, providing a browser interface to securely access back office data over an intranet or an extranet. This distributed computing model brings significant security challenges, with levels of integration between clients, servers, and services. This model requires that security be an integral part of every implementation.

Tags: Business Management, Security Management

Web Services for Remote Portlets Reference Architecture and Performance Behavior: BEA WebLogic Portal 9.2 2007-03-01 BEA Systems

Since its implementation, OASIS Web Services for Remote Portlets 1.0 (WSRP) has generated increasing customer demand. With the release of BEA WebLogic Portal 9.2, many performance improvements have made WSRP a key part of the industry-leading federation architecture. This paper shows how the BEA WebLogic Portal implementation of WSRP behaves under load and describes a reference implementation with configuration information using best practices.

Tags: Web Services

Building BI Dashboards With Oracle Database 10g, Oracle Discoverer, and Oracle Portal 2006-10-13 01:00:15 Oracle

Business Intelligence (BI) dashboards bring together reports and graphs from several data sources and present information to users in a simple-to-understand, unified manner. The demand for BI dashboards from the user community has therefore led to numerous new features and improvements in Oracle's business intelligence tools, and the simplified creation of BI dashboards is one of the key new features of Oracle Business Intelligence 10g. This paper explains the features of a BI dashboard, discusses the benefits to users, and steps through the creation of a dashboard with Oracle Database 10g; Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer (Oracle Discoverer), a component of Oracle Business Intelligence 10g; and Oracle Portal.

Building Open-Standard Portlets for Location Information 2006-10-13 01:00:15 Oracle

As integration technologies such as portals and intelligence data become critical pieces of the business infrastructure, being able to share the information used and the applications (portlets) build becomes utterly essential (if not legally required). Now a days people not only have all the ingredients needed for creating new applications that adhere to open standards but also have framework standards, such as OASIS Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) and Java Specification Request 168 (JSR 168), that make it possible to integrate existing technologies and data into new applications.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV Employee Portal Security 2006-12-20 01:00:25 Microsoft

This paper describes how to setup and configure an Employee Portal for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 4.0 environment, which enables employees to access the necessary information from Microsoft Dynamics NAV through Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services sites, both as an Intranet or Extranet solution. The paper helps the reader to understand the method of communication between portal and Microsoft Dynamics NAV and why an installation with strong security features is a must. It also explains the different possible scenarios in which Employee Portal for Microsoft Dynamics NAV can be installed and how it can be run as an extranet solution.

High Quality and Open Source Software Practices 2006-09-15 01:00:16 Carnegie Mellon University

Surveys suggest that, according to various metrics, the quality and dependability of today's open source software is roughly on par with commercial and government developed software. What are the prospects for advancing to much higher levels of quality in open source software? More specifically, what attributes must be possessed by quality-related interventions for them to be feasibly adoptable in open source practice? In order to identify some of these attributes, the authors conducted a preliminary survey of the quality practices of a number of successful open source projects. This paper focuses, in particular, on attributes related to adoptability by the open source practitioner community.

Service Pack 2 for Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 2006-09-08 01:00:28 Microsoft

This white paper describes features that are included in Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Service Pack 2 (SP2). It also provides best practices and guidance about how one can architect his or her solutions considering the current and future versions of SharePoint Products and Technologies. Four new enhancements are being delivered in late 2005 for SharePoint Products and Technologies.

BEA Whitepaper - State of the Portal Market 2006: Portals and the New Wisdom of the Enterprise 2006-09-07 01:00:13 BEA Systems

In this white paper from BEA, you'll learn how enterprises are enjoying striking business benefits from modern portal technology. The paper provides a synthesis of new and original survey results and recent analyst research. The paper also describes why interoperability between standards like Java and .NET is so important, and how portal technology can help you achieve it.

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Title	Date Added	Company
A Component Framework for Building Web Science Gateways and Portals	2008-03-01	Indiana University
Portlet-based Grid portals have become a crucial part of the international distributed computing infrastructure to support computational science ("Cyberinfrastructure") provide component-based problem solving environments for scientists. Although Web portals are intended to provide user-friendly environments with easy-to-use interfaces, the development of portals and their portlet components is time consuming. This paper aims to address this problem by providing reusable components for rapid portlet development. This approach, Grid Tag Libraries and Beans (GTLAB), encapsulates common Grid operations with reusable XML tags, providing a dramatically simplified programming interface to common cyberinfrastructure services. GTLAB also provides a way for creating composite tasks that models the requirements of computational science portals. Tags: Gateways - Hubs
IBM WebSphere Portal White Paper by Strategic Focus Market Research	2007-08-01	IBM
This Strategic Focus Market Research document introduces the reader to the concept of Enterprise Portals as a means of conducting business on the Internet. The discussion continues onto the value of using Enterprise Portals, combined with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) methods, to tie existing processes and applications together to support the Enterprise. Tags: Middleware, Web Services, EAI, Service-Oriented Architecture
Microsoft Dynamics GP: Planning for Security in Business Portal	2007-05-01	Microsoft
Business Portal extends Microsoft Dynamics GP, providing a browser interface to securely access back office data over an intranet or an extranet. This distributed computing model brings significant security challenges, with levels of integration between clients, servers, and services. This model requires that security be an integral part of every implementation. Tags: Business Management, Security Management
Web Services for Remote Portlets Reference Architecture and Performance Behavior: BEA WebLogic Portal 9.2	2007-03-01	BEA Systems
Since its implementation, OASIS Web Services for Remote Portlets 1.0 (WSRP) has generated increasing customer demand. With the release of BEA WebLogic Portal 9.2, many performance improvements have made WSRP a key part of the industry-leading federation architecture. This paper shows how the BEA WebLogic Portal implementation of WSRP behaves under load and describes a reference implementation with configuration information using best practices. Tags: Web Services
Building BI Dashboards With Oracle Database 10g, Oracle Discoverer, and Oracle Portal	2006-10-13 01:00:15	Oracle
Business Intelligence (BI) dashboards bring together reports and graphs from several data sources and present information to users in a simple-to-understand, unified manner. The demand for BI dashboards from the user community has therefore led to numerous new features and improvements in Oracle's business intelligence tools, and the simplified creation of BI dashboards is one of the key new features of Oracle Business Intelligence 10g. This paper explains the features of a BI dashboard, discusses the benefits to users, and steps through the creation of a dashboard with Oracle Database 10g; Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer (Oracle Discoverer), a component of Oracle Business Intelligence 10g; and Oracle Portal.
Building Open-Standard Portlets for Location Information	2006-10-13 01:00:15	Oracle
As integration technologies such as portals and intelligence data become critical pieces of the business infrastructure, being able to share the information used and the applications (portlets) build becomes utterly essential (if not legally required). Now a days people not only have all the ingredients needed for creating new applications that adhere to open standards but also have framework standards, such as OASIS Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) and Java Specification Request 168 (JSR 168), that make it possible to integrate existing technologies and data into new applications.
Microsoft Dynamics NAV Employee Portal Security	2006-12-20 01:00:25	Microsoft
This paper describes how to setup and configure an Employee Portal for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 4.0 environment, which enables employees to access the necessary information from Microsoft Dynamics NAV through Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services sites, both as an Intranet or Extranet solution. The paper helps the reader to understand the method of communication between portal and Microsoft Dynamics NAV and why an installation with strong security features is a must. It also explains the different possible scenarios in which Employee Portal for Microsoft Dynamics NAV can be installed and how it can be run as an extranet solution.
High Quality and Open Source Software Practices	2006-09-15 01:00:16	Carnegie Mellon University
Surveys suggest that, according to various metrics, the quality and dependability of today's open source software is roughly on par with commercial and government developed software. What are the prospects for advancing to much higher levels of quality in open source software? More specifically, what attributes must be possessed by quality-related interventions for them to be feasibly adoptable in open source practice? In order to identify some of these attributes, the authors conducted a preliminary survey of the quality practices of a number of successful open source projects. This paper focuses, in particular, on attributes related to adoptability by the open source practitioner community.
Service Pack 2 for Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server 2003	2006-09-08 01:00:28	Microsoft
This white paper describes features that are included in Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Service Pack 2 (SP2). It also provides best practices and guidance about how one can architect his or her solutions considering the current and future versions of SharePoint Products and Technologies. Four new enhancements are being delivered in late 2005 for SharePoint Products and Technologies.
BEA Whitepaper - State of the Portal Market 2006: Portals and the New Wisdom of the Enterprise	2006-09-07 01:00:13	BEA Systems
In this white paper from BEA, you'll learn how enterprises are enjoying striking business benefits from modern portal technology. The paper provides a synthesis of new and original survey results and recent analyst research. The paper also describes why interoperability between standards like Java and .NET is so important, and how portal technology can help you achieve it.