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WebSphere Portal with Lotus QuickR, Lotus Connections & WCM
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  • Streebo-Collaboration Portal

When a large Payroll Services organization wanted to build a state of the art collaboration platform for its 45,000 North American associates they turned to Streebo. Blending a solution that consisted of various IBM software around social and collaboration space, Streebo built a Rich User Interface bringing disparate systems together on the WebSphere Portal platform that gave the associates a unified & enhanced web experience. Unlike a conventional Portal implementation engagement, our client simply placed an order for a custom solution. Streebo “manufactured” the portal solution that consisted of portlets that integrated social experience, content management, document management and search capabilities on the portal. All portlets/widgets were developed using IBM provided Factory automation parts, thus ensuring standard compliant (JSR 168/286) & scalable code artifacts. Streebo provided design, manufacturing, installation and knowledge transfer around the entire Portal solution.

Streebo also conducted on-site knowledge transfer when the automated solution was shipped and installed.  As part of the “Package Harmony”, 4 members of the client team were offered 2 days in an Experiential learning environment around the factory technology at the Streebo Academy for Software Automation. Beyond the training exercise, mentoring modules and knowledge transfer sessions, the customer resources successfully took over the ongoing maintenance and enhancement of the scalable and flexible solution.

Technology Stack: IBM WebSphere Portal, Web Content Management, Lotus Sametime, Lotus Connections, Lotus QuickR, Omni-Find Search Engine, WebSphere Portlet Factory

Streebo Solution Package: Package Harmony

Key Highlights
  • Streebo Connections Portlets containing advance features such as AJAX Search Forward allowed associates to search Connections Profiles with ease.
  • The Streebo Unified Search Solution that consists of JSR 168/286 Portlets that combined search results from Lotus Connections, QuickR, Web Content Management and WebSphere Portal thus giving associates a single unified search result-set.
  • Highly Customized and Personalized Streebo QuickR Portlets that surfaced Blogs and Wikis from the QuickR Document management repository.
  • Alerts from other systems integrated on the Portal using Web-Services designed and written in Portlet Factory.
  • Portlets & Widgets that also consume third-party services.
  • Use of Dojo, AJAX technologies bundled in with IBM Portlet Factory was used for all Rich User Interface creation – automated interfaces ensured minimum operational and maintenance cost.

IBM customers that are looking to integrate WebSphere Portal with other team collaboration or social Networking solutions such as Lotus QuickR, Lotus Connections and/or Lotus Web Content Management can gain insight from this case-study and take the correct integration approach.

This session walks you through the various integration options available including automated construction of portlets using WebSphere Portlet Factory. The session takes a case-study approach in which Portal customer (ADP) shares their integration use-cases, results, includes an in-depth discussion of integration challenges.

Presentation further explores builders and patterns available to Portal developers and closes with best practices on harmonizing the IBM portfolio with WebSphere Portal.

Download Case-Study here