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What's New in IBM Digital Experience 8.5
IBM WebSphere Portal 8.5 Workshop
IBM Ecosystem Development
Duration: 45 min
Agenda
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IBM Digital Experience platform
Portal/WCM 8.5 and Mobile
8.5 Release Highlights
What's New
Deprecated and Unsupported Features
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IBM's Exceptional Digital Experience Mission:
Helping You to...
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Enable your customers, citizens, employees and
partners to help themselves and be happy about it
Enables you to better recruit, reach, engage,
support, retain those same groups
Across Multiple Channels
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Social, mobile, web...
In a consistent, scalable, and
personalized manner
Digital
^ Experience Strategy
IBM's Exceptional Web
One Robust, Integrated Platform – Built For Flexibility
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Integrated – Speed time to market with a
core platform
Open – Leverage & extend existing data
sources through robust integration
capabilities
Social – Drive innovation & improve
collaboration thru socially-infused
experiences
Instrumented – Support evidence-based
decision making through analytics
Contextual – Increase customer
satisfaction by/with experiences tailored to
a user's location, attributes, preferences,
device, behaviors.
Flexible – adapt to handle the latest
advancements + technology changes
Social & UCC
Mobile
Marketing
Management
Commerce
Analytics &
Optimization
Integration
Content,
Rich Media
Mgt
Portal
Personalization
& Targeting
LOB Friendly – enable LOB to manage
the digital experience life cycle day to day. Our vision is to help you realize the “art of the possible”
for engaging your users through a digital experience
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It used to be that the IT team would build and manage the web site, but
optimizing the experience requires the ability to try things, measure the
results and try other things.
A few years ago, it was
all IT driven
Now, the business want to control, fine
tune and manage the web channel.
IBM Digital Experience helps our customers manage this separation of
concerns where the IT team builds services, applications and processes, and
the business assembles them into web sites and fine tunes them day to day to
optimize their business results.
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Key Investment Areas
Content
Social
Analytics
Mobile
Integration
Total Cost of Ownership & Time to Market
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IBM Exceptional Digital Experience – 2013 Release Highlights
New Digital Experience
Rich Media Edition Offerings
Digital Experience Offerings V8.0.0.1
Embedded Digital Asset
Management
 IBM Web Content Manager Rich
Media Edition
 IBM Customer Experience Suite
Rich Media Edition
Digital Experience
on Power / AIX
PureApplication
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In-line editing of web content
 In-line visual content targeting
 Micro-Site wizard
 Adaptive/Responsive Web
Design (RWD)
 Social Media Publishing
 Social Rendering
 IBM Install Manager Support
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Private Cloud application
patterns
 X86 and Power platforms
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IBM Forms Experience Builder V8.5
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Survey/Polls for IBM Connections
Integration with WebSphere Portal
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IBM Web Content Manager support
for IBM WebSphere Commerce
IBM Connections 4.5 Portlets
Continuous
Stream
Delivery
IBM Connections Content
Manager Entitlement
Government Site Template
IBM Marketing Center
Content Spot Support
IBM Interact
Content Spot Support
Content Template Catalog 4
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Site Builder 4.1
IBM Smarter
Commerce
Integrations
IBM Unica NetInsight
Integration
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IBM Digital Experience V8.5 Software
Portfolio offerings updated include:
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IBM Customer Experience Suite
IBM Customer Experience Suite Rich
Media Edition
IBM Employee Experience Suite
IBM WebSphere Portal Server
IBM WebSphere Portal Enable
IBM WebSphere Portal Extend
IBM WebSphere Portal Express
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IBM Web Content Manager
IBM Web Content Manager Rich Media
Edition
IBM Web Content Manager Standard Edition
IBM Content Accelerator
IBM Content Accelerator and WebSphere
Portal
http://www.ibm.com/software/collaboration/digitalexperience/
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Portal and WCM Convergence
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The Digital Experience Platform requires features normally associated with
traditional portals and with traditional WCM systems
We've been working to integrate the technologies and processes around
WebSphere Portal and IBM WCM for a number of releases
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while they can still be licensed and used independently, they are tightly integrated
technically
This integration is key to enabling the business to drive and manage the digital
experience life cycle.
With V8.5 we continue to enable more and more power in the hands of the digital
experience owners
Powerful tools to assemble pages and content
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Where Does Portal and WCM fit into Mobile?
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WebSphere Portal and IBM WCM have always been in the web site
framework business, not the application business.
So we are in the mobile web site business, not the mobile web
application business.
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In particular, we are in the multi-channel Digital Experience business
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And have been since our first release when we were part of IBM's Pervasive
Computing division
Because we integrate content, applications and services from a
variety of places, our focus is on HTML based mobile support.
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A ‘typical’ government site might provide their citizens access to 140 different services
provided by 25 semi-independent government agencies. This is no more likely to
become a single mobile app than it was a single WAS EAR file.
Responsive and Adaptive Web Design
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Mobile is Now Part of Everything We Do in Portal and WCM
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Portal, WCM, Tooling, etc.. Just multi-channel by default
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Responsive and Adaptive
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We integrate with and leverage the IBM Mobile stack (Worklight, tools, etc)
Mobile Web
Web
Mobile Hybrid
Responsive and Adaptive Capabilities
Content
Management
Application
Integration
Forms
Social
Personalization
Digital Experience Framework
(Portal, WCM, Forms, Analytics, Connections)
Apps
Apps
(camera,
offline,
offline, app
app
store)
Notifications
App
Management
Mobile Application Framework
(IBM Worklight)
Application Server
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Mobile Directions
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With V8.5 we continue to improve our integration and support
Better leverage the theme optimization framework with Worklight
Introduce Portal's concept of Device Classes within Worklight
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Allow serving individual Worklight resources to different devices such as iOS, Android in a
high performing fashion.
Allow serving certain resources only to Worklight apps vs plain browser apps
Ability to co-deploy Worklight and Portal on the same WAS
Make it easier to support a model where the entire site or parts of the site
are pre-loaded within a Worklight application (including appropriate
updating).
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V8.5 New Release Highlights
Additional
Capabilities for the
LOB to Create Digital
Experiences
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Vanity URLs
Content Targeting (IBM
Enterprise Marketing
Management integration)
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HD Video Streaming Support
(Brightcove)
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Expanded Rich Text Editor
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Content Reporting & Analytics
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Enhanced Content &
Application Integration for
More Personalized
Experiences
Digital Data Connector
(transform external data into
contextual content)
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Further Optimization for
Multi-Channel Digital
Experience Delivery
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IBM Script Portlet (for easy
Web Development)
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IBM Interact & IBM
Marketing Center
Portlet/Integration (for content
targeting)
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Platform configuration support for HTTP Outbound
connections
Simplified Installation and Configuration
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Enhanced IBM Worklight
Integration (for hybrid mobile
apps)
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Out-of-Box
Responsive/Adaptive
Templates & Tooling Updates
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Improved Upgrade/migration and WCM Syndication
management
WebSphere Application Server 8.5.5 Support
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WCM Enhancements
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Rich Media Edition Enhancements
Integration with Brightcove for streaming content, CDN support and
device specific renditions
Rich text editor (EditLive!) enhancements with new entittlements
Vanity URLs
New templates in CTC (CTC 4.2 support)
Attribute based security for content
Project templates
WebRadar Entitlement (a reporting solution for WCM)
Cross version syndication and other syndication enhancements
Translation partnership with Clay Tablet
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Vanity (“marketing”) URLs
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Short URLs that people can easily remember
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Can be associated with Portal pages and labels
Can be easily defined, changed and managed by business users
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Managing them does not require admin role or access to portal admin pages
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A portal page can have multiple vanity URLs
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Resolved to a full portal URL (redirect)
URL format
http[s]://<hostname>:<port>/wps/vanityurl/<vanity-url-name>
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URLs can be further shortened if web (HTTP) server is used and HTTP rewrite rules
are applied
http[s]://<hostname>:<port>/<vanity-url-name>
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Content Targeting and Analytics
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Ephox EditLive! Enterprise Edition - Rich text editor with social integration,
& more
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full screen editing
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clean copy and paste from MS Word that maintains formatting
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easily embed links to social media sites
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edit images (crop, resize, etc.)
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team collaboration (track changes and comments)
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use HTML5 and the latest standards
Ephox WebRadar – content-reporting analytics
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Qualitative analytics
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Authoring reporting
http://docs.ephox.com/display/WebRadar/Welcome
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New Site Authoring “Floating” Toolbar
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Quick access to common content author tools
Easily accessible shelf at the top of the page
New project UI with option to create from a
project template
New “create” button to create pages & labels
Lightweight themes to support responsive design
New capability to easily create vanity urls
Makes it easier for LOB to author, create,
manage and publish rich content!
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Personalization and Enterprise Marketing Mgmt (EMM)
Enhancements
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Active Site Analytics
IBM Marketing Center and Interact portlets
WCM - Commerce integration
Introduction of ‘negate’ in personalization rules
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Brightcove Integration
Provides HD Video Streaming for Delivering Captivating Immersive Digital Experiences
Video hosting and streaming service in the cloud
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Brightcove account required for integration
Increases engagement by delivering professional quality
video to any device
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transcodes the video into different formats and bit rates for
mobile users
Enables content marketers to seamlessly incorporate
videos
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Browse, search, preview, insert and upload videos to
Brightcove
Leverages best in class video platform capabilities from
Brightcove
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Intelligent player that optimizes playback by detecting
bandwidth and device type
Branded experiences with WYSIWYG player styling
Broad reach with Content Distribution Network delivery for fast,
secure playback
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Content Template Catalog (CTC)
Build Sites Faster With Pre-Built Web Content
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Provides everything needed to simply snap
together a site
Includes over 30 pre-built Web patterns for rapid
site assembly
Facilitates complete microsite creation including:
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Landing pages with hero text and images
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Slideshow carousels
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Side navigators
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Site map footers....and many more!
CTC 4.2 for WebSphere Poartal V8.5.0.0 now
available from the ICS Catalog on
Greenhouse( https://ibm.biz/BdR9B3 )
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WebSphere Portal 8.5 theme support
Embedded mode for inline editing support (true
WYSIWYG editing of all fields)
Localized CTC demonstration sites, available in English,
Arabic, German, Spanish and Chinese.
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Social Integration and Other Content
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Seamless integration of IBM Connections into WCM
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Extended “Social Rendering” (exposing social interactions in WCM designs - like/unlike,
join/leave, create/delete forum topic, create/delete blog post, accept/reject Invitation, invite
to network, create/delete comment, dynamic filter options for social lists)
Extension of Social Rendering Pattern to Generic Content patterns
Introduction of Digital Data Connector
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Visual appearance can be fully controlled using WCM design components (OOB
presentation templates support responsive design patterns)
Social Rendering enhancements - more integration of social into the
context of the digital experience
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Allow users to discuss web content items and post replies
use IBM Web Content Manager (WCM) design components to render data being served
from external systems
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Provide a public plug-point to allow integration of all kinds of data
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Make it easy to integrate remote XML data without any custom coding
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Digital Data Connector (DDC)
Easily infuse data in
context
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Faster time to market with
no coding skills required
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IBM Connections
Commerce/Sterling
CMIS
Use IBM Web Content
Manager (WCM) design
components/templates to
render data being served
from external systems
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Provide a public plug-point to
allow integration of all kinds
of data
Make it easy to integrate
remote XML data without any
custom coding
Search
BMP (task list)
Custom Feed
Data
DDC/ WCM
Rendering
Digital Experience
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Script Portlet - Enable Customers to Leverage Scripting Skills
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Programmers use the skills they already have.
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Progressively disclose to them additional Portal/Portlet capabilities
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Develop portlets using existing knowledge of scripting languages such as JavaScript, CSS and
HTML Use Portlet features such as portlet preferences, shared render parameters, conditional rendering,
and inter portlet communication
Rapid integration of popular script frameworks (Dojo, jQuery, etc.), Social Business
Toolkit and public and private web services.
IBM Script Portlet for WebSphere Portal available for download from the ICS Catalog on
Greenhouse
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Theme Improvements
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Usability & Consumability
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Simplification of JSP files
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New EL Beans to support an easier theme programming model
Serviceability
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Provide more useful information when a theme error happens along the way
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Provide tool to analyze theme opt components such as modules and profiles
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Schema validate modules and profiles to find errors quicker and up front
Deployment and Getting Started
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Reduced Dojo consumption
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Theme PAA
Most out-of-the Box content and features do not require Dojo and are based on a
lightweight theme profile
Customers are no longer required to load Dojo libray in order to benefit from features like
tagging and rating, search, ...
Tool Bar Isolation
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Enable better isolation of system libraries and customers theme libraries
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Make it much easier to add to and control the tool bar
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Theme Profile Updates
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A few new standard profiles have been added. The main ones for customers to use
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Lightweight and Lightweight with Dojo
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Deferred and Deferred with Dojo
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Basic Content and Basic Content with Dojo
Full Profile was removed from the system
Guidance: Identify the module needed by using the Theme Analyzer and add that to their own
custom profile. A good starting point is the Basic Content Profile
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Profile can be hidden (optional) The ones listed above are not hidden, but there are
around 8 more hidden profiles available in the system.
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Within the Edit Page Properties Dialog one can only select visible profiles.
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The hidden ones can be seen in the Theme Analyzer.
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If a customer wants to set a hidden theme on a page they can do this as before by setting the page
metadata “resourceaggregation.profile” to point to the profile file.
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Search Quality Improvement
Web page with title,
metadata and body
text
Web page with title,
metadata and body
text
Description
Description
Keywords
Keywords
= 'content'
Any matches
in content
contribute
equally to
Rank score
Added 'weights' (boost factors)
to specific fields
If the search keywords
are found in close proximity
that will then result in an
additional boost for that
document
previously
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New: search service configuration parameter:
Var :
boostingSettings
Val ue :
{ " phr a s e Bo o s t " : { " Ena b l e d" : " t r ue " }, " f i e l dBo o s t " : [ { " f i e l d" : " t i t l e " ,
{ " f i e l d" : " de s c r i pt i o n" , " b o o s t " : 3. 0},
{ " f i e l d" : " ke y wo r ds " , " b o o s t " : 2. 0}]}
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" b o o s t " : 3. 0} ,
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New Tagging and Rating UI
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New Dojo-less tagging and rating UI which is lightweight
Fully functional inline widgets offering full CRUD operations
Highly customizable WCM components
Existing Dojo based widgets are deprecated
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Version 8.5 Installation – What's New
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Portal supports console mode installation
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ASCII-based, interactive install -- works without GUI.
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(Note: WebSphere Application Server still does not support console mode)
Platform-specific sample files for silent installs
New installer for remote search and DCS functions
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Installer uses ConfigWizard to do basic config OOB
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No longer installing an archived profile image
Option to install Dmgr profile removed from installer
Basic/full/custom profile options removed
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No longer need to transfer files to other machine and hand-configure the function
Always a full profile now (or no profile at all). Java 7 is default.
Express no longer installs DB2 automatically (installation works same as
WebSphere Portal Server, or Portal Server and Web Content Manager installation)
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New Configuration Wizard
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HTTP Outbound Integration – Single Reverse Proxy
Improved admin UI
• no need to edit files and hope it all works
• Consistent across all outbound connections
WAB
SFP (SS
Mode)
SFP (CS
Mode)
Custom
Portlet
HTTP Outbound
Integration:
API, Servlet
Configuration:
WAB Manager
UI
Owner:
WAB team
Ajax Proxy team
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Features:
Sun Java engine,
Trust generation,
Trust Association,
SPNEGO,
Plug-in support,
User
Impersonation,
HTTPS Tunneling
Services:
WAB Manager UI as Connection
Manager
Host + Policy = Application
Connections as a PortletService
Connection Picker Component
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WSRP 2.0 Producer for WebSphere Application Server Liberty
Profile
JSR 286 and WSRP support now delivered for WebSphere Application Server Liberty profile
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JSR286 Container and WSRP Producer can be used as OSGI Bundles with the
lightweight Liberty Profile
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Consumes the JAX-WS webservice stack (rather than “legacy” JAX-RPC)
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Enable Portlet developers to use RAD tooling with WAS Liberty
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Deprecated Features in V8.5
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Shared pages
Full and Base installation options
Stand-alone LDAP user registry (configure the federated LDAP registry
instead)
Active Credentials from the Credential Vault portlet. Passive credentials are
still available.
Parallel Portlet rendering
Mashups Enabler API
Old tagging and rating dialog and inline widgets (replaced by new pair of
interactive inline widgets)
URL mappings (use vanity or friendly URLs instead)
IBM WebSphere Portal Integrator for SAP (use the web application bridge WAB)
Remote Rendering Portlet (use the Web Content Viewer (JSR 286) portlet
and Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) instead )
WebSphere Portal Page Builder 7.x theme
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Unsupported Features in V8.5
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Web Clipper portlet (use the Virtual Web Application Manager portlet
instead).
IBM themes from a previous version
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Portal, PortalWeb2, and Tab Menu - Page Builder themes (if migrated they will
not work and must be manually updated)
Merge their function into a clean copy of a Portal 8.5 theme on the target
server.
Composite applications
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Before migrating to 8.5 delete all composite applications to prevent migration
from failing
Note: After a migration, features that are no longer supported or are deprecated can result
in unpredictable behavior. Remove unsupported and deprecated features before you start
your migration.
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What's New in Web Experience Factory 8.5
New in Version 8.5:
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Updates to platform versions – WebSphere Portal
8.5, Eclipse/RAD, Dojo, Install, Java
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Mac IDE support
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Includes WAS Liberty (replacing WAS CE for
OOTB developer test server)
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New productivity builders and Designer usability
enhancements
In addition, features from Multichannel
Feature Packs and wiki postings:
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Responsive/multichannel UI
Worklight builders
Client-side application support
Device class (CC/PP) profile handler
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What's New in Rational Application Developer Portal Toolkit 9
Tooling for building digital experiences:
Single Click Web 2.0 Features → enabling AJAX, JAX-RS,
Dojo, analytics etc.. for exceptional user interfaces
Latest Platform support: WebSphere Portal V8.0.0.1 and
8.5
Support for jQuery in addition to dojo
Worklight and RAD integration makes it even easier to build
hybrid portlets that access native device capabilties
Mac Support
Maven support for portlet projects
IBM archetype for portlet project based on Maven
Maven capabilities for existing portlet project
Maven deployment artifacts to deploy to WebSphere Portal
Tools to integrate portal jars with pom.xml
Continue to provide prescriptive best practices papers and
examples
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Best of breed
e n te rp ris e
d e v e l o p m e n t tools
that are easy to use for
creating digital
e x p e r ie n c e s
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Reference materials
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IBM Knowledge Center (Community Articles, Product Documentation, Learning Center)
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IBM WebSphere Portal & Web Content Manager 8.5:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSHRKX_8.5.0/welcome/wp_welcome.html
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IBM Web Experience Factory 8.5:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSRUWN_8.5.0/welcome_wef_850.html
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DigitalExperience Developer on IBM developerWorks
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http://www.ibmdw.net/digexp/
Portal Zone on developerWorks
 http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/zones/portal/
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IBM Collaboration Solutions Catalog
 https://greenhouse.lotus.com/catalog
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Upgrade Central
 http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/support/upgradecentral/
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IBM Software Events
 http://www.ibm.com/software/sw-events/
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