BEA Portal with Content Management

Delivering Categorized Corporate Information

Erwin ChiongNataraj Jeedigunta

Documentumechiong@documentum.com

njeedigunta@documentum.com

Vision - Definition

• Create a Product Operations portal that provides a central point of access to information, tools, and resources in support of Product Operations staff

• The portal will be really useful, intuitively easy to use, rich in content, up-to-date, and relevant

Benefits

Site UtilizationSite Utilization

Administrative Costs

Education Costs

CommunicationCommunication

Content Productionand Delivery Costs

ProductivityProductivityand Satisfactionand Satisfaction

Relevant Content

Int. Support CostsInt. Support Costs

Forrester Report

What Users look for in a Portal?Forrester Report

Schedule and Resources

September NovemberOctober December

Kick-off 1st Prototype

2nd Prototype

January

LaunchPO Portal

• 2 full time developers• 2 part time infrastructure and content architects• 0 portal administrator• 200 users

Portal Demo

Portal Demo

Portal Demo

Portal Demo

Portal Demo

Portal Demo

Portal Demo

Portal Demo

The Result…

• Better communication

• Lowered bug counts• Increased

productivity

How did we do it?

• Portal• Ease of use• Personalization• Taxonomy• Collaboration• Administration

• Content Management• Authoring• Versioning• Workflow• Lifecycle Mgmt• Search• Security• Scalability

• Weblogic Server 6.1• Weblogic Commerce Server 4.0

• Portal Framework• Personalization

• BEA Portlet Adapters 4.3• BEA eConnectors 4.3• WebCache 4.3• WebPublisher 4.3• Engagement Server 4.3• CPS 4.3• eContent Server 4.3

• XML framework• Taxonomy engine

How did we do it? (cont’d)

Personalization Server Run-Time Architecture

Portal Management (cont’d)

Personalization Server Run-Time Architecture

Content ManagementDCTM eConnector for BEA

• Manage content rules• Access publish content

Personalization Server (WLCS)

Docbase integration

WebCache Integration

Documentum JDBC Driver.

DFC

DMCL

Native RDBMS Driver

Docbase

WebCache Database

Content Management (cont’d) DCTM BEA Portlet Adapters

• Access DCTM Repositories

BEA Portal

DFC

RepositoryeContent

Server

DQL API

Adapter

Application Server

JDBCServices

PortletDispatcher

PortletsWeb Forms Forms Class

JSP/Java

XML Taxonomy Drives Content Personalization selection &

presentation

Content Management (cont’d) DCTM XML Engine

Proceed to Room 4 if you have more questions after

the presentation

ContactInformation

Erwin Chiong: echiong@documentum.comNataraj Jeedigunta: njeedigunta@documentum.com