Why Isn't Everything a Portal?
Fred Mikkelsen's Blog |
August 16, 2007 9:48 PM
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ALUI is FANTASTIC ! I've started to think about ways that these technologies will really help my ISV software customers.
ALUI can front-end just about any of your existing HTML applications. Modernization of UI look-and-feel is two steps ahead when put through an ALUI portal. The UI can immediately be put through governance, usage tracking, and updated style sheets. You may not have had visibility into which portions of your application are used. With ALUI, that mystery can be reduced.
Reusable AJAX components can also be made in the form of portlets. Portlet-to-portlet communication immediately supports asynchronous portlet updates out-of-the-box. You do not need a complex AJAX platform, or, if you have existing AJAX components, those can be used as well.
Document indexing, integration with Business Process Management (ALBPM), analytics, and an extensible framework for adding new capabilities such as AquaLogic Pages, AquaLogic Pathways, and AquaLogic Ensemble. Capabilities you or your customers don't need do not need to be installed, but they are available when needed.
For Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), ALUI provides a mechanism to present your application, regardless of complexity, securely and efficiently. Deployment time and customizations are simplified through the IDK over "hard" integrations through JSPs, Servlets, application integration, and so on.
Juser security integration through LDAP, Active Directory, or through the portal itself is supported. Every integration point from users, to browsers, to applications, and across multiple languages are simplified. Deployments are normalized and more predictable.
Soft integration is enhanced. This is the side of integration that makes software comfortable and convenient to use (luxurious) rather than merely utilitarian. Widgets and do-dads that are commonly available in the internet world, charts, mapping integration, calendar controls, AreaCode lookup tools, and what-not, can be sprinkled in. These are the touches that will leave customers saying, "you really took the time to understand our needs", (and it will be relatively small project).
There is a strong benefit for an ISVs that embrace portal technology as a deployment vehicle first. Because portal frameworks easily and conveniently include plug-ins from other applications, the first ISVs to provide this will the the "anchor application" that other apps will be plugged into. In the composite application arena, the application provider who introduces the portal integration mechanism will probably have top-branding. All other application vendors will be components plugged in.
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