5486websphere.fm Draft Document for Review October 18, 2004654 IBM Eserver i5 and iSeries System HandbookSolutions and benefitsIBM WebSphere Portal allows people to interact with the on-demand world in apersonalized way. They can automatically get the dynamic information they need.They can quickly execute business processes across critical applications. Theycan collaborate with portal users inside and outside your on demand business.By providing these industry-leading portal solutions for your on demandbusiness, IBM helps you improve employee productivity, cut costs and strengthenrelationships with your customers and trading partners.WebSphere Portal Express and Express Plus offers iSeries server customers agreat way to integrate existing, as well as new applications into a robust, reliableand scalable portal environment. Customers implanting WebSphere PortalExpress can provide a single, personalized interface for employees (B2E),supplies (B2B), consumers (B2C), or all three.Using iSeries Access for the Web, iSeries server customers can take the firststep with their portal integration plans by portal-enabling 5250 applications. Overtime, customers can improve end-user satisfaction and productivity, increaserevenue and reduce the complexities of integrating multiple solutions from IBMand Business Partners.FeaturesWebSphere Portal - Express for Multiplatforms combines features of theWebSphere Portal family with simplified installation and the option for user orprocessor-based licensing. This combination enables small businesses anddepartments within larger companies to more easily deploy sophisticatedemployee, business partner, and customer portals.WebSphere Portal - Express for Multiplatforms, Version 5.0.2, contains thecustomizable portal, an integrated document manager, a selection of portlets, thetoolkit for creating new portlets and the WebSphere Application Server forrunning the portal.Replaces product N/AWebSphere Portal Enable V4.1 upgrade to WebSphere PortalExpress V5 is not supportedFurther information http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/software/websphere/portalhttp://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/zones/portal/proddoc.htmlIBM WebSphere Portal - Express, IBM WebSphere Portal - Express Plus on iSeries
