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IBM Portal Excellence Conference 2009 DUBAI - November 2, 2009

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Extend Your Reach by Delivering Your Portal Solutions to Mobile Audiences

Rafal DaneckiMobility, Rich Client Solutions, Connections & Forms Leader

IBM CEEMEA Community of Practice - LotusCEEMEA - Central & Easter Europe, Middle East and Africa

IBM Portal Excellence Conference 2009 – DUBAI

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Agenda Market Overview and Opportunity

Product Strategy

IBM Mobile Portal Accelerator (formerly WebSphere Everyplace Mobile Portal)

Usage Scenarios

Architecture and component details

New Mobile Portal Accelerator 6.1 release features and demonstrations

Future directions

Additional Resources

Q & A


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Why is mobility important to your customers? (and therefore to you...)Mobility solutions have strong potential even in a weak economy

All organizations have to do more with less.Managers are making sales calls, sales people are making deliveries, executives are approving workflows. Rich mobile services enables users to “take their first job along with them to their second job”.

Mobile devices offer cost reduction potential.A smartphone can cost less to procure and maintain than a laptop or a desktop - especially if the user buys it. Customers are asking: “Can my workers do their job with just an iPhone or a Blackberry?”

Responsiveness helps organizations win.Competition for business is tougher than ever. Organizations that react quickly and respond aggressively improve their odds of success against their competitors.


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Where are your employees? How do they want (or have) to work?Universal access—Be as productive as possible, regardless of location

Rich client Browser Mobile device

Connected Disconnected


Lotus Offerings provide an anytime, anywhere platform

IBM Lotus Domino,

WebSphere Portal

SERVER CLIENT ACCESS OPTIONS

Customers are provided choices in planning their client strategy, which allows robust options for varied types of users.

Rich Client Lotus ExpeditorLotus NotesLotus Sametime

Web Browser

Lotus iNotesLotus QuickrLotus ConnectionsWebSphere Portal

Mobile Devices

Lotus Notes TravelerLotus Sametime MobileLotus Mobile ConnectMobile Portal Accelerator (WebSphere Everyplace Mobile Portal)


Companies Adopting Mobility Strategies See 60% Increase in Productivity

NEW YORK, NY – Sept, 9, 2008 – Businesses adopting mobility strategies are 60% more likely to note a positive impact on sales from mobility applications, according to a recent Nemertes Research report, Unified Communications & Collaboration: Mobility and Business Transformation.

The study found the number of companies that experience a positive impact on revenues from mobility applications increased from 25% to more than 40% when they also have a strategic plan in place.

The research, based on hours of conversations with IT executives, finds that enterprises deploying mobility solutions in the context of a larger strategic plan improve their chances of a positive return from mobility technology by more than 15%.

Additional benefits from mobility planning include improved times savings, with 60% of enterprises reporting a positive impact on time reduction associated with the deployment of mobility technology.

Nemertes.com

Mobile Architectures, 2009 Through 2012: A Trend Toward Thin 10 June 2009

Nick Jones William Clark, Gartner Through 2012, there will be a slow shift toward thinner architectures for mobile applications, and six styles will remain common. No one style has a compelling advantage, so organizations should become familiar with all of them.www.gartner.com

May 27, 2009 (Computerworld) The number of people actively using mobile banking in the U.S. will grow by more than five times by the end of 2013, Tower Group Inc. predicted in a report released yesterday. In fact, that number is expected to double this year alone to 10 million users, up from 4.9 million users in 2008. In 2013,

53.1 million users will be banking with their smartphones and other devices, more than five times the number likely to do so this year, the analyst group said.

Mobility Market Growth...... and Forecasts

http://www.computerworld.com/

http://www.computerworld.com/



HSBC: Crafting an Exceptional User Experience


Device agnostic presentationCommon business logicDevice specific requirements Limited real estateResponse timeBroad band limitationsTime to Market

Challenges and Opportunities – Verizon Wireless*

Mobile Portal Accelerator / WEMP Advantages

IBM WebSphere Mobile Portal Everyplace (WEMP)Minimum changes for Business logic tierDevice Independent Markup ExtensionsImage Conversion ServicesSupport for smart phonesTime to market

* From Customer case study session delivered at Impact 2009: Session Number 1630 Verizon Wireless' Portal Applications for Handheld Devices http://www-01.ibm.com/software/websphere/events/impact2009/


The Problem: Beyond the Classic PC, the Reality of Reaching Users is complex

•Symbian V6, V7•Palm V4, V5•PPC2002, 2003•Smartphone•WAP 1.1, 2.0•320x200•640x480•200x400•120x120•Keyboard vs Stylus

•B&W vs Color


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What is Mobile Portal Accelerator?

Thin Client solution Delivers Web pages to the native browser on the device

Standard Web HTTP/s request/response technology

No client code to download, install or maintain

No data stored on device

Server code updates apply immediately to all users

No device restrictions

No restrictions on Carrier, Device Operating System or Network

Requires a device with a browser and a network/data connection

Can work with: SMS as a front end UI to initiate messages or choose SMS alert options

Client code or JavaScript to provide Location Based Services


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Extending the Capabilities of WebSphere Portal to Mobile Devices

Rich and capable devicee.g. HTML based Browser PC

Integration “at the glass”

E - MAIL

PIM

Content Management

Weather

Web Services

Syndicated Content

News Feed

Extend to Extend to ““Mobile Devices”Mobile Devices”

• IT Perspective - Device Independent Authoring of content

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Standard web pages cannot be pushed onto devices

How do you getthis web page onto

these phones?

Operating System

Symbian Symbian Palm BlackBerry Apple

Display Black/White Color Color Color Color

Screen 120 x 120 176 x 220 240 x 240 320 x 240 640 x 480

Interface Number pad Number pad Stylus/Keyboard Keyboard Touch Screen


With standard technology, companies have to choose which mobile customers to target

If you program to the lowest If you program to the lowest common denominator, you do not common denominator, you do not show a rich interface on devices show a rich interface on devices

that can display better.that can display better.

If you program to the higher If you program to the higher phones, you lose any customers phones, you lose any customers or users on lower-end phones.or users on lower-end phones.

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Operating System

Symbian Symbian Palm BlackBerry Apple

Display Black/White Color Color Color Color

Screen 120 x 120 176 x 220 240 x 240 320 x 240 640 x 480

Interface Number pad Number pad Stylus/Keyboard Keyboard Touch Screen


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Content Rendered Through a Plain Portal

Same content rendered on 2 types of devices, looks identical

Does not differentiate between devices’ unique capabilities Delivers the lowest common capabilities


Content Rendered Through Mobile Portal AcceleratorSame content rendered differently on 2 types

of devices Mobile Portal Accelerator takes advantage of devices’

unique capabilities Delivers to the maximum capability of the device

Logo

2 Columns of information

Graphic to show the Red Line

Link to Map

Plain text


Portal Excellence Conference Demo


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Nokia 9500

Different devices show different amounts of information dependent on characteristics of device

4 fields with Long Description

Only 2 fields

3 fields


WebSphere Application Server

Mobile Portal Architecture Overview

WebSphere Portal

MCS runtime

MCS Repository

LayoutTheme

Markup

Device

Assets

Web Container

EJB Container

External SystemsMobile view

of PortletsNew Mobile

“Aggregator” : Themes,

Skins, ScreensDevices

Mobile Portal Toolkit


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Device Repository

Rich Mobile Device Repository– Over 6,500 devices and growing…– Up to 600+ attributes per device– Aligned with W3C CC/PP and

WAP Forum UAPROF Robust Device Identification

– compressed XML file in RAD

– DB based on Server (DB2, Oracle, SQL Server)

Inheritance/fallback – Device Attributes– Design Policies

Device update service


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XDIME Technology for Designing Device Independent Applications

XDIME: XML Device Independent Mark-up Extensions An XML vocabulary to describe content.

based on XHTML

Aligned with the XHTML2 recommendation of the W3C Device Independent Working Group (DIWG)

Forms based on early drafts of XForms, different today, waiting to align with final specification

XDIME2 is compliant with the W3C Device Independent Authoring Language (DIAL) Standard

Device dependent attributes are moved to Layout and Theme Policies Additional tags to abstract device specifics, such as Layout (e.g. <pane>, <region>)

CSS-based grammar for stylistic control (Themes)


Pane: Assign meaning to content<canvas layoutName="/stockLayout.mlyt" type="portlet" class="body">

<pane name="Name"> <b>JK Telecom</b> </pane>

<pane name="Ticker"> JKT </pane>

<pane name="Price"> 192.73 +0.25 </pane>

<pane name="Logo"> <img src="/logo.mimg" /> </pane>

<pane name="Chart"> <img src="/chart.mimg" /> </pane>

<pane name="Additional"> <hr/> JK Telecom is a industry leading communication services provider. </pane>

</canvas>

Conditional Rendering for Devices


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Conditional Rendering for Devices - Continued Layouts: Facilitate design for best-case user interface. Varied screen sizes are not a problem with XDIME. (pages shown rendered with the same XDIME content)


Conditional Rendering for DevicesUsing an image component:

<canvas layoutName=“/my-portlet-layout.mlyt" type="portlet"> <pane name="image"> <p> <img src=“/baby.mimg" alt=“baby"/> </p> </pane></canvas>


Conditional Rendering for Devices - continuedImages: One image policy can be used to reference multiple images. MCS can determine which image suits the device making the request.

Example: baby.mimg<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><lpdm:imageComponent … <lpdm:genericImageAsset value="baby-low-res.gif" encoding="gif" … <lpdm:genericImageAsset value="baby-med-res.gif" encoding="gif" ... <lpdm:genericImageAsset value="baby-med-res.jpg" encoding=“jpeg" … <lpdm:genericImageAsset value="baby-high-res.jpg" encoding=“jpeg" … </lpdm:imageComponent>

Mobile Portal also includes ICS, which can dynamically resize/reformat images from

single source image.


Image Conversion Service

The Image Conversion Service (ICS) can: Convert images to a different format and pixel depth

Supported input formats are: Windows BMP, GIF87a, GIF89a, JFIF/JPEG, PNG, TIFF, WBMP Supported output formats are:

GIF89a, JFIF/JPEG, PNG, WBMP

Reduce the color depth for a smaller color palette Scale images

Limit the output file to a size that can be handled by the device


Mobile Portal Toolkit•Easy to install/useBased on Eclipse platform

Easy to install and use

Create XDIME portlets and their policies Create one set of JSP markup for all mobile devices

Portlets can be tested within the toolkit

Easily export applications to install on Mobile Portal Server


Portlet Development from Programmers Perspective

Create one markup (XDIME) to support all mobile devices A single portlet may support both wireless (XDIME) and wired (HTML)

content.

XDIME elements reference Components, Theme and Layout policies

Application developers do not have to be concerned with updating their applications for new devices

Mobile Portal Toolkit is used to create portlets and their policies Portlets can be tested within the toolkit Eclipse-based plugins….run on Rational Application Developer


Manage Mobile Pages from WebSphere Portal Administration

Allows an administrator to assemble the navigation hierarchy for mobile devices


Mobile Portal Accelerator 6.1 – New Features

Support latest in-market release of WebSphere Portal – Version 6.1

Extend value of Mobile Portal technology to render WebSphere Portal / LWCM content to Mobile devices via the Mobile Portal Accelerator (MPA)

An updated and enhanced multi-channel server, supporting XDIME 2

Improve usability of mobile user experience for ‘smart’ rich client capable mobile devices

– Framework Client creation of XDIME applications, and sample widgets with rich client-side user interface that works across range of ‘smart’ mobile devices. Consists of: server side (XDIME) and client side (JavaScript) development components and widget samples.

New XDIME enabled portlets are provided for out-of-the-box capability and as samples for demonstration purposes: 1) Mobile Portal RSS 2) Mobile Portal Stock portlet 3) Mobile Portal Client Framework Sample portlet

Updated Image Conversion Server (ICS) Version 4.3.5

New Healthcheck utility to improve verification of product installation

Updated runtime and development code


Mobile Portal Accelerator 6.1 – New FeaturesAdditional Details (1)

Extend value of Mobile Portal technology to render WebSphere Portal / LWCM content to Mobile devices via the Mobile Portal Accelerator (MPA)

IBM Lotus Web Content Management (WCM) provides a means of creating, updating, managing, and presenting web content. It has been integrated with WebSphere Portal to allow management and presentation of LWCM managed content through portlets.

Though many of the features of WCM are very specific to HTML, with some minor updates, and careful use of the features, it is possible to extend this capability so that WCM can be used to present content not only using HTML, but other markups such as the XML Device Independent Markup Extensions (XDIME).

WCM can be used to generate not only HTML portlet content intended for display on PCs, but also XDIME content which can be used by MPA for display on mobile devices. With this new integration support and planning, it is possible, and advantageous, to create one instance of content which can be presented as both HTML and XDIME using different presentation templates. This means that only one copy of the content needs to be created and maintained to support both PCs and Mobile devices.


Mobile Portal Accelerator 6.1 – New Features Extend value of Mobile Portal technology to render WebSphere

Portal LWCM content to Mobile devices via the Mobile Portal Accelerator (MPA) – Demonstration

Available on the Mobile Portal Accelerator Wiki


Mobile Portal Accelerator 6.1 – New FeaturesAdditional Details (2)

Improve usability of mobile user experience for ‘smart’ rich client capable mobile devices

Client Framework creation of XDIME applications, and sample widgets with rich client-side user interface that works across range of ‘smart’ mobile devices. Consists of: server side (XDIME) and client side (JavaScript) development components and widget samples.

Mobile Portal Client Framework Sample Portlet is a mobile-enabled portlet and artifacts that showcase over 50 XDIME 2 sample widgets that can be used to deliver an enhanced, more interactive experience to client capable mobile devices. Examples of widgets include styling, transition, AJAX table, autocomplete, popup, ticker tape, and more. (More details here from InfoCenter)

– Widget library: The widget library provides the building blocks for the creation of useful and compelling client applications. You control widget behavior and transitions, such as sliding and fade in, using either theme style properties, or the style element or attribute on markup.


Mobile Portal Accelerator 6.1 – New FeaturesAdditional Details (2) Improve usability of mobile user experience for ‘smart’ rich client capable

mobile devices – Demonstration

Framework Client creation of XDIME applications, and sample widgets with rich client-side user interface that works across range of ‘smart’ mobile devices. Consists of: server side (XDIME) and client side (JavaScript) development components and widget samples.

http://cattail.boulder.ibm.com/cattail/#[email protected]/files/F954A4301F7D3DD9AF605575093F23B6


Mobile Portal Accelerator 6.1 – Technical DetailsSupported Servers & Operating Systems

pSeries® with AIX V6.1 ML4 Intel® (x86) hardware, with either:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server RHEL AS V5.1 SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) Version 10 Intel x86 Solaris 10Windows Server 2008

Supported Mobile Devices

– All types of browser enabled devices (More than 6,500 supported devices in the device database)

Image Conversion Service installed on a separate application server– Java Runtime Environment 1.5 service

Pre-requisites:

– WebSphere Portal V6.1.0.1 or higher (Server, Enable or Extend)

– IBM Rational Application Developer V7.5.1 or Rational Software Architect V7.5.1 which support Eclipse 3.4 (prerequisite to use the Mobile Portal Toolkit)

See Information Center, Supported Hardware and Software section: [link]


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IBM Software Services for Lotus (ISSL) IBM Mobile Portal Accelerator ServicesTechnical consultingIBM Software Services for Lotus can assist companies with deploying IBM Mobile Portal Accelerator to extend content and services to their mobile colleagues, customers, and partners. Device-independent authoring with Mobile Portal Accelerator ("write once, render many") facilitates introduction of new end-user cell phones and PDA's without changes to the style guide or impact to the existing applications or products.Consulting Services range from enhancing/extending current Web applications to full planning, implementation, and deployment of applications for mobile users.

Premium services

IBM Software Premium Support provides an integrated set of support services that helps customers sustain and optimize their IBM WebSphere Everyplace Portal Mobile Enable infrastructure. It is designed to complement enhanced support and provides value through proactive support, knowledge sharing, and problem management. The program is structured to move the customer's organization forward rather than just managing problems.

For more info: www.ibm.com/software/lotus/services

Lotus and Portal 2009 Technical CONFERENCES

Macau, August 5-7:Portal Excellence

Singapore, August 6-7:Portal & Collaboration

Mumbai, August 11-13:Portal & Collaboration

Sydney, August 25-27:Portal & Collaboration

Sao Paolo, August*:Portal & Collaboration

San Diego,October 12-15:Portal Excellence

Salzburg, October 26-28:Portal Excellence

Dubai - November 2-4: Portal Excellence

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Additional Information and ResourcesWebSphere Portal – IBM Site

http://www-3.ibm.com/software/genservers/portal/

WebSphere Portal Business Solutions Cataloghttp://catalog.lotus.com/wps/portal/portal

Websphere Portal Developer’s Zone http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/zones/portal/

Product Documentation and WebSphere Portal Wiki http://www-3.ibm.com/software/genservers/portal/library/ http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/portalwiki.nsf

Education http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/training/portalofferings.html

WebSphere Portal Bloghttps://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/WebSpherePortal/


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Thank you

Session: Extend Your Reach by Delivering Your Portal Solutions to Mobile Audiences

Presenter: Rafal Danecki [email protected]


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