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IBM Software Group Who Is Mainsoft? Founded: 1993 Business: Leader in Microsoft-Java EE interoperability Advanced IBM Business Partner since 2004 Vision: Move to Open Systems; Preserve Microsoft investments Clients: 150+ banking, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, retail, software development and public sector customers Product Validations: Awards: Top 10 in Info. World 100 Best option for rehosting. NET apps on Java EE servers

IBM Software Group Agenda § Chaos facing information workers …and what this means for enterprise IT § The proliferation of Share. Point sites …and what enterprise IT can do about it § Integrate Share. Point, . NET into Web. Sphere Portal § Case Studies

IBM Software Group Chaos Facing Information Workers ~Information overload ~Ineffective communication ~Poor productivity

IBM Software Group Chaos Facing Enterprise IT § Poorly integrated business systems 4 Desktop and enterprise systems don’t speak to each other. § Mixed technologies and platforms 4 Interop challenges: . NET & Java. 4 Security concerns, regulatory requirements. 4 Requires new skills, development tools. § Constrained IT resources 4 Unable to keep up with dynamic business demands.

IBM Software Group Proliferation of Share. Point Sites Many workgroups use Share. Point for departmentlevel collaboration because it is simple to deploy and easy to use through Microsoft Office. 6

IBM Software Group Share. Point Challenges for Enterprise IT 4 Extranet: security, scalability, and single sign-on access to. NET & Java applications. 4 Intranet: single sign-on; sophisticated rule-based, access to Share. Point content; compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley reporting requirements for financial data; enterprise mash-ups across. NET & Java applications.

IBM Software Group Balancing Enterprise and Team IT Needs § Enterprises want to: 4 Unify security and identity management using existing user repositories for authentication. 4 Deliver SSO across existing systems. 4 Distribute Web-based management and creation tools to business users while retaining control over corporate branding. 4 Integrate team content into enterprise workflows. § Teams want: 4 Freedom to use preferred workspace to collaborate on projects (document sharing, shared calendars, task mgmt, forums, etc. ).

IBM Software Group IBM-Mainsoft Deal Boosts Web. Sphere Portal Interoperability 4 Analysis: “IBM's new reseller agreement with Mainsoft augments Web. Sphere Portal's. NET interoperability capabilities and includes a new functional component targeting Share. Point site and SQL Reports integration. ” 4 Recommendation: “Aggressively evaluate. NET Extensions for Web. Sphere Portal for deployment based on Mainsoft, Portal Edition functionality. ” - David Gootzit, Research Director, Gartner

IBM Software Group Federation Portal: Container for Composite Apps from Multiple Portals Business Partner Portal Java EE Application Server

IBM Software Group Centralized Access to Departmental Share. Point Sites

IBM Software Group Web. Sphere Portal Now Supports Microsoft & Java Equally 4 Capitalize on existing Microsoft assets - Contents stored on Share. Point sites. - Existing. NET skills. - Existing ASP. NET applications. 4 Build composite apps across. NET and Java - On-the-glass mash-ups. 4 Extend the value of portal to . NET - Single point of access to all enterprise services - both. NET and Java. - High availability, scalability. On-the-glass integration between. NET and Java portlets.

IBM Software Group Share. Point Federator for Web. Sphere Portal 4 Out-of-the-box Federation Portlets deliver secure access to Share. Point lists. No coding needed. 4 Share. Point SDK for Web. Sphere Portal to build composite apps across. NET and Java. Can be used within Visual Studio or Rational Application Developer.

IBM Software Group Mainsoft’s Share. Point SDK for Web. Sphere Portal 4 C#, VB developers create, integrate ASP. NET applications into Web. Sphere Portal, without having to learn Java or become Web. Sphere Portal experts. 4 . NET developers access Web. Sphere Portal Services to deliver a complete Portal implementation. 4 End-user experience is seamless across. NET and Java. Integrate an ASP. NET application into Web. Sphere Portal.

IBM Software Group Share. Point Federator SDK Web. Sphere Portal Visual Studio IDE Code, Compile, Debug, Portalize, and Deploy C# VB Microsoft Intermediate Language Mainsoft Patented Cross Compiler • ASP. NET Java Byte code • ADO. NET • Web Services

IBM Software Group Departmental Share. Point Sites 16

IBM Software Group Departmental Share. Point Sites 17

IBM Software Group Departmental Share. Point Sites 18

IBM Software Group Mainsoft Share. Point Federator Configuration Configure the List Viewer portlet in the ‘Edit Shared Settings’ mode. Choose which lists to display.

IBM Software Group Mainsoft Share. Point Federator Configuration (Cont. ) Configure which columns to display and in what order.

IBM Software Group Mainsoft Share. Point Federator Configuration (Cont. ) Customize the portlet’s appearance: - Set to Web. Sphere Portal theme CSS definitions. - Apply custom styles.

IBM Software Group Share. Point List Viewer Portlets 22

IBM Software Group Share. Point List Viewer Portlets 23

IBM Software Group Share. Point List Viewer Portlets 24

IBM Software Group Integrate. NET Assets into Web. Sphere Portal End User Experience 4 Integrate into Web. Sphere Portal: 1. ASP. NET e. Commerce site. 2. Windows Share. Point Services. 3. Microsoft SQL Reporting Services. 4 Use composite applications across. NET & Java to stream line order processing, fulfillment and reports. 4 Use C#, Visual Studio to integrate, maintain the. NET portlets.

IBM Software Group Using IFrames: Integrate ASP. NET into Portal The ASP. NET application behaves like a picture-in-apicture. û Maintains original û Does not participate in branding and navigation. the portal’s role-based security or SSO. û Does not participate in composite applications.

IBM Software Group Using Mainsoft to Integrate ASP. NET Adopts Web. Sphere Portal’s branding & navigation system Supports SOA, with at-the-glass composite application development using Portlet Communication Participates in the Portal’s role-based security and SSO

IBM Software Group Build Composite Apps: . NET & Java Order List Portlet (ASP. NET) displays new orders A mash-up between the Package Progress (ASP. NET) and a Google Map portlet (JAVA) displays the shipment route Show Details Link (ASP. NET) uses Portlet Communication to update the Order Details and Shipping Details portlets

IBM Software Group Enterprise Mashups: Share. Point & Google Maps Order Fulfillment Order fulfillment site reuses New Orders and Order Details ASP. NET portlets Share. Point content participates in composite application with a Google Gadget & Sametime Collaborate Services Product Materials list is stored on Share. Point

IBM Software Group Highly Intuitive VStudio Development Experience Access Portal services, incl. : • • • JSR 168 APIs Web. Sphere Content Mgr Web. Sphere Document Mgr Business Process Server Security Services Portal User Profile ASP. NET adopts Web. Sphere Portal Themes and Stylesheets JSR 168 deployment descriptor with VS Intelli. Sense and a Visual designer

IBM Software Group Design Web. Sphere Portal Application Share. Point Data Source § Share. Point content exposed to ASP. NET portlets as an ASP. NET Data Source. § Can be used in all ASP. NET databound controls (grid, list, etc. ). § Feature-rich, design-time wizard, visual query, groups. § Credential Vault Control Share. Point Data Source Designer wizard: Visual query Mainsoft Share. Point Federator toolbox 31 31

IBM Software Group IBM-Mainsoft Deal Boosts Web. Sphere Portal Interoperability 4 Analysis: “IBM's new reseller agreement with Mainsoft augments Web. Sphere Portal's. NET interoperability capabilities and includes a new functional component targeting Share. Point site and SQL Reports integration. ” 4 Recommendation: “Aggressively evaluate. NET Extensions for Web. Sphere Portal for deployment based on Mainsoft, Portal Edition functionality. ” - David Gootzit, Research Director, Gartner

IBM Software Group Healthways, Inc. Using. NET and Java technologies to build an e. Fulfillment site for 27 million members Challenge 4 Healthways was growing 36% a year and needed to streamline operations. 4 In 2006, company spent $28 million printing and mailing literature to its membership, and it needed to reduce costs. 4 Chose Web. Sphere Portal as the preferred portal platform but in-house development team was. NET Solution Benefits Use Mainsoft and Web. Sphere Portal to create a selfservice fulfillment portal that gives members 24 x 7, online access to health and disease management documents “We achieved the best of both worlds: we used our enterprise. NET skills to develop our 4 Site entered production 5 months after development began. e. Fulfillment site, and we delivered a highly personalized 4 Estimate that full ROI will be achieved within one year. experience to members in a 4 C# developers used Mainsoft’s Visual Studio-based SDK highly scalable, proven to build Java portlets after a single day of training. production environment. ” 4 Site delivers unified experience, with single sign on, role David Jarmoluk based access, common navigation and branding across Director of Enterprise Architecture Healthways both. NET and Java components. . 33

IBM Software Group The University Hospital Ghent Uses. NET and Java technologies to build open-standards-based virtual information service center Challenge 4 Replace Website, Intranet & Extranet with a single site for 380, 000 patients & families; 5, 000 doctors, nurses, technical and admin staff; healthcare professionals; and researchers and students. 4 Portal must support open standards and deliver maximum reliability, availability, scalability & security. 4 However, hospital has existing VB apps & developers. Solution 4 IBM Global Business Services & UZ Ghent are building the portal using IBM Web. Sphere Portal Extend software and a content management system based on IBM Workplace Web Content Management software. 4 UZ Ghent’s VB team integrated 500, 000 lines of VB code into the Portal in 3 man months. The Website is now in production. Benefits 4 Communication among staff, patients and students will improve, leading to increases in productivity. 4 Healthcare professionals can collaborate more easily, which leads to faster problem diagnosis & improved information sharing. 4 Overall, a reduction in operation expenses associated with records management and billing. "With Mainsoft, I threw away all my biases about the fact that you need to choose between. NET and Java development because the gap between the two of them is so small. . . “I would advise everyone who is confronted with interoperability issues just to consider the solution of Mainsoft because it's so easy to make. NET and Java code work together. " Bart Sijnave CIO, UZ Ghent

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