Iona, the enterprise portal company represented locally by CCH Software Development, delivered the final element of its iPortal Suite with the iPortal Server. This is the Web-facing component of an enterprise portal that aggregates back-end applications and manages content to provide customers, suppliers, partners and employees with a single point of access to all of an organisation`s business processes and software applications.
The iPortal Server is supplied with Iona`s iPortal Application Server and Orbix 2000 offerings, providing an integrated environment based on J2EE, SOAP, XML and CORBA standards. Further integration with Iona`s iPortal OS/390 Server and the rest of the iPortal Suite enables organisations to build and deploy portals that leverage mainframe, ERP and proprietary enterprise applications.
"Iona`s customers believe that enterprise portals can only provide lasting value if they enable controlled access to all of an organisation`s back-end applications," says Themi Themistocleous, director at CCH Software Development. "Iona approaches the creation of enterprise portals from the ground up, providing a comprehensive integration and development infrastructure"
The iPortal Server provides a structured Web design process for building, deploying and managing portal applications. By separating content, presentation, business logic and data layers, the iPortal Server`s XML/XSL-based design ensures that Web content is architecturally separated from the presentation layer, enabling new business logic or protocols to be added without affecting data or Web content, unless desired. This capability enables organisations to scale their Web applications as they evolve.
As part of the presentation layer, the iPortal Server`s Style Manager renders information in a personalised manner, based on the profile of the user, so employees, partners, customers and suppliers are presented with information that suits their needs.
The iPortal Server provides an extensible platform for adding third-party plug-in applications through interfaces that are visible within the iPortal Server. Integration with Iona`s J2EE-based iPortal Application Server enables portal features such as security, commerce services, personalisation and profiling to be provisioned and "plugged in" as Enterprise Java Beans, or integrated as complete applications from market-leading, third-party suppliers.
The iPortal Server facilitates the dynamic deployment of Web content, via a customisable, "out-of-the-box," configuration environment where Web content, protocols and services can be added at runtime without bringing the website down. Like all elements of the iPortal Suite, the iPortal Server leverages Iona`s Adaptive Runtime Technology to make it easier for organisations to deploy and manage Web applications.
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