IBM has recently revealed a newer version of WebSphere Portal Version 8, offering its users a more seamless, personalized and richer user experience, distinct for each user across a single access point.

With several new features from better analytics, social media integration, more affluent content management and search engine optimization, WebSphere Portal version 8 offers everything you need for deploying and developing a multi channel and exceptional web experience.

The newer IBM WebSphere Portal Version 8 provides a variety of benefits that will not just enhance your user experience but would also boost your productivity and performance. 

The latest version also supports signing in to your portal from Google, Yahoo or Facebook id via Open id authentication and provides easy

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Many enterprises utilize middleware as the “glue” linking their application infrastructure together. This application fabric is usually comprised of bespoke and commercial applications, some of which are sourced within the company and others obtained through acquisition. For these enterprises, middleware lets it all work together. Unfortunately, the middleware solutions are often used on a department or division basis with a box of overlapping tools to monitor and manage them.  As IT is still for the most part organized in silos (see Silos of Shame), this can be costly at best providing a technology-specific view of status and with little overall visibility of the application, itself.

But, we can take another approach and get past this. Utilizing a single point of control...

The WebSphere Operational Decision Management version 7.5 enhancements enable customers to tailor business solutions, based on market requirement at a faster pace. The new product maximizes organizational efficiency,  increase employee productivity, and improve the quality of actions that overall brings in responsiveness to the business.
 
With an active Subscription & Support account existing customers of ILOG Business Rules and WebSphere Business Events can obtain this latest release free of charge.

For more information  review the WebSphere S&S – What’s New page for WebSphere Operational Decision Management – The web page provides information on the product enhancements, version comparison and performance points....

Here is a quick sneak peak on the latest version enhancement to the WebSphere Message Broker version 8.

The latest version provides advancements in the areas of Management and Administration, Data Format and Protocol Support, Transformation, SOA and Standards Support, and Application Development.

This changes have been dramatic, feature changes include; comprehensive support in Microsoft.NET environment which improves the ease of deployment, New Graphical Mapping, New command API and Improved diagnostic capabilities which provides the overall ease of use of this latest version.
The enhancements also include Enhanced auditing of data with new edit, record, and replay functionality complemented by advanced graphical tooling, Support for Web Services Reliable Messaging (WS-RM) which provides...

I read a great blog post by Sarah Cenedella recapping the IBM Webcast I missed last week: "Embracing the Management of Change: Turning Uncertainty into Opportunity."


The Webcast was presented by Bruce Upbin, an Editor at Forbes Magazine and Paul Brunet who is the Vice President of WebSphere and BPM Product Marketing. It delved in to cool ways business professionals are using technologies like Cloud, Mobile, and social in combination with WebSphere products.


Check out Sarah's review here.  I guess the replay isn't available quite yet, but when it is you can check it out here....

Tomorrow at 15:00hrs GMT Andy Howells, Lead Architect for WebSphere Message Broker at MidVision along with Anthony Phillips, IBM Architect from WebSphere Message Broker from the Hursley Labs will be presenting on what the new features of WebSphere Message Broker - register here: www.midvision.com/wordpress/about/events...

On Wednesday, February 1, 2012, the Twitter accounts for the IBM Business Process Management (BPM) product family will change. For your convenience, and to better align with our product family strategy, we are consolidating the IBM_Lombardi, IBM_Modeler, IBM_Monitor, and IBM_ProcessServ Twitter accounts into one Twitter account called IBM_BPM.

For more information and to see how this change might affect you, see the IBM Business Process Management Products Support blog at the following URL: www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperwo......