TIBCO PortalBuilder

In today's fast-moving marketplace, people inside and outside of organizations require and demand more complete and timely information and access to applications. At the same time, they run the risk of being overwhelmed by information of varying significance or relevance. To meet these challenges organizations must give stakeholders easy access to customizable views of internal and external resources such as content, services, applications, and business processes.

Over 400 customers use TIBCO PortalBuilder® software to unlock the potential of assets trapped within functional silos, presenting real-time, personalized views of integrated data, systems, and business processes to various constituents – employees, customers, partners and suppliers – using a single unified interface.

Empower End Users – Employees can compose and manage self-service desktops, collaborate using communities, and build content with simple content management.
Reduce IT Costs – Accelerate development of portlets using smart portlet kit wizards over standard-based data channels.
Rich User Experience – Provision, mix, and mashup rich Ajax and legacy HTML portlets.
Standards Compliance – Leverage existing assets; integrate via web services and servlets.

Key Features

Flexible Content Management: The template-driven content management approach gives business users the ability to create and target content, improving the timeliness and relevance of portal content. PortalBuilder supports multilingual content development as well as integrating with leading third-party content management systems.
Delegated Security and Administration: Delegated administration simplifies portal management by giving selected individuals control of different functionality or areas within the portal. Out-of-the-box support for single sign-on, standards-based authentication methods as well as support for leading web security vendors.
Hierarchical Sites: Multi-level hierarchical sites allow easier configuration and management of portal content – communities, discussion forums, skins, permissions. Support employees, partners, and customers with the one implementation.
Optimized for Rich Internet Applications: Strong support for Ajax-based portlets through base URL rewriting, authentication propagation, service proxy configuration and caching as well as integration with TIBCO PageBus technology.
Scales and Extends: Supports hundreds of thousands of users while maintaining high performance, using service-oriented architecture.
Standards Compliance: Supports enterprise portal standards JSR-168 and can both consume and publish WSRP-compliant portlets. Also supports integration with other enterprise standards like SOAP, J2EE, JDBC, REST out-of-the-box.

Portlets Interact via PageBus