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Integrated Portal Content Management for BEA WebLogic Portal

As companies realize the tremendous productivity, cost-savings, and efficiencies that can be gained by portals, the number of portal initiatives has increased dramatically - from single enterprise gateways to focused departmental and divisional solutions.

Organizations have found that the roles-based access, aggregation, security, and personalization capabilities of a portal are greatly enhanced when it is implemented with a content management system (CMS) that enables users to author, collaborate on, and publish new content to the portal. However, an enterprise-level CMS can overwhelm the budget of your portal project. FatWire Spark pCM™ provides a content management solution for the BEA WebLogic Portal that is simple to install and easy to use at a fraction of the cost of other CM products. Built to the JSR 168 portal standard, Spark is specifically designed to accentuate and extend the strengths of the portal server.

Ensure Rapid Adoption of Your Portal
The success of a portal depends on its ability to deliver information that is timely, accurate, and relevant for customers, partners, and employees. Spark empowers business users of the BEA WebLogic Portal to create, produce, and deploy rich, focused content incorporating multiple data types. At the same time, the portal integrates all the key business services that are relevant to those same users. This creates a single, compelling destination for business users to get the content and services they need.

Derive Maximum Value From All Portal Assets
Information accessed and displayed by the portal is much more valuable and productive when it addresses the needs of a particular viewer. The BEA WebLogic Portal creates a personalized environment that enables users to receive the information they need quickly and easily, enforcing policy to ensure access is secure based on user roles. Spark enhances this environment with the ability to quickly produce the commentary and context that will ensure maximum use and productivity for your portal content. For example, business users can provide built-in help to direct viewers to the pertinent sections for their business units and tag the content for personalized display.

• Content Management Portlets - Business user interfaces for creating, managing, searching, and publishing portal content and documents
• Productivity Portlets - Business user interfaces to aid in content contributor productivity
• Administration Portlets - Tools for administrators and developers
• Delivery Portlets - Spark comes with four pre-built portlets for content delivery. It also includes developer interfaces and integration for rapidly building additional portlets through WebLogic CM:SPI.

• Activelist - leverage shortcuts to most often used content
• Assignments - participate in workflow processes
• Checkouts - restrict access to content that you are changing
• History - view content lifecycle changes
• Create - add new content to the portal
• Search - find existing content in the portal
• Documents - create folders, add documents, and define metadata

• Content Definition - define your own types of content
• Clear Assignments - remove workflow assignments
• Clear Checkouts - undo content item checkouts
• Publish Destination - configure and initialize publishing destination
• Publish Console - initiate, manage, monitor, and track content publishing

• Job Postings - HR application that categorizes job opportunities by department
• Corporate Communications - share relevant news items internally and externally
• Documents - provide personalized self service access to corporate documents
• Advertisements - upload images to support branding and messaging

Easy Upgrade to FatWire Content Server
As your portal content management needs grow, or you want to extend the benefits of FatWire content management to other content-centric applications, you can seamlessly upgrade Spark to FatWire Content Server. With this quick and easy upgrade to our enterprise-scale content management solution, there is no need to migrate content or retrain Spark users.