Portal Content Management

Business Case:

A consumer packaged goods client wanted to provide easy access to pertinent business information for its European business holdings. The content had to be separately branded for seven countries, and easily accessible by all. The organization uses Interwoven Teamsite for business managed web contents and utilizes IBM WebSphere Portal as its main conduit of business information to its employees.

Solution: 

CapTech responded to the clients requirements with a template-based approach to extend their Enterprise Portal delivery of business managed content.  There were over 240 targeted content areas, each to be displayed individually.  By utilizing a template-based approach, CapTech only developed 5 distinct portlets that were then reused achieving the total number of desired content driven areas.  Additionally, the design allowed each area to display different content for up to seven countries. CapTech also designed a customized WebSphere Portal theme that dynamically adjusted the look and content of the portal based on the user’s selected country.

Tools: 
  • IBM WebSphere®
  • IBM Portal Server®
  • IBM WebSphere® Application Developer Studio
  • HTML / JavaScript™ / CSS
  • Java™
  • MVC Architecture
  • XML / XSLT
  • Interwoven Teamsite™
Results: 
  • Integrated content for multiple business holdings and brands spanning seven countries.
  • Provided an improved delivery mechanism for business managed web content, allowing for a greater amount of important information to be easily accessible.
  • The content is delivered to the portal as standards-based XML formats (i.e. RSS and NITF).