  February 2005
Updated August 2005
As an application developer or IT architect, you use a wide array of middleware products when developing solutions to solve particular business problems. Because each organization is unique, deciding which products to use together can be tricky. And after selecting the products, you must then integrate and configure them. In this series of articles from the IBM Software Group Horizontal Integration Analysis Team, you discover how you can meet these challenges through examples of business solutions that show cross-brand integration of IBM Software Group middleware products. The solutions are representations of how you can integrate IBM products to accomplish your specific business goals. The business scenarios covered in this series of articles are:
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Help customers help themselves by providing services on the Web
Read this series for more information about the customer loyalty scenario.
December 2003
Managing content in an employee workplace
Read this series for more information about the employee workplace scenario.
June 2004
Designing and implementing a mediated exchange solution
Read this series for more information about the mediated exchange scenario.
August 2004
Merging disparate IT systems
Read this series for more information about the mergers and acquisitions scenario.
January 2004
Building an e-business foundation for a small-to-medium business
Read this series for more information about the small to medium business scenario.
February 2004
Integrating business processes to streamline the supply chain
Read this series for more information about how to integrate business processes.
June 2003
Accessing WebSphere Portal Personalization Rules Programmatically
Personalize a portlet using application logic on content which has been personalized by rules.
August 2003
Load balancing with Cisco CSS 11000 and WebSphere Portal V5
Set up Cisco Context Service Switch 11000 load balancing for WebSphere® Portal V5 to increase availability and performance of a complex portal.
June 2004
Moving a development portal into testing
Move your portal from a development environment to a test environment using utilities provided by WebSphere Portal Version 4.
July 2003
Configuring and developing collaborative portlets using Person Tags
Configure and develop collaborative portlets using Person tags, which is part of the Lotus® Collaborative Components feature in WebSphere Portal 4.2.
October 2003
Creating a Personalized Web Content Management System using WebSphere Portal content publishing
Take this tutorial to learn how to use WebSphere Portal content publishing to create and edit template-driven Web content from file, structured, and syndicated sources, and how to publish that content to a WebSphere Portal runtime environment.
June 2003
Implementing page navigation in portal applications using Struts portlets
Use the multiple module support built into the Struts portlet framework to organize your Web navigation schema.
April 2004
Quick start for installing WebSphere Portal V5 and the Portlet Development Environment
Install WebSphere Portal V5.0 with IBM DB2® V8.1 and extended security using an LDAP directory, IBM Directory Server V5.1, on a single Windows® node.
October 2003
Developing Sametime V3 portlets with WebSphere Portal V4.2
In this tutorial, you integrate the Sametime 3.0 Java™ Toolkit into a WebSphere Portal environment, without requiring the full Lotus Collaborative Components or Collaboration Center from WebSphere Portal.
November 2003
Wiring Click-to-Action portlets for interportlet communication in WebSphere Portal V52
Discover the quickest approach for creating C2A-enabled portlets for WebSphere Portal Version 5.
April 2004
Performing unattended daily builds with WebSphere Studio and Ant, Part 1
Do unattended centralized daily builds in a "clean" environment using Ant and a specific repository.
April 2004
Customizing users in Lotus Workplace
Extend your LDAP schema, map new attributes with WebSphere Member Manager, and add attributes to the People Finder portlet in Lotus Workplace™.
October 2004
Download IBM product evaluation versions and get your hands on application development tools and middleware products from DB2®, Lotus®, Rational®, Tivoli®, and WebSphere®.
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