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Developing an On Demand Workplace

Bring order to chaos through integration and aggregation

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Part 1: Introduction
February 2004
This article introduces the International Food and Beverages company and takes you through their business environment and issues. From there, it discusses how IBM On Demand Workplace™ technology relates to these areas of concern. After linking technology to the business problems, the article delves into the architectural description of an On Demand Workplace solution.

Part 2: A day in the life of users
February 2004
Get to know the employees of the International Food and Beverages company and their roles and responsibilities within the organization. This article takes you through a typical workday and relates the business tasks the employees perform to the main components of an On Demand Workplace solution. It then provides an overview of the products and technologies that enable those parts of the solution.

Part 3: A custom design based on the portal composite pattern architecture
February 2004
Learn about the IBM Patterns for e-business approach and how it enables architects to implement successful e-business solutions through the reuse of components and solution elements from proven experiences. This article focuses on the patterns used to design an On Demand Workplace solution.

Part 4: The business value of WebSphere Portal
March 2004
Understand the business drivers behind the technology to gain insight into tools and techniques that will yield the best portal solution.

Part 5: Extend WebSphere Portal into the retail store
April 2004
Deliver portal content to the store floor through existing point-of-sale infrastructures. Also explore strategies for interfacing portal applications to point-of-sale peripherals and for mixing portal-based applications with locally installed fat applications on the point-of-sale device.

Part 6: Manage users and access
May 2004
Delve into access and identity best practices and get guidance on how to provide an enterprise-wide, centralized management solution for the users, services, and components that make up a workplace environment.

Part 7: Really going mobile
June 2004
Leverage a variety of client devices and a variety of connectivity options to deliver the On Demand Workplace to users anytime, anywhere. IBM WebSphere® Everyplace® products are key.

Part 8: Extend your workplace to the mobile world
July 2004
Extend On Demand Workplace applications to the mobile world using IBM WebSphere Everyplace Access and WebSphere Everyplace Connection Manager.

Part 9: Keep mobile workers informed while managing multiple devices
August 2004
Use the features, functions, and architecture of WebSphere Everyplace Intelligent Notification Services and device management services functions found in WebSphere Everyplace Access.

Part 10: Enable employee self-service with WebSphere Portal Application Integrator and PeopleSoft
August 2004
Use WebSphere Portal Application Integrator to rapidly create and deploy portlets that give the end user direct access to data.

Part 11: Customize self-service features using WebSphere Portal Application Integrator and PeopleSoft
October 2004
Discover the extended functions of WebSphere Portal Application Integrator portlets, including people awareness, portlet cooperation, and customized look and feel.

Part 12: Enable and customize employee self-service with Bowstreet Portlet Factory and PeopleSoft
November 2004
Explore Bowstreet Portlet Factory for WebSphere, a rapid application development platform for WebSphere Portal, and learn application integration with PeopleSoft portlets.

Part 13: Integrate and implement a task management system
December 2004
Learn how internal and external tasks can be effectively managed within an On Demand Workplace.

Part 14: Enhance out-of-the-box collaboration center capabilities
January 2005
Extend employee interaction and communication beyond the physical workplace by enhancing capabilities of IBM Lotus® Collaborative Components.

Part 15: Enable learning management with IBM Lotus Learning Management System
February 2005
Enable learning management capability within an existing On Demand Workplace environment to deliver a cost-effective training mechanism for new employees and give on demand access to online courses and learning information. Provide more effective and flexible access to training, enhance collaboration capability, and increase productivity across the enterprise.

Part 16: Model and simulate a business process
March 2005
Use IBM WebSphere Business Integration Workbench to model and simulate the current and proposed business processes in this tutorial to show an estimated return on investment (ROI) measurement.

Part 17: Export a business process to IBM WebSphere MQ Workflow
May 2005
Use WebSphere Business Integration Workbench to export a business process to WebSphere MQ Workflow. In this tutorial, you also learn to use the business process in WebSphere MQ Workflow and WebSphere Portal.

Part 18: Monitor a business process with WebSphere Business Integration Monitor
May 2005
Define a custom business measure, monitor the processes, and evaluate the targeted business measures in this tutorial.

Part 19: Build a simple report with the DB2 Alphablox reporting and analysis tool
June 2005
Use the IBM DB2® Alphablox® reporting and analysis tool to build a report. And find out how to view the reports through WebSphere Portal and On Demand Workplace.

Part 20: Use collaborative document management to build promotional collateral
July 2005
Integrate a document management system with existing collaboration technologies, such as instant messaging and e-mail.

Part 21: Manage content for an employment application process
August 2005
Establish and customize a content management system that also optimizes business processes.

Part 22: Recapping what you've learned
September 2005
Add more components to your On Demand Workplace and get a high-level summary about the advantages of implementing an On Demand Workplace.

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