During this two and half day workshop you will learn how WebSphere Portal products bring new capabilities for customization, content management, application integration, and collaboration. They provide a versatile framework that enables enhanced viewing and navigation of end user data. Exciting tools are now available to customize data for each portal site visitor. This workshop brings it all together for solution developers and services providers to get technical skills and hands-on experience needed to use WebSphere Portal Enable and WebSphere Portal Express.

This event will highlight the following:

• The value offered to solution developers and services providers by WebSphere Portal products
• WebSphere Portal features and services, with focus on portal themes and pages, site creation, customization, management, portal search, and the latest  enhancements and new features
• Security and single sign-on techniques
• Portlet and widget development tooling
• Web 2.0 enabling technologies
• Using WebSphere Portlet Factory to develop portlets and widgets
• Advanced labs using Dojo, Ajax and charting
• Application integration techniques and best practices
• Hands-on labs