Integrating with collaboration software

IBM® WebSphere® Portal integrates with collaboration software to provide you with more effective and cost-efficient ways of accessing information, sharing ideas, communicating and working together. Key software with that WebSphere Portal integrates with includes IBM Lotus® Domino®, IBM Sametime®, IBM Lotus Quickr®, and IBM Connections.

Finding users
Use PeopleFinder or Directory Search to locate other WebSphere Portal users. The People Finder portlet can be added to a page through the Content menu, so that users can find people in any context. Directory Search is available to users as part of a larger task, such as sending mail. Directory Search also enables users to search for user groups in addition to individual users.
Planning for collaborative servers and portlets
Setting up a site with IBM Lotus Domino integration requires decisions about user directories, security, authentication, and performance. View some use cases that may help you make decisions leading to a successful Lotus Domino integration.
Integrating with IBM Sametime
Configuring the Sametime server and Sametime portlets requires a set of tasks performed on both the Sametime server and the portal server.
Integrating with Lotus Quickr
To integrate IBM Lotus Quickr with IBM WebSphere Portal, enable single sign-on and increase security by preventing anonymous access. Additional steps may be needed if Lotus Quickr and WebSphere Portal use different LDAP servers to authenticate, or if you plan to use the My Places portlet.
Integrating with IBM Connections
IBM Connections portlets give IBM WebSphere Portal users access to additional collaboration and social networking features such as Activities, Blogs, and Bookmarks. Users can also view IBM Connections business card information and tags and link to IBM Connections features directly from the portal server.
Collaborative Services environment properties
If your collaborative site requires optional configuration that is not accomplished by the tasks that you run on the IBM WebSphere Portal server to integrate IBM Lotus Domino and the collaboration products, you can modify the operation of the collaborative servers and portlets in various ways by manually editing the Lotus Collaborative Services environment properties file (CSEnvironment.properties) on the WebSphere Portal server.

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