Integrating

Image for this section Integrate IBM® WebSphere® Portal Express® with software such as IBM Lotus® Quickr® and IBM Sametime® to enable your users to collaborate more easily. You can also use the unified task list portlet, available on the WebSphere Portal Express Solution Catalog, to integrate WebSphere Portal Express with your backend business process software, such as IBM WebSphere Process Server.

Integrating with collaboration software
IBM WebSphere Portal Express 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 Express integrates with includes IBM Lotus Domino®, IBM Sametime, IBM Lotus Quickr, and IBM Connections.
Integrating business processes
Access relevant tasks and activities for multiple business process management solutions from a single user interface. The Unified Task List portlet provides a single point of integration between multiple systems and displays tasks that WebSphere Portal Express users must complete to advance workflows. The topics in this section provide information and instructions for developing and customizing the Unified Task List.
Integrating with the web application bridge
The web application bridge uses reverse proxy technology to integrate web-based content providers, such as the Microsoft SharePoint 2007 server, with IBM WebSphere Portal Express. Administrators must first define the virtual web applications or content providers. A lightweight IFrame portlet displays the content from the backend applications. Users can then access the IFrame on a page without requiring direct network access to the backend application. A special engine maps Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) on the iFrame portlet to real URIs from the content providers.
Integrating with SAP NetWeaver Portal
You can use IBM WebSphere Portal Express Integrator for SAP to integrate content from an SAP NetWeaver Portal into your IBM WebSphere Portal Express. You can integrate navigational structures and single content pieces.