To derive the maximum business value from a portal deployment, you will need to populate your portals with custom portlets that aggregate data, content, and processes from existing applications. Typically, the majority of these portlets will need to be custom built in order to incorporate your company’s unique data, business processes, presentation requirements, and organizational structures.

IBM offers WebSphere Portlet Factory, a dedicated portlet creation environment for WebSphere Portal that helps speed portal deployment by dramatically simplifying custom portlet development.

• Accelerate portal deployment - Increase developer productivity 2-12X, which can dramatically reduce development costs and speed portal deployment
• Extend portlet creation to a broader development community - Enable developers of all skill sets to build multi-page, complex portlets without coding.
• Leverage existing enterprise applications and IT assets - Quickly create composite, high-value portlets that leverage existing investment in your existing applications (Lotus Domino, SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel) and data.
• Create new portlets on demand - Generate multiple, customized portlets for various users or application contexts - without changing underlying code.
• Empower business users to create, customize & manage portlets - Reduce IT bottleneck and speed time to market by empowering business user configuration.
• Automate frequently occurring development tasks - Capture commonly used design patterns and company-specific business processes as reusable components for all developers, enforcing application architecture and development best practices.

WebSphere Portlet Factory's ease-of-use and advanced development features dramatically streamline the entire portlet development process. This helps your developers deliver adaptive, robust portlets in a fraction of the time and at a fraction of the cost that it requires today.

Thank you for taking the time to review this informations. We look forward to working with You to help capitalize on the benefits of using WebSphere Portal Factory for portal development.

Sincerely, Daniel Altmann