Presenting your brand, services and marketing campaigns to the Web, Open Text Portal delivers highly personalized Web and mobile sites with rich content and applications, enabling you to:
Increase customer engagement and loyalty
Socially enable Web sites
Quickly improve findability and self-service
Improve conversion and revenue growth
Easily deploy microsites and global initiatives
Create dynamic and targeted user experiences
Companies are constantly seeking to provide interactive and useful access to information from diverse sources to increase efficiency and engagement. Open Text Portal (formerly Vignette Portal) provides a highly scalable and efficient means of aggregating content and applications for use across a variety of initiatives inside and outside the firewall.
Behind the scenes, Open Text Portal also helps realize internal efficiencies and business goals:
Improve employee, partner, and customer access to information
Remove reliance on IT for site management
Create and deploy mashups and composite applications
Syndicate content and applications to other Web sites
Increase communication by socially enable existing sites or creating new community sites
Improve access by enabling mobile Web site and application delivery
Increase loyalty and satisfaction through improved self-service
Improve access to enterprise content and collaboration
In release 8.1, Open Text Portal provides the following new features:
Tethered syndication
Asynchronous rendering (AJAX)
One-click site creations
Business user administration
Open Text Search Services
See the product sheet for more details.
Open Text Portal's features enable you to:
Access information that is personalized, social, and relevant: Open Text Portal's predefined social portlets, along with advanced segmentation and targeting capabilities, enable the creation of highly interactive and contextual online experiences that meet the demands of today’s Web 2.0-empowered employees, partners, and customers.
Create and customize sites: Open Text Portal's point-and-click configuration simplifies the task of customizing one or many Web sites—putting layout and page management in the hands of marketing and business users, not IT. Business users can create highly informative and engaging Web pages by simply selecting portlets from Open Text's library of over 200 portlets. Granular, role-based authorizations enable tailored control to sites, pages, information, documents, and applications by allowing administrators to configure individual or group-based permissions matched to their specific business processes.
Launch sites quickly: Open Text Portal's out-of-the-box site templating capability lets users rapidly and easily create new Web and mobile sites or clone existing sites with a single click, allowing companies to launch new sites and online initiatives within minutes.
Empower business users to create meaningful applications: Open Text Portal's composite application builder empowers rapid mashup and composite application creation via a point-and-click development tool that enables users to combine Web services, repository data, and user interfaces in meaningful ways to create valuable business applications without IT intervention.
Deliver the most responsive sites on the Web: Implementing Open Text Portal and Open Text High Performance Web Delivery together provides a unique, integrated combination of real-time caching and intelligent cache management capabilities. The result can be substantially improved dynamic Web site performance and page responsiveness.
Open Text also offers Open Text Portal Integration Kit, a set of out-of-the-box portlets to integrate systems based on Open Text Content Server into portal frameworks, including IBM WebSphere Portal Server, Oracle Application Server Portal, BEA WebLogic Portal, BEA AquaLogic Portal, JBoss Portal or SAP® NetWeaver® Portal.
Open Text Portal is QAD's presentation framework and flexible content front-end, aggregating content from Vignette Content Management, or any other database, and presenting it to users in the format best for them. Content is updated automatically across all channels. In addition, content is translated and presented in 27 different languages, allowing QAD to serve their diverse, global customer base.
For more information about Open Text Portal, view the following resources: