eXo Portal 2.5
eXo Portlal 2.5 is an intranet that allows any user to access personalized and collaborative content and applications from a single entry point. It empowers your employees with personalized content and relevant information. And it now supports Gadgets and RTL (Right To Left) languages, like Arabic.
Web 2.0 and user experience curve benefits: Empowering your employees.
Through its dynamical layouts concept, eXo Portal allow your partners, employees and customers to create their own user experience, with personalized applications based on groups, roles in groups, context, and team collaboration needs. The Web 2.0 changed the way we are working and eXo Portal brings innovative new development and framework capabilities that simplify the delivery of Web 2.0 benefits in a portal.
eXo Portal 2.5 pushes the model forward and, thanks to a set of wizards, allows anyone to build in less than 2 minutes a new page with an advanced layout containing several applications. So, eXo Portal offer increased user productivity by delivering information and applications to specific audiences. Moreover pages are displayed depending on who you are and your role within a group. It connects people to your business with rich interactive capabilities that are easy to build and manage, realizing business value faster and cheaper by integrating into your existing structure and maximizing existing investments.
Adaptability and flexibility: Simplifying your work environment
eXo Portal has been developed to be easily adapted to your company\'s processes. It provides a simple way to connect your existing IT components together. WSRP, JSR 168 and now JSR 286 standards allow eXo Portal to communicate with your existing portlets and services. The eXo framework enables your IT department to build flexible SOA based solutions, and to be scaled to your organization whatever its size.
Moreover, this flexible solution lets your company adapt to fast changing environments by enabling you to easily deploy the services needed tomorrow, all at significantly lower costs. The modular services, like content management, collaboration tools and community management, that can be easily added to the portal, increase the value of eXo Portal and provide solution to a greater set of companies facing different issues and challenges. This architecture helps you minimize risk and meet your own requirements.
Deploying your portal on reliable standards
eXo Portal supports major industry standards like portlet technologies JSR 168/286 and Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) with bridges capabilities for JavaServer Faces (JSF), Spring, Struts and JSP. Its flexible deployment architecture offers options for efficiently sharing portal resources and managing portal security. Security capabilities in eXo Portal simplify integration and deployment.
Thanks to single sign-on (SSO), which can be combined to a LDAP server epending on you security requirements, you are able to easily manage authentication and the personalization of content from services depending on who you are and your role within your groups. eXo Portal leverage a unified service that manages users, groups and the relationships between them. That information can be stored in a database or in a LDAP directory (including Active Directory). eXo Portal relies on Java standards (JAAS) for propagating the user identity and roles from the directory to the application server.
eXo Portal 2.5 is compliant with the Google gadgets specification. Gadgets can be placed in the user workspace or in the new dashboard that provides a fully customizable gadget page. Users can edit and maintain custom gadgets within eXo Portal either with the inline gadget editor or externally via webdav using their favorite editor and the reuse of gadgets from a remote repository such as iGoogle directory is possible.
