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Avant Werx’s Portal Werx is the portal software for today’s enterprise faced with a wide range of applications, unifying these applications.

By unifying these applications, within Portal Werx, users no longer need to remember multiple user IDs and passwords. It allows your staff to become productive with the applications and not spend time recalling URLs, user IDs and passwords.

Portal Werx works well with the current suite of Avant Werx applications to provide a Smart Enterprise Suite for your organization.

Product Architecture

Portal Werx is built on open standards like J2EE (Java Enterprise Edition), XML (Extensible Markup Language), Web Services and is based on the JSR 168 portlet framework. The JSR 168 portlet framework is a specification for applications vendors to provide a portlet to their applications. Thus, Portal Werx is not a product that will lock-in the organization to any proprietary format.

Due to the adoption of open standards, Portal Werx easily integrates with other existing products that the organization currently may have.

Using well-documented APIs, any J2EE developer may extend the services of Portal Werx to the particular needs of the organization.

Complete Application Infrastructure

Portal Werx delivers the infrastructure to collate applications across the enterprise.

The secure framework allows you to open the portal as an Internet, an employee intranet, an extranet for partners and an extranet for clients, and yet still maintain control over what these disparate groups of users can access.

Accessible and Adaptable

Portal Werx provides a comprehensive platform for building, integrating, deploying and delivering applications to your users.

Personalization features allow users to use content and applications that are truly useful to them. Users can modify the look and feel and colors to best suit the way they work and communicate.

Security management ensures that no unauthorized users access applications and content. Users can be given roles and can belong to groups, to best map the way they are assigned to responsibilities.

Using the JSR168 portlet framework ensures that the IT support department understands how applications communicate. As JSR 168 portlet framework is an openly available and widely adopted framework, the IT department can quickly and easily create new applications with Portal Werx.

Key Features

Open Portlet Framework	An open standard JSR 168 ensures that other application vendors’ application can be accessible through portlets within Portal Werx
Single Sign-On	Through the use of JAAS (Java authentication and Authorization Services), Portal Werx allows single sign on to other applications.
Multilingual	Through the use of UTF-8, Portal Werx ensures that languages other than English are supported.
User, Group and Role Management	Groups represent a collection of users. Roles represent permissions that a group or user can be bound to. Access to portlets is also restricted to users based on roles.
Personalization	Store all your content in a single content store for easy migration and management.
Pre-Packaged Applications	A host of applications are pre-packaged within. Currency converter, calculator and dictionary are some of the applications built-in.
Complete Smart Enterprise Suite	With Content Werx, Document Werx, Search Werx, and Knowledge Werx, a complete suite for the enterprise is quickly available to the whole organization.
Internet and Intranet Use	Portal Werx works with Content Werx to serve pages to the public and also provide a login to the Intranet.
Pages	Place related application into pages within the portal, to organize your applications and content.
Improved Manageability	As all applications are consolidated within Portal Werx, the IT department is able to administer and troubleshoot applications quicker.
Web Services	Manage and distribute content through newsletters subscriptions.

System Requirements

Browser-Based Client Requirements
Microsoft Windows 98
Microsoft Windows NT
Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows XP Sun
Solaris 2.6, Solaris System 7
System 8 Macintosh 9.0

Supported Browsers
Netscape 4.7x, Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.5, 6.0

Server Operating System
Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows NT
Sun Solaris and Linux

Application Server Requirements
BEA Weblogic 5.1, 6.0, 7.0 and 8.1
Tomcat Application Server
Any J2EE-compliant server

Database server Requirements
Oracle 8i, 9i
Microsoft SQL Server 2000
MySQL 4.1

Hard Disk Requirements
100MB minimum required disk space

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