|
|
Award Winning Nexus Portal for the iSeries - AS/400 provides fast, secure and organized web access to Enterprise Applications and Content
Here is an overview of some of the key highlights in Nexus:
 Portals for Intranets and/or Extranets
You can create Intranet and/or Extranet portal sites for your company using Nexus which can all be hosted from your iSeries because multiple Nexus sites are supported from the same iSeries. Create portals for your employees, partners and/or customers and customize each site's look and functionality to meet a specific need.
Secure, organized access to Enterprise Information
Nexus provides you with totally secure and controlled access to web applications and content. It provides Single Sign On (SSO), allowing you to organize information from disparate sources and multiple servers. With tight integration with the iSeries, Nexus minimizes your portal administration workload by letting you choose to use iSeries user profiles, Nexus user profiles or a combination.
Comprehensive and robust security features let you open up or lock down parts of the portal by individual users or groups of users, so you have complete flexibility in providing both information and functionality.
Document & content Management with the Nexus Enterprise Content Manager
The Nexus ECM (Enterprise Content Manager) is a key component of Nexus and is a secured iSeries-centric store for uploading, managing, storing and searching for documents within your Nexus portal and includes incredibly powerful search and indexing feature. Documents of all types are supported such as PDF, Graphics, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc that can be uploaded by authorized users from their own PC and network drives. ECM consists of the following major components:
- ECM Navigator: a tree-like structure that exists in a Nexus Portlet. It emulates a Windows Explorer interface, providing virtual folders and links to documents with the ECM store.
- ECM Viewer: a document viewer Portlet that emulates part of the Windows Explorer interface by showing a list of folders and/or documents within the current node of the ECM Navigator tree. It also features tight access and authorization controls, so you can control which users or groups can see documents.
- ECM Search: This window displays all the documents to which you are
authorized, and allows you to search for documents using words in the document description as well as pre-established keywords.
- ECM Maintenance: Interface to allow users, managers or administrators to add and manage content. People can create folders, documents or add links and files.
ECM and Catapult
ECM integrates with Catapult, our award winning automated report and document management solution, to offer the following features:
- Automated, unattended distribution of spool files to the ECM in PC file format like PDF with option for graphical overlays.
- Reports can be split into multiple sections (useful for invoices, sales reports by salesman, etc.)
- Unlimited index keys and search values can be automatically derived from any report. e.g., you can index a sales report on invoice number, invoice date, salesman number, etc. Users can search using any combination of these indices.
- You can define automated authority rules that get applied to documents as they are published, to control users' document access rights.
- Nexus ECM with the Catapult Interface is HIPAA compliant because, like document distribution to other targets such as email addresses, Catapult logs distribution of documents to the Nexus ECM.
User & Group Management
The security options in Nexus are closely tied to the many available features for setting
up the relationships between users and groups of users on the site. Here are some of the
key features relating to user and group management:
- Users can be iSeries profiles or Nexus user profiles.
- The site administrator can add, change, reactivate, disable and delete users from
the product’s web interface.
- The site administrator can create a group structure for the site, and then
delegate other users, designated as group managers, the task of populating their
individual groups and configuring the resources for their group.
- Users can belong to one or more groups. (Groups might represent departments
in your enterprise: e.g.: Accounting, Human Resources, Sales etc.).
- Group managers can customize pages, portlet instances and links to pages or
web programs (such as WebSmart applications) for members in their group.
The group structure you create in Nexus will likely mirror the structure of your
organization, and you will find all the features you need to be able to set up a logical
group structure. And this is all done without unnecessary complexity, in a simple user
interface.
WYSIWYG Site and Page Design
Nexus includes several built-in tools to help you structure and design your site without needing any HTML knowledge. Site Skins, which control the appearance of the site including all colors and headings, can be edited using a WYSIWYG design tool with color chooser and instant previews of your selections. Creating pages in Nexus has never been easier with drag and drop page design. Simply drag and drop portlets to the location of the screen you want them to appear.
End User Productivity & Satisfaction
The Nexus interface is easy to use, is customizable and includes numerous tools to organize and help users find the information they need. Some of the Nexus portal features to enhance the experience of your end-users include:
- Page Customization: The ability to grant users the authority to customize their own pages and portlet
instances, and create sets of links and resources.
- Manage their Account: You can grant your users authority to edit their own account information,
manage their passwords and work with options for their own portlet instances.
- Add Content: User can be authorized to post document or links to the ECM or create their own portlets from any web accessible document or application.
- Productivity: Users will be more productive because they can access Enterprise information faster and from any PC that has internet access.
Simple, Fast Setup Gets Your Portal Online in Minutes
Nexus Portal runs on the native iSeries Apache HTTP server. It ships with a sample web server configuration file that lets you get your portal up and running with two simple iSeries commands. The web-based administration interface, combined with the ability to import iSeries user profiles into a Nexus site, let you build a fully functioning portal with customized pages in minutes.
Provide a framework for iSeries Web Apps
Nexus lets you include your own iSeries web apps within the portal environment. This lets you take advantage of all the security and structural integrity of Nexus, and provide a common, consistent user interface for all portal participants.
You can embed any iSeries web applications within Nexus, including those written with WebSmart® ILE or Clover. Create links to applications or portlets that embody applications as self-contained entities.
Dynamic Navigation & Menu System
A resource such as Nexus is only as effective as the means that you provide users for
finding the information they need. Here is a brief list of the navigation tools:
- Menus: Nexus allows you to create various types of drop down menus such as custom menus, group menus or personal user menus. Users have access to specific menus because of their particular authorities and group memberships. All these options are dynamically constructed, individually, for each user as they log in to the site.
- Breadcrumbs: Just above the menus are the breadcrumbs, telling you exactly
where you are at all times.
- Bookmarks: Every Nexus page and document is presented with a unique URL,
so you can bookmark pages and return to them.
- Generic ECM Search: Whenever you are working with content from the ECM,
Nexus includes a generic ECM search field in the top right of your window.
- The ECM Navigator: ECM Navigator instances can be infinitely configured,
by group and user, to display only certain folders with specific display attributes.
In addition, all menu options are automatically constructed based on the user’s
authorities.
Portlets Provide Valuable Applications At No Extra Cost
Nexus comes with many portlets (self-contained web applications) that provide additional value to your users portal experience. Shipped portlets include:
- Calendar portlet - share and view events with groups of users, or keep your own private calendar of events.
- To-do lists - create individual or shared to-do lists to help manage your time and work.
- News and weather - get up to the minute, customized news and weather reports
- Links portlets to help organize iSeries applications, links at your enterprise web sites or external links
- ECM (Enterprise Content Management) - manage and search for documents stored on your enterprise servers or within the Nexus portal.
- Spool-Explorer for the Web - view and manage iSeries Spool Files directly within your browser
- Instant Messaging/Chat - chat or send instant messages to other Nexus portal users. See who is online.
- iSeries Messaging - see or respond to iSeries user or system messages.
- 5250 green-screen portlet - get access to a 5250 green screen session directly within Nexus, from any web browser.
- Work with iSeries Jobs - view and manage jobs, similar to the wrkactjob command.
- General purpose 'include' portlet - to let you include content from any external site
|
|
Portal At a Glance
