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Agenda

Company Overview IBM Practice – Digital Experience What is Digital Experience & Why is it

Important? Trends in Digital Experience Top Ten Reasons for Migrating to IBM

WebSphere Portal 8.x Demo of some of the hot new features Best Practices in Planning a Migration Top 3 Migration Gotchas Summary






Company Overview

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5-Years CompoundAnnual Growth

Rate

19%

EmployeesWorldwide

1,500

Global PresenceUnited States, United Kingdom, Germany, India

20+Technology

Accelerators

550+Technical

Certifications

Over 10 Technology and Solutions Awards since 2009

including Business Agility, Customer Integration and

Digital Experience

Over 150 global customersare currently Fortune

1000 companies

Best-in-class architects andspecialty experts:

BPM, Integration, Digital Experience, Security, Testing,

Business Analytics and Enterprise Content

Management

Rate of Repeat Engagements

91%

Prolifics at a Glance

Years inBusiness

35+

Offices14

Awards

Technology Expertise

Fortune 1000

OS Technical Solution

Project ManagerAccount Executive Project ManagerDelivery Manager

US Management

Technical LeadSolution Director

US Technical Solution

Technical Lead

OS Management

Developers / Testers Developers / Testers

Global Delivery ModelWe augment our teams

with a blend of local offshore resources of deep

skills





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Prolifics Services & Solutions

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TechnologiesServices

Advisory

Adoption

Application Development & Integration

Upgrade & Reengineerin

g

Application Infrastructur

e

ManagedServices

PROLIFICSService

Offerings

IBM

IV&V Testing

Architecture & Design

Platform Migratio

n

Quick Starts

Health Checks

Application Maintenanc

e

Test Advisory Services

Assessment

Solution Implementati

on

Product Technology Migrations

Centers of Excellence

Architecture Reviews

Application Infrastructure Maintenance

Application Lifecycle Testing

Strategy & Roadmap Definition

Application Integration

Product Version Upgrade

s

Performance Tuning

Bug Fixing & Patch Admin

Test Automatio

n

Technology Blueprint

Application Transformatio

n

Application

Migration

Set Up & Configuration

Production Support

Packaged Apps

Testing

Simulation & Prototyping

Content Manageme

nt

Content Migratio

n

Information Management

Help Desk &

Problem Resolution

Middleware & SOA Testing

Solution Re-

engineering

Performance Testing

BPM/Connectivity

Security

Digital Experience

ECM

ApplicationInfrastructu

re

BusinessAnalytics

Microsoft & Open Source





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• IBM Lotus Award Finalist for Best Portal Solution2005• Winner of IBM Lotus Award for Best Portal Solution2006• Winner of IBM Beacon Award for Overall Technical

Excellence2007

• Winner of IBM Beacon Award for Overall Technical Excellence

2008

• Winner of IBM Lotus Award for Best Industry Solution• Winner of IBM Lotus Award for Best End-User Solution2010• IBM Lotus Award Finalist for Delivering an Exceptional Web

Experience and Distinguished Business Achievement Awards in North America and the Middle East

2011•Best Industry Oriented Social Business Solution Award•Finalist for Exceptional Web Experience, Distinguished Business Achievement

2012• 2013 Winner of IBM Collaboration Solutions Highest

Achiever Award for North America2013

Award Winning Digital Experience Practice

•GOSCON 2009 "Excellence Awards for Open Source Business Use in Government"2009

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IBM PracticeDigital Experience







Digital Experience Practice - What we do

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Partner Experiences

EmployeeExperiences

Customer Experiences

Enterprise Portals

Social Business

E-Forms

Content Managem

ent

Rich Internet

Apps

Marketing Managem

entCommerce

Cloud & Managed Services

Enterprise Mobility






What is a Digital Experience & Why is it Important?







What is Digital Experience?

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“Digital Experience” is your “Customer Experience”

Digital in the equation are your delivery channels (mobile, tablet, desktop, etc…)

The Customer part is unclear as its not an IT Strategy but a user driven strategy

Social digital experience allows people to interact with your organization using their channel of choice (web, social, and mobile).

A personalized digital experience






Why is Digital Experience Important

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When planning your digital strategy, don’t forget who’s at the center:

your customers






Trends in Digital Experience







Trends in Digital Experience

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Quality Content Digital Marketing Identity Based eco-system Rich Media – Video Big Data Security Infrastructure changes – cloud






Quality Content

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Getting the right content to the right person at the right time…

Publishing to multiple channels Rendering from multiple channels






Digital Marketing

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Content Marketing Email Marketing Marketing Automation Social Media






Identity Based Eco-System

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What does this mean? Human Nature has shown that we like to express

ourselves Harness this for the digital world of tomorrow






Rich Media

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Rich media is the combination of text, visual and audio elements published online to attract attention and encourage activity and engagement

Importance of Video to marketing lines of business






Big Data & Security

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Both are existing IT trends which will continue to grow

Not only about managing data, its about leveraging the data to help drive your business

Secure your customers identity and earn their trust






Infrastructure Changes

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More and more companies are making cloud strategies as part of their business

Reducing operational costs

Changing the way they think about Application Architecture






Top 10 Reasons to Migrate







Why Migrate?

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1. IBM Product Support End of Life IBM’s support got version 6.x of Portal ends Sept 30th

2014 Version 7 will probably be start of Q4 2015

2. Empowering the Line of Business Managed Pages inLine & inContext Editing WCM Projects and Workflows Syndication of pages wit no IT involvement






Why Migrate?

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3. Responsive Design The IBM Portal 8.x Theme is responsive OOB CTC 4 and above is responsive

Desktop Tablet

Mobile






Why Migrate?

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4. Social Publishing & Integration with other content repositories Digital Data Connector Web Application Integrator Web Application bridge

5. Improved Integration with Analytics Enterprise Marketing Management






Why Migrate?

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6. WCM Enhancements REST API In-line editing & visual content targeting Media Streaming with Brightcove Rich Text Editor EditLive & Web Radar Attribute based security Cross Version Syndication

7. CTC & Micro Sites A set of components out of the box Responsive OOB Best Practices template to building sites using Portal and

WCM






Why Migrate?

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8. Script Portlet Downloadable for version 8.0 OOB for 8.5

9. Smarter Commerce Unica NetInsight WebSphere Commerce IBM Marketing Center

10. Easier Upgrades Post 8.5 no more major upgrades…






Demo of New Features







Best Practices in Planning a Migration







Best Practices

Aug 5th 2014

Keep migration plan simple and do not introduce unnecessary changes

Make sure to apply latest fix packs to source and target

Disable AutoSync Make sure the Source DMGR/Node Agents are

stopped Don't forget to set up unique ports Migrate standalone servers and then build out the

clusters Use copies of the Databases When a migation fails, restart migration from

where it left off with -Dwp.migration.framework.resume=<resume point>

Example: -Dwp.migration.framework.resume=deploy-apps






Top 3 Migration Gotchas







Gotchas

Aug 5th 2014

Content-only migration is not supported in Portal 8

Most issues will occur during the upgrade-profile task - to troubleshooting, use -DskipCleanup="true" to preserve work folder (note: if using this option clean out wp_profile/ConfigEngine/config/workbefore reruning task)

You forgot to disable autosync and the source DMGR is still running






Summary

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Digital Experience Trends

Why Migrate?

Empower the LoB

Optimize your digital experience

Integrate all your content sources easily

Migration Best Practices

Migration Gotcha’s






Next Steps

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Free Advisory Session How are you currently using your Portal What is your Portal roadmap? How to get there to best leverage your

investments

Portal Upgrade Assessment Initial Discovery call Assessment Workshop Assessment Analysis Assessment Delivery






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