This document introduces Andrea Fontana from Italy who graduated in Venice and now collaborates with an IBM Business Partner in Milan. Andrea has over 10 years of experience working as a developer using procedural languages and with Lotus Notes, DB2, and Sybase. More recently, Andrea has worked with WebSphere Portal 3.5 as a system specialist. The document discusses automating Portal setup and certifying the first solution as "Ready for Pure Flex." It proposes adapting solutions to better serve small and medium businesses and addressing competitors' criticisms that IBM products are too complex to use, set up and configure. The goal is to optimize installation and configuration through process reengineering and automation.

1. Let me int r oduce myself , my name is:
Andr ea Font ana
I come f r om I t aly
I ' m gr aduat ed in Venice, t he r eal Venice
I collabor at e wit h a I BM Business Par t ner locat ed near Milan :
Fact or -y s.r .l
mail: a.fontana@net2action.com
mobile: +39 392 0303191

2. Now I’m in another “Venice”
and present me
as a

3. During the first ten years, I work as Developer using Procedural
Language.
Started to use Lotus Notes in ‘92.....
Working as DBA , using DB2, VAX-RDBMS, Sybase...
From the beginning of this century started to work with WebSphere
Portal 3.5, as a System Specialist, I had to change my skin, like a
snake ....
Now after more or less ten years , I start to
automate Portal Setup, and certify first
solution as “Ready for Pure Flex”

4. Assumption
FIRST
does not make sense that the man uses the machines
without knowing how they work
SECOND
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
A.Einstein

5. Adapting to a market where:
80% of Companies has dimensions of less than 50 users,
and only 3% are above 1000
We must sell senza to
The first Attack that IBM receives
from Competitors is:
The IBM Products are too complex to use,
setup and configure.
Too much time used for a simple Installation.

7. Optimizing
Installation & Configuration
by
Process re-engineering & Automation

8. Objectives

9. The Solution is:

11. you can gr ant it , if you
know
How works my
JVM?

12. I dedicated my Project to:
Chiricahuas Warriors, his name reportedly
meant "He sees ahead" or "Long neck."
What better name for a proactive analysis project ?

13. The
I dea
BLACK
To poll
Collect info /& measure

14. Analyze
Admins, reading these, can be proactive

15. What should i do?
1. I installed and configured
2. I tuned and monitored

16. Deploy our work
Development
Integration
Staging
Production
Dev
art
ifac
ts
Designer
artifacts
s
act
if
art
Admin
artifacts
artifacts

17. Portal Deployer
The Dream is:
Define Source Portal
Define Target Portal
Deploy: Theme, Portlet, Pages, WCM Libraries
Solution is:
Ant Build, Properties File , Target Task

19. Automated setup for Portal & Connections
Standard Installation & Configuration
reduces the time of maintenance
Our

20. Fir st st ep t o win t he Compet it ion
Cr akcer J ack Tools : No mor e excuses
Using t his t ool r educes t he aver age set up t ime
about
98%