WebLogic, developed by the Oracle Corporation, is one of the leading portal frameworks and named a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals. The WebLogic platform lets you provide a user interface to integrate dissimilar environments into an integrated, dynamic and customizable portal that can simultaneously support your customers, partners and employees. WebLogic is often used for managing enterprise portals and is known for improving business visibility and collaboration, and reducing integration costs.
In addition to a portal framework, WebLogic Portal provides many business services such as content management, communities, personalization, search and user management.
There are a number of Alternatives to WebLogic in the market today that offer similar functionalities. Which alternative you choose depends entirely on what tasks and objectives you are looking to accomplish with your portal technology. It is important to identify the needs and thus select the product with which you will build your platform on.
Below, we’ve put together a list of some of the best Alternatives to WebLogic:
Redhat JBoss
JBoss Portal is an open source platform for hosting and serving a portal’s web interface, publishing and managing its content, and customizing its experience. JBoss portal doesn’t aim at providing as many out of the box portal solutions as other platforms but is built to provide a fully reliable customized portal. JBoss features easy to use administration tools, a straightforward web content management system, and reliable performance and scalability.
Liferay
Liferay is the leading provider of open source enterprise portal and social collaboration software solutions, and a leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for the 5th year in a row. Liferay is a web platform built to deliver immediate results with long-term value. With Liferay, you are able to build any kind of portal including social networks, e-learning portals, employee and customer portals. The platform also provides more out of the box portlets then any other portlet on the market including Liferay collaboration, web publishing, content management and social networking.
Apache Tomcat
Apache Tomcat is an open source software implementation of the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies. Apache Tomcat is used to power everything from simple one-server sites to large enterprise networks. Tomcat powers numerous large-scale, mission critical web applications across a diverse range of industries and organizations.
IBM Websphere
IBM Websphere is an integrative software platform that enables organizations to build and manage web portals. Websphere was also named a leader in the Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals based on its scalability, flexibility and use in B2C and B2B organizations. Websphere is used to help organizations deliver exceptional web experiences regardless of location or device. The platform allows for people to interact with other people, applications, processes and documents in a unified, personalized and role-based fashion.
Every organization will eventually be faced with the challenge of choosing an enterprise portal solution and integrating it into their business processes. The decision is not one to take lightly as the portal technology you choose will be deeply integrated into your organization’s infrastructure and work as a corporate face for your systems and processes. Choosing an alternative to WebLogic or Sharepoint depends entirely on what features are important for your organization.
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