# Deployment Guide

# Components of AquaLogic User Interaction

This chapter summarizes the functional components and features of the AquaLogic User Interaction (ALUI) solution.

For a conceptual overview of ALUI, contact a sales representative or visit the Product Center for the latest white papers.

For detailed product specifications and compatibility requirements, contact a sales representative or visit the Product Center for the latest product data sheets.

The purpose of this chapter is to help you identify the components you plan to include in your ALUI deployment so that you can provision host computers and IT resources and plan administrative- and development-related assignments for your deployment.

At the end of this chapter, you should be able to complete AquaLogic Interaction Products Worksheet.

The following table provides a brief summary of the functionality provided by the components of the ALUI solution.

| Application Suite | AquaLogic Interaction | Sold Separately | Description
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User Interface | X | X |  | AquaLogic Interaction (ALI) portal and Image Service components provide the basic building blocks of the end-user experience, including UI templates for ruled-based Experience definitions, personalized pages, communities, and the Knowledge Directory. The Administrative Portal provides a centralized management UI for all deployment components.
|  | X | AquaLogic Interaction Development Kit (IDK) includes the UI Customization Kit and the Pluggable Navigation Kit to enable you to rapidly deploy customizations to the out-of-the-box UI look, feel, and functionality.
Web Services | X | X |  | AquaLogic Interaction is an application that acts as the gateway between user requests and composite applications.
X | X |  | ALI API Service enables rapid integration with AquaLogic User Interaction applications, as well as remote applications.
User Management | X | X |  | AquaLogic Interaction enables rule-based Experience definitions, allowing you to manage content access and activity rights for users and groups.
|  | X | Identity Service - Active Directory enables rapid integration with Active Directory authentication services. Identity Service - LDAP enables rapid integration with LDAP authentication services.
Content Management | X | X |  | Document Repository Service enables content from file system locations, URLs, Collaboration projects, or Publisher targets to be made available through the portal.
X | X |  | Content Upload Service enables portal users who might not have access to data staging locations (for example, extranet users) to upload files to the Knowledge Directory.
X |  | X | Publisher provides a UI and templates for creating content and its metadata and managing this content with workflow, scheduled publishing, and expiration controls.
|  | X | Content Service - Windows Files enables document discovery for remote data sources on Windows file system. Content Service - Documentum enables document discovery for remote data sources on Documentum Docbases. Content Service - Lotus Notes enables document discovery for remote data sources on Lotus Domino Servers. Content Service - Microsoft Exchange enables document discovery for remote data sources on Microsoft Exchange Servers.
Security | X | X |  | AquaLogic User Interaction architecture allows most Web applications to be hosted behind a firewall, with only ALI directly serving user requests. ALI supports SSO. ALI provides object-level security so you can manage user access to content with ACL and user activity by designating activity rights.
Collaboration | X |  | X | Collaboration provides portlets to facilitate collaborative workspaces, including document source control, threaded discussions, and announcements.
|  | X | Process is a set of business process modeling (BPM) tools that provides the ability to design, activate, and deploy business processes into a live environment. The platform lets users quickly combine dissimilar applications into integrated business processes. Users can then modify these processes in real time, enabling business to react dynamically to changing market conditions.
Search | X | X |  | Search indexes all of the resources accessible through the portal pages, communities and Web applications deployed across the enterprise. These resources include: Content indexed from file systems, Web sites, and document databases Project documents and Web pages created and stored by Collaboration and Publisher Applications, portlets, communities, and users
Scheduled Operations | X | X |  | Automation Service enables the ALUI administrator to schedule and run administrative and maintenance jobs, such as user and group synchronization or data source crawls.
Capacity Planning | X | X |  | ALUI integrates with performance monitors common to operating systems, Web application servers, and back-end data source servers.
|  | X | Analytics provides portlets and portlet templates for tracking user activity and content usage.
Business Applications | X | X |  | ALI provides intrinsic portlets.
X |  | X | Studio enables rapid development of portlets, such as telephone lists, work order processes, calendars and surveys, without any coding. These plug-in applications feature a user interface, application logic and a database, and operate using Web services technologies.
|  | X | Portlet Suite - Exchange provides portlets to support user access to mail, calendar, and address books stored on a remote Exchange Server. Portlet Suite - IMAP provides portlets to support user access to mail, calendar, and address books stored on a remote IMAP Server. Portlet Suite - Lotus Notes provides portlets to support user access to mail, calendar, and address books stored on a remote Lotus Notes Domino Server. Portlet Suite - Documentum provides portlets to support user access to documents stored on a remote Docbase. Portlet Framework - Microsoft Excel provides a framework for developing portlets that enable collaboration on Excel projects.
|  | X | Integration Services - PeopleSoft enables rapid development of portlets to support user access to PeopleSoft data sources. Integration Services - SAP enables rapid development of portlets to support user access to SAP data sources. Integration Services - Siebel enables rapid development of portlets to support user access to Siebel data sources.
|  | X | AquaLogic Interaction Development Kit (IDK) is a set of APIs, documentation and sample code that work in both Java and .NET-based development environments, allowing you to develop with the IDE of your choice.