# Deployment Guide

# AquaLogic Interaction Products Worksheet

In the following worksheet, note the products you have selected to deploy.

| Description |
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User Interface | ALI portal and Image Service components provide the basic building blocks of the end-user experience, including UI templates for ruled-based Managed Experiences, personalized pages, communities, and the Knowledge Directory. The Administrative Portal provides a centralized management UI for all deployment components. |
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 | ALI is a Web Service that acts as the gateway between user requests and composite applications. |
ALI API Service enables rapid integration with ALUI applications. |
User Management | ALI allows you to manage group privileges hierarchically. |
Identity Service - Active Directory enables rapid integration with Active Directory authentication services. Identity Service - LDAP enables rapid integration with LDAP authentication services. |
Content Management | AquaLogic Document Repository Service enables content from file system locations, URLs, Collaboration projects, or Publisher targets to be made available through the portal. |
AquaLogic 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. |
AquaLogic Publisher provides a UI and templates for creating content and its metadata and managing this content with workflow, scheduled publishing, and expiration controls. |
AquaLogic Content Service - Windows Files enables document discovery for remote data sources on Windows file system. AquaLogic Content Service - Documentum enables document discovery for remote data sources on Documentum Docbases. AquaLogic Content Service - Lotus Notes enables document discovery for remote data sources on Lotus Domino Servers. AquaLogic Content Service - Microsoft Exchange enables document discovery for remote data sources on Microsoft Exchange Servers. |
Security | AquaLogic User Interaction architecture allows most Web applications to be hosted behind a firewall, with only the ALI portal 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 | AquaLogic Interaction Collaboration provides portlets to facilitate collaborative workspaces, including document source control, threaded discussions, and announcements. |
AquaLogic Interaction Process is a set of business process management (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 their business to react dynamically to changing market conditions. |
Search | AquaLogic Interaction 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 | AquaLogic Interaction Automation Service enables the ALI administrator to schedule and run administrative and maintenance jobs, such as user and group synchronization or data source crawls. |
Capacity Planning | AquaLogic User Interaction integrates with performance monitors common to operating systems, Web application servers, and back-end data source servers. |
AquaLogic Interaction Analytics provides portlets and portlet templates for tracking user activity and content usage. |
Business Applications | AquaLogic Interaction 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. |
AquaLogic Portlet Suite - Exchange provides portlets to support user access to mail, calendar, and address books stored on a remote Exchange Server. AquaLogic Portlet Suite - IMAP provides portlets to support user access to mail, calendar, and address books stored on a remote IMAP Server. AquaLogic Portlet Suite - Lotus Notes provides portlets to support user access to mail, calendar, and address books stored on a remote Lotus Notes Domino Server. AquaLogic Portlet Suite - Documentum provides portlets to support user access to documents stored on a remote Docbase. AquaLogic Portlet Framework - Microsoft Excel provides a framework for developing portlets that enable collaboration on Excel projects. |
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. |
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. Developers building service-oriented applications use the IDK to ensure that services from different systems and application servers work together. To speed development, ALI provides a broad range of integration Web services that allow developers to integrate data and functionality from enterprise systems and provides shared application services for content management, search, collaboration and knowledge management. |