WebSphere Portal version 6.1 includes a number of new features to help you make the most of your portal investment.

• Flexible access
  • To existing enterprise data and applications
  • To external news feeds or Web data
    
    
• Live text tagging
  • Allows access to relevant supporting information with a single click, without leaving the page you are viewing
    
    
• Portal Representation State Transfer (REST) services
  • Allows incorporation of composite mashup applications, including service feeds from other Web applications
    
    
• A site wizard
  • Allows you to create and deploy independent virtual portals
    
    
• A one-click site management application
  • Featuring rollback and versioning capabilities to simplify moving portals from staging to production
    
    
• Expanded site layout support
  • Enables you to incorporate existing static HTML, built with familiar HTML and PHP development tools
    
  • Opens up the portal to additional content sources
    
    
• Support for the latest portlet open standards
  • Java™ Specification Request (JSR) 286
  • Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) 2.0
    
    
• A Web application integrator
  • Enables you to easily embed existing Web applications into your portals
    
    
• Enhanced usability features
  • Drag-and-drop customizations
  • Semantic tags that enable smart mark-ups and dynamic menus
    
    
• New portlet development and deployment capabilities
  • Templates
  • A Theme Customizer portlet
  • WebSphere Portlet Factory software

Web 2.0 Portal: Rich, desktop-like application experiences improve performance and increase end user productivity and satisfaction

• Exceed user expectations with latest Web 2.0 features for a richer, more responsive user interface
• Respond quickly to new business opportunities with faster, easier and more flexible reuse of Web-based assets and existing IT investments
• Reduce deployment costs, complexity and maintenance with more robust site and performance management capability
• User Contribution to portal sites through Workplace Web Content Management and local document manager
• Situational Development through Composite Application Templates and through Lotus Designer / Portlet Factory / Forms Designer
• User Control of their pages through drag & drop portlet pallete and Google Gadget catalog
• AJAX support for core features - context menus, search menu, admin portlets, drag and drop portlet palette
• AJAX portlet creation with WebSphere Portlet Factory
• And much more including Partial page refresh, tooling capability to dynamically generate REST services, client-side event model, etc.
• Enhanced IBM Portlet for Google Gadgets, easily incorporate Google Gadgets into Portal applications

IBM Accelerators for WebSphere Portal
Accelerators combine with, and enhance, IBM WebSphere Portal, the industry's leading composite application platform.
IBM accelerators for IBM WebSphere Portal software are prepackaged offerings, comprised of various combinations of Portlets, software, frameworks and templates to address specific business requirements.
IBM accelerators help speed time-to-value of Web portal deployments by providing the flexibility to quickly respond to changes in market dynamics and business requirements from a common WebSphere Portal software foundation. IBM Dashboard Accelerator

• IBM Business Process Accelerator
• IBM Content Accelerator
• IBM Collaboration Accelerator
• IBM Self-service Accelerator
• IBM Learning Accelerator
• IBM Enterprise Suite Accelerator