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Employee Portal Concepts
• Implement OneSky Online Portal improvements in ORBITe– Single point of entry to online content and services
– Personalisation
– Customisation
– Channels
– Application integration
– Common and new look&feel based on CSS• Easy to adapt via Interwoven without MIS intervention
– Search engine
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Single Point Of Entry
• All internal websites can be accessed through the MyORBITe portal.
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Single Point Of Entry
• From an Architecture Point of view:
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Computer
http://myorbite.eurocontrol.int
Maastricht Website
CRCO Website
Other Local Websites
MyORBITE Portal Server
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Single Point Of Entry
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Computer
http://myorbite.eurocontrol.int
Maastricht Website
CRCO Website
Other Local Websites
MyORBITE Portal Server
Internet
• Connectivity from Internet:
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Personalisation
• End-User can login to the MyORBITe portal
• Personal Favorites list
• A personalised list of Online Services will be shown to the users
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Customisation
• Add your favourite websites to the “favourites channel”
• Customise Online Services, remove and configure services, …
• Customise News, Event channels (edit, add content, choose options, ....)
• In the future, more customisation of the MyORBITe desktop will be provided.
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Channels
• Different content sources
• Personalised• Dynamically
generated• Customisable by
the user• Minimise,
Maximise, edit, add content, …
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Application Integration
• Online Services will be available in MyORBITe• All internal web based applications should become
available in the MyORBITe Online Services• Major benefit in roll-out of new applications for the
whole agency
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Employee Portal Architecture
• Use same infrastructure for MyORBITe and the OneSky Online Portal
• High-Availability infrastructure• Increased Service Level
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Architecture
http://myorbite.eurocontrol.int
Portal Server 1
Portal Server 2
http://myorbite.eurocontrol.int
Portal Server 1
Portal Server 2
MyORBITeWEBSERVER
MyORBITeWEBSERVER
OneSky OnlineWEBSERVER
OneSky OnlineWEBSERVER
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Architecture
http://myorbite.eurocontrol.int
Portal Server 1
Portal Server 2
MyORBITeWEBSERVER
MyORBITeWEBSERVER
OneSky OnlineWEBSERVER
OneSky OnlineWEBSERVER
LOADBALANCER 1
LOADBALANCER 2
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New Technology used: RSS feeds
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RSS
• RSS is a format for syndicating news and the content of news-like sites.
• All possible content could eventually be put in RSS• Any RSS-aware program (often called news-
aggregators) can check the feed.• RSS is a standard way to describe news messages
and content.
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RSS Advantages
• Major advantage is that RSS defines a standard format for content (e.g. title, summary, content, date, link, …)
• RSS separates content from layout, i.e. since the fields and layout can be separated, the content can be displayed in different ways.
• A lot of RSS readers are available (plugins into standard browsers, standalone readers, portlets, …)
• Content can be displayed in a flexible way, e.g. resizing is done automatically by the readers.
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RSS Opportunities for EUROCONTROL
• Look and feel is not relevant for reading content from the RSS feed (federate content).
• Look and feel can be modified by the users• RSS feeds from other suppliers can be aggregated
(external suppliers, internal, …)• EUROCONTROL could provide a newsfeed to other
companies, who include the news message on their own website
• … plenty of future use and opportunities…
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RSS issues
• 7 different RSS formats, of which about 3 are commonly used. We use the most “standard” and independent (IETF) one, (atom).
• Not all RSS readers support all formats.• Although RSS can contain nearly anything in the “content”
attribute, the standard attributes are limited (title, date, summary, content, link, …)
• Content should be kept simple, without HTML formatting.• The atom feed works as a standalone content feed, i.e. no
relative references can be included (self-contained).• Only a limited number of fields can be mapped (from
Interwoven) to RSS attributes…
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RSS Examples
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RSS work done…
• Update Interwoven Templates to generate Atom (RSS) format as well as HTML
• Define fields from Interwoven to be included in Atom (only date, title, abstract, link should be required)
• Modified templates (news, events, press release, should be live end of next week.)
• Example of the EUROCONTROL Press Release• http://extraweb-test.eurocontrol.int/corporate/public/x
mlfeeds/press.xml
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Latest News – Channel Buttons
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Configuration of the RSS channels
• Dynamic configuration, maintained in Interwoven• Configuration of the RSS feeds is done by OCCS
– Name of the Feed
– Link to the RSS file
– Mandatory feed or not
– Different possible configuration when logged in or not
• All Interwoven news, press and event templates will generate automatically an RSS feed
• Last / future 50 items are included in the feed• http://extraweb-test.eurocontrol.int/corporate/public/xmlfeeds/ne
ws.xml
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Configuration of the RSS channels
• Channels are configured following agreement with OCCS
• Number of “items” to be displayed• RSS feed as input and Style Sheet for displaying the
content• Some of the configuration can in the future be
provided to the end-user…
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Demo of MyORBITe
• http://orbite-test.eurocontrol.int• To be fixed:
– Problem when not logged-in– Logout button– Limited number of users are created– Latest news, events – needs to be updated with live data– Search
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Template Modifications
• Current fields in templates (news, events)– Display in list– Display on Homepage
• New Combined Option (pull down menu)• Full Agency Interest + Display On homepage + Display in List +
Embedded
• Display On homepage + Display in List + Embedded
• Display in List + Embedded
• Embedded
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Planning
• Tue 21 February: start of user testing• Tue 28 February: end of user testing• Tue 14 March: MyORBITe live
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MediaBin
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Requirements
• EATM requested the use of Presentation Manager (tool used at IANS) for managing PPT slides
• Interwoven MediaBin has an add-on, Presentation Workbench, for PPT management and is used across the Agency as the Digital Asset Management solution
• Presentation WorkBench allows users to assemble custom PowerPoint presentations from multiple PowerPoint files stored in MediaBin.
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Status
• Installation of MediaBin latest version + presentation workbench in a test environment
• Training for MIS / OCCS to be planned• EATM Pilot User training to be planned (done by
Interwoven)• Target evaluation report: June 2006• Integration of the new Mediabin version is planned
during the IW upgrade
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Statistics
• Different statistics available:– Availability and Performance Statistics
• Currently being configured and tuned• Tests from 3 different locations on the Internet• Specialised Service Provider (Mercury)
– Usage Statistics• Number of unique users per day, month, …• Internal vs Stakeholders• Time of login (office hours, weekend, …)• Successful logins vs. failed• Type of login (userid/pw, SecurID)
– NetTracker