Technology

Hippo Portal: The enterprise portal of choice in demanding environments. Part of a long standing tradition of performance Hippo Portal is the Portal to run high load websites and Intranets that are tailor made to fit your business needs.

Hippo Portal is standardized and flexible

Hippo Portal is fully standardized and designed to run third party customized portlets smoothly, not just those that ship with the product

  • Used in many OEM solutions, such as HP OpenView, as well as large scale Intranets (USC) and websites
  • Full JSR 286 / Porlet 2.0 compliancy, allowing direct interportlet interaction. No tricks needed
  • Extensible Service (Spring) Platform based on Open Jetspeed Portal API
  • Clean Separation of Concerns: Applications Code stored in Portlet Applications
  • Portal Kernel and Services in Portal
  • Page and Menu Location with Advanced Profiling Algorithm
  • Optional: Full integration with Enterprise class CMS: Hippo CMS7 for managing unstructured information

Hippo Portal is fast

Hippo Portal is a performance and stability oriented portal running in high load - low maintenance environments. Over the years it consistently outperforms the competition on speed tests performed by independent third parties, making Hippo Portal the portal of choice for performance oriented users. Hippo Portal is used in very high load Intranet portals (10s of thousands of concurrent users)

  • Multi-threaded Server Side Parallel Rendering Engine
  • Both Server Side (Web 1.0, Servlets) and Client Side (Web 2.0, Mash-up) Rendering Engines

Hippo Portal is lightweight

Optimized for low memory footprints and modest hardware requirements

  • Light-weight Installer 38MB including Tomcat 6
  • Light-weight Spring Portal Framework

Hippo Portal has flexible, customizable security mechanisms

Hippo Portal ties in easily with your existing security environment, extending its secure umbrella over applications and content accessible through the portal

  • JAAS Based Central Security Authorization Policy
  • Security Constraints Authorization Policy
  • SSO (Single Sign-on) External (Shibboleth, Site Minder, etc...) and Internal LDAP support

Hippo Portal

  • Hippo Portal provides Content Repository based site and navigation management, multi site publishing and user friendly (content) url mapping natively integrated with the Jetspeed Portal.