Web Portal Integration

Web portal solutions can be used to build a company intranet or website. Out of the box solutions such as SharePoint or IBM WebSphere Portal provide some basic functionality, and with further development they can be extended to build a wide variety of web based business applications.

OpenAsset can be integrated with web portal solutions using:

  • Out of the box features

    Features built into OpenAsset or a web portal solution. e.g. Display of OpenAsset within web portal page using the standard page viewer, such as the Page Viewer Web Part supplied with SharePoint.

  • Custom development

    Bespoke features can be built using the open APIs provided with OpenAsset. e.g. Pushing key project data from a projects database into OpenAsset

Out of the box OpenAsset contains many tools for integrating with a website or intranet. Developers can also use APIs provided with OpenAsset to achieve further bespoke integration.

Our APIs for pushing data into OpenAsset are accessed using SOAP Web Services, a standard pioneered by Microsoft. There are also URL APIs that enable you to link to content directly in OpenAsset from other web portal pages, and RSS feeds for displaying selections of images or data on a web portal page.

The following table outlines what can be achieved integrating OpenAsset into your current infrastructure:

Active Directory OpenAsset can create new user accounts and authenticate passwords by talking to Active Directory.

This could be the same system that manages user accounts for you intranet and therefore provides a single point of administration of user accounts.

Out of the box feature
Single Sign-on Microsoft's NTLM protocol enables a user to log into OpenAsset automatically without the need to enter their username and password.

Therefore when OpenAsset is displayed within the page of an intranet there are no confusing extra login boxes.

Out of the box feature
Display of OpenAsset within an intranet OpenAsset can be displayed within the page of a web portal. Optionally the page displayed can be finely controlled using the URL / Link APIs.

For example if a user is viewing a particular project page in your intranet, OpenAsset can be set to display a summary page of images from that project all within the same web browser window.

There are a variety of pages in OpenAsset which can be displayed and controlled using the current status of a users web portal sessions.

Out of the box features for basic implementation.



Custom development work for sophisticated bespoke requirements.
RSS Feeds OpenAsset produces RSS feeds of images and associated data.

For example, these can be used to display the best images from a project on the front page of your Intranet.

Custom development. Sample code can be provided free by Axomic.
Projects code / name API New project information can be pushed into OpenAsset from other systems, therefore requiring only a single entry point for project data entry.

For example, when a new project is added into an intranet with a database back end this information can by synchronised with OpenAsset.

Custom development work required. Sample code can be provided free by Axomic.

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