International Business Machines Corporation

Andreas Stay

Timo Kussmaul

Stefan Schmitt

Daniel Blum

Dieter Buehler

Klaus Rindtorff

Sven Sterbling

Kai Brennenstuhl

Juergen Holtz

Alexander Terekhov

Elena Lopez De Dicastillo

A computer-implemented method for predicting an effect of an intervention on managed computing resources using a first system automation management system, comprising an automated operations controller and at least one automation agent is disclosed. The method comprises sending initial state data of the first system automation management system to a second system automation management system which is a functional duplicate of the first system automation management system, sending a status change command and a related expected response vector, equivalent to a result of the intervention to the second system automation management system, determining, by the second system automation management system, a predicted response vector of the managed computing resources in response to the received status change command, and responding, by the second system automation management system, with the determined response vector and a set of predicted actions derived therefrom.

Predict new system status based on status changes

A computer-implemented method for importing external data into a content management system (CMS) may be provided. The CMS comprises a search and an authoring service. The CMS also comprises a dynamic page connector service enabling an import of external data into the content management system. The method comprises receiving address data relating to the external data, reading the external data using the address data received, selecting a page template from a plurality of predefined page templates, creating at least one new content item in the content management system comprising at least a data element of the read external data based on the selected predefined page template, and integrating in the at least one new content item data concerning a hierarchy structure between the at least one created content item and other content items.

Importing external content into a content management system

Mechanisms are provided to implement an auto-propagation tagging engine. For a selected first content item in a content item ontology, an auto-propagation metadata tag is retrieved. For the auto-propagation metadata tag a corresponding auto-propagation distance property stored in a corresponding entry, associated with the auto-propagation metadata tag, in an auto-propagation metadata tag mapping data structure is identified. The auto-propagation metadata tag is propagated to a related second content item based on a traversal of the content item ontology. The related second content item is within a distance, in the content item ontology, of the selected first content item corresponding to the auto-propagation distance property. The related second content item is modified to include the auto-propagation metadata tag in content of metadata associated with the related second content item to generate an updated content item which is output to a publishing tool of a content management system for publication.

Automatically propagating tagging of content items in a content management system environment

Providing software-as-a-service to a plurality of clients includes: visually rendering a first virtual portal and a set of portal resources according to a portal-resource association specified in a resource association matrix; identifying a set of server resources accessible from a portal server, the set of server resources excluding the set of portal resources; determining a score for a first resource of the set of server resources; visually rendering the first resource; and associating the first resource with the first virtual portal in the resource association matrix by adding an identifier of the scored resource.

Building a multi-tenant portal application

Providing software-as-a-service to a plurality of clients includes: selecting a first virtual portal, determining a score for a first resource to generate a first scored resource, determining a set of scored resources, visually rendering the first virtual portal and the set of portal resources, visually rendering the set of scored resources, and selecting a scored resource from the set of scored resources to be associated with the first virtual portal by updating the resource association matrix with an identifier of the scored resource. The score is selected to represent a usefulness factor of the first resource. Each scored resource of the set of scored resources is selected to be different than each portal resource of a set of portal resources associated with the first virtual portal by a resource association matrix.

A method and system for deploying remote portlet applications into a portal. The system includes a portal server in communication with a client, and including a portal which includes a portlet which receives a request from a user, via the client, to install a portlet application from a remote location, searches for a selected remote portlet application as selected by the user, and triggers an installation of the selected remote portlet application when selected for installation by the user, and a deployment application programming interface (API) which communicates with the portlet and deploys the selected remote portlet application to the portal when triggered by the portlet.

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Boeblingen, Germany

Andreas Stay