The Cisco Lean Retail IBM WebSphere Portal solution provides best practices and implementation guidance that optimizes application availability, performance, and security while lowering application ownership costs. Cisco's Lean Retail Architecture provides accelerated application performance and improved access to information. Data center-based applications and hosted managed services can have their performance accelerated to LAN-like speeds. IBM's WebSphere Portal Version 6.0 greatly reduces administrative load, allows more flexible applications to be built, and enhances the user experience by aggregating applications and content as role-based applications.