XandMail supplies front-end email technology for messaging services with millions of users run by telcos, ISPs and portals. Also stoking up the new economy is IDG Ventures Europe, a recently formed European venture capital fund put together by IDG...
The portal's function, titled Collaborative Components, allows integration between existing corporate portals, according to US wires. The portal products, part of its WebSphere Portal portfolio, will allow companies to create virtual places where...
IBM had maintained parallel teams for its Lotus line of software and its WebSphere Portal software. Over the next year and a half, IBM plans to rewrite Lotus' SameTime instant messaging and QuickPlace collaborative applications to run on IBM's...
Investments are being made in web services, application servers, portals, business intelligence and security. Portals provide major leverage to enterprises and represent a high-growth market in an otherwise consolidating information technology world.
In fact, enterprise portal vendor Plumtree warns that companies that roll out portals without collaboration functionality risk creating 'empty portals' that nobody uses and consequently a zero ROI. Collaboration is also often rolled out as a part...
Collaboration and enterprise portals are already deeply entwined; the Delphi Group estimates that three-quarters of portal deployments depend on collaboration functionality. And the Gartner Group's definition of the smart enterprise suite (SES...