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...
The consolidation is a logical one for IBM because the combination of collaborative applications and portals is potentially more appealing to customers than standalone collaborative software, said Stephen O'Grady, an analyst at RedMonk.
To achieve this, CIOs will need to:
be able to list the target audience(s) for the portal (customers, employees, investors, suppliers, the press, employment candidates);
demonstrate the specific benefit for each target audience (i.e.the issue...
Traditional portals have used portlets, which means they can be up and running overnight," says Marco Saarinen, senior product marketing director at BEA. Portals currently use portlets to integrate enterprise applications into the user interface.
IBM's Workplace software is built around its Java-based WebSphere Portal software, which delivers applications and documents from servers to PCs or handheld devices running Windows or Linux. According to the company, the number of customers opting...
Portals are homepages which users can tailor to hold a host of different applications - or 'portlets' - which can then be accessed through the page. and smaller providers such as Pageflakes or Protopage.iGoogle, for example, allows users to choose...