information such as news and stock prices available on portals built by corporations for their employees, partners and customers. Sun Microsystems is to build Yahoo! content into its corporate portal systems.
It has been estimated that 90 per cent of Global 2000 organisations will have an enterprise portal fulfilling either a business-to-consumer or business-to-business function by the end of 2005.There are now less than 20 commercially available...
Enterprise portals have been around since the end of the 1990s but their earliest incarnations were little more than souped-up intranets. Traditional portals have used portlets, which means they can be up and running overnight," says Marco Saarinen...
Another in favour of the technology is Gavin Whatrup, IT director at advertising agency Delaney Lund Knox Warren & Partners, who said portals can quantifiably improve the flow of information through an organisation - but he warned of pitfalls.
Google and BEA are in talks about partnering on a new initiative that will allow organisations to create mash-ups between enterprise portals and applications such as Google Maps. But Chuang said service-oriented architecture (SOA) will be key to...
He says: "Composite applications are a step beyond portals which just gather together information. Enterprise portals were a popular incarnation of this technique but they have faded in popularity in recent years, as businesses found portals became...
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