Intranets and Portals: Vive La Difference!

Topics:
Employee Handbook
Tags:
Enterprise Information Portal,
Enterprise Software,
Groupware,
Information Today Inc.,
Internet,
Intranet,
Portals,
Software
Source:
Information Today

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Overview: A few years ago all the talk was all about Enterprise Information Portals (EIP) in the wake of a seminal report on the topic from Merrill Lynch. But just a few years later, the number of EIP vendors has dropped from a peak of perhaps several hundred to just a handful, of which Plumtree is arguably the sole surviving pure-play portal vendor now that Epicentric has been "Integrated" into Vignette. It was not that the technology did not work but that there were unsustainable expectations of what an EIP could do.

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Format: HTML | Date: Mar 2005


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