Portal Power

摘要

Enterprise portals must offer more than static postings of company announcements. IT departments need portals that can work with their existing application infrastructure and let them develop custom portlets. Busi-ness users want portals that provide a collaborative workspace and personalized views of a company's intranet. It's a hot market. Portal vendor revenue will increase by more than 150 percent this year, according to Meta Group, which says 85 percent of Global 2000 organizations will have selected an enterprise framework for portals by year's end. We asked 11 vendors to send us their products so we could build an enterprise portal for NWC Inc. in Green Bay, Wis. (NWC Inc. is a 24/7 production environment and applications testing lab. For more information, see inc.networkcomputing.com.) Fujitsu and Ascential Software declined, saying their products were not a good fit for our tests. BEA Systems, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Plumtree Software, Sun Microsystems, Sybase, Tibco and Vignette all agreed to brave our subzero temperatures.