BroadVision Report Details Eight Key Requirements for Enterprise Business Portal Architectures.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 18, 2002

BroadVision, Inc. (Nasdaq:BVSN), the leading provider of enterprise business portal applications, today announced that the availability of a new whitepaper that outlines critical business and technology requirements for deploying effective enterprise business portals. The report describes eight key business requirements that customers need to consider when evaluating offerings from portal vendors:

1. Content Management: Portal architectures should make it easy

for business users to create, manage, categorize and deliver

content and to protect information from inappropriate access.

2. Personalization: Successful portal deployments use

personalization to deliver relevant content -- at the right

time and in the right format -- to individual users based on

wide variety of factors including the user's role, interests,

location, access method and observed preferences.

3. Application Layer Flexibility: Sophisticated application

functionality provides a configurable visitor experience that

integrates all the elements of the enterprise business portal.

The portal should allow for easy configuration and

extensibility of both presentation layers as well as the

underlying logic that drive business processes.

4. Support for Multiple Touchpoints: The business information and

processes delivered by a portal are most useful when users can

get "anytime, anywhere" access through a wide variety of

devices including wireless and mobile devices, kiosks and

voice channels.

5. Collaboration Services: Collaboration features increase

workplace efficiency by promoting teamwork and effective

communication between all types of portal users. The

architecture should support discussion groups, collaborative

workspaces and task scheduling.

6. Integration Services: The portal must easily integrate with

existing enterprise applications and backend systems to

leverage existing technology investments and extend the

usefulness of the information contained within those systems.

7. User Management: Effective and secure user management features

-- including authentication, access control and single sign-on 

capabilities -- are essential to all enterprise business

portal deployments.

8. Robustness and Scalability: Portal architectures should ensure

reliable performance, rapid scalability and "future-proof"

flexibility. Open standards-based architectures and support

for web services help to maximize the long-term value of

investments in portal technology.

To download a copy of this new BroadVision whitepaper, "Architecture that Delivers a Business Advantage: Enterprise Business Portals," visit:

http://contact.broadvision.com/ema/www/bvwp/architecture/

For more free reports, customer case studies and information about special introductory pricing for BroadVision One-To-One(R) Portal(TM) 7, please visit http://www.broadvision.com/.

About BroadVision

BroadVision's (Nasdaq:BVSN) enterprise business portal applications create immediate business value by transforming the way organizations do business -- moving relationships to a personalized, self-service model that enhances growth, reduces costs and improves productivity. Leading global companies use BroadVision as the basis for their enterprise business portal initiatives -- using the web and wireless devices to unify and extend an enterprise's applications, information and business processes to serve its employees, partners and customers in a personalized and collaborative way.

For more information about BroadVision, Inc., call 650.542.5100, email [e-mail] or visit www.broadvision.com.

Note to Editors: BroadVision, BroadVision One-To-One and BroadVision One-To-One Portal are trademarks or registered trademarks of BroadVision, Inc. in the United States and other countries.