CMS Watch Finds Growing Sophistication, Increased Success for Portal Buyers.Enterprise Portal See corporate portal. Software Customers Overcome Hype to Make Tough Choices SILVER SPRING, Md. -- CMS (1) See content management system and color management system. (2) (Conversational Monitor System) Software that provides interactive communications for IBM's VM operating system. Watch, a buyer-oriented analyst firm that evaluates content technologies, released research today finding that enterprise portal technology buyers have largely moved beyond marketplace hype to take a more realistic -- and more successful -- approach to portals as a special type of enterprise web platform. This analysis stems from CMS Watch's "Enterprise Portals Report 2008," released today, which evaluates 16 major portal offerings head to head. The report is available for purchase at http://www.cmswatch.com. CMS Watch contributing analyst Janus Boye Boye may refer to:
Instead, customers have discovered that portals represent very technically challenging integration platforms. However, CMS Watch sees a greater trend towards adequate staffing, shorter implementation times, and greater success rates against more realistic requirements. In particular portal technologies can speed up web application development in certain environments where: * personalization matters * dashboards are required, or * specific groups need a simpler interface into legacy applications CMS Watch research also found: * Greater acknowledgement of portals as technology platforms has helped propel a plethora of successful open source solutions (e.g., eXo, Jetspeed, Liferay, Red Hat / JBoss, Sun, uPortal) that tend to appeal to IT shops. Open source marketplace penetration appears broader among enterprise portals than we see in other content technology spaces. * At the workgroup level, experimentation still reigns, and business units do seek portal products that provide more out-of-the-box collaboration services, rather than a development sandbox A restricted environment in which certain functions are prohibited. For example, deleting files and modifying system information such as Registry settings and other control panel functions may be prohibited. . Hence the viral proliferation proliferation /pro·lif·er·a·tion/ (pro-lif?er-a´shun) the reproduction or multiplication of similar forms, especially of cells.prolif´erativeprolif´erous pro·lif·er·a·tion n. of SharePoint, and experimentation with Facebook - although neither should be confused with a true enterprise portal. "The real story is greater sophistication so·phis·ti·cate v. so·phis·ti·cat·ed, so·phis·ti·cat·ing, so·phis·ti·cates v.tr. 1. To cause to become less natural, especially to make less naive and more worldly. 2. and less self-delusionment among buyers," noted CMS Watch founder Tony Byrne Tony "Socks" Byrne (born in Drogheda, Ireland) is a former amateur boxer. Byrne won a bronze medal for Ireland at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia in the lightweight division. . "That's good news for everyone," Byrne added. The Enterprise Portals Report closely examines all the major enterprise portal suppliers, including BEA BEA - Basic programming Environment for interactive-graphical Applications, from Siemens-Nixdorf. , Broadvision, eXo, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Jetspeed, Liferay, Microsoft, Oracle, Plone, Red Hat / JBoss, SAP, Sun, uPortal, and Vignette Vignette A symbol or pictorial representation of the corporation on a stock certificate. Usually a complicated and artistic design, it is meant to make the counterfeiting of stock certificates as difficult as possible. . CMS Watch researches content technologies primarily by de-briefing enterprise customers to find usage trends and patterns. CMS Watch analysts interviewed dozens of enterprise portal customers around the world for the latest edition of this report. About CMS Watch CMS Watch(tm) evaluates content-oriented technologies, publishing head-to-head comparative reviews of leading solutions. Through highly detailed technical evaluations, CMS Watch helps sort out the complex landscape of potential solutions so that buyers can minimize the time and effort to identify technologies suited to their particular requirements. To retain its independence as a totally impartial analyst firm, CMS Watch works solely for solutions buyers and never for vendors. |
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