Corechange's Coreport Corporate Portal Builds Industry Strength.

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 5, 1999--

--AMR Research, The Delphi Group, IDC, and NSS Group Give Insight

into Coreport's Role in Industry--

Corechange, Inc., a leader in the science of information management, announced today that AMR Research, The Delphi Group, IDC, and NSS Group have all released highly positive reports evaluating the Coreport corporate portal.

AMR Research's Bob Parker, Research Director, Enabling Technologies, said in an AMR Research Alert dated August 25, 1999 that, "The real end-game for corporate portals is to deliver information in the context of the role of the user, whether that user is an employee on an intranet or a trading partner on an extranet. Coreport has single sign-on functionality at its core (excuse the pun) that addresses the difficult issue of managing access to multiple back-end systems and, therefore, leverages the information privileges already defined. It also allows the individual user to assume multiple roles, not an uncommon situation in the modern corporate world."

The advent of corporate portals could be a catalyst for organizations to realize a significant return on their information technology investments. In describing the functionality of Corechange's role-based portal, the Delphi Group, in a report published in August, said, "the role-based portal is a class of portal which has been highly refined and engineered to provide the ultimate precision and range of information activity for a specific function, project, or professional group of knowledge workers. The Corechange role-based portal configuration provides, for the first time, a collection of information streams, application content, and business processes that mirrors the job function(s) and professional (or personal) interests(s) of the individual knowledge worker." The report also concluded that, "At the individual level, the role level, and the business level, the portal can become a key indicator of the core competencies of the organization--a catalog of its knowledge assets."

IDC's "Corechange: Profile of a Corporate Portal Vendor," said, "Coreport, with its role-based administration and integration with back-end systems, can provide corporations with a high return on their investment." IDC cited the strengths of Coreport as being its search engine, role-based administration, and single sign-on security.

Finally, in its August White Paper on Corporate Portals, The NSS Group commented on Coreport's ability to manage information access and security privileges for hundreds of users: "One of the big problems facing portal administrators is that with hundreds of internal and external users potentially accessing every piece of information on the corporate intranet, controlling who has access to what information, and how it will look in their browsers, can become a nightmare.

"With Coreport, the resources displayed on each user's portal pages are centrally administered and updated in real-time. Coreport uses it's own single sign-on (SSO) architecture to display personalised views of internal and external information resources defined by the user's role in an organization. The portal thus handles single sign-on to all Internet, intranet and legacy resources that require authentication in order to ensure security and easy administration."

Corechange was founded in 1996 in partnership with Massachusetts-based Cambridge Technology Partners to develop applications to improve the way enterprise information is shared in organizations by providing faster and more efficient access. Spun-off as an independent company in 1997, Corechange and the Coreport corporate portal, introduced in August of this year, provide users with access to information simply, quickly, and tailored to their needs. To experience the Corechange Coreport portal solution, visit the Corechange web site at www.corechange.com.

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