Creating the Digital Dashboard.

Business/Technology Editors

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 8, 2000

--Delphi Group Says Corechange's

Coreport Will Help Create the Standard--

Corechange, Inc. announced today that The Delphi Group, a leading technology consulting firm based in Boston, has named its Coreport corporate portal a leading standard for the creation of the &uot;digital dashboard&uot; portal for the workplace.

In its January 2000 report &uot;Centering the Business Desktop: Role-based Portals and The Portal Computing Transition&uot; released Friday, February 4, 2000, Delphi reviewed the progress of corporate portal initiatives to date and identified the leading trend in portal development: a customized computer desktop deployed across the enterprise that gives users unified, orderly and efficient access to information through a single point, access that is filtered to match their needs based on the role they play within an organization.

&uot;Employees have never before had as much access to as many external and internal resources as they do today,&uot; said Ulf Arnetz, President and Chief Executive Officer of Corechange, Inc. &uot;The problem, quite simply, is that no one has established an efficient way to organize this access. Today, our desktops give us access to volume: millions of Web resources, page after page of links to internal and external databases, text and multimedia content. Tomorrow, our desktops will give us filtered access to this volume, cutting through the noise and clutter of the Internet to bring to employees exactly the information they need to complete their tasks effectively. Today, the Internet is comprised of many voices shouting for attention. Tomorrow, we hope to deliver to the employee's desktop only those voices they need and want to hear. This will save something that is a rarity in the digital age--time.&uot;

This will be accomplished through the application of what the US National Institute of Standards (NIST) has defined as Role-Based Access Control or RBAC. The NIST estimates that administrative efficiencies of up to 73 percent can be realized where RBAC technologies are employed.

RBAC technology gives the enterprise &uot;the ability to help define, support, and augment the day-to-day functions of professional knowledge workers through the information and application context built by the portal itself,&uot; said Hadley Reynolds, of The Delphi Group and author of the report. This technology makes possible &uot;the ability to filter the expanding universe of information flooding today's desktops and retain only items of relevance,&uot; said Reynolds.

This means that employees will have &uot;the ability to construct composite views of information from both business applications inside the organization and from external (Internet) sources; the ability to hyperlink similar content from across those sources to provide the user ad hoc navigation among documents of interest; the ability to provide subject-matter categories for individual `browsing' of collections to promote speedy `drill down' to key items of interest; and the ability of the system to help identify subject matter experts in the organization for assistance on an as needed basis,&uot; said Reynolds.

&uot;One of the new application tools moving most quickly to provide these portal facilities is the Coreport Corporate Portal from Corechange, Inc.,&uot; said Reynolds. &uot;Corechange is taking up the challenge... not tomorrow, but today. Offering dynamic access to a large range of corporate and external information, Coreport is among the first corporate portal offerings to package a true functional alternative to the Windows interface...We expect this approach to become a standard in the next phase of Internet business applications,&uot; Reynolds concluded.

About Corechange

Corechange was founded in 1996 in partnership with Massachusetts-based Cambridge Technology Partners to develop portal solutions to improve the way enterprise information is shared in organizations by providing faster, more efficient and tailored access. Spun-off as an independent company in 1997, Corechange introduced its corporate portal product, Coreport, in August of 1999. Coreport is the first and only browser-based portal product to provide users with a role-based single point of access to all information and applications simply, quickly, and tailored to their needs. To expand your view of the Corechange Coreport portal solution, visit the Corechange web site at www.corechange.com.