Enterprise Portals- big will get bigger. (Internet Focus).Despite the events that have led to the global economic downturn, particularly in the IT markets, portal technologies have managed to remain quite strong. Some of the largest implementations have been agreed in the last 12 months and the market is estimated to be worth between US$2.5 billion and US$3.1 billion in 2006. However, even for a market with the viability of Enterprise Portals See corporate portal. , there are too many vendors, Butler Group's recent Report 'Enterprise Portals - The Key to Collaboration and Information Sharing', forecasts a shakeout Shakeout A situation in which many investors exit their positions, often at a loss, because of uncertainty or recent bad news circulating around a particular security or industry. Notes: During the dotcom boom and bust, numerous shakeouts occurred. amongst vendors with the major application platform vendors eventually coming to dominate and replacing the 'best-of-breed' pure- play vendors. Of the 19 vendors covered in the Report and extant ex·tant adj. 1. Still in existence; not destroyed, lost, or extinct: extant manuscripts. 2. Archaic Standing out; projecting. , over one-third shall be merged or acquired by 2009. Butler Group believes that application platform vendors such as 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) , Oracle, BEA BEA - Basic programming Environment for interactive-graphical Applications, from Siemens-Nixdorf. , SAP and Microsoft will take by far the most significant share of the Enterprise Portals market in the future, in terms of both seats and revenues. Specific Enterprise Portal products will be difficult to identify by the end of the decade as they become closely integrated with other enterprise applications. Plumtree is currently a clear market leader, and with the release of its new Enterprise Web Suite, a package of tightly integrated functions accessed via the portal, it has the opportunity to move beyond its heritage as a pure-play portal specialist and offer a broader range of functionality for managing and delivering information within the enterprise. The development of this type of Enterprise Knowledge Suite is the logical direction for many vendors. Initially, the most obvious change to the Lifecycle Positions over the three time periods - 2002-2004, 2005-2008 and 2009 onwards on·ward adj. Moving or tending forward. adv. also on·wards In a direction or toward a position that is ahead in space or time; forward. Adv. 1. - is the difference from 2004 when the 'Outper form' sector features only Plumtree 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. . The same sector for the following two periods features only BEA, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle. The second major change forecast by Butler Group over the same period is in the total number of vendors playing a major role in the market by the end of the decade. Of the 19 vendors listed for the period 2005-2008, only ten are expected to be marketing an Enterprise Portal by 2009. www.budergroup.com |
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