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Alternatives for integrating content Into your portal

3-Oct-2011

Tags: Portals and Content Integration, Web Content and Experience Management, Implementation, Information Architecture, Selecting Technology, Services Oriented Architecture, Software-as-a-Service

In most enterprises, content resides in disparate, heterogeneous systems, including (but not limited to) content management systems. Those who have invested in portal-type technologies have a reasonable expectation that this technology can integrate the content consumption experience, exposing content and related data from multiple repositories.

Fortunately, portal platforms offer multiple approaches to addressing this challenge. The trick is to decide which approach makes best sense for your scenarios. These approaches differ from each other in terms of cost, ease and speed of implementation as well as in terms of the range of scenarios they can address.

In our recently released advisory, Eight Ways to Integrate Content into Your Portal, we examine different ways - ranging from completely decoupled ways to very tightly coupled ways of doing just this. The table of contents is as follows:

  • Key Takeaways
  • Introduction
  • Eight Integration Approaches
  • Displaying Integrated Content
  • Conclusion: Which is the Right Option?
  • Additional Notes

The advisory briefing is available to our Web CMS and Portals & Content Integration research stream subscribers.

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