Enterprise Portals Are Alive and (Mostly) Well

Many traditional "enterprise portal" services -- such as portlet/gadget-based presentation, the ability to aggregate content from different sources, and personalization -- are getting subsumed within products from adjacent marketplaces, most notably by Web Content & Experience Management vendors.

However, portal technology still plays a key role in many business scenarios, and as a result, portal vendors have not been sitting idle. Many of them have released new versions and additional features. Consider, for example:

We will critically examine all these vendor claims in our next update due out early next month. As always, our subscribers will get the first peek.

If you are a customer of these or any the other vendors that we evaluate in our Portal and Content Integration evaluations, I'd love to chat with you. Please feel free to reach out to me via email or by commenting below.

Excerpt from the SharePoint 2010 Evaluation

Portals and Content Integration Evaluation Stream looks at... SharePoint is Still a Development Platform

"While Microsoft has made improvements in the areas of external integrations, document management, taxonomy and records management, SharePoint still remains more of a development platform for building portal-type..."
(p. 124)

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