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The Big Guys Have Portlets, but We Have "Web Parts"

3-Feb-2004

Tags: Portals and Content Integration, Web Content and Experience Management, CMS

Content management analysts tend to pay close attention to the CMS portlets available for major J2EE Portal products. But like it or not, the enterprise information portal (EIP) with perhaps the fastest-growing reach today is Microsoft Sharepoint, often running surreptiously on dozens of departmental servers across an enterprise. To date if you wanted to put a CMS behind Sharepoint, you had to go with MS CMS. But now along comes Ektron with 9 "Web Parts" that plug into Sharepoint, so you can log in, write content, and approve articles, all within the portal. Most buyers will use Ektron to better manage unstructured content inside the portal itself; others will use Sharepoint simply as a single admin container for content managers publishing the kind of discrete Intranet websites that must often co-exist with EIPs...
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