Earlier this month, SAP quietly released an update to their portal offering. New business intelligence capabilities were added, together with some new development capabilities. What's even more interesting in the release is a focus on what SAP calls "external facing portals." This sounds much like the Web Publishing scenario, where SAP has traditionally not fit well for most organizations. SAP's decision to broaden the scope of the product follows similar moves by the other infrastructure portal vendors. The hungry SAP ecosystem wants more features, not less. Unfortunately, this latest update does not lower SAP Enterprise Portal's infamously steep learning curve.