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Report
# SH29821332 | 285 Pages | 104 Tables and Figures | 2004 |
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Enterprise Portal Market Shares and
Forecasts
Portal Market Driving Forces
Knowledge Management
Communities of Practice
Business Intelligence Software
Enterprise Portal
Product Uses
Core Benefits
Services
Parallel
Portal Engine
Network Protections
Content Versioning
Web Server Architecture
Extensible Platform
Accelerate Time-to-Benefit
Portals
provide the basics for information access functionality. Content management,
search, personalization, lightweight applications, and lightweight systems
architecture are provided. Portals are evolving a robust architecture with
enterprise capabilities, a robust framework to integrate applications,
collaborative features, and wireless support.
Business users of portals need to access multiple systems. Content sources use
portals in order to locate the information required for decision-making.
Companies need to be able to expose critical corporate data and services to
their extended community in a timely and secure fashion.
The portal market driving forces are evolving from demand for collaboration and
business process efficiency. Automation of business processes ultimately
relates to access to electronic information through a portal. Unless the
information about a business is accessible, it is not useful. Portals provide
flexible access.
Business Process Management (BPM) has evolved as a way to measure portal
effectiveness. Portals are being positioned as a way to participate in
optimizing the existing clerical processes.
Portal vendors are targeting fundamental business process changes. Portals
impact the way the organization delivers products and services. Business
process portals are being installed to implement a strategic vision of change
management. Portals support business skills to deliver information inside the
enterprise to different groups and to partners and distributors.
The focus is on information worker productivity. Portals are one key to
unlocking tangible benefits from this area. Portals implement secure access to
information located in a range of different places.
Enterprise portal market leaders are IBM WebSphere, SAP Enterprise Portal, and
Microsoft SharePoint.
The market for enterprise portals at $278 million in 2003 is expected to grow
to $1.2 billion by 2009. Large enterprise customers need basic information
access and formatting functions provided by enterprise portal systems.
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Companies Profiled |
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IBM |
EMC/Documentum |
This is the two-hundred twelfth report in a series of market
research reports that provide forecasts in communications, telecommunications,
the internet, computer, software, and telephone equipment. The project leaders
take direct responsibility for writing and preparing each report. They have
significant experience preparing industry studies. Forecasts are based on
primary research and proprietary data bases. Forecasts reflect analysis of the
market trends in the segment and related segments. Unit and dollar shipments
are analyzed through consideration of dollar volume of each market
participation in the segment. Market share analysis includes conversations with
key customers of products, industry segment leaders, marketing directors,
distributors, leading market participants, and companies seeking to develop measurable
market share. Over 200 in-depth interviews are conducted for each report with a
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market assessments in telecommunications, communications equipment, health
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that will expand existing markets or develop major new markets. The reports
assess new product and service positioning strategies, new and evolving
technologies, and technological impact on products, services, and markets.
Market shares are provided. Leading market participants are profiled, and their
marketing strategies, acquisitions, and strategic alliances are discussed. The
principals of WinterGreen Research have been involved in analysis and
forecasting of international business opportunities in telecommunications and
advanced computer technology markets for over 30 years.
Ellen T. Curtiss, Technical
Director, co-founder of WinterGreen Research, conducts strategic and market
assessments in technology-based industries. Previously she was a member of the
staff of Arthur D. Little, Inc., for 23 years, most recently as Vice President
of Arthur D. Little Decision Resources, specializing in strategic planning and
market development services. She is a graduate of Boston University and the
Program for Management Development at Harvard Graduate School of Business
Administration. She is the author of recent studies on worldwide
telecommunications markets and the Top Ten Telecommunications market analysis
and forecasts.
Susan Eustis, President, co-founder of WinterGreen Research, has done research
in communications and computer markets and applications. She holds several
patents in microcomputing and parallel processing. She is the author of recent
studies of the Regional Bell Operating Companies' marketing strategies,
Internet equipment, a study of Internet Equipment, Worldwide Telecommunications
Equipment, Top Ten Telecommunications, Digital Loop Carrier, Web Hosting, and
Application Integration markets. Ms. Eustis is a graduate of Barnard College.
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