Whatever happened to the $14.8bn enterprise portal market?
Event Summary It was Merrill Lynch that kicked off the mega-hype surrounding a new category of business software that came to be commonly known as enterprise portals. Triggered by Merrill Lynch's Enterprise Information Portals report, first published in November 1998, particularly its exciting market forecasts of a...

Market dynamics: hosted applications on the rise (Part 2).
Event Summary In last month's edition of CRM MarketWatch we provided an overview of the market for hosted CRM, looking at market size and growth potential, and examining the market dynamics that are both driving and inhibiting the development of online applications. In this issue we concentrate...

PORTERA READIES BUSINESS PORTAL FOR MOBILE WORKERS.
Portals, the current model du jour forweb sites is slowly being morphed into a real application by a number of companies and we've been hearing about so-called "business portals" or enterprise portals" for a few months. Now Portera Systems, armed with funding from the Java Fund of Kleiner Perkins...

Sybase Says E-Business Accounts for Strong Profits.
Database vendor Sybase Inc saw contined strong profitability in its third quarter, and arrested its revenue decline, a result, it claimed, of its new focus on e-business and enterprise information portals. Net income for the quarter was $16m, up 627% from the $2.2m posted in the same period last...

WebSphere Portal: unified user access to content, applications and services.
A Web portal, or simply a portal, is a Web site that offers a broad array of resources and services typically targeted towards specific categories of user populations. Portals are rapidly gaining popularity and widespread adoption because they provide end users with unified access to applications, content, and collaboration...

Fonix Speech Retains Sales and Marketing Consultant.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-29 June 2008-Fonix Speech Retains Sales and Marketing Consultant(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Fonix Speech, a subsidiary of Fonix Corp., announced it has retained Steve Jones as a senior sales and marketing consultant. Jones is tasked to formulate and execute a business strategy and...

New portal solutions offered for bank holding companies, boards of directors.
A corporate portal provider has released two new products: a portal for bank holding companies and their subsidiaries and a portal for bank boards of directors. The products are from Passageways of West Lafayette, Ind., which describes its mission as streamlining and enhancing the internal communications of...

The evolution of information access: from dedicated terminals and dial-up service to the power of the enterprise Web.
Until the late 1960s, school districts had no access to computing power, electronic teaching resources or centralized means to make common use of school district data. Then in '68, the first online, real-time administrative data processing option for schools arrived with the advent of dial-up access to a remote...

The use of open-source software in the IBM corporate portal.
The growing popularity of open-source software in recent years has led to its increased acceptance in the enterprise environment. In a recent informal survey, a large percentage of respondents (60 percent) reported using a mix of open source and commercial software products at their companies. (1) The exclusive use...

The use of open-source software in the IBM corporate portal.
The growing popularity of open-source software in recent years has led to its increased acceptance in the enterprise environment. In a recent informal survey, a large percentage of respondents (60 percent) reported using a mix of open-source and commercial software products at their companies. (1) The exclusive use of...