Sun Microsystems Delivers Portal Essentials for Launching E-Business Portals
A Comprehensive Internet Infrastructure Solution Set for Building Highly Scalable and Mission-Critical E-Business Portals
Tuesday February 29, 6:30 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
SOURCE: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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NEW YORK, iEC 2000 Conference and Exposition, Feb. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW - news) today announced the delivery of Portal Essentials, a comprehensive Internet infrastructure solution set for launching e-portals. Whether a company is building an enterprise portal to provide services to its employees, a business-to-business portal to deliver products and services to its partners or suppliers, a retail portal to sell products and services to consumers, or a media and entertainment portal to deliver news and interactive content, the Portal Essentials solution set enables the enterprise to build a portal infrastructure tailored to the specific needs of its audience or community. In essence, it allows an enterprise to extend its most important relationships beyond the traditional channel and grow these relationships by delivering the 'anywhere, anytime' experience via its e-business portal.
The Portal Essentials solution set delivers industry-leading technologies that help to build and strengthen online relationships and communities. It includes tools to manage, enhance and personalize the online experience and, at the same time, create a robust and secure e-business platform. As a result, the enterprise can offer a higher level of service that leads to increased customer retention and expanded revenue generation opportunities.
About Portal Essentials
The Portal Essentials offering incorporates the best-of-breed solutions from the following vendors:
-- Sun Microsystems' SPARC(TM)(TM)architecture and Solaris(TM) Operating
Environment provide the scalability, manageability, availability,
security and connectivity required for e-business.
-- iPlanet(TM) E-commerce Solutions, Sun-Netscape Alliance's Application
Infrastructure products enable rapid deployment of new applications;
fast and reliable delivery of Web site services; streamlined management
of resources; enhanced security services; 24x7 communication and
collaboration with partners, suppliers, customers and employees; and
authorized access behind the firewall.
-- Autonomy's Knowledge Suite offers intelligent and powerful knowledge
management tools that are essential to the enterprise portal. It
delivers the ability to provide information based on concept or
context.
-- enCommerce getAccess' ensures secure, convenient and personalized
access to e-business portals and Internet applications, via single
sign-on over the Web.
-- Inktomi's Search Engine provides the high-performance search
infrastructure that enables customers to locate information across a
wide range of sources.
-- Lotus' Domino(TM) Server provides collaboration capabilities that allow
individuals and businesses to share resources and work together over
the Internet.
-- net.Genesis' net.Analysis provides customer profiling capabilities that
enable the enterprise to market, sell and support their products online
based on customer purchasing behavior.
-- Net Perception's Net Perceptions for E-commerce 5.0 offers real-time
personalization solutions that allow the enterprise to conduct
one-to-one marketing with its customers across multiple touch points
online.
-- OpenMarket's Internet Publishing System provides content management
capabilities that enable the enterprise to deliver content tailored to
the customer.
-- Resonate's Central Dispatch(TM) provide traffic management capabilities
that ensure high availability, performance and control of e-business
applications.
-- TimesTen's Front Tier(TM) adds real-time intelligence to E-commerce
personalization to dynamic data caching on the application server tier.
Since portal infrastructure requirements may vary by enterprise, the Portal Essentials solution set offers the flexibility of customer choice -- selecting only those solutions within the offering that meet the company's portal infrastructure needs.
Portal Essentials is the second e-business solution set offered by Sun Microsystems, to provide online enterprises with industry-leading technologies that address their specific e-commerce needs. The first e-business solution set, Retail Essentials, released early this month, enables companies to quickly launch online storefronts. These solution sets were developed after extensive discussions with both large enterprises and e-commerce start-ups regarding their e-business strategies. Sun Microsystems plans to deliver additional e-business solution sets for vertical markets that will allow enterprises to immediately implement their e-commerce strategies and compete in the Internet economy.
``Sun is committed to helping the enterprise build and grow its various online communities,' said Doug Kaewert, vice-president, Market Development, Sun Microsystems. ``We realize that companies have different e-business strategies and, therefore, different e-business portal needs. The Portal Essentials solution set was designed to provide the flexibility and scalability to meet these various e-business requirements.'
Portal Essentials is available immediately and will be shown in Sun's Dot-Competency Centers worldwide. For more detailed information, including technical specifications, white papers, sales contacts, please refer to www.sun.com/portalessentials.com.
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