NETP-ORACLE PARTNERSHIP
This is a longer version of the announcement. I was referring to a shorter version which was not so explanatory.
Oracle Launches Portal Partner Initiative With Ten Industry-Leading PartnersAutonomy, EDS, Ernst & Young, Factiva, InfoSpace, iSyndicate, Net Perceptions,SiteScape, Verity and WebEx to Support Oracle's Open Enterprise Portal Framework
Mon May 15 08:02:00 EDT 2000
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., May 15, 2000 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- --
(http://www.oracle.com/tellmemore/?202750) In a move that dramatically enlarges
the community of value-added software and service providers for enterprise
portals, Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL), the largest provider of software for
e-business, today announced the Oracle(R) Portal Partner Initiative with ten
industry-leading companies named as flagship members. The new partners,
Autonomy, EDS, Ernst & Young, Factiva, InfoSpace, iSyndicate, Net Perceptions,
SiteScape, Verity and WebEx, will provide syndicated content, value-added
applications and integration services for enterprise portals built on the Oracle
Enterprise Portal framework. Partners who join the Oracle Portal Partner
Initiative will receive technology, training and support -- all based on
Oracle's Enterprise Portal framework
"Enterprise portals are becoming increasingly critical as e-businesses use the
Internet to provide their employees, customers and partners access to key data
and applications," said Dave Folger, senior program director of Web &
Collaboration Strategies, META Group Inc. "Portal framework approaches, such as
Oracle's portlet model, provide for integration of content and applications from
a variety of sources within an enterprise."
Oracle's Enterprise Portal framework is a key piece of portal infrastructure
that uniquely manages users, Web-based information and applications in the same
way companies currently manage other software infrastructure pieces, such as
directories and e-mail systems. Oracle's open portal framework uses portlets and
re-usable web-based components that can be rapidly assembled into enterprise
portals. Any application, business intelligence report, Web page, XML-based news
feed or other information source can be made into a portlet and easily
integrated into, and managed within, the Oracle Enterprise Portal framework.
The Oracle Portal Partner Initiative is open to solution providers and software
vendors that share the enterprise portal vision. Partners fall into the
following categories:
-- Content Providers, such as Factiva, InfoSpace and iSyndicate, provide access
points to their hosted services and content. As members of the program, these
partners can create libraries of portlets that can easily be integrated into
customizable portals.
-- Independent Software Vendors, such as Autonomy, Net Perceptions, SiteScape,
Verity and WebEx, deliver value-added functionality to the Oracle portal
framework and/or provide access to their applications by integrating them into
Oracle's Enterprise Portal framework as portlets.
-- System Integrators, such as EDS and Ernst & Young, build, deploy, sell and
support custom enterprise portal solutions based on Oracle's portal framework.
As a member of the program, partners receive access to additional sales
channels.
"The Oracle Portal Partner Initiative establishes a community of software
vendors and solution providers united around Oracle's open framework for
building and managing enterprise portals," said Jeremy Burton, Oracle vice
president, Internet Platform Marketing. "By collaborating with Oracle, our
partners add valuable content and applications to the Oracle Enterprise Portal
framework and at the same time are able to offer their own customers more value
by leveraging the content and services provided by Oracle and the other partners
in the community."
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Oracle Portal Partner Quotes
"The combination of the Oracle Enterprise Portal framework with Autonomy's
ability to perform operations on vast amounts of internal and external
unstructured information will result in a very powerful enterprise solution.
Through portlets, portal customers will have simple, single click access to
Autonomy's natural language concept query, automated content categorization and
knowledge channel services. Working through the Oracle Portal Partner
Initiative, Autonomy anticipates delivering a highly integrated portal solution.
It's a win for everyone."
Mike Lynch
CEO
Autonomy
"EDS is a recognized global leader in providing E-business and information
technology services to 9,000 business and government clients around the world.
Using the Quick Start program through the Oracle Portal Partner Initiative, EDS
will ultimately be able to build and deploy corporate portals for customers. The
Oracle Enterprise Portal framework's ease of use and rapid deployment
capabilities will allow us to enhance our customers' usage of their Internet
information repository."
Bruce Robertson
Director, Oracle Global Practice
EDS
"As the world's leading professional services organization, Ernst & Young helps
companies to identify and capitalize on business opportunities by building
innovative and practical solutions. By using the Quick Start Program within the
Oracle Portal Partner Initiative, our consultants are able to quickly and easily
build and deploy enterprise information portals to meet our customers' needs
worldwide. We look forward to integrating the Oracle Enterprise Portal framework
into many IT customer engagements."
Rick Hymer
Global Director of Oracle Services
Ernst & Young
"Factiva's success depends on delivering accurate information to our customers
in a timely and efficient manner. The Oracle Enterprise Portal framework makes
it easy for us to implement Factiva Modules, a service offering with content
sets that provide leading news sources, such as Dow Jones and Reuters newswires,
and the Internet's widest and deepest archive of news and industry publications.
With the Oracle Enterprise Portal framework, Factiva can better support the
content integration efforts of companies in a range of industries."
Clare Hart
President and CEO
Factiva, a Dow Jones and Reuters company
"InfoSpace delivers information through its underlying infrastructure services.
As a member of the Oracle Portal Partner Initiative, InfoSpace can develop
portlets for InfoSpace to allow our customers to communicate, access information
and manage their lives wherever they may be."
Naveen Jain
Chairman
InfoSpace
"As the preeminent content syndication service on the Internet, iSyndicate views
our partnership with the Oracle Portal Partner Initiative as strategic to
directly serve corporate customers. With this partnership, syndicated content
from brand name providers such as c|net, Accuweather, About.com, Stockpoint,
PCWorld, ZAGAT and Zacks will now be easily accessible to users inside the
firewall. The open APIs of the Oracle Enterprise Portal framework made the job
of integrating our existing syndicated content into portlets simple and
straightforward."
Joe Maske
Chairman, President and CEO
iSyndicate
"Our business depends on delivering enterprise-wide personalization software and
services to empower businesses across multiple touch points. Net Perceptions
uses Oracle's portal framework to augment applications such as Net Perceptions
for E-Commerce and Net Perceptions Recommendation Engine to deliver information
through portlets including Personal Knowledge Portlet, and the Related Knowledge
Recommender. These new portlets build on our commitment to delivering
collaboration software and help employees reinvest intellectual capital into an
organization."
Steven Snyder
President and CEO
Net Perceptions
"The Oracle Enterprise Portal framework offers a giant step forward in using the
Internet to aggregate and display disparate information. While collaboration
used to be considered indirectly associated with profits and competition, in the
New Economy, collaboration is an imperative. By combining the strength of the
SiteScape Forum Web-based collaboration with Oracle's Enterprise Portal
framework, customers have a direct and efficient way to find the information
they need when they need it, and to easily share that information with
teammates, customers, and partners. SiteScape's collaboration portlets are
designed to display necessary and basic information about Forum activity,
including listing forums and unseen postings, listing the latest activity in
specified forums, and providing condensed calendar and notifications views."
Richard M. Tahan, Jr.
Vice President, Worldwide Channel Marketing
SiteScape
"The combination of the Oracle Enterprise Portal framework and Verity's
unsurpassed knowledge retrieval solutions will enable respective and future
customers to deploy industrial-strength portals that are comprehensive,
integrated and easy to navigate. We are pleased to be a member of the Oracle
Portal Partner Initiative as enterprise-wide search and categorization
capabilities are an integral part of a complete portal offering."
Gary J. Sbona
Chairman and CEO
Verity
"WebEx allows businesses to leverage the power of the Web for interactive
communications. As a member of the Oracle Portal Partner Initiative, we exploit
the Oracle Enterprise Portal framework to create flexible portlets that help
businesses quickly integrate Web-based communications into their website's
offerings. WebEx communications portlets let users share applications,
presentations, documents and browsers with integrated voice, video and telephony
to cut costs, generate new revenue and improve customer relations. Oracle and
WebEx are providing businesses the tools they need to succeed."
Leo Jolicoeur
Vice President, Platform Management
WebEx
SOURCE Oracle Corp.
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