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Strategies & Market Trends : Rande Is . . . HOME -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rande Is who wrote (17734)	1/3/2000 10:47:00 AM
From: Tradelite	Respond to of 57584

Nice to see BRYO on your portfolio list, Rande. I like this one. Also CNQR. The product-comparison story that sold me on BRYO can be found here.... infoworld.com and then here is an overview of why CNQR and BRYO will be big in 2000..... The Big Picture Whichever way you slice it, the portal market will be big By Sean M. Dugan As our capability to capture data grows, so too does the problem of dealing with that data. Companies, for instance, run the risk of employees missing or ignoring important information in the gushing data stream. Intranets -- originally a grassroots movement for setting up TCP/IP networks for internal use -- changed the nature of the LAN. At first a way to post company data that could be viewed by anyone with a browser, intranets have grown in complexity as they've added transactional capabilities and links to legacy systems. InfoWorld research indicates that over half of all enterprises have deployed intranets. The spread of intranets, coupled with the influence of so-called Web portals and start pages, has now led to the rise of a new breed aimed squarely at the problem of "infoglut": the enterprise portal. The enterprise portal's enticing promise is a single point of access to the right resources. As you can infer from this Comparison, a lot of people are jumping on the bandwagon. The Delphi Group expects a $740 million market by 2001; other forecasts run into the billions, but these figures are sometimes a catch-all for all types of electronic collaboration. International Data Corp. (IDC) also expects a large market, but makes some distinctions. IDC defines an enterprise information portal (EIP) as a system that provides personalized information access to data systems. An enterprise collaborative portal (ECP), on the other hand, creates a virtual space in which people can collaborate. The enterprise expertise portal (EEP) links people based on their expertise. IDC also anticipates the enterprise knowledge portal, which combines the EIPs, ECPs, and EEPs. If you can ignore the alphabet soup, the essential idea is bringing the proper information, tools, and people together to accomplish a task more efficiently. Today, the enterprise portal probably isn't a prescription for every company's information woes. Half of the enterprises that InfoWorld research surveyed don't use an intranet. However, of the companies that indicate that effectively managing data and information resources is at least "somewhat important," 93 percent are currently using intranets. Over half of the same group also plan to upgrade their intranets within the next year. As far as the bottom line, about 15.5 percent of the annual IT budget is spent on initiatives that help to effectively manage data and informational resources. This translates, on average, to more than $46 million a company. Too much or too little data spoils the porridge. Thus, it's likely that even when the buzzword "portal" is passe, the concept behind enterprise portals will be part of every employee's desktop. Top tools for data management To learn more about how IT professionals manage a corporation's information resources, InfoWorld surveyed 105 readers in our Information Management survey. We asked readers how important the following were to their company effectively managing data and information resources. The No.1 answer shows that IT managers want to integrate resources, but almost as important was the ability to sort through and analyze the data contained in those resources. Integration of diverse data resources Tools for analyzing data and trends A single point for users to access varied information resources Universally accessible large storage systems Unified method for searching diverse data systems Internal knowledge base of processes and procedures Systems for facilitating user collaboration and workflow Universal system for giving users access to specialized systems Storage systems designed for indexing and sorting Source. InfoWorld survey