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Technology Stocks : Enterprise Information Portals (EIP) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MeDroogies who wrote (6)	1/5/2001 1:07:48 PM
From: Thomas DeGagne	Respond to of 183

An EIP is an application that unifies access to corporate and internet data into a customizable interface. EIPs also provide services such as a unified security and login model; workflow automation; and in a full implementation BI reporting and document management. An intranet is simply an underlying network architecture based on internet standards. Have you looked at EIP products such as Hummingbird's? Hummingbird EIP Features & Benefits hummingbird.com

To: MeDroogies who wrote (6)	1/6/2001 10:20:45 PM
From: Thomas DeGagne	Respond to of 183

I'm delighted to see that this thread has risen to #2 on the SI hot list! Let's build on that momentum with some group discussion. Why don't we kick it off with this: 'Trends in Enterprise Portal & EAI Markets' Strategic Focus Publishes Results of Major Research Study Here is an excerpt: ``The term Enterprise Information Portal means different things to different people,'' said Mr. Jay Prakash, President & Principal Consultant of Strategic Focus. ``So we thought it would be interesting to get some clarification on this,'' he added. What the study found was that the definition for most respondents revolved around data visibility, integration, personalization and amalgamation. Specific functionally defined facilities, each represented 5% or less of those surveyed. Heavy marketing of portal component technologies, such as Business Process Automation, Content Management etc. may change this focus from these high-level business goals to more of the web-based facilities in the coming period. What is your definition of Enterprise Information Portal (EIP)? Unlock internally & externally stored information via data & application integration (74) 25.8% Single gateway to personalized information (62) 21.6% An amalgamation of applications that consolidate, manage, analyze, and distribute (51) 17.8% Facilities for Business Process Automation (16) 5.6% Business Intelligence Facilities (12) 4.2% Content Management Facilities (12) 4.2% Data Mart/Data Warehousing Facilities (14) 4.9% Data Management Facilities (21) 7.3% Search Capabilities (9) 3.1% Other (16) 5.6% Base: 300 respondents Source: Strategic Focus Another important finding of the study was that the surveyed sites reported a low level of experience in building enterprise level Portal Applications that involve complex technologies at the Web Application Server level. Greatest level of experience is in the area of Web e-Commerce applications with 9% of sites claiming experience in building Enterprise applications and 49% having no experience at all. Experience levels are even lower when it came to building other types of portals such as business intelligence, content management, data mart/data warehousing and data management portals. ``These low numbers should not be surprising given the difficulty in finding qualified personnel in today's markets and the newness of the technologies involved,'' commented Mr. Prakash. ``Clearly this creates opportunities for consultants and third party portal technology vendors,'' he added. The Strategic Focus study also found that the time frame for implementing portal applications varied by the type of portal involved. Almost half the respondents indicated that they ``did not know'' or were not going to implement portals. These responses may indicate some unfamiliarity with the term ``portal.'' Employee Portals lead the currently implemented portal technologies (25.3%). Business Intelligence, Data Mart/Data Warehousing, Data Management portals are the next highest (13.3%, 15%, 13%), presumably reflecting the targeted marketing efforts of the vendors of these products. Consumer, Supplier and Sales portals show somewhat higher growth in the next year, reflecting the growing focus on external portals as a more robust implementation of the Extranet technology surveyed in a earlier study conducted by Strategic Focus. ______________________________________________________________________________ Comment: Let's amalgamate the following implemented portals areas: Business Intelligence: 13.3% Data Mart/Data Warehousing: 15% Data Management: 13% Total: 41.3% of implemented portals