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

To: Carl R. who wrote (94)	2/11/2001 4:34:27 PM
From: Thomas DeGagne	Respond to of 183

Thanks Carl. The reviewed version was Hummingbird 1.0. Version 4.0 is now available! Here is a PDF file with a complete description of new features: hummingbird.com Many of the points made about the old version have been addressed. Scalability and portability are no longer issues at all. When magazines review old product versions the results are highly misleading...... Hummingbird EIP Features & Benefits hummingbird.com Find what you need. Figure out what you need to do with it. Do it! According to a report published by Merrill Lynch in November 1998, an enterprise information portal is defined as: "...applications that enable companies to unlock internally and externally stored information, and provide users a single gateway to personalized information needed to make informed business decisions." The EIP is to offer the benefits of a consumer portal in a business context to achieve competitive advantage. Beyond access, an enterprise information portal needs to provide seamless access to corporate applications, enabling knowledge workers to act upon information they have found. A True Enterprise Solution Enterprise-scalable, application and platform-independent portal engine Provides single point of access to all relevant information sources and applications through a fully customizable Web-based interface Enterprise-strength Security Single, unified sign-on for all portal-enabled applications and information sources, eliminating the need to enter user credentials for every accessed resource User authentication through existing security infrastructures, eliminating the need to create and maintain user security profiles Supports all leading security authentication schemes out of the box, including NTLM, NIS, LDAP, ADS and NDS Security: Built-in RSA encryption for SSL support, ensuring secure access to enterprise resources from outside the firewall, providing peace of mind to mobile users Unified Search & Automatic Categorization of Search Results Unified search across all data types including structured and unstructured data sources and applications, delivering search results from every information resource available to the user with a single search Support for multiple data repositories, including network file systems, document and data repositories, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange, and Web sites, providing the complete view of the enterprise and extraprise data sources Automatic categorization of information to a taxonomy and automatic creation of business taxonomies to provide content in context User-configurable proactive agents which monitor sources and repositories to automatically alert users to relevant new information Ability to present the search results merged by relevance, grouped by source, or grouped by concept, providing the user with the best search method for the question at hand, improving productivity Unprecedented Application Integration Openness: Ability to seamlessly access portal-enabled applications through the EIP interface Out of the box integration with Hummingbird's network connectivity, data integration and reporting, document management and knowledge management solutions, providing users a single point of access to all business critical information sources and applications, including structured and unstructured enterprise data Integration with hundreds of third party applications and information sources through Hummingbird's e-ClipTM plug-in architecture Integration with consumer portals including AltaVista, Excite, InfoSeek and Yahoo!, as well as content providers such as iSyndicate Universal Inbox for aggregating incoming messages from multiple e-mail accounts, including Microsoft Exchange, Yahoo! Mail, Mail.com and Hotmail.com XML-based public APIs to integrate additional third-party applications into Hummingbird EIP, providing an easy, non-proprietary method for organizations to incorporate business-critical applications for seamless access through the EIP Personalized User Interface Personalized, Windows Explorer-like navigation bar to guide users through data, files and applications with ease A multi-page portal environment, allowing users to create and customize their own portal pages according to their individual needs and providing maximum flexibility for best productivity gains Fully customizable EIP Themes to provide corporate/personal look and feel as well as platform-specific user interfaces for desktop PCs and Palm devices, allowing users to access EIP content regardless of location and device User Feedback & Collaboration Provides a feedback loop by allowing users to rank EIP pages, suggest alternative links and provide comments Facilitates messaging, by providing users with the ability to send messages to other EIP users Administration Zero footprint, zero administration desktops for EIP users HTML-based remote administration capabilities for EIP server