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

To: Carl R. who wrote (134)	4/4/2001 1:12:28 PM
From: Thomas DeGagne	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 183

The current environment is brutal. I have nothing positive to say about the short term. All we can do is focus on the long term and weather the storm. I am adding Epicentric to the EIP portfolio. Here is a link to their website and an overview of their portal product: epicentric.com The Intelligent Choice for Integrating and Delivering Web Services The Epicentric Foundation Server delivers a complete software solution for deploying e-business centers and networks -- the next generation portals and portal networks. Global 2000 businesses, including JP Morgan Chase & Co., General Electric, Autodesk and Lockheed Martin, all chose Epicentric solutions to deliver a wide range of e-business applications, content and Web services -- each customized and deployed to a host of unique business communities. Unlike vendors that offer static portals tied to single applications such as taxonomy or business intelligence, Epicentric provides a market-leading infrastructure to integrate existing enterprise applications and content via a single My.Portal-style user interface. Because Epicentric partners with best-of-breed application vendors such as Autonomy, Documentum, Citrix and many others, customers have the flexibility to select which services they choose to deploy within their Epicentric installation. Epicentric is one of the most portable portal products on the market today, supporting Sun Solaris, Microsoft Windows NT/2000, HP-UX, IBM AIX and Red Hat Linux, as well as market-leading application servers BEA Weblogic and IBM Websphere. Due to its openness, Epicentric's solution can be integrated with the existing infrastructure of customers' various business units. Customers may also have the flexibility to choose the configuration that best fits their needs. Advanced Architecture for Tomorrow's E-Business Centers and E-Business Networks Based on an open, modular framework, Epicentric Foundation Server is constructed upon a powerful cross-platform Java component architecture that scales to meet the organizational needs of today and the future. With Epicentric Foundation Server, you can interface to virtually any Web or legacy environment through a rich suite of standards-based APIs, connectors and standard protocols such as XML, SOAP, JDBC, HTML, EJB and many others. Epicentric Foundation Server was designed to increase the efficiency of developing comprehensive sites within an e-business network, and to reduce the complexity of assembling disparate Web services and other Web or legacy applications within specific customized destinations. The software allows your Web teams to conveniently manage and deliver a personalized Web experience optimized for Internet-enhanced business interactions among customers, suppliers, partners and employees. Benefits Epicentric Foundation Server is much more than just a static portal solution. It's an integration and service delivery framework that enables the creation and administration highly scalable e-business centers, networks, and multiple web initiatives both within and outside of your firewall. Learn how your organization can benefit from the Epicentric Next-Generation Portal Platform: Extend the reach of your organization by delivering integrated, custom-branded Web services -- such as email, news sources and transactional services -- tailored to each of your specific target audiences from a single Epicentric Foundation Server installation. Rapidly aggregate any existing Web applications or content sources -- either internally or externally hosted -- using the Web Connector™ Module and others from within the Building Block Module Suite. Be free from dependency on proprietary Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) or database platforms. Leverage pre-packaged functionality and enterprise application integration, including a wide selection of pre-built modules that integrate third-party applications like Siebel, Microsoft, Interwoven and many others. Exploit server technology that is fully extensible via Java -- developers can leverage completely open and documented XML APIs (with sample code) to achieve deep integration with custom Web or legacy applications. Turn applications and content into Web services which can be delivered to other Epicentric installations hosted anywhere on the network. The Epicentric Advantage Learn about the inherent advantages contained within the Epicentric Platform: Platform built entirely upon standards-based technology (XML, J2EE, LDAP, SOAP and others). Runs on most major operating systems, including Solaris, Windows NT, HP-UX, AIX and Linux. Runs on a wide variety of databases, including Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server and DB2. Integrates with best-of-breed third-party search, taxonomy and knowledge management products including Autonomy, Verity, Semio and Inktomi. Supports advanced clustering and fail-over capabilities of leading J2EE application servers -- including BEA Weblogic and IBM Websphere -- allowing for Internet scalability. Supports multiple devices including a wide range of handheld wireless products. Supports creation of internationalized Web sites in any language. Point and click browser-based administrative console.