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The Enterprise Portals Report 2008 looks at... Integration services in your portal

"To achieve true integration, you will almost surely need to work on your underlying infrastructure. This is why many infrastructure vendors give (or almost give) portal software away as part of bigger deals. Portal software can become a "loss leader" for additional software modules and/or integration consulting..."

More about The Enterprise Portals Report 2008

 

Below we list 15 major Enterprise Portal solutions, divided into three categories. These are not the "best" portal tools, simply -- in our judgment -- the most significant today.

You can find a longer discussion of these categories -- along with comparative evaluations of these tools -- in The Enterprise Portals Report.

Oracle - Universal Content Management 10gR3
- HQ: Redwood Shores, CA, USA -- Mentions: 1

Infrastructure Vendors

• BEA - AquaLogic User Interaction 6.1
  - HQ: San Jose, CA, USA -- Mentions: 18
• Oracle - Oracle Portal 10g
  - HQ: Redwood Shores, CA, USA -- Mentions: 14
• Oracle - Oracle WebCenter Suite
  - HQ: Redwood Shores, CA, USA -- Mentions: 9
• Microsoft - Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
  - HQ: Redmond, WA, USA -- Mentions: 43
• SAP - SAP NetWeaver 7.0
  - HQ: Walldorf, Germany -- Mentions: 9
• IBM - WebSphere Portal Server 6.0.1
  - HQ: White Plains, NY, USA -- Mentions: 27
• Sun - Sun Java System Portal Server 7.1
  - HQ: Santa Clara , CA, USA -- Mentions: 14
• BEA - WebLogic Portal 10
  - HQ: San Jose, CA, USA -- Mentions: 21

Specialty Portal Products

• Vignette - Vignette Portal 7.3
  - HQ: Austin, TX, USA -- Mentions: 10
• Broadvision - Broadvision Portal 8.0
  - HQ: Redwood City, CA, USA -- Mentions: 4

Major Open-Source Portals

• JBoss - RedHat: JBoss Portal 2.4
  - HQ: Global Project -- Mentions: 8
• Liferay - Liferay Portal 4.2
  - HQ: Los Angeles, CA, USA -- Mentions: 6
• Plone - Plone 3.0
  - HQ: Global project -- Mentions: 11
• eXo Platform - eXo Portal 2.0
  - HQ: Vannes, France -- Mentions: 4
• JASIG - uPortal
  - HQ: USA -- Mentions: 1
• Apache Project - Jetspeed-2.1 Enterprise Portal
  - HQ: Global project -- Mentions: 3

Wondering how we compile these lists? Review our criteria.