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The Enterprise Portals Report looks at... Collaboration services in your portal

"As with other portal services, you will have a choice between lightweight collaboration tools built into the portal software versus more robust collaboration tools (which could be sold separately by your portal vendor or provided by another supplier) that you may have already licensed. Oftentimes project leaders opt for the basic tools that come with a portal simply because they can be faster to get up and running, but this means you may be supporting two different collaboration systems. Also,..."

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Below we list 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.

Infrastructure Vendors

• SAP - SAP NetWeaver 7.0 Enhancement Package 1
  - HQ: Walldorf, Germany -- Mentions: 16
• JBoss - RedHat: JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3
  - HQ: Global Project -- Mentions: 16
• Microsoft - Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP2
  - HQ: Redmond, WA, USA -- Mentions: 75
• IBM - WebSphere Portal Server 6.1.5
  - HQ: White Plains, NY, USA -- Mentions: 35
• Oracle - WebLogic Portal 10gR3
  - HQ: Redwood Shores, CA, USA -- Mentions: 24
• Oracle - WebCenter Suite 11gR1
  - HQ: Redwood Shores, CA, USA -- Mentions: 24

Specialist Portal Products

• Broadvision - Broadvision Portal 8.1
  - HQ: Redwood City, CA, USA -- Mentions: 6
• Liferay - Liferay Portal 5.2.3
  - HQ: Los Angeles, CA, USA -- Mentions: 13
• Plone - Plone 3.3.2
  - HQ: Global project -- Mentions: 13
• eXo Platform - eXo Portal 2.5
  - HQ: Vannes, France -- Mentions: 12
• JASIG - uPortal 3.1.2
  - HQ: USA -- Mentions: 4
• GateIn - GateIn 3.0
  - HQ:
• Open Text - Vignette Portal 8.0
  - HQ: Waterloo, Canada -- Mentions: 15

Wondering how we compile these lists? Review our criteria.