SAP AG announced its intention to create SAP Portals, Inc., a new company dedicated to developing and marketing comprehensive, open-enterprise portal and business intelligence products. SAP Portals will initially employ 700 people in the development and marketing of people-centric solutions, including the corresponding professional services. SAP Portals combines the assets of three units of the SAP group: TopTier Software (being acquired by SAP); the current SAP general business unit dedicated to the mySAP Workplace enterprise portal and mySAP Business Intelligence solutions; and eSAP GmbH, an SAP professional services subsidiary focusing on enterprise portal and e-business projects. SAP Portals will be a global company with headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif., and development centers in Walldorf, Germany, and Raanana, Israel. In addition to providing products to the parent company, SAP Portals will license its technology outside the SAP Group of companies and expects a significant portion of its revenues to accrue from outside the SAP installed base. The enterprise portal and information solutions will provide all users with one entry point to the wide variety of structured and unstructured information, Web content management, collaboration tools, CRM, SCM and ERP systems, as well as legacy systems already in use in the business. SAP Portals solutions will be available to customers directly as part of the mySAP.com e-business platform from SAP. www.sap.com
Category: Collaboration and workplace (Page 90 of 97)
This category is focused on enterprise / workplace collaboration tools and strategies, including office suites, intranets, knowledge management, and enterprise adoption of social networking tools and approaches.
iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions extended its portal platform with the addition of four new products, including fully integrated wireless capability via the iPlanet Portal Server: Mobile Access Pack. The product lets service providers offer a full spectrum of portal services through any Internet-based device and allows enterprises to channel corporate services and applications to mobile employees. Mobile Access Pack is fully integrated with the iPlanet Messaging, Calendar and Directory Server software products. It provides support for WAP and i-mode, and the most requested wireless services such as SMS, notification and location-based services. There are two editions. Standard Edition is a completely self-contained, easy-to-install product to enable rapid portal pilot development and deployment. It includes the iPlanet Application Server 6.0: Standard Edition and iPlanet Directory Server for use only with the iPlanet Portal Server. Enterprise Edition provides enhanced availability and scalability on a J2EE-certified application platform with robust integration capabilities. Designed for customers requiring high transaction integrity and continuous up-time, it eliminates single points of failure through application fail-over and load balancing. It requires the separate purchase and installation of the iPlanet Application Server: Enterprise Edition or iPlanet Application Server: Enterprise Edition Pro. The iPlanet Portal Server product family is expanding to include additional capabilities via portal solution packs. Each pack can be installed and deployed on top of either iPlanet Portal Server edition. In addition, multiple packs may be deployed in conjunction with one another. They include: Mobile Access Pack, Secure Remote Access Pack, and Personalized Knowledge Pack. The iPlanet Portal Server Standard Edition and the Secure Remote Access Pack are available immediately. The Personalized Knowledge Pack will be available by the end of this month. The Wireless Access Pack will be available Summer 2001 and the Enterprise Edition will be available in the Fall. Pricing of the iPlanet Portal Server begins at $25,000. www.sun.com/software/sunone, www.iplanet.com
Plumtree Software announced availability of the Plumtree Gadget Suite for Actuate and a partnership with Actuate Corporation. Plumtree Portal Gadgets are plug-in portal components that deliver services from enterprise applications and Internet sites to the business desktop. The Plumtree Gadget Suite for Actuate is designed to integrate services from e.Reporting Suite 5, Actuate’s Information Delivery capabilities, into the Plumtree Corporate Portal. Users can now access Actuate business reports and content including 401K statements, performance reports and other corporate information from the same personalized Internet desktop they use to check e-mail, sales leads and market news. Users can browse the Actuate Encyclopedia, a list of folders that contain e.Reports. Users can select which e.Reports they wish to view from the folders and can easily drill down and review the report content. Users can specify which e.Reports they wish to view and search the reports or download them in PDF, XML, or DHTML format. Users can subscribe to select channels based on associated e.Reports to find out when information is new or changed. When an e.Report is modified, subscribers are informed of any updates. Plumtree-Actuate channel partner Blackstone Technology Group created the gadgets in JSP. The gadgets are currently available. www.actuate.com, www.plumtree.com
Enfish Technology, Inc. announced the launch of Enfish Onespace Version 3.0. Version 3.0 of Enfish Onespace enhances the Microsoft Windows operating system by adding a customizable desktop that is automatically personalized for each user as it installs. Enfish Onespace creates a cross-referenced index that gives users easy access by subject to all their e-mail, tasks, appointments, favorite websites, contacts and documents in one secure, convenient place. The major functional areas of Enfish Onespace have been separated into easy-to-use modes, which are represented by toolbar buttons on the top of each page. Selecting one of the modes will take users to specific areas that will help them get the most out of Enfish Onespace. Each mode now features an action bar to enable users to quickly share, or respond to, an item. Performance has been greatly improved with faster loading of the application and pages. An improved architecture refreshes data as it changes, creating a more seamless environment. Users can select their preferred search engines for Internet-based searches. Users can retrieve email addresses and send correspondence quickly and easily with a new Rolodex feature that brings instant access to important contact information. Enfish has added several shortcuts to version 3.0 to make sending e-mail even easier, including an action button on top of every page for sending, and a mail drop-down arrow displaying all contacts for quick and easy selection. Enfish Onespace Version 3.0 is available from select partners and the Enfish web site. Enfish Onespace was initially available as a free download from the company’s web site. With the release of the enhanced Version 3.0, Enfish Onespace will now be available for $69.95. Current users of Enfish Onespace will be given the opportunity to upgrade to Version 3.0 at no charge. Enfish works with partners to customize Enfish Onespace for specific companies and integrate Enfish Onespace with enterprise portal and Customer Relationship Management solutions. www.enfish.com
CoVia announced the general availability of Vortal, the newest addition to CoVia’s suite of enterprise portal solutions. CoVia Vortal enables companies to quickly create industry specific, personalized portals that can be entirely managed by non-technical users who can quickly produce, update and sustain fresh, relative content for any targeted community – all without IT support. Supporting such features as self-registration and password protected access, Vortal enables any organization to add “MyOrganization”-like functionality to their publicly facing web sites in less than 30 days. Using iChannel content syndication and delivery technology, Vortal delivers organization and industry specific news content and information directly to targeted users desktops and enables them to customize their view to suit their particular objectives and interests. Organizations can intersperse company content with syndicated news feeds included with the Vortal application to produce a robust information destination for customers, prospects and partners. Since Vortal also uses many self-service technologies developed as part of the InfoPortal platform, managing and updating the site can be done by anyone capable of operating a web browser. No specific experience or knowledge of XML, HTML or other programming languages is required for day-to-day users to keep the site fresh and valuable. The result is low cost of ownership and more relevant and timely information delivered directly to customers. CoVia Vortal is available now. For additional information, please visit www.covia.com
Sybase, Inc. announced Sybase Enterprise Portal 2.0 (EP), which extends portal functionality to mobile and wireless users, business partners and e-marketplaces. The new portal functionality uses Sybase’s wireless technology along with new business-to-business application integration, XML/EDI transformations and globalization. Key components include a J2EE-compliant application server, LDAP directory support, an integrated security framework, concept-based searching and a powerful data server with data synchronization capabilities. Sybase EP supports the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP). Sybase EP includes bi-directional mobile messaging capabilities that enable users to both queue outbound messages and receive messages delivered from the network. These messaging services include store-and-forward messaging queuing; push messaging for communications from the network; and user authentication and encryption. Messages can be used to alert users or to initiate an action, such as data synchronization. XML/EDI transformation enables non-EDI-enabled business partners to be quickly integrated into the enterprise’s processes. Enterprise integration adapters allow collaborative data to be directly served into data management systems or applications. Sybase EP’s content management features allow portal users to quickly add, categorize and deploy information for end users. The customizable presentation services allow portal users to interact with applications in their preferred manner. Sybase EP also provides advanced features like automatic currency conversion and language translation. www.sybase.com/ep
Portal Wave, Inc. announced three new products that allow enterprises to build EAPs that connect multiple internal systems and connect partner applications. Portal Wave XML B2B Server allows information and transaction exchange across enterprises via XML. Portal Wave Visual Development Studio provides a visual development environment for building Wavelets, plug-in software modules that run within the portal. Portal Wave Application Portal Server (APS) 2.0 is an upgrade to the initial version that enables companies to integrate enterprise solutions into a common e-business platform with a single Web interface. XML B2B Server is an XML messaging server that provides guaranteed, secure delivery of business information and transactions over the Internet in the form of XML documents. Delivery is guaranteed via message queuing and XML return receipt. A simple log allows users to monitor the delivery status of documents such as purchase orders, invoices and inventory levels. XML B2B Server offers support for HTTP and HTTPS for secure document delivery and uses the same browser-based EAP interface for managing and monitoring delivery status. It supports industry standards for XML exchange between partners and is compliant with RosettaNet standards. EAPs provide functionality through Wavelets, plug-in software modules that encapsulate business logic and can provide value from displaying syndicated Internet content to coordinating complex B2B functions across multiple enterprise applications. Visual Development Studio is a Java-based product that leverages the latest JavaBean technology and Java Swing classes. Its main feature is the separation of the user interface from business logic. The new XML B2B Server leverages the enhanced EAP functions now available in APS 2.0. The 2.0 upgrade features an improved user interface that uses style sheets. From selecting content to determining how it appears, improved personalization features allow users greater flexibility to customize their own portal. XML B2B Server, Visual Development Studio and APS 2.0 are available now. www.portalwave.com
Moreover and Autonomy announced a partnership aimed at bringing breaking news to enterprise portals. As part of the agreement, Autonomy’s Portal-in-a-Box will provide access to Moreover’s dynamic Web news database. That means Autonomy customers will now have quick access to all relevant news from thousands of online sources. The partnership provides Moreover with an additional channel into the enterprise, while enabling Autonomy to take full advantage of the benefits of a clean and structured Web news database. Integration has been completed for select Autonomy Portal-in-a-Box customers and Moreover-indexed headlines will be generally available by early Q2, 2001. www.moreover.com, www.autonomy.com
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