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AIIM 'Smackdown' and the Perils of Portals | Intelligent Enterprise Blog
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AIIM 'Smackdown' and the Perils of Portals

Posted by Tony Byrne
Thursday, April 19, 2007
10:09 AM

The hype around enterprise portals seems to have subsided, but I believe genuine interest remains high. Yesterday at the annual AIIM Expo, we held an "Enterprise Portal Smackdown," in which a packed room of document and records managers keenly watched seven-minute demos presented by different consultancies (Ironworks, Molecular, and Liferay) demonstrating, respectively: BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, and Liferay Portal. Here's a very brief summary of the demos:

• Liferay: "We're cool"
• Molecular/IBM: "Beware...portals are complicated"
• IronWorks/BEA: "E-business dashboards rock"

More enterprises are recognizing use-cases for accessing content repositories and services from other applications. Obviously, portal platforms represent one option here, although panelists discussing "convergence" the day before seemed a bit more sanguine about enterprise search in this regard. On the whole, I think Web and enterprise content management specialists underestimate both the power and perils of enterprise portal software.



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