Enterprise Portals

Enterprise portals integrate access to information and applications and present it to the business user in a useful format. This software is used by business users but includes IT administration tools and natively has some level of the following functionality:

• Role-based or rule-based administration
• Collaboration functionality
• Content management and access
• Access to structured data such as end-user query and reporting
• The following are representative vendors in this market:
• BEA Systems
• Computer Associates
• IBM
• Oracle
• SAP