Enterprise Applications

Portals in perspective

Introduction to a feature on portals and the companies which are producing them.

Portals in perspective

Overview of portal suppliers and their products.

Purple pitches put portals in peril

Portal is a buzzword, but that doesn't mean it should be dismissed out of hand.

The genesis of the EIP

The start of the hype about the enterprise information portal (EIP) concept has been credited to a report released on 16 November 1998 by two analysts from Merrill Lynch.

Push: the precursor to the portal

The corporate portal concept has antecedents in many fields, but it most resembles the Internet craze of several years ago for push technology.

Portal: transition to a single point of access

Most organisations today are poorly positioned to take advantage of the recent proliferation of rich internal corporate information sources.

Technology and KM

KM vendors are in agreement that the roadblocks on the path to knowledge have changed little in the last 12 months.

Privacy in an unregulated electronic world

A lawyer discusses the legal and privacy implications of e-commerce.

Big questions to be answered

The article on page 30 - "Privacy in an unregulated electronic world" - is the result of questions raised in a previous IDM article on digital signatures.

The secrets to making work flow over the web

Workflow is being integrated with middleware to automate e-commerce transaction processing.

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