we went with the IBM super expensive costly comes-with-guys-in-suits portal for our sutomer facing toolset. Internally we just have a home grown set of intranets. One major intranet site a custom built 'portal' for sales and customer service, etc etc....mostly all in CF.
DK On 1/26/06, Adam Haskell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We've been looking into protals for ever now. First it was IBMs bloat, then > it was something else, I think we're now looking into Jboss's portal > solution. We already have a home grown portal for our divisions its pretty > much a CMS along with a slew of applications that are put in as protlets. > Protals are nice but they're also all emcompassing what a portal is to us > may not be to you. Its one of the funny buzz words that means nothing but > everything. That centralized thingy majigger would mean about the same > thing. > > > Adam H > > On 1/25/06, Robert Munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Check this site: > > > > http://www.cmswatch.com/Portal/Vendors/ > > > > Portals are yesterday's news, but maybe that is because everyone has one > > now. My company uses Plumtree, and I can safely say I never go to the site > > unless I need the corporate directory or I need a link to another site like > > 401K benefits. > > > > I built a big intranet at my last company- an app with content management, > > directory, collaborative workspaces, etc. Even with all that functionality, > > 50% of the traffic on the site came from the corporate directory- no joke. > > > > When you evaluate vendors, look at how well they integrate into your > > existing infrastructure- e.g. LDAP/AD authentication, corporate directory, > > single sign-on for other sites in your network. > > > > At this point, I would proabably pick one of the open-source packages and > > implement it. I would start by looking at Apache Jetspeed 2. > > > > > > HTH, > > > > Rob > > >Our new CIO wants an Enterprise portal! I have been tasked with finding > > >the right one. I am in the process of reading everything I can find on > > >the subject, but I thought it would be interesting the get the CF-Talk > > >community perspective. If you any of you have experience you would like > > >to share on this subject, I would find it most helpful. > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:230473 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54

