De : Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > I think that you must admit however, that the > organisations that can get the *most* benefit out of > portal technologies *are* the larger ones. Where they > do have many enterprise apps and business processes > which a portal can provide centralized access to. For > example, if you can have: > > the top ten company performance reports > all regular contracts > employee to management company forms > client details database information > employee 'phone-book' >
The *very large* companies (ie Fortune 500) usually need both technologies (I work for one :) : - the big enterprise software are typicaly used for client facing projects, deployed in large clustered environments where few managers would take the risk using a software with no formal support and maintenance contract, something which is not always readily available for most OS software. - the OS software however will be nearly always found in these corporations at the workgroup/business unit/project level, where few managers would go through the hassles of formal budget approval, etc... to develop a few functionalities for some key users. In these areas, the flexibility and agility brought by the OS software is a winner 3 times out of 4. It's much easier to download an OS software, play a little with its config/code, build a demo to show the managers and then ask them for a consulting budget to finalize the portal than try to convince upfront these managers to allocate a budget to build a portal with a commercial software. Finally, Jetspeed specifically can be very productively used as a *personal* portal: I've set up a Jetspeed on my own workstation to consolidate in one aggregate view, various news sites + data from internal systems. It saves me a load of time in browsing the web and let me be more reactve to internal issues. Since this is all at marginal cost for the company, the ROI is near infinite :) -- Rapha�l Luta - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Principal Consultant - Technology and New Initiatives Vivendi Universal Networks - Paris -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
