Punit Pandey's Weblog on Portlets, WSRP, OOA/D and J2EENowadays, I am working on Portlets, WSRP, OOA/D, AOP, Design Patterns, Software Methodologies, J2EE and More. I will try to post related information on this blog.Portals: Utility or Hype- April 30, 2004 Yesterday, I had written about Forrester's survey that portal failed to deliver enterprise benefits. If you have not gone through that, you can read that here. Forrester has also come up with some reasons for failure. But I found a different prime reason for failure. After that the question arises, is portal a safe technology for your enterprise Or is it complete failure technology and popular just due to hype created by portal vendors In my opinion, the enterprise implemented portal solutions.http://www.jroller.com/portlets/entry/portals_utility_or_hype Portal Survey- April 29, 2004 Portal failed to deliver enterprise benefit still portals rank high on the list of must-haves for many in the enterprise. Forrester done a portal study surveying 83 employees involved in portal projects in both business and IT roles at companies with $100 million or more in revenue. They have come up with some reasons for portal project failure and suggestions for choosing the portal Recommendations: Know portals' best uses and limitations before launching a portal project. Before...http://www.jroller.com/portlets/entry/portal_survey Portal Comparison- April 27, 2004 NetworkComputing has done an extensive test of 11 leading portal vendors. It has rated 'OracleAS 10g Portal' as best portal product. Although every test has it's own criteria, even then it is worth to give a look. As far as I know, it is the only comparison for such a wide portal range. Here is the complete test - Enterprise Portals Suiteshttp://www.jroller.com/portlets/entry/portal_comparison SABA Joined the JSR 168 list- April 21, 2004 It looks that now the JSR 168 compliant products are flooding. There are many commercial and open-source already compliant and new products are joining day by day. This time it is the turn of saba. I have not seenused this product so I am not sure what exactly is the product. One thing is sure that it is not a complete portals solution. They call it "human capital development and management (HCDM)" solution. Anyway it is a good news for whole java portal world. Press note say that the human...http://www.jroller.com/portlets/entry/saba_joined_the_jsr_168 |