Trends Report

Market Overview: The Portal Server Market In 2010

Options Shrink, Alternatives Grow, Complexity Remains

September 23rd, 2010
Tim Walters, Ph.D., null
Tim Walters, Ph.D.
With contributors:
Matthew Brown , Anjali Yakkundi

Summary

Portal server products gained a bad reputation in the first round of large-scale (and frequently unsuccessful) implementations. Yet it's no wonder that firms continue to invest in portal servers: The core benefits — aggregation of content and applications and rich, personalized user environments — are more important than ever as companies break down software silos and aim to deliver engaging and desirable experiences to consumers and employees alike. The portal server vendor landscape is in flux, thanks to market consolidation, merging software workloads, and the availability of some portal capabilities from other sources. Content and collaboration professionals need to pay close attention to these shifts as they plot internal and external site technology strategies.

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