Portals News & Articles

It's been a while since we heard from Laserfiche (news, site), the company that was then busy launching its enterprise content management system Rio.

However, recently Laserfiche announced the availability of  Weblink 8, which they say, will significantly expand Rio by enabling developers to build a portal site without having to bother with any of the tiresome coding usually associated with such projects.

Jahia (news, site) has upgraded the enterprise version of its enterprise content integration system to version six, with a new front end, improved editing, JBoss document management and improved portal features.

eXo Platform is a French company focused on delivering an open source collaborative software suite. Around since 2003 and offering solutions like Portal, Enterprise Content Mangement, Collaboration and more, we decided to take a closer look to see what eXo was all about.

More news on the interoperability front - at least for Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007. Microsoft has finally listened to its customers and released a WSRP (Web Services for Remote Portlets) Toolkit designed to help them pull MOSS content into other portals.

Yes, Lotus Notes is still part of the daily routine for some folks out there. United Planet, a European developer of Enterprise Portal software, has released a Lotus Notes Business Adapter for its portal, intranet and Web application software — Intrexx Xtreme.

The Adapter aims to simplify the development of Web applications, Web services and process management for the Intrexx Xtreme Lotus Notes community.

CMS Watch has come out with its Enterprise Portals Report 2009 and it appears like Microsoft SharePoint may be splitting the vendors into camps — those that have been able to rise above and those that have risen to challenge MOSS. It’s interesting to see who shows up where.

Mark your September calendars! Gartner will present its 2008 summit on Portals, Content and Collaboration September, 17 - 19, in Los Angeles, CA. Gartner’s events are always fun due to their reputation as a well-known technology research and advisory firm and this sure looks like an event worth attending.

With a focus on innovation, Gartner will hold its first ever Innovation Panel, in which the CEOs of open innovation network organizations will share their insights on innovation. They will coach us on how to look for and find innovation and, most importantly, on how to protect innovative ideas.

The gang over at Vignette has been doing some celebrating this week picking up two different industry awards for two of their products proving they may actually know a little something about saving an organization a lot of money and delivering outstanding web experiences in this Web 2.0 world.

Do you know where you should be on May 29? Why in San Diego of course. Attending the Enterprise 3 conference and learning lots of stuff about portals, collaboration and Web 2.0. Come on now, embrace the enterprise and take a walk along the yellow brick road.

As we have covered recently , content migration is a hot and serious topic for many IT managers. Migration from Lotus Notes to Microsoft SharePoint, a heretofore unfulfilled niche in the market, appears to have been filled by Proposion Software.

Vignette, another yet un-acquired provider of Enterprise CMS solutions, has announced a strategic relationship with Microsoft to deliver media solutions on the Microsoft platform. They’re delivering rich media — video, audio, flash, VOIP, and more — to any Internet-enabled device including Windows-based PCs, Windows Mobile, set-top boxes and the XBox 360 console. Right to your home, here comes Microsoft rich media via Vignette.