This white paper discusses the Portal technology and the Value Proposition of the IBM WebSphere Portal offering relative to its competitors. Several case studies are presented.
9. Critical Differentiators: Sweet Spots of Enterprise Portal Vendors Enterprise Integration focused on merging corporate applications with SAP and other applications to support SAP customers. Self-Service Portals for customers and employees. Corporate Intranets focused on HR, Sales, Inventory, etc. Web Development supported by out of the box applications and frameworks for building custom applications, with a strong emphasis on collaboration and document management. Self-Service Portals for customers and employees. Middleware-based Enterprise Integration of business processes, business applications and live content. Transaction based Portals supporting a broad variety of composite applications for business partners, customers, and suppliers. Middleware-based Enterprise Integration of business processes, business applications and live content, for large enterprises with complex integration requirements and legacy applications. SAP NetWeaver Oracle Portal Microsoft Sharepoint BEA WebLogic IBM WebSphere