Shane Pearson

The typical enterprise relies on a mix of custom built and pre-packaged business applications using multiple technologies. Over the last decade, the Internet explosion drove the desire to make these applications available via the Web. Unfortunately, many companies exacerbated their existing IT fragmentation problem by developing 10s or 100s of Web sites to surface their silos of data and applications to users both internal and external to the enterprise. With this proliferation of Web sites, portal solutions initially provided a way for companies to provide visibility to content. These early solutions aggregated content and applications, but did not provide integration of applications, support for custom application development, or the ability to interact with and expose business processes. Today, evolving business requirements are pushing next-generation portal s... (more)