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BANGALORE: Oracle announced that OracleR Portal 10g, a component
of Oracle Fusion Middleware, has been positioned in the Leaders
Quadrant of the 2006 Gartner Horizontal Portal Products Magic Quadrant.(1)
According to Gartner, demand for horizontal portal products remains
strong, driving most enterprise portal deployments. Gartner defines
a portal as a "Web software infrastructure that provides access
to, and interaction with, relevant information assets, knowledge
assets and human assets by select targeted audiences, delivered
in a highly personalized manner." Leaders in this category
are performing well today, have a clear vision of market direction
and are actively building competencies to
sustain their leadership position in the market.
"We believe Oracle Portal's position in the leaders quadrant
signifies the tremendous success our standards-based family of middleware
products is experiencing," said Rahul Patel, vice president,
Oracle Fusion Middleware.
"Deployed as a complete platform or as individual components,
Oracle Fusion Middleware delivers organizations with heterogeneous
environments best-in-class middleware technologies they can use
today to extend the value of their existing and future IT investments.
Oracle Portal delivers a secure, personalized mechanism for all
key stakeholders ? employees, customers and partners, to access
enterprise content, view business analytics, participate in business
processes and collaborate."
As companies take advantage of the benefits of Service-Oriented
Architectures (SOAs), Oracle's portal technology is a key enabler
for leveraging data from heterogeneous systems for use in portals
and composite applications. Oracle Portal 10g is a complete and
integrated framework for developing, deploying and managing enterprise
portals. It enables secure information access through role-based
security, self-service customization, online collaboration and a
unified view into key business processes. Built on open standards,
Oracle Portal is a secure, scalable and highly available portal
platform for organizations to conduct business with customers, partners
and suppliers.
Gartner conducted a thorough evaluation of more than 14 vendors
using the following criteria:
The vendor must have at least $5 million in annual portal-related
product and service revenue during the 2005 calendar year.
The vendor must provide sales and support for the portal product
in at least two of the following five geographic regions: North
America; Latin America; Europe, the Middle East and Africa; Japan;
and the Asia/Pacific region.
The vendor must have the ability to sell an enterprise portal for
deployment in a variety of scenarios, including B2E, B2B and B2C.
The vendor must provide portal functionality that meets all Generation
1 criteria, as defined in previously published Gartner materials.
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