Janus Boye is based in Denmark and managing director at J. Boye a vendor-neutral analyst firm. Janus is principal author of the Enterprise Portals Report, co-author of Wiki in the Enterprise and Web CMS Report. He is also the jboye09 conference chair and responsible for putting together the conference program. As a frequent blogger at CMS Watch he regularly writes on the fascinating and young portal market.

LOCATION: Zürich
SIG: Enterprise Portals
KEYWORDS: Research, Concept, Technology

SPEAKER: Janus Boye   COMPANY: J. Boye - vendor-neutral
SLIDES: 081027_Portals_2008.pdf

Going into 2009 the portal marketplace is in flux, as older technologies and platforms become deprecated while new use cases around social computing emerge. Meanwhile, the rise of Microsoft SharePoint has led to divergent reactions among traditional enterprise portal suppliers – like IBM, Oracle, and SAP – while open source portal projects continue to expand vigorously.

What you will learn by attending:

• How the enterprise portal marketplace is segmented today
• Shifting vendor strategies in the face of SharePoint
• What open source portal platforms bring to the table
• How Portals relate to Enterprise 2.0
• Common enterprise portal use cases
• How to go about selecting the right portal technology