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Enterprise Portals: Page 2 of 5

Our testing scenario is as follows:

Each product will be deployed on a Dell 2650

  • 2.6 Ghz
  • 1MB RAM
  • GB Ethernet
  • Windows 2000

We will test interoperability against "real" services and will include HTML and XML feeds, J2EE and .NET services for inclusion in a portal page.

The development framework will be evaluated on the amount of coding required and speed of development when developing a portal containing common gadgets including .NET, J2EE Web Services, HTML feeds, XML feeds and horizontal applications (e.g. Exchange 2000).

NWC Inc. wants to build a portal that incorporates data from several sources, depending on the identity of the user.

Enterprise portals comprise a great deal more than gadgets to access data. An enterprise portal should support the following:

  1. Collaboration (i.e., real time [IM], discussion forums, group calendaring, e-mail)
  2. Search functionality
  3. Traditional portal functionality (inclusion of data from disparate sources)