Toby Ward recently shared the highlights of the Gartner’s magic quadrant for intranet portals. First this is a consolidating and shrinking market, as only 12 enterprise portal vendors remain on Gartner’s latest magic quadrant for “horizontal portal products.” Toby summarized some of Gartner’s findings:
Mashups, lightweight composite applications based on Web-oriented architectures (WOAs), could emerge as alternatives to horizontal portal frameworks for creating enterprise Web environments
Increased interest in Web 2.0
By 2011, Gartner expects at least 10% of new enterprise portal projects in the Global 2000 to use open-source horizontal portal frameworks
Toby has covered these highlights for several years. He is also surprised that more organizations are not using portals. His own intranet 2.0 study reveals that only 10% of respondents (some 230 respondent organizations thus far) use a portal product to power their intranet. However, as he points out these solutions are complex, and pricey. I have seen this myself on a number of huge, expensive portal implementations that increased the revenues of systems integrators.
The Gartner portal quadrant is similar to Toby’s 2006 version of the Portal magic quadrant, with except of BEA, now part of Oracle. So we are not seeing a lot of movement here as consolidation has mostly peaked. The big players continue to be IBM and Microsoft with Oracle and SAP trailing and then further behind are a lot of some more pure play vendors and Sun. I think the big news is the first Gartner finding above - lightweight composite applications based on Web-oriented architectures (WOAs), could emerge as alternatives to the portal players. I think there is no “could” about this.
Teligent has a portal product? You'd never know by looking at their website... and a portal product with more than $3 million in annual licensing revenue?
Posted by: techtalks | March 30, 2011 at 01:54 AM