Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portal Products

Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portal Products

In the 2008 Portal Magic Quadrant, Microsoft remained in the Leaders quadrant, moving a great deal towards the right on the vision axis and closing the gap between us and IBM. We were placed on the same level for the ability to execute axis as last year. We are also ahead of Oracle and SAS in both vision and ability to execute, exhibiting momentum against them as well.

Gartner gives Microsoft credit for the explosive demand SharePoint has experienced over the past year, listing SharePoint’s significant adoption by enterprises as a strength. In fact, SharePoint’s explosive growth is also referenced in the market overview section, offering yet another proof point of the significant impact the product has made in the industry.

Gartner also calls out that Microsoft is successfully fostering deployments through Enterprise licensing agreements, use as team-based collaboration document management driving use for other initiatives, as well as SharePoint Online as a SaaS horizontal portal as being key strengths for the company.

http://mediaproducts.gartner.com/reprints/microsoft/vol6/article2/article2.html

Liferay Leads Market as Visionary in Gartner's Magic Quadrant

Leading Open Source Portal Recognized for its Completeness of Vision

Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portal Products, September 2008

New entrants provide additional options for enterprises willing to consider open-source and software-as-a-service alternatives for horizontal portal functionality. To differentiate their offerings, horizontal portal vendors are incorporating support for enterprise mashups and social networking.

Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portal Products

Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portal Products

12 September 2008
David Gootzit, Gene Phifer, Ray Valdes

Gartner RAS Core Research Note G00160767

New entrants provide additional options for enterprises willing to consider open-source and software-as-a-service alternatives for horizontal portal functionality. To differentiate their offerings, horizontal portal vendors are incorporating support for enterprise mashups and social networking.

Gartner Magic Quadrant Reports for Portals & Social Software

Gartner Magic Quadrant Reports for Portals & Social Software

Research Report:
Gartner Magic Quadrant Reports for Portals & Social Software

Gartner - the world's leading information technology research and advisory company, published two new Magic Quadrant Reports:

Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portal Products, 2007
Magic Quadrant for Team Collaboration and Social Software, 2007

BEA Systems has been positioned in the “leaders” quadrant of the Horizontal Portal Products 2007 Magic Quadrant report. Leaders “have a full range of capabilities to support all portal deployment scenarios, and have demonstrated consistent product delivery over a considerable period to meet customer needs, significant product innovation and continued success in selling to new customers.”

BEA provides a broad range of application and portal infrastructure services that are designed to simplify development and management of portal solutions, and help improve user effectiveness. In addition, BEA is one of the most innovative vendors, and continues to aggressively introduce new technologies in support of emerging customer needs, providing the best-of-breed portal solutions and user experience.

The second report, Team Collaboration and Social Software 2007 Magic Quadrant, was published for the first time ever and covers new Web 2.0 technology initiatives and vendors.

BEA has a long tradition of providing excellent portal and collaboration solutions and now became one of the pioneers in the Web 2.0 space. Our recent products, AquaLogic Ensemble, Pages and Pathways provide cutting-edge solutions for creating mashups, blogs, wikis, content tagging and much more.

Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portal Products, 2007
http://bea.com/content/news_events/white_papers/BEA_Gartner_MQ_Horizontal_Portals_2007.pdf

Magic Quadrant for Team Collaboration and Social Software, 2007
http://bea.com/content/news_events/white_papers/BEA_Gartner_MQ_Collab_and_Social_Software_2007.pdf

Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portal Products, 2007

Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portal Products, 2007

The portal product market continues to mature, with most enterprises evaluating the products provided by a core group of commercial enterprise software vendors. Several horizontal portal vendors are leveraging Web 2.0 technologies and concepts to further differentiate their products.