iPlanet* Extends Portal Server Offering
Announcement posted by iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions 24 May 2001
iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions, a Sun-Netscape Alliance, today significantly extended its portal platform with the addition of four new products, including fully integrated wireless capability via the iPlanet* Portal Server: Mobile Access Pack. The product lets service providers offer a full spectrum of portal services through any Internet-based device and allows enterprises to channel corporate services and applications to mobile employees to help increase productivity and promote rapid access to business-critical information.
The iPlanet Portal Server is the industry's first fully realised portal platform for delivering personalised content, services, business processes and applications to employees, suppliers, partners and customers in a highly scalable, highly secure portal environment. It is also a key component of the Sun Open Net Environment (Sun(tm) ONE) vision of a complete open architecture for the creation, assembly and deployment of smart Web services.
"Now the iPlanet Portal Server provides wireless services and capabilities, service providers and enterprises can immediately connect with their mobile customers and employees through a whole new range of value-added services," said Steven Herbert, Head of Portal Product Marketing, iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions.
"The portal market will be a $2 billion business by 2004.* It represents the next killer productivity service of this decade and is challenging companies to produce a portal strategy that affords them new competitive advantages in this dynamic portal world. iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions has the 'out-of-the-box' portal server solution they need to get started today."
The iPlanet Portal Server's new wireless dimension represents a unique opportunity for service providers to attract and retain customers and for enterprises to increase employee productivity. By making portal content available to mobile users, they can quickly deliver services that are personalised and relevant to each user based upon who they are, where they are, how they are accessing the information and what they are trying to accomplish. Examples include anything from accessing email, calendar, location-based services or online trading services through a mobile phone to accessing enterprise resources or electronic auction services on a PDA.
The iPlanet Portal Server: Mobile Access Pack is fully integrated with the iPlanet Messaging, Calendar and Directory Server software products. It provides support for today's wireless service delivery protocols, WAP and i-mode, and the most requested wireless services such as SMS, notification and location-based services.
The iPlanet Portal Server: Mobile Access Pack also helps enable wireless service providers to go to market faster with wireless portal solutions. They can now rapidly develop and deploy new services via the platform's open and extensible architecture, which makes it easy to plug in value-added applications and services from other vendors, helping reduce the time and cost associated with testing and integration.
The Industry's First Portal Platform Now Offered in Two Editions iPlanet Portal Server is the industry's first full-service platform for deploying B2B, B2C and B2E portals. It provides all services necessary to quickly deploy the most demanding portal solutions. There are two editions to meet varied customer requirements:
* iPlanet(tm) Portal Server: Standard Edition: A completely self-contained, easy-to-install product to enable rapid portal pilot development and deployment. It includes the iPlanet Application Server 6.0: Standard Edition and iPlanet* Directory Server for use only with the iPlanet Portal Server.
* iPlanet(tm) Portal Server: Enterprise Edition: A next-generation portal platform providing enhanced availability and scalability on a J2EE-certified application platform with robust integration capabilities. Designed for customers requiring high transaction integrity and continuous up-time, it eliminates single points of failure through application fail-over and load balancing. It requires the separate purchase and installation of the iPlanet Application Server: Enterprise Edition or iPlanet Application Server Enterprise Edition Pro.
iPlanet Portal Server Extended Family of Solution Packs
In response to customer demand, the iPlanet Portal Server product family is expanding to include additional capabilities via portal solution packs. Each pack can be installed and deployed on top of either iPlanet Portal Server Edition. In addition, multiple packs may be deployed in conjunction with one another:
* iPlanet Portal Server: Mobile Access Pack-Extends the full range of portal- based content and services to mobile users in both consumer and business settings, with broad support for open standards such as XML, XSL, LDAP, IMAP, iCAL and others.
* iPlanet(tm) Portal Server: Secure Remote Access Pack-Enables knowledge workers and business partners to remotely access their personalised corporate portal and intranet or extranet resources at any time and from any place via patented Extranet/VPN on Demand technology.
* iPlanet(tm) Server : Personalised Knowledge Pack-Provides collaborative knowledge management with information search and categorisation, taxonomy creation, personalised profiles and document collaboration.
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The iPlanet Portal Server is the industry's first fully realised portal platform for delivering personalised content, services, business processes and applications to employees, suppliers, partners and customers in a highly scalable, highly secure portal environment. It is also a key component of the Sun Open Net Environment (Sun(tm) ONE) vision of a complete open architecture for the creation, assembly and deployment of smart Web services.
"Now the iPlanet Portal Server provides wireless services and capabilities, service providers and enterprises can immediately connect with their mobile customers and employees through a whole new range of value-added services," said Steven Herbert, Head of Portal Product Marketing, iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions.
"The portal market will be a $2 billion business by 2004.* It represents the next killer productivity service of this decade and is challenging companies to produce a portal strategy that affords them new competitive advantages in this dynamic portal world. iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions has the 'out-of-the-box' portal server solution they need to get started today."
The iPlanet Portal Server's new wireless dimension represents a unique opportunity for service providers to attract and retain customers and for enterprises to increase employee productivity. By making portal content available to mobile users, they can quickly deliver services that are personalised and relevant to each user based upon who they are, where they are, how they are accessing the information and what they are trying to accomplish. Examples include anything from accessing email, calendar, location-based services or online trading services through a mobile phone to accessing enterprise resources or electronic auction services on a PDA.
The iPlanet Portal Server: Mobile Access Pack is fully integrated with the iPlanet Messaging, Calendar and Directory Server software products. It provides support for today's wireless service delivery protocols, WAP and i-mode, and the most requested wireless services such as SMS, notification and location-based services.
The iPlanet Portal Server: Mobile Access Pack also helps enable wireless service providers to go to market faster with wireless portal solutions. They can now rapidly develop and deploy new services via the platform's open and extensible architecture, which makes it easy to plug in value-added applications and services from other vendors, helping reduce the time and cost associated with testing and integration.
The Industry's First Portal Platform Now Offered in Two Editions iPlanet Portal Server is the industry's first full-service platform for deploying B2B, B2C and B2E portals. It provides all services necessary to quickly deploy the most demanding portal solutions. There are two editions to meet varied customer requirements:
* iPlanet(tm) Portal Server: Standard Edition: A completely self-contained, easy-to-install product to enable rapid portal pilot development and deployment. It includes the iPlanet Application Server 6.0: Standard Edition and iPlanet* Directory Server for use only with the iPlanet Portal Server.
* iPlanet(tm) Portal Server: Enterprise Edition: A next-generation portal platform providing enhanced availability and scalability on a J2EE-certified application platform with robust integration capabilities. Designed for customers requiring high transaction integrity and continuous up-time, it eliminates single points of failure through application fail-over and load balancing. It requires the separate purchase and installation of the iPlanet Application Server: Enterprise Edition or iPlanet Application Server Enterprise Edition Pro.
iPlanet Portal Server Extended Family of Solution Packs
In response to customer demand, the iPlanet Portal Server product family is expanding to include additional capabilities via portal solution packs. Each pack can be installed and deployed on top of either iPlanet Portal Server Edition. In addition, multiple packs may be deployed in conjunction with one another:
* iPlanet Portal Server: Mobile Access Pack-Extends the full range of portal- based content and services to mobile users in both consumer and business settings, with broad support for open standards such as XML, XSL, LDAP, IMAP, iCAL and others.
* iPlanet(tm) Portal Server: Secure Remote Access Pack-Enables knowledge workers and business partners to remotely access their personalised corporate portal and intranet or extranet resources at any time and from any place via patented Extranet/VPN on Demand technology.
* iPlanet(tm) Server : Personalised Knowledge Pack-Provides collaborative knowledge management with information search and categorisation, taxonomy creation, personalised profiles and document collaboration.
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