Social Software influences the Portal Players
BEA Systems recently unveiled their “Unified Portal Strategy“, which is builds on their acquisition of Plumtree earlier this year.
BEA System’s strategy for merging the product roadmaps is not as interesting as the three “products” they plan to introduce into their portal over the next few years. The first enables developers to deploy portal services to not portal applications, the second is a wiki engine that would integrate with the portal and allow interactive collaboration and the third is a search and knowledge management tool that allows users to tag content themselves. Now why does that sound strangely familiar?
