Portal Selection

SAP Portals
Summary:
In order for SAP to embrace the web, they have had to purchase, partner, rewrite, and develop all new code so that they could claim they run business in a browser. SAP's latest announcements are around the development of their own independent web server, application server, search engine, classification engine, and enterprise portal. They feel that with their failed knowledge, they can develop a better solution than BEA, IBM, Verity, and PeopleSoft combined. Just like their modified kernel of a decade ago, this is just another example of 'we build it all here, and now our customers must buy it'.

1. Why Integrate when it can work out of the box?
a. SAP purchased their portal technology from TopTier and are now working to bring it into the SAP world. This is a common trend as they have done similar work on the integration side with WebMethods. At the end of the day they will continue to have a hard time getting everything to “work together”. At...