The new economy has challenged many businesses to develop and deploy an environment that is not only focused on handling current business trends but to strive for higher value through their IT assets.
Web-savvy businesses are extending the reach of their applications and processes through a number of B2B models, hoping to find a single and effective pathway that will lead them to the ultimate e-business strategy.
According to respected US analyst group Hurwitz, enterprise portals have become the archway through which businesses will pass to reach the promise of a single point of entry for fully transactional, content-rich e-business.
"A lot of vendors are rounding up all their resources to pack them into a unified portal," says Hurwitz. "We are at the beginning of a new breed of portal offerings, with the emphasis on more that just personalised views of content."
The group sees Compuware`s OptimalView enterprise portal as a legitimate offering in the emerging battleground. "Compuware`s OptimalView is on track with the rising customer needs for personal software. The days of a thin content veneer for portals are quickly fading."
Hurwitz believes Compuware`s OptimalView is a tactical move, demonstrating the vendor`s commitment towards customers` new software needs. "Bravo to Compuware for executing on revolving trends."
Commenting on this, Jacques Wynbergen, Compuware SA district sales manager says: "Compuware is providing technology neutral portal solution, supporting customer choice of platforms, languages and architecture.
The solution is already generating much interest in SA where companies are looking for portals that are rich with infrastructure."
OptimalView integrates static and dynamic information from different sources, applications running on different platforms and written in different languages. It offers a unified view of organisations` most important information, applications and processes, saving time and money.
Hurwitz concludes that many vendors are offering next-generation portal products that have similar strategies, but Compuware has the market longevity and muscle to make it successful.
Share
OptimalView, which runs on Internet Explorer 5.0 and Netscape 4.0 and higher, supports a broad range of technologies and information servers, benefiting organisations with diverse infrastructures.
In addition to Windows NT and Windows 2000, OptimalView will support various types of Unix including Solaris, HP-UX and Linux.
OptimalView also supports major communication standards including COM, CORBA and Enterprise JavaBeans, plus TP monitors, BEA Tuxedo and Encina. Supported components include Java, 3GL (C, C++, Cobol and so on), CICS, SAP, IMS/DC and RDBMS stored procedures. OptimalView additionally supports every major database including Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server and DB2.
Compuware
With fiscal 2000 revenues of more than $2.2 billion, Compuware is a world leader in the practical implementation of enterprise and e-commerce solutions.
Compuware software products and professional services help 14 000 of the world`s largest corporations more efficiently maintain and enhance their most critical business applications.
Compuware products and services improve quality, lower costs and increase the speed at which systems can be developed, implemented and supported, providing an immediate and measurable return on IT investments. Compuware employs more than 15 000 IT professionals worldwide.
For more information about Compuware, please visit Compuware on the World Wide Web at http://www.compuware.com.
Editorial contacts