IBM Corp. Tuesday rolled out its
enterprise information portal as the first step of the seminal computer
company’s software strategy to aid corporations’ quest to manage the glut
of information saturating e-business applications.
IBM’s (IBM)
new portal, which will be available worldwide later this month, will allow
clients to easily access, search, integrate and manage a host of data sources.
By taking advantage of the portal’s data integration and search methods,
companies may engage in extensive search queries across a number of
sources, including multimedia, e-documents, Lotus Notes files and Web servers.
The portal was designed to allow its users to make faster, more effective
business decisions by eliminating the information overload from multiple
mediums.
Leading provider of enterprise portals, Viador Inc., is continuing its
long-standing strategic alliance with IBM by supporting the giant’s new
enterprise portal via its e-portal suite, which provides centralized access
to the most extensive set of business information sources.
“Viador’s portal solution combined with the underlying data access,
integration and search capabilities of IBM’s enterprise information portal,
will enable customers to quickly and dramatically enhance their
productivity, said Jim Kelly, vice president of marketing, IBM data
management solutions.