A new generation of systems are emerging that put the user at the center of activity and control, changing the way they leverage information and applications, and how they interact with dynamic business processes and collaborate with one another. IDC's Enterprise Portals and Workspaces research service tracks and analyzes adoption trends and technology advancements in the evolving marketplace of solutions that enhance the user experience, including enterprise portal software, mashup technologies, and other emerging workspace solutions. The service provides thought leadership backed by rigorous demand- and supply-side research to help product, marketing, and strategic planning professionals identify opportunities and threats, and provide IT and business professionals guidance with insights into the latest trends.

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This service covers the following markets:

• Enterprise portal software
• Enterprise mashup software

• New and emerging trends, technologies, and players in the enterprise portal, mashup, and workspace markets
• Customer requirements for traditional and ad hoc workspaces to deliver solutions in the proper context for a person's role, business process requirements, or computing device.
• Analysis and sizing for enterprise portal software and enterprise mashup markets
• Customer case studies and best practices from successful implementations

1. How are enterprise portal software vendors evolving their solutions to address user requirements for Web 2.0 and advancing collaboration elements?
2. What tools and approaches are available for developers and business users to create and utilize enterprise mashups?
3. How is the rapid adoption and growing ecosystem around Microsoft SharePoint impacting the market?
4. How are vendors adapting their enterprise applications to deliver next-generation user interfaces?
5. Are open source options disrupting the landscape for portal technology?
6. What best practices have emerged from early adopters of enterprise mashups? What are the business challenges for widespread enterprise adoption?
7. How are organizations building the business case for investing in user-focused computing environments?

IDC's Enterprise Portals and Workspaces service examines the strategies, positioning, and future direction of several providers competing in the portal, enterprise mashup, and workspace solutions markets, including:

Adobe, Attunity, Autonomy, BroadVision, Brocade, CA, Cisco, Denodo Technologies, EMC, Fujitsu, Google, IBM, Information Builders, Intel, Interwoven, JackBe, Kapow Technologies, Lawson, Liferay, Microsoft, Nexaweb, Open Text, Oracle, Red Hat, salesforce.com, SAP, Serena Software, SnapLogic, Software AG, StrikeIron, Sun Microsystems, TIBCO, Vignette, WaveMaker, and WorkLight.

This service focuses on the following core research. In addition to the insight provided in this service, IDC may conduct additional research on specific topics or emerging market segments, via research offerings that require additional IDC funding and client investment:

Vendor Analysis

Provides a five-year revenue forecast for the enterprise portal market, historical vendor share data, analysis of trends and discussion of the strategies of the leading vendors in the market.

Provides a market sizing and five-year forecast for the emerging enterprise mashup software market. Examines leading vendors, their approaches to the market, and the growing ecosystem.

Draws on survey data and analysis of vendor sales wins in the enterprise portal and mashup markets to examine the drivers and criteria organizations are employing to make purchasing decisions.

Examines the leading and emerging vendors and analyzes their product offerings, marketing strategy, competitive positioning, and partnership strategies.

Usage of the portal infrastructure is evolving from an one size fits all information resource to a highly specialized environment. Also examines trends in portal deployment scenarios and discusses how the portal infrastructure is being utilized to deliver a wide range of solutions.

Provides case studies of customers to help illustrate current technology requirements and use cases targeted for portals, enterprise mashups, and workspace solutions. Discusses business drivers, technology and vendor selection criteria, best practices in project implementation, and benefits of the solution.

Discusses marketplace trends in workspace products and approaches including new product offerings and vendor ecosystem development. Also looks at how organizations are navigating the balance between providing greater flexibility and freedom for the user while maintaining the security and governance requirements.

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