Current Trends in Enterprise Collaboration

Enterprise portals are evolving and proving out to be one of the best solutions for enhancing Business Productivity, Collaboration and Communication. Business communication and collaboration are transforming with the emergence of new applications, changing market trends and innovations in business productivity tools. With a collaborative workspace and communication model organizations can easily and effectively deal with their customers, vendors and partners. One of the best ways to reap the benefits of collaboration is by the use of collaboration tools that are already in place. These collaborative components effectively reuse the enterprise portal resources and derive the maximum benefits from portal deployment and help achieve enhanced business productivity, extended enterprise collaboration and an integrated portal community.

These intelligent portal components are the new portlets that are ready to accelerate the business critical applications. The portlets are based on innovative JSR 168 standards-based communication and collaboration model. Java Portlet Specification Request (JSR) is a standard to demonstrate the development of portal components. The specification defines standard application programming interface for portlet development and provides a standard programming architecture for creating portlets.

With portlets it is now easy to collaborate with employees, partners, clients or vendors across the globe to exchange information, taking decisions, and implementations without increasing investments. Portlets are ready-to-use components that leverage enterprise portal resources and maximize the utilization of a collaboration server. These components can be easily deployed to quickly build the enterprise portal or open source portal solutions like:

• Employee Directory
• Corporate Calendar
• Forum
• Blog
• Calendar
• Email
• Team Calendar
• Task
• Contact
• Poll
• MOM- Minutes of Meeting
• Corporate Calendar
• Information sharing & FAQs
• Feedback
• Alert
• Content Viewer
• RSS
• Bookmark
• Mini Calendar
• Mini Mail Portlet
• Issue/ Bug Tracking

Furthermore, the above solutions are available for any portal server as the portlets are JSR-168 compliant and tested on all popular commercial and open source portal servers such as IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic, Oracle iAS, Liferay, JBoss, Sun Java portal or any other portal server of your choice. Portlets utilize Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino and Databases features, and greatly reduce the development cost & time to build any enterprise portal.

PortletsToGo from SyncEx (a renowned name in portal development community), offers a range of pre-tested and pre-packaged ready-to-use portlets. All the portlets are IBM validated and can be used to develop dependable solutions for any enterprise portal business.

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