SAP in the Enterprise Portal Software Market: Delivering Relevant and Actionable Enterprise Information

This IDC study explores SAP's portal strategy for developing and delivering a variety of functions for improving productivity among information workers. SAP's portal capabilities are described along with several common use scenarios. The study analyzes SAP's impact on the portal software market and what challenges SAP faces in the future.

"SAP continues to make significant improvements in openness, content management, and composite application development and deployment capabilities. With consolidation in the enterprise portal market, SAP is faced with new opportunities to demonstrate how its applications can be used to inform and improve the effectiveness for information workers operating in a complex business and technology environment," said Brian McDonough, research manager, IDC's Enterprise Portal Software and Packaged Composite Applications service. "SAP is taking the right steps in producing a contextual and meaningful platform for forming and executing decisions for more information workers than ever before."