Plumtree Unveils 2005 State of the Portal Market Report

Plumtree today unveiled a new report, "The Corporate Portal Market in 2005: Portals, Composite Applications and Integrated Activity Management," reveals that CIOs at large enterprises rank portal projects among their highest spending priorities for 2005. It offers insightful analysis into five key areas: the evolution of the corporate portal market, market segmentation, portal usage and functions, deployment costs and return on investment. This original study is available for download at http://www.plumtree.com/05/PortalMarket/

Other interesting findings in the Plumtree report include:

* Personalization features are declining in importance
* Collaboration is critical and becoming common place
* Applications are on the rise and the use of portal software for Integrated Activity Management applications is the most important and fastest growing trend among Plumtree customers
* Portals are here to stay -- 97 percent of Plumtree customers said their company's preference is to build new Web-based applications within the portal

This report is in line with what other reports from Forrester and Gartner have suggested. Indications are that new version of Plumtree Portal is in line with these recommendations and expectations. Plumtree hopes to generate a lot of traction with its new version. So do I.