As vice president of product strategy, Edward Anuff is shaping Vignette’s go-to-market strategy and maintaining a line of award-winning products and services. He joined Vignette following their acquisition of portal software company Epicentric, where he was chairman, cofounder, and chief strategy officer. Since the acquisition, he has taken an active role in the integration of the companies. He is the author of the Java Sourcebook (J. Wiley and Sons), one of the first books on the Java programming language.
Web portal software has emerged as one of the most important components of
software enterprises over the last few years. That success has carried with
it the challenge of how to integrate disparate software services into the
portal - services that can live across multiple platforms, operating systems,
and networks. Solving that challenge is a key reason for the development of
the new WSRP specification.
WSRP, or Web Services for Remote Portlets, is an OASIS standard whose goal is
to provide Web service-based access capability for portal servers. Up to this
point, most efforts to add capabilities or features to portal servers have
involved the use of proprietary APIs and protocols that differ from vendor to
vendor. WSRP will standardize the way that portals communicate remotely with
remote services that can extend the portal's core capabilities.
One unique facet of t... (more)
IT managers are continually asked to do more with less. Competitive pressures
and budgetary constraints compel IT departments to capitalize on the
organization's existing infrastructure as well as maximize the value of any
extensions or custom development efforts.
This has been especially true in the realm of Web portals, and the barriers
to success are all the more challenging. Many organizations that run
multiple, heterogeneous portal environments want to deliver pieces of
application functionality as portlets that can be consumed through various
internal and external portals.... (more)
As vice president of product strategy, Edward Anuff is shaping Vignette’s go-to-market strategy and maintaining a line of award-winning products and services. He joined Vignette following their acquisition of portal software company Epicentric, where he was chairman, cofounder, and chief strategy officer. Since the acquisition, he has taken an active role in the integration of the companies. He is the author of the Java Sourcebook (J. Wiley and Sons), one of the first books on the Java programming language.
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