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Portal Content through Dialog Portals

Recent estimates by Forrester Research, Merrill Lynch, the META Group and others conclude that by 2006, nearly 90% of the top 2,000 global companies will deploy at least one enterprise portal. Portal deployment, however, is by no means exclusive to large global companies; smaller firms in the 1,000 to 2,500 employee range are leading users of portals according to portal vendors Plumtree and Vignette. As more and more companies invest in the creation of enterprise or departmental portals, the need to integrate relevant, trusted content from external sources alongside internally generated content becomes critical for creating a single resource that business professionals can turn to each day.

With the recent launch of Dialog Portals, enterprise portal administrators can now seamlessly integrate business news and information, industry-focused articles, market data and even weather forecasts. Dialog Portals is a suite of Web-based easy-to-integrate content modules or portlets that deliver critical news and information to employees, key user groups and management. Future content enhancements will include access to science and technology, intellectual property, market research, and legal information.

Dialog Portals Partners with Leading Portals Providers

Dialog Portals can be integrated quickly within your portal environment. Because Dialog hosts the application, deployment is easy and IT support requirements are minimal. Further, Dialog Portals has been tested and optimized to work within leading portal platforms, including ATG®; BEA™ WebLogic; Computer Associates® CleverPath; IBM WebSphere®; Microsoft SharePoint™; Oracle® 9iAS; Sun ONE; Plumtree® Corporate and Vignette® Application portals.

View sample Targeted News within your Portal

By providing a variety of content, Dialog stands as the pre-eminent vendor to support news and information needs within the portal environment. The content you receive in each portlet is personalized to provide users with the most germane information to be better informed and more productive. Available Dialog Portals include:

Editors' Picks
This news portlet delivers industry-specific general business and company news updated daily. Dialog expert editors review thousands of stories, then select and prioritize the most important for each Editors' Pick. With more than 2,000 Editors' Picks to choose from, this portlet provides an unparalleled selection of focused, relevant news, with the ability to access real-time updates for each selected Editors' Pick.

Editors' Updates
The Editors' Updates portlet offers general and industry news, updated as news breaks. Editors' Updates cover news from around the globe including Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Middle East/Africa. These topics, reviewed by industry-expert editors, offer business professionals a global perspective for making better decisions and gaining a competitive edge.

News Search
The News Search portlet allows creation of simple keyword and advanced Boolean searches against Dialog's metadata to retrieve critical news and information. In addition, saved searches can be created.

Company Information
The Company Information portlet delivers market data, company-specific news and information. You can create a personal company watch list for monitoring companies and organizations relevant to your business or job function. The Company Information portlet provides news, stock quotes, price and volume charts, financials, filings and profile information.

Weather
The Weather portlet brings weather forecasts into the portal environment and customization of the Weather portlet makes it easy to track current weather conditions and five-day forecasts for more than 1,500 cities worldwide. The weather information is updated hourly for U.S. cities and four times per day for other cities around the world.

Dialog & Dialog DataStar Search Forms
Leveraging the Dialog Intranet Toolkit, the breadth and depth of Dialog and Dialog DataStar content is now accessible in the portal environment. Custom-built search forms let users retrieve authoritative information, such as science and technology, intellectual property and market research.

Full Source/Premium Wire
The Full Source/Premium Wire portlet offers cover-to-cover content of a single publication within the portal environment. Users can perform simple keyword and advanced searches against the licensed publication.

Custom Editors' Picks
This portlet offers the ability to create a custom topic, reviewed daily by expert editors, to provide unsurpassed relevancy and the most pertinent information portal users require.

Dialog NewsRoom
Offering access to nearly 8,000 news sources from 1998 to the present, Dialog NewsRoom provides a broad range of news on diverse topics including financials, market information, mergers and acquisitions, industry developments and engineering breakthroughs.

View sample Mergers & Acquisition Search Form

The integration of Dialog Portals into a portal environment provides access to valuable Dialog content, alongside key internal content, in a single interface. With Dialog Portals, essential business information can be viewed, analyzed and acted upon faster and more efficiently.

For more information about Dialog Portals, contact your Dialog representative or register for a free Dialog Portals trial at www.dialog.com/promotions.

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