Dialog Portal Publishing Initiative Pushes Integration ForwardInformation Today reports along with other sources on a broad initiative by Dialog to play very aggressively in the enterprise portal marketplace. Known as Dialog Portals, it leverages established portlet technology from its NewsEdge acquistion along with its existing Internet toolkit to provide highly contextual research in easy-to-deploy modules. The Portals package is design to fit in smoothly with most major portal integration environments, including BEA, IBM Websphere, Microsoft Sharepoint, Vignette and many others. Mostly oriented towards its news-oriented sources for now, plans are afoot to use the Portals platform for core content. On the horizon: a full API and Intellectual Property management hooks. For some time considered the sleepier of the major professional content aggregators, this effort is at least a signal of Dialog's intention to play aggressively alongside institutional publishers in their industry-leading publishing environments at least as much as other Thomson properties. While the really new pieces are still rather limited, Dialog's intentions speak to a far broader commitment to the manner in which professional content is consumed today.
