Yahoo! Enterprise Integration Falls as Its Focus on Individuals Clarifies
In the wake of Yahoo!'s termination of paid video services, CNET News reports that their move to profitability is now sending its Enterprise Software division out to pasture. Unfortunately the sophistication required for most business-oriented portals has eclipsed the ability of most consumer-oriented portal development tools to compete in the increasingly crowded market for Enterprise Content Management. The move towards tighter corporate governance is creating far more complex content management solutions than those offered by consumer-oriented portals, even as new collaborative and content seaching requirements have pushed most major institutions towards solutions that are highly tailored to the specific publishing requirements of task-driven professional communities. Companies like Yahoo! will continue to thrive in the professional space, though, through their ability to service professionals as individual consumers and as members of a greater professional community outside of the firewalls. Being able to leverage that more public professional arena is the greatest untapped potential of the public Web today.