New Delphi Group Portal Research Examines Business and Technology Dynamics Driving Investment in Portal Software and Collaboration

Says 2003 Portal Market to reach $957 Million Worldwide; $1.14 Billion in 2004. Examines the critical mass of portal software market leaders by existing deployment and anticipated share of future spending, Analyzes why past investments failed to meet expectations.

For the year 2003, Delphi Group expects the combined enterprise portal software market to reach $957 million worldwide, growing at approximately 20 percent over the next two years to reach $1.13 billion in 2004.

For this recent research into the enterprise portal marketplace, market advisor Delphi Group conducted an independent review of the marketplace to examine current practices, expectations, and realized results from users and evaluators of enterprise portal software.
Delphi Group determined market leadership through more than a dozen independent calculations, including the first ever examination of both vendor share of existing deployments and anticipated spending by enterprise software buyers.

"A critical mass of market leaders emerged from the analysis, in some cases with surprising results," said Nathaniel Palmer, chief analyst for Delphi Group, who headed up this research effort. "The report analyzes over 200 portal deployments and anticipated spending of over $100 million on portals by 500 Global 2000 organizations," explains Palmer.

The analysis focused on:
- The critical mass of portal software market leaders by existing deployment and anticipated share of future spending,
- Financial payback and ROI results realized with existing portal deployments,
- The top priorities for features and components in portal solutions
- An analysis of the industries Delphi believes will lead investment in information retrieval and categorization solutions
- Where and why past investments failed to meet expectations.

Delphis report entitled, "Enterprise Portals: Total Market Perspective" is 70 pages with over 50 points of analysis from 500 leading Global 2000 organizations currently using or evaluating portal software.
To order a copy of the report, call Client Services at 800-275-3367 or email client.services@delphigroup.com.

Delphi Group (www.delphigroup.com) is the leading provider of business advisory services that illuminate the value proposition of technology in digital business practice. Delphi market research is available online to subscribers at www.delphiweb.com. Contact Delphi Client Services at (617) 247-1025 or 800- 575-3367 to subscribe, or email client.services@delphigroup.com. Delphi Group has its headquarters at Ten Post Office Square, Boston, MA.