All aboard the portal platform

In its enterprise-grade KnowledgeCenter portal platform, KnowledgeTrack employs its new technology called InfoMediary, which the company claims allows customers to quickly and easily integrate their portal platform with unlimited content sources and applications. Plus, says KnowledgeTrack, it distributes content within the context of the portal's organizational hierarchy.

InfoMediary gives customers access to information sources regardless of whether they reside in structured applications, such as CRM or ERP solutions, or in unstructured sources such as proposals, contracts and e-mails. InfoMediary reportedly utilizes the application's object-level interface to access enterprise applications, while preserving their security, management and auditing or recovery mechanisms. Integration source examples include: relational database systems, enterprise applications and business intelligence applications, groupware, document and content management systems.

KnowledgeTrack goes on to say customers use InfoMediary to develop plug-and-play application integrations called InfoPorts. They include the Structured Data InfoPort, which connects the portal to any ODBC-compliant data source; the Enterworks InfoPort, which provides access to more than 75 relational, hierarchical, flat file and network databases; and the MoreOver.com InfoPort, which provides targeted information from news sources, industry sites, and discussion boards. Other InfoPorts include those for SAP, Documentum and Interwoven.