Mongoose Technology Ships Mongoose PortalStudio Enterprise Edition

Mongoose Technology Ships Mongoose PortalStudio 
Enterprise Edition and Sets the Benchmark for New Feature Requirement — Portal 
Lifecycle Management

San Francisco, Jan. 22, 2001 - Houston-based Mongoose 
Technology, Inc. announced the general availability of Mongoose PortalStudio™ 
Enterprise Edition, a comprehensive portal authoring environment and portal 
framework, at the DCI Corporate and e-Business Portals Conference held here 
today.  Mongoose PortalStudio Enterprise Edition enables organizations to 
Design, Assemble, Deploy, and Manage enterprise portals within a single 
environment and, according to Delphi Group, sets the benchmark for an important 
new feature requirement called Portal Lifecycle Management.  Unlike current 
generation portal products and applications, Mongoose’s Portal Lifecycle 
Management capabilities give organizations a way to reduce their portal 
lifecycle and maintenance costs, and ultimately secure a faster return on 
investment.

According to Delphi Group, first-generation portal development 
environments evolved from content management or other origins and were never 
intended for the diversity of object types that comprise today’s enterprise 
portals. Organizations need a development environment designed with an 
application orientation, rather than a content-centric perspective.  This 
next-generation development environment must offer the ability to manage portals 
at the component level and across the entire application lifecycle.

"When addressed at the outset of a portal deployment project, 
the management of maintenance costs offers one of the most promising 
opportunities to realize faster return on investment," said Nathaniel Palmer, 
Chief Analyst of Delphi Group.  "Mongoose Technology's PortalStudio has 
distinguished itself through a unique combination of Portal Lifecycle Management 
capabilities that address this critical new functional requirement for portal 
software."

"Portal Lifecycle Management is the key to developing 
cost-effective enterprise portals.  Without it companies are finding it 
difficult to manage the increasing complexity of their portal implementations 
and are therefore realizing minimum value," said Lionel Hanley, Vice President 
of Marketing for Mongoose Technology, Inc.  "Mongoose’s founders helped set 
the benchmark for today’s widely adopted enterprise software development 
practices.  And, we’re looking to carry over these same time-proven 
principles to portal development."

Mongoose PortalStudio Enterprise 
Edition

Mongoose is the first company to deliver a Portal Lifecycle 
Management product that includes both an Integrated Development Environment 
(IDE) and a robust XML and J2EE ™ (Java 2 Enterprise Edition)-based Portal 
Server.  Mongoose PortalStudio Enterprise Edition delivers all of the tools 
needed to Design, Assemble, Deploy, and Manage (altogether the Portal Lifecycle) 
a next-generation enterprise portal. PortalStudio Enterprise Edition 
provides:

  
• PortalStudio 
  Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

  
This environment offers portal architects an integrated 
  approach to portal lifecycle management.  It facilitates the rapid 
  deployment and modification of portals through a point-and-click process of 
  assembling graphical display components with predefined context rules, 
  business logic, and data connectors.  It also offers visual validation of 
  the portal’s design.  For simplicity users can also create portal views 
  by assembling elements from the PortalStudio Libraries as well as 
  incorporating static content from Microsoft FrontPage® or Macromedia 
  Dreamweaver®.

  
 

  
• Iterative Development Process

  
PortalStudio’s environment enables both components and the 
  portals they are used in to be managed across overlapping, iterative 
  lifecycles. Individual components may be deployed and modified without 
  conflicting with other portal elements, simplifying and reducing portal 
  maintenance.

  
 

  
• Component-Level Management

  
PortalStudio allows portal software to be managed as 
  individual components, encapsulating both content and context within each 
  element.  This allows software components to be defined outside of the 
  portal environment then assembled within the visual development 
  environment.

  
 

  
• Separation of Data Access, Application, and Presentation 
  Logic

  
PortalStudio allows all components of the portal to be 
  defined separately from how they are displayed and connected.  This 
  3-tiered architecture enables a high degree of personalization, as well as 
  optimal leverage and flexibility of development platforms.  For example, 
  a portal can be developed and tested with Mongoose PortalStudio on Windows NT, 
  then deployed on a UNIX platform and viewed in a browser, Palm VII, or mobile 
  device. Without recoding, the user is presented a portal view based on the 
  user role or display device. 

  
 

  
• Library Services

  
PortalStudio provides role-based access to portal 
  components. Based on access privileges users may alternatively be able to 
  modify a component, make a copy, or just add it to a portal.  This 
  maintains the integrity of software assets without introducing the complexity 
  of a code management system. Mongoose offers four libraries.  They 
  include:

  
 

  
WebCanvas™ Library – This Library allows users to select a 
  WebCanvas portal template layout or create a new one.  Users can embed 
  their WebCanvas in an existing portal or create an entirely new enterprise 
  portal.

  
 

  
WebComponent™ Library – Users can assemble WebComponents 
  onto the WebCanvas. This library includes popular Tree, Table, Minibrowser, 
  and XML Rendering WebComponents.  Users can also leverage the Mongoose 
  WebComponent Wizard and PortalStudio APIs to design their own 
  WebComponents.  A growing number of commercial and open-source 
  WebComponents are also available.

  
 

  
WebConnector™ Library – Users can attach WebConnectors to 
  convert structured and unstructured data into XML and/or J2EE connector 
  standards.  This library includes JDBC and XML WebConnectors.  Users 
  can also leverage the Mongoose WebConnector Wizard and PortalStudio APIs to 
  design their own WebConnectors.

  
 

  
WebSkin™ Library – Users can apply a personalized look and 
  feel to their portal with a WebSkin from the library or they can design their 
  own.

  
 

  
• Mongoose PortalStudio Server

  
The PortalStudio Server combines an XML-based portal server 
  with B2B integration services on an open J2EE-compliant platform. Portal 
  services include customization, personalization, and account/role maintenance; 
  B2B integration services include XML-based merging, aggregation, and 
  transformation as well as querying and 
event-notification.

MySoftwarePartner Takes Mongoose PortalStudio to Fortune 
1000
As a leading developer of B2B, commerce solutions for companies, 
such as Luxottica Group (parent group of LensCrafters), NationsBank, and Nortel 
Networks, MySoftwarePartner (www.mysoftwarepartner.com) played a significant 
role in driving the requirements for Mongoose PortalStudio Enterprise 
Edition.  MySoftwarePartner was also Mongoose's first implementation 
partner and immediately realized the value of Mongoose's approach to Portal 
Lifecycle Management. 

"We chose Mongoose PortalStudio for our large-scale portal 
development and
implementation projects because it's the only tool out there 
that addresses the key to success – Portal Lifecycle Management," said Brian 
Fox, Vice President of MySoftwarePartner.  "PortalStudio gives us the 
process and tools necessary to secure immediate results, including reducing 
portal maintenance costs."

 

Mongoose PortalStudio Pricing

Mongoose PortalStudio Enterprise Edition pricing for Windows NT® starts at 
$4,000. Mongoose PortalStudio Server pricing starts at $25,000 for up to 20 
concurrent users.

About Mongoose Technology
Mongoose Technology, Inc. 
(http://www.mongoosetech.com/) is a premier provider of Portal Lifecycle 
Management products. The company's products include the Mongoose PortalStudio™ 
visual portal authoring environment for the rapid development of J2EE™-based 
eBusiness Portals; and the Mongoose PortalStudio™ Server, which combines an 
XML-based portal server with B2B integration services.  The company is 
headquartered in Houston, Texas, and was founded in 1999.  Mongoose 
Technology, Inc. is located at 17225 El Camino Real, Ste. 340, Houston, Texas 
77058; phone, 281/461-0099; fax, 281/461-0055.

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