VirtualAgility OPS Center Contributes to IBM's Web Portal Success

Report: IBM Worldwide Market Share Leader in Web Portal Software

6,000 Organizations From Public, Private Sectors Rely on IBM Portal Software for Everything From Employee Communications to Web 2.0 Mashups to Saving Lives

Gartner, Inc. has ranked IBM as the worldwide market share leader in the enterprise portal software market based on total software revenue for 2007. The IBM press release describe how the portal software is used for everything from communications, education, health, emergency and municipal services,increasingly with Web 2.0 technologies such as mashups, composite applications and text tagging. The VirtualAgility installation in the Gauteng Provincial Disaster Management Center is one of the examples described in the report:

Additionally, organizations worldwide, like the Gauteng Disaster Management Center in South Africa, are using IBM portal technology behind the scenes to help them manage emergency services. A team in the Gauteng Province, which is made up of Johannesburg and several other cities and municipalities, uses IBM's portal-based disaster and emergency management solution known as Virtual Operation Center, to support its 10 million residents around the clock. "This IBM portal software is absolutely critical because our on-line center is used to protect and save lives," said Colin Deiner of the Gauteng Disaster Management Center.