Portal Server software can be defined as a software application which attempts to organize and distribute information within and outside of an enterprise over the Internet
 

The target audience for this report includes corporate IT, corporate IT purchasing, IT consulting and vendor product marketing professionals
 

Information contained in this report concerning Portal Server software list pricing, discounting practices and Total Cost of Implementation was obtained through public domain sources, and telephone interviews with the vendors themselves, and with persons familiar with actual Medium Business (defined as organizations with 50-500 PCs) Portal Server software deals, October-December, 2004
 

The vendors taken into consideration are
 

BEA Systems

Documentum

IBM

Microsoft

Oracle

	Plumtree
	SAP
	Sun Microsystems
	Vignette

This report presents list pricing for all Portal Server software (plus for all other software encountered in the case studies) for the 9 vendors taken into consideration, representing over 350 distinct prices, by vendor
 

List pricing includes
 

	Product name
	Whether can be purchased separately
	License type (perpetual or term)
	License unit (Server, Processor, Desktop, etc.)
	Price by unit, or unit range

List pricing also includes detailed analysis of each vendor’s Maintenance/Support and Consulting offering, and pricing
 

This report above all summarizes the essential aspects of 36 case studies of actual medium business implementations of Portal Server software
 

In particular, Average Total Cost of Implementation is analyzed for each vendor, composed of
 

	Average Total License cost
	Average Maintenance/Support cost (for the first year)
	Average Initial Development Internal Human Resources cost
	Average Consulting cost
	Average Training cost
	Average Initial Deployment Internal Human Resources cost

The investigated case studies indicate that Total Cost of Implementation averaged US$ 130,000 per deployed server processor, with Vendor 1 exhibiting the lowest at US$ 31,000, followed by Vendor 2 at US$ 60,000 and Vendor 3 at US$ 80,000, and Vendor 9 by far the highest at US$ 286,000 (View the sample excerpt)
 

And Total Duration of Initial Development & Deployment averaged 1.33 months per deployed server processor, whereas Vendor 1 exhibited by far the shortest at 0.26 months, followed by Vendor 2 at 0.46 and Vendor 3 at 0.67 months, and Vendor 9 was by far the highest at 3.00 months (View the sample excerpt)