One thing that became immediately evident while preparing this update is the continuing commitment by the content vendors to improve their products for intranets. Content vendors are working at illustrating the benefits of the addition of external content to internal intranet applications. A first thing to note is a change in toolkit terminology.
Integration is also a theme in vendor marketing literature.
Software applications designed specifically to facilitate the integration of external information content into an intranet. Factiva also facilitates the integration of external content from those two information products with content from internal sources.