Plumtree's internationalized portal platform will allow BT Ignite to seamlessly share resources across continents. An internationalized portal architecture like Plumtree's creates the kind of team atmosphere you see around the water cooler or the coffee machine for employees thousands of miles away from each other. We see this as a requirement for global corporations that want to deploy a simple Web platform at the center of their business. Internationalizing a corporate portal requires the ability to integrate content and applications that use other languages, in addition to localizing the user interface. Individual users can choose language, time zone and character set as easily as they select page layout and colors.
Online documentation is also available in all eight languages.
With this release, the Plumtree Corporate Portal can index, categorize, publish and search content in eight languages within the Document Directory. Plumtree Portal Gadgets, plug-in portal components that deliver key services from enterprise applications, have also been internationalized as part of this release. Plumtree gadgets bundled with the Plumtree Corporate Portal, such as the Plumtree Collaboration Services Gadgets, are currently available in all eight languages. The international version of the product also includes the technologies first introduced last October with the original release of the Plumtree Corporate Portal 4.0, with a distributed administration model that allows people from all over the world to contribute resources to the portal in an organized, secure way, and an Internet-based architecture for integrating application services from different networks via the Internet, avoiding the need for a global private network to connect applications. Plumtree believes that a corporate portal is the foundation technology for solving this problem, allowing these organizations to work together and share information more easily and completely than ever before.