In its Portal One product, Verity has created a portal application that rises to this challenge, and gives e-business managers a functionality set that spans from the portal glass straight back into the enterprise's information asset base. For organizations struggling with infoglut, solutions like Verity's can help bring more order and personalization to their portal initiatives. Their strength historically is in search and retrieval. That, coupled with their new capabilities for organizing information automatically, workflow management, and access control make this a strong product in the web content marketplace. The new Verity product should help companies organize and deliver information effectively.
Verity is well positioned to compete.
Technologies and solutions that enable relevance to be derived securely from various content sources in an automated fashion will form the basis of most successful portals, be they internal or externally focused. Its publications and online services are used by government, lobbyists, the media, academics and others who seek to influence or monitor activity on Capitol Hill. The online system allows users to search CQ publications interactively or receive e-mail notifications and abstracts of documents that match their specific interests. With Verity, these alerts can be sent out in real time as information changes. This is critical in an environment where CQ's breaking news often influences its clients' strategic and tactical decision making.