Development of Interactive Portlet Technology for the Collaborative Enterprise Environment

SplashNote Systems, Inc. is proposing the development of a portlet system for the Air Force Collaborative Enterprise Environment (CEE). While the current implementation of CEE has very powerful collaboration features, the addition of portlets wouldprovide to the current platform the ability 1) to easily create and add ad-hoc interactive functionality to portal pages, and 2) to connect to other data systems in a customizable portal window.The resultant effect of the portlet system is to provide to the CEE a greater degree of flexibility in connecting to and displaying data and information from other back-end applications. And it gives the CEE the ability to address semi-structured orad-hoc processes within the organization. The overall result is a more powerful product that can tackle a greater range of collaborative situations. The benefits to the Air Force are many. Portlets would expand the functionality as well as theversatility of the CEE to address more collaborative situations. Portlets would allow the CEE to become the platform, which aggregates other data systems. Using the portlet builder also cuts the time-to-deployment of new functionality.Similar to the CEE, other collaboration systems and collaboration products in the market place can benefit from addition of the SplashNote portlet system. Furthermore, the concept of portlets can also be applied to other market segments. For example,both public portal sites and enterprise portal software would benefit greatly from a portlet builder system.