According to Gartner, enterprise portals are on CIO's lists of top ten technology focus areas. Intranets are very much on the minds of business and government leaders.

As enterprises grow in size and sophistication, their need to manage information internally grows exponentially. Organizational departments and business units can typically span geographic locations, quite often continents, and information is constantly being produced and consumed. To retain competitiveness and drive efficiency its vital these information silos are opened up, allowing rapid and intuitive information discovery, better decision-making and increased productivity.