March 2008
IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition 8.5
10 Mar 2008: IBM today introduced a new version of its OmniFind enterprise search software designed to help users quickly and easily find, manipulate and share information across their business or organization.

March 2008
Lotus Sametime Named Product of the Year
IBM today announced that its unified communications and collaboration platform, IBM Lotus Sametime, has been named the 2008 North American Enterprise Product of the Year by leading global growth consulting company Frost & Sullivan.

February 2008
Lotus Sametime picked up the best score of the year from Network World in the Best Of The Test Winners report.
Out of the more than 170 tested by members last year, 12 stood out as the best and Sametime the best of the best. These 12 are top in performance, ease of use and feature functionality.

February 2008
Maximising Employee talent and performance with IBM and Portal Partnership
IBM today announced new services to help organizations use collaboration and social networking to maximize employee talent and performance.

March 2008
Visualise_Virtualise_Automate
During our seminar on 19th March in London, we discussed the green agenda and how it impacts energy and space usage. Our speakers also shared thoughts on how to improve operational efficiency.

February 2008
Checking in with Portal Partnership
Portal Partnership are delighted to have recently rolled out a new version of their Resource and Visitor Management System for one the worlds largest re-insurance companies in the City of London.

February 2008
IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.0.1 new features
February 19, 2008: IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.0.1 offer new features including Lotus Notes Widgets and Lotus Domino Web Access Lite mode

February 2008
IBM WebSphere Application Shatters Industry Benchmark
ARMONK, NY - 15 Feb 2008: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that WebSphere Application Server, a key building block for services oriented architecture (SOA), shattered a popular industry benchmark for scalability and performance by more than 33 percent using technology that costs half the price of the competition.

January 2008
IBM Lotus Quickr Update
IBM Lotus Quickr Content Integrator V1.0 lets you bring your diverse content sources into Lotus Quickr places.

January 2008
Lotus Quickr now included with WebSphere Portal Extend
Lotus Quickr is now included with WebSphere Portal Extend as a replacement for Lotus QuickPlace.

January 2008
Portal Partnership in Pole position
Jon Bradshaw was the Portal Partnership Commercial Director until Jan 2007 when he chose to take a 'career break' and rather than surround himself with sunny climates and Pina Colada's, he decided to embark on something slightly more challenging.

January 2008
New! Atlas for IBM Lotus Connections
Atlas for Lotus Connections is a social networking application that allows users to visualize their current network of contacts and see how they can extend that network to tap into valuable resources and trusted experts across an entire organization. By mining information from the different components of Lotus Connections, Atlas compiles and displays information that will help people better understand professional networks and who they can reach out to for information.

January 2008
AMR Research find IBM well ahead doing SOA-related client work
A recent spending survey of companies with active service oriented architecture (SOA) projects conducted by AMR Research shows IBM "is well ahead of its traditional competitors" doing SOA-related client work.

January 2008
Portal Partnership is top of the class
Portal Partnership are pleased to announce that IT Support Staff working within the Faculty of Maths, Computing and Technology at the Open University, have now rolled out their PhD Application System, a new web-based application which allows prospective students around the world to propose topics that they wish to study for their PhD.

November 2007
We played Wembley
Wembley Stadium was the venue for the biggest IBM Collaboration partner event of the year; Portal Partnership’s Collaboration Summit on 6th November 2007. The Royal Suite (behind the Royal Box) was packed with PP and IBM customers as we introduced the Domino 8 family, and showed that Web 2.0 was so much more than a passing fad.