Technology Alliance Enables Plumtree’s Customers to Drive Adoption of Plumtree Corporate Portal

BURLINGAME — October 22, 2002 — AtHoc, Inc. today announced the launch of AtHoc™ Active Portal featuring Enterprise Alerts and Portal Toolbar for the Plumtree Corporate Portal. AtHoc’s software brings powerful enterprise alerting capabilities to the Plumtree Corporate Portal, giving customers the ability to notify employees when new events take place even if users are away from the portal environment. As a result of integrating AtHoc Active Portal with Plumtree, joint customers are able to increase the adoption and usage of their portal and maximize the return on their portal investment.

“Enterprise alerts enable greater adoption and usage of the corporate portal,” said Ly K. Tran, vice president of AtHoc. “We are very excited to work with Plumtree to address the growing market need for enterprise alerts for their customers.”

Plumtree customer the United States Geological Survey (USGS) recently deployed the joint AtHoc-Plumtree implementation. Mike Frame, research & development director at the USGS NBII, explains the benefits, “AtHoc’s software is a key driver of adoption and sustained usage of our extranet. AtHoc’s technology, combined with the Plumtree platform, promotes greater collaboration throughout our scientific communities via the portal.”

AtHoc Active Portal allows customers to accelerate adoption and increase usage of their intranets and extranets keeping users continuously connected to the portal through the following:

• Enterprise alerts notify customers when changes occur in role-related content and services. For example, users will be alerted when a new community is available or when new research is posted to their folders.
• Portal Toolbar keeps the portal services top-of-mind by expanding its presence directly onto the desktop through a highly personalized browser toolbar.
• Alerts Publishing and Management system enables the administrator to efficiently aggregate and manage all alerts from portals, business applications and content sources

“The integration of AtHoc’s Enterprise Alerts and Portal Toolbar into the Plumtree platform puts highly personalized services within easy reach, even when users are visiting other sites or working in enterprise applications,” shares Hilary Jules, director of alliances at Plumtree Software. “AtHoc’s software helps keep the Plumtree Corporate Portal at the center of today’s real-time enterprise.”

AtHoc’s Enterprise Alerts and Portal Toolbar are currently available for customers to preview at the Plumtree Gadget Showroom. For the case study and technical information on the joint USGS implementation, please visit the AtHoc resource library.