The key players in the global patient
portal market are Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc.
Over the past three years the
portal market has been consistently peppered by consolidation.
The portal product report states that since the early part of 1998, the
portal market has been turbulent, however many analysts predict the market revenue to reach $14 billion by 2002.
The portal company executive notes that in the long run, as the
portal market evolves, venture capital will not be a guarantee of success.
The TV
portal market is projected to generate $11 billion in revenue over the next five years, and this will represent opportunities for a wide variety of companies.
Hummingbird's plan is to focus on the enterprise information
portal market, which it defines as "web-based software systems that bring together enterprise and e-business information into the right context." Accordingly, it has divided itself into three divisions: Knowledge Portals, Decision Portals and Connectivity Solutions.