Sun has received this year's RealWare award for the design and deployment of AXA Financial's portal platform, further underscoring Sun's success in the portal marketplace. A highly competitive field of entries was evaluated for this year's award and presented on June 24, 2002, by CMP Media's Intelligent Enterprise and Transform magazines by the RealWare Award's panel of independent experts, including leading analysts, consultants and editors.

This award is the latest addition to the SunTM ONE Portal Server (formerly iPlanetTM Portal Server) and its significant industry recognition and adoption. The Sun ONE Portal Server was ranked number one in portal marketshare by The Radicati Group ("Enterprise Portals Market Trends 2002-2006") for three consecutive years and positioned in the leader quadrant in Gartner's Portal Product Magic Quadrant ("Big Change Evident in 2H02 Horizontal Portal Product MQ," May, 2002) for two consecutive years with more than 400 customers worldwide.

To gain a competitive advantage, AXA Financial designed, implemented and deployed a portal infrastructure based on the Sun ONE Portal Server to cost-effectively deliver the differentiating services that its customers, employees and business partners needed. AXA Financial initiated its multiportal initiative in 1999 to expand and enhance the relationships between its sales associates and their clients.

In January, 2001 AXA launched AXAonline.com, a Web site powered by the Sun ONE Portal Server. Targeted to clients and potential clients, the portal enables AXA Financial to deliver real-time stock quotes to site visitors, allows existing clients to access account information and third-party news feeds, and provides access to a learning library stocked with financial tools and resources. Clients can view their portfolios online and perform transactions in a secure environment, access information related to financial, retirement and estate planning; college funding; asset allocation; annuities; life insurance and mutual funds; general securities; and managed money programs. The first portal also targets AXA Advisors, LLC, the retail sales force of financial professionals that provide financial services to their clients.

With the success of AXAonline.com, AXA Financial realized that another portal would be ideal for AXA Distributors, its wholesale distribution channel. By repurposing 25 percent of the content of the first portal, AXA was able to reduce the deployment time of the second portal by 60 percent (seven weeks versus the five months it took to deploy the first portal). AXA Financial was then able to devote the bulk of its time to developing the remaining 75 percent of the portal's content. The AXAdistributors.com portal was launched in August 2001 and is currently being rolled out to a wider community.

AXA Financial chose the Sun ONE Portal Server as its front-end because of three differentiating factors: high reusability, smooth integration with existing applications, and the reliability of Sun's service and support network. AXA Financial's Sun solution includes the SunTM ONE Directory Server (formerly iPlanetTM Directory Server), the Sun ONE Portal Server and the SunTM ONE Web Server (formerly iPlanetTM Web Server) in the SolarisTM Operating Environment (Solaris OE). [...read more...]

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