EIP bridges the information gap between an organization and its business channels. Its fully customizable Web-based workspace provides a single point of access to all business critical information and resources-both structured and unstructured, both internal and external. EIP takes advantage of its own technology strengths in connectivity, data integration and reporting, and knowledge management, to integrate demand-driven functionality, creating a complete enterprise portal solution. Users at every level of the organization are empowered with the tools needed to access, extract and analyze data, acting on it within a common interface. With EIP, the enterprise can perform at a higher level of efficiency and accuracy, saving time and money, while gaining a better competitive advantage in the marketplace. EIP links business with their employees, channel partners, and customers, enabling their B2E, B2B and B2C initiatives in today' s dynamic e-world.

EIP delivers a rich set of benefits that offer organizations significant and tangible return on investment. It benefits enterprises by:

• Enhancing Productivity: The customizable Web-based workspace of Hummingbird Portal enables users to tailor pages to suit role-based, personal, or project-driven requirements Reducing Integration Costs — Hummingbird Portal facilitates quick, seamless integration of existing and new business systems, solutions, and custom applications via e-Clip plug-ins
• Speeding "Time-to-Knowledge": Enhanced native search and categorization capabilities enable organizations to provide true “federated search” — providing unmatched search precision across both structured and unstructured enterprise sources in a single query. Users retrieve contextualized result sets in a variety of views (by relevance, source, concept or theme, date, etc.) to minimize time spent identifying the desired information
• Maximizing Security: Hummingbird Portal leverages an advanced security model to ensure the integrity of information, applications, and resources. Support for industry standards, such as LDAP, NTLM, NIS, and NDS, allows organizations to easily carry over existing security profiles and meet even the most strict security requirements of enterprise information portals.
• Simplifying Administration: Hummingbird Portal allows organizations to centralize enterprise-wide administration efforts and streamline software updates and maintenance via a powerful, intuitive Web-based administration environment.