IBM’s leadership of the enterprise portal software market in terms of license and maintenance revenue over the past three years has been due to its ability to successfully sell portal solutions to businesses of all sizes in conjunction with other complementary products, especially those used for collaboration. As part of the IBM Workplace strategy, WebSphere Portal provides key capabilities that appeal to prospects and clients alike that are seeking ways to improve employee effectiveness by taking advantage of role-based composite applications that present content and Web services application functionality to users in the context of the work at hand.