Bluenog announced that MultiPlan has chosen Bluenog Rich Portal as its portal platform. Bluenog Rich Portal brings open source to enterprise IT shops in an affordable way. The platform is built on top of open source projects and Web 2.0 standards and integrates with today's leading commercial enterprise software vendors.

Bluenog Rich Portal is a JSR-168 compliant portal framework that supports portlet development in a variety of technologies such as Spring WebFlow, Spring MVC, Adobe Flex, Struts as well as PHP and PERL. The portal framework offers full support for entitlements, personalization as well as integrating to enterprise security. Bluenog Rich Portal allows customers to build scalable Web 2.0 applications leveraging technologies such as Flex and AJAX.

"We looked at a variety of solutions, both commercial and open source to solve our enterprise portal needs, and we ultimately decided that open source was the way to go," stated Keith Bush, VP of IT at MultiPlan. "Once we had made that decision, it was crucial to find a vendor that could handle our environment and the software infrastructure as well as integrate with our existing legacy and future planned growth. Bluenog provides all of this in a pre-integrated and supported manner."

"We are pleased to add MultiPlan to our family of Bluenog customers and look forward to working with them to build the next generation of MultiPlan's web-facing services," said Suresh Kuppusamy, Bluenog's CEO. "MultiPlan is one of many customers that realizes the benefits of integrating both open source and commercial technologies."

MultiPlan will also be leveraging Bluenog Solutions to provide architectural, design and local expertise to support the project. Bluenog Solutions provides a full suite of design and implementation services to support customer's application infrastructure lifecycle needs.