HP makes corporations Yahoo!

Yahoo! is dressed up and ready to go to work. The Internet portal, which claims that 60% of its 80 million users have a My Yahoo! personal portal on their office computer desktops, will integrate a new Corporate My Yahoo! into intranets and enterprise networks set up by Hewlett-Packard's Internet business unit. The product will give workers access to My Yahoo!'s customized news and services and information that most corporations normally keep on their private intranets via systems integrated by HP.

"The main objective is the same as that for our 80 million customers today, which is to provide a complete solution for information management on the desktop," said Jeff Mallett, president and chief operating officer of Yahoo!.

Under the new setup, a sales rep on the road might log onto a corporate intranet and access personalized Web news and calendar functions from My Yahoo!, as well as supply-chain applications from a third-party provider and travel booking or 401(k) plan information from corporate headquarters.

HP will help clients deploy and integrate these services, including personalizing Corporate My Yahoo! with other technologies from HP and its application partners. "We've made a lot of announcements recently about plans to create and deploy e-services," said Joseph Beyers, vice president and general manager of the company's Internet business unit. "This is the start of a major campaign to help companies access these services."

HP provides integration services to most of the Fortune 1000, said Roberto Medrano, general manager for e-services at HP.

Corporate My Yahoo! will be built around a pay-as-you-go licensing model. Prices for the service were not disclosed. HP will be Corporate My Yahoo!'s primary integrator, but others will participate, too, Mallett said. Last May, Yahoo! announced a similar arrangement with Tibco Software.