Epicentric, Inc., was an
enterprise software company and a provider of enterprise portal solutions for Global 2000 companies. Made popular by custom portal sites like
My Yahoo!, enterprise portals enabled businesses (primarily enterprise companies) to deliver integrated
Web services to their customers (
Internet), partners (
Extranet) and employees (
Intranet). The company was founded in 1998 by
Wired.com executive
Ed Anuff and
TouchWave executive
Oliver Muoto, both startup veterans, in
San Francisco, California. The company had over 300 employees and 350 Global 2000 customers before it was acquired by
Vignette (VIGN) in December 2002.