Is a curation effort worth US$100,000 or $10,000,000? What's a reasonable annual spend? In this article we show how to determine this with confidence.

Knowledge management portals have gone in and out of style over the years.  Portals were the rage back in the early 90’s, promising the “integration at the glass” that organizations were looking for in order to make sense of disparate information and to present users with content based on their role and requirements.  Executives could have operational dashboards, marketers could have collaboration tools integrated with analytics, and front line employees could get their work done faster and more efficiently.  The knowledge management portal would provide the outcomes that everyone wanted.