ENTERPRISE PORTALS
The technology to watch is being rapidly deployed in the corporate world
Enterprise Portals are rapidly emerging as a major enterprise priority for our customers- quickly becoming the nucleus for the delivery of search, CM (content management), and collaboration, formerly piecemeal technologies that addressed separate needs in the enterprise. New to Enterprise Portals? Take a few moments and you can talk PORTALS with the best of them.
What’s a Portal?
Nearly everyone has been to Yahoo, Lycos, Excite, AOL, or other sites that act as a central repository for information and links. These "gathering place" sites are collectively known as portal sites because they act as a single front-end for the entire Internet. A user enters a portal site and conducts all business: sending e-mail, checking stocks, shopping, chatting, and more. In fact, there are three major types of portals:
Broad portals (also called public portals) are the Yahoos and AOLs of the Web. They are targeted towards a general audience, contain very broad topics, software, and services.
Vertical portals (or narrow portals) take the portal concept and fine tune it to a directed market. The Auto Industry’s B2B marketplace is one example of such a portal – where customers, suppliers share specific information and purchase goods and services.
Enterprise portals do the same thing internally for a company. Imagine a company of employees all conducting their online transactions from the company intranet. The applications most often integrated in the enterprise portal are groupware, document management, CRM and ERP applications, sales and marketing.
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