lecture 5 Enterprise Portal

Enterprise Portal: A concept for website that allows employees and possibly clients, business partners and even the general public to access a company’s information and knowledge base.

Types of portals:
Internal portal: Entry point for employees into the intranet.
Eg; employees can access internal documents through intranet.
External portal: provides gated entry for customers and partners to access the extranet.
Eg; extranet allows customers to place and track orders.

Benefits
Convenient way to access everything needed to get tasks done anytime, anywhere in a secure manner, personalised, relevant, accurate and easy to find what is required.

Features of a portal
It has four basic features which are content aggregation and presentation, application access, search and integration.