What is an Enterprise Portal?

 “Portal” is a term that is overloaded with definitions, but in simple terms, the purpose of a portal is to provide:

 
“A single point of access for information, data, applications, and processes.”
 
Portal technology is typically used to integrate information, people, and processes securely into a single location (user interface). For example, portals could provide customer access to a powerful shipping application on your website, or provide customer or employee self-service interfaces that pull different activities and applications together into a single environment.
 
To break it down a bit further, enterprise portals typically provide the following services:
 
  • Content and application aggregation: Bringing common elements together into a larger whole 
  • Content and application integration: Bringing disparate elements together into a larger whole 
  • User interface unification: Providing a more consistent user experience across services 
  • Web application development platform unification: Consolidating and simplifying application development 
  • Content and service personalization or segmentation: Providing a more relevant user experience 

 


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