Defining portals
Portal is all about bringing the right content and the right tools to the right set of people at the right point of time. It is a webplatform consisting of several pages and subpages, each containing several portlets. These portlets provide functionality like normal web applications would, but they all use one consistent view. This makes it a lot easier for users, because they only need to learn to work with only one system.
A portal brings the desktop-experience to the web. Much like the dashboard in your favourite car, you have all the information you need to know at hand. You don’t want to search these information while your driving. You need to know how the car is doing and some functionality so you enjoy your travel time. While driving yours, you are not interesting in the statistics of someone else’s car.
Using portals can be very powerfull for companies integration the applications they have. And adding new stuff should be quite simple. Remember, your company is only as strong as the ability it has to handle new business needs as quickly as possible.
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