Carol Jones

When companies deploy portals, they are seeking tangible business and technical benefits: revenue increases or operational cost reduction, better security, reduced training costs, integration and reuse of existing Web applications, plus greater employee productivity and increased collaboration. Portals deliver these benefits by providing a single access point to applications, consistent operational infrastructure, personalized access to relevant information, single sign-on, common presentation and a consistent user interface, and multidevice access. A typical enterprise portal presents and unifies information from various sources such as productivity applications, databases, transaction systems, syndicated content providers, and existing Web sites. The portal combines independent, small applications into complex pages and presents them in a compact, consistent form.... (more)