Enterprise Portals

What is an Enterprise portal?

Enterprise Portal is the primary system of access to services, tools, information and data via a web browser interface.

It is a single gateway for users, such as employees, customers and company’s partners to log into, retrieve information and use services and resources on offer.

Features of portals are:

• Content management - built-in or integrated third party content management.
  
• Integration - portal page can also display one or more portlets which are run by web applications that are able to access various backends and web services
  
• Collaboration - the ability for users to communicate through chat, messaging, forums and/or blogs as well.
  
• Personalization - in some portals users are able to change appearance, add/remove pages and decide what portlets are displayed on a page.
  
• Entitlement - the ability for portal administrators to limit portlets, content and services users have access to.
  
• Single Sign On - users authentication is propagated from their workstations to portal
  
• Self Service - users are able to keep their profile up to date