Portal Solutions

A portal represents a Web site that provides a single point of access to applications and information that can be hosted on one or many servers.

Portals are becoming more and more important to companies, who have an ever-increasing need to provide employees, partners, and customers with an integrated view of applications, information, and business processes.

Portals meets these needs, allowing companies to build Web sites that combine functionality and resources into a single interface while enforcing business policies, processes, and security requirements, and providing personalized views of information to end users.

From an end user perspective, a portal is a Web site with pages that are organized by tabs or some other form of navigation. Each page contains a nesting of sub-pages, or one or more portlets—individual windows that display anything from static HTML content to complex Web services. A page can contain multiple portlets, giving users access to different information and tools in a single place. Users can also customize their view of a portal by adding their own pages, adding the portlets they want to it, and changing the look and feel of the interface.

A portal is the best solution when a company has the need for several types of Web presence: an Intranet for its employees, a secure site for interactions with partners, and a public Web site.