What is a corporate portal ?
A Corporate Portal is basically a secured website used by employees, manufacturers, alumni and even customers. The portal is the perfect startingpoint for everyday tasks that usually would consist of using many different types and sources of information and tools. By gathering all necessary information and tools in one environement, users save huge amounts of time.
Companies not only save time through their users, IT management costs and the TCO (total cost of ownership) can be much lower. Read more about ROI and portals
A typical portal can consist of different tools and applicatiions:
- intranet-tools
- Powerful (document) search tools
- a Content Management System (CMS),
- Customer Relationship Management (CRM),
- E-learning applications
- Digital manuals and protocols
- Collaboration tools (forum, chat, KM)
A successful portal also incorporates existing applications such as legacy software and ERP applications. In fact, a Corporate Portal can web-enable existing applications.
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Also read about:
- Corporate portals: technology and business
- Enterprise2tools.com
- Delivering Enterprise Information for corporate portals
- Corporate portal according to wikipedia
- Corporate portals: more than just a pretty face
- Powerpoint KM-implementation
Quote:
Most Employee Portals Don't Need Personalization
by Nate L. Root
Modern portal server software gives developers two different methods of tailoring site content to meet individual users' needs: personalization and customization. Both features have enjoyed success on consumer-facing eCommerce sites, so buyers often assume they're equally well-suited for employee-facing portals. In reality, high setup and maintenance costs mean that most enterprises should put firm limits on customization and keep personalization out of their employee portals altogether.
A portal is a website that offers a variety of resources and services, such as email, forums, search engines, etc. Yahoo!, AOL, and MSN.com are some of the largest publicly-accessible portals.