BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Portal
- a Web site that provides access and links to other sites and pages on the Web. Search engines and directories are the most common portal sites.
Wiktionary Definition for: Portal
- A grandiose and often lavish entrance.
- An entrance, entry point, or means of entry.
- Ex: ''The local library, a portal of knowledge.''
- cattag Internet A website that acts as an entrance to other websites on the Internet.
- anatomy A short vein that carries blood into the liver.
Additional Resources
- Understanding the Requirement for a Portal
- There is no doubt that fuelled by a compelling business need, a portal solution can provide real business advantage. However provisioning a portal when it is a contentmanaged site that is required, will result in the most expensive website or intranet that an organisation can build. What then should those...
- White papers 2006-08-01
- Types of Portal: A Definition
- Portals are not a 'one size fits' all solution. Although the term portal is often treated as synonymous with enterprise information portals there are actually many, different types of portals; each one tailored to meet a specific business need. This paper explores some of the different portal types; providing an...
- White papers 2006-09-11
- A Magic Portal or a Magic Portlet?
- So many movies are based on the concept of a portal; a magical door that transports a person from one world to another. A portal in the technology world is magical too. It provides the end user with a single integrated seamless view of information that behind the scenes is...
- White papers
- Integrating Two-Factor Authentication and Web Access Management With SAP Enterprise Portal to Secure Human Resources Management
- RSA Security helps organizations and individuals confidently protect identities and information access. The company needed to streamline paper processes because all HR processes were initiated by filling out a paper form. The goal was to streamline the process by creating a secure portal that would protect enterprise information, and RSA...
- Case studies 2005-08-01
- Reaching Prevention Professionals: The Mentor Portal - Cost-Benefit Analysis of a Drug Misuse Prevention Portal
- This paper starts with a review of the effectiveness of provision of information via the Internet in order to estimate the extent to which a portal can contribute to better prevention care. On the basis of this review, the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of drug misuse prevention in general are...
- White papers 2002-09-01
- CRM Portals: Get Information To The People Who Need It The Most
- This white paper provides as basic definition of a Portal, and then details the key characteristics of a Customer Relationship Management CRM Portal, a Portal that is a component of a CRM system. Different kinds of CRM Portals are discussed in terms of who uses these portals, Customer, Partners, and...
- White papers 2008-02-15
- A Company Steeped in Tradition
- DaimlerChrysler has engaged in a series of portal projects in order to provide structured access to the huge amount of data and applications available to customers, partners and employees. One of the most successful usage scenarios has developed around the 'Supplier Portal', serving more than 15.000 individuals from around 7000...
- Case studies
- IBM's New Portal Server Embraces 'Composite Applications'
- IBM announced WebSphere Portal Server, a new addition to the WebSphere Portal 6.0 portfolio that gives businesses the ability to deploy so-called "Composite applications." Composite applications - applications that consist of pieces of other applications - are also known as custom applications, portals, Web applications, Web services, or complex applications....
- White papers 2006-08-24
- How to Use Portals as Knowledge-Sharing Mechanism?
- Review of literature on portals, the conceptual view of portal is an software solution sit on corporate infrastructure which including internet, intranet, and extranet, act as a gateway to all unstructured, structured, and collaborative information within organization so that user can easily work on this personalized platform. This paper will...
- White papers 2002-09-11
- Developing a Sales & Marketing Portal
- When most people think of portals, they think of Yahoo! Essentially, a portal is a Web site that serves as a gateway to other information. It’s where people enter to do business with you, whether they are employees, customers or business partners.
- White papers 2002-01-01
- Portal for ECG Test Data Dissemination
- A leading multinational helps drug companies analyze ECG patterns to determine if their drugs have helped patients. These analyses help the client's customers get the required background information that assists in getting approval from the FDA. The company wanted to develop a special portal for providing ECG test data to...
- Case studies
- Developed an E-Business Portal for a Leading Investment Bank
- A global investment management company, with an asset base of over $248 billion composed of mutual funds and other investment vehicles, wished to increase its client focus and continue building relationships with them through e-services. It partnered with Infosys to create a portal to provide self-servicing opportunities for its financial...
- Case studies
- Portals in Libraries: MyUB - UB's Personalized Intranet Portal
- MyUB is a customizable Web portal that delivers personalized, useful and timely information to the University at Buffalo SUNY community. Built in-house on a multi-server Oracle platform, it uses Cold-Fusion, Perl, XML (Extendable Mark-up Language) and RSS Really Simple Syndication to display fine-grained information to the end-user. MyUB provides timely...
- White papers 2004-10-01
- Bayer Business Services: Shared Portal Concept
- Bayer Business Services BBS is the Bayer's Group competence center for IT-based business, administrative and scientific services. The challenge was to simplify the authentication and authorization processes of 'Electronic workplaces' in the Bayer Group worldwide. BBS created a modular web portal architecture with a personalized look & feel. As a...
- Case studies 2006-06-01
- Norton Healthcare: Healthcare Provider Reduces Training Costs, Improves Communication With Portal Solution
- Norton Healthcare grew from a small community hospital in 1886 to become one of Kentucky's largest health care providers. The organization needed an easy-to-use solution in order to share information more effectively and build stronger collaboration among caregivers and administrative employees. Norton hired Quilogy's National Healthcare Practice to develop and...
- Case studies
- Why Naked CRM Systems Don't Work: Maximize CRM Value With an Interactive Sales Portal
- The three strategic challenge scenarios presented in this paper demonstrate how an interactive sales portal can dress a CRM system for successful user adoption. The benefits of high user adoption through an interactive sales portal include maximizing lead generation, building a real-time database with actionable information, and expanding expertise through...
- White papers 2006-08-01
- How to Integrate Enterprise Applications Into Your Portal
- Enterprise portals are specifically designed to be the single source of interaction with corporate information and the focal point for conducting day-to-day business. Portals are also becoming a key component of any Business Process Management BPM, Enterprise Application Integration EAI, and Business Activity Monitoring BAM initiative, as they represent the...
- White papers 2004-12-01
- Successful Supplier Portal in Discrete Manufacturing
- This webcast will explain the implementation of a Supplier Portal in Discrete Manufacturing at its client Mahindra and Mahindra.
- Webcasts
- Allianz Global Investors: Global Financial Services Company Accelerates Services With Enterprise Portal
- With operations in 70 countries and over 1 trillion Euros (U.S. $1.2 trillion) under management, Allianz Global Investors is one of the five largest asset managers in the world. Group subsidiaries needed a powerful yet flexible solution to improve internal communication, accelerate service delivery to clients, and develop a more...
- Case studies
- Return to Learning
- Back in 2003, Marconi employees had lost interest in e-learning. A downturn in the telecoms market meant that training and development had been restricted throughout the company. An online catalogue accessed through the Marconi University portal was available but the usage was steadily decreasing, and was down to less than...
- White papers 2005-03-01
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