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corporate portal

An internal website (intranet) that publishes proprietary company information to employees and also provides links to selected public and private websites (suppliers, vendors, etc.). A corporate portal may include a search engine for internal documents and possibly allow departments to customize their own pages. See intranet, portal, vertical portal, business intelligence portal and personalization.


Portal Software
Products such as MyEureka provided out-of-the-box portal software that could be customized. This example is a page that delivered news and links to pages and sites of personal interest. (Screenshot courtesy of Information Advantage, Inc.) See MyEureka.
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With its geographical distribution, a high-performance corporate portal with a single sign-on is essential to the business running smoothly," said Erik Hansen, president of EMEA, TIBCO Software Inc.
* Having had no resources budgeted to develop or maintain the enterprise's corporate portal, the individual portals quickly begin to run down.
This solution enables organizations to augment their corporate portals with a full suite of collaboration and knowledge management capabilities quickly, seamlessly, and cost effectively.
The benefits of deploying a corporate portal are well-documented: access to applications and content is centralised, so users do not spend hours searching for information; the management of disparate applications can be centralised; and by allowing users to access 'self-service' applications in areas such as human resources and procurement, organisations spend less time on manual processing tasks.
Thinking of the corporate portal as a contributive interface might seem odd at first.
Syndication technology also lets users distribute resources from a corporate portal to any Web site, including intranets.
OutlookSoft EAP also provides many features of a corporate portal, including access to multiple internal and external data stores, but with faster implementation and far lower cost.
In order to capitalize on the momentum in cyberspace, management decided to focus its attention on the most promising possibilities of E-commerce, namely: communicating electronically with buyers and suppliers and offering superior customer service over the Internet by means of a dynamic corporate portal.
A corporate portal is a new tool that compiles a wide variety of information and applications together on one Web site for an enterprise's customers, employees, and partners.
At Philips Lighting Canada beta testing for the design and implementation of the division's corporate portal is underway with SurfMap's Portal Author, an authoring tool that allows a company to easily add and organize information and transform its intranet into a corporate portal.
Ixos aims to make the technology available as a service within a corporate portal to be hosted through application service providers.
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