corporate portal

An internal website (intranet) that provides proprietary, enterprise-wide information to company employees as well as access to selected public websites and vertical-market websites (suppliers, vendors, etc.). It includes a search engine for internal documents as well as the ability to customize the portal page for different user groups and individuals. It is the internal equivalent of the general-purpose portal on the Web.

There are several comprehensive enterprise information portal (EIP) software packages, including BEA WebLogic Portal (www.bea.com), ATG Portal (www.atg.com), Sybase Enterprise Portal (www.sybase.com), CleverPath Portal (www.ca.com) and Vignette Application Portal (www.vignette.com). See 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. (Screen shot courtesy of Information Advantage, Inc.) See MyEureka.