2. What is PORTAL
“One specially designed Web page at a
website which brings information together
from diverse sources in a uniform way”.
“A portal represents a website that
provides a single point of access to
applications and information”.
“A portal is a unified gateway to several
dynamic information sources”.
3. FEATURES
Each information source gets its
dedicated area on the page for
displaying information- a portlet
Variants of portals
-Mash up (web application hybrid)
-intranet “dash boards”(for
executives and managers)
4. FEATURES
The extent to which content displayed in
a uniform way depend on
-intended user
-purpose
-diversity of the content
Portal may use a search engine API to
permit users to search intranet content.
8. HORIZONTAL PORTAL
Platform to several
companies in the same economic
sector or to the same type of
manufacturers or distributers.
9. VERTICAL PORTAL
Specialized entry point to a specific market or
industry niche, subject area or interest
Vertical Information Portals (VIPs) provide;
- news
- editorial content
- digital publications
- e-commerce capabilities
Dynamic multimedia applications;
- social networking
- video posting
- blogging
10. TYPES
1. Personal portals
2. Government web portals
3. Cultural portals
4. Corporate web portals
5. Stock portals
6. Search portals
7. Tender portals
8. Hosted web portals
9. Domain-specific portals
11. PERSONAL PORTALS
Web page at a website on the World Wide
Web or local HTML home page including
Javascript
Typically provides personalized
capabilities to its visitors or its local user
and the pathway to other content
12. PERSONAL PORTALS
Designed to use distributed applications,different
numbers and types of middleware and hardware
Provide services from a number of different
sources and may run on a non-standard local web
browser
Eg :
contents presented on PCs, PDAs and
cell phones
13. GOVERNMENT WEB PORTALS
Included primary portals to the governments
and portals developed for specific audiences
Eg:
• australia.gov.au
• india.gov.in
• National Resource Directory
• saudi.gov.sa
14. CULTURAL PORTALS
Aggregate digitized cultural collections
of galleries, libraries, archives and
museums
Provide a point of access to invisible
web cultural content that may not be
indexed by standard search engines
15. CULTURAL PORTALS
Usually based around a specific national or
regional groupings of institutions
E.g.:
-Digital NZ
-Europeana
-Trove
16. CORPORATE WEB PORTALS
Common during 1990s
Include workflow management
,collaboration between work groups, and
policy-managed content publication
17. CORPORATE WEB PORTALS
Allow internal and external access to
specific corporate information using
secured authentication or single sign-on
Offers customers and employees self -
service opportunities
18. STOCK PORTALS
Known as stock share-portals,stock
market portals or stock exchange
portals
Web-based applications that facilitates
informing the share-holders with
substantial online data such as the
latest price,ask/bids , the latest
news,reports and announcements
19. SEARCH PORTALS
Aggregate results from several search
engines into one page
Popular search engines are
- Google
- MSN
- Yahoo!
- AOL
20. TENDER PORTALS
Gateway for government suppliers to bid on
providing goods and services
Allow users to search, modify, submit, review and
archive data in order to provide a complete online
tendering process
21. TENDER PORTALS
Online tendering involves
- Receive notification of the
tenders
- Receive tender documents
online
- Fill out the forms online
- Submit proposals and
documents
- Submit bids
22. HOSTED WEB PORTALS
A tool for publishing information and
presenting correlated data from
distributed databases
Include hosted databases,document
management,e-mail, discussion forums
23. HOSTED WEB PORTALS
Automatically personalize the content
generated from hosted web portal
modules to provide a personalized
experience to their users
E.g.:
Hyperoffice.com
Internetportal.com
24. DOMAIN SPECIFIC PORTALS
Specific to the particular domain
,offering access to related companies
and services
e.g..:
- growth in property portals
- clinical trial specific portal
25. CONCLUSION
Portals are the gateway to
the information. The main concept is to
present the user with a single web page
that brings together or aggregates
content from a number of other systems
or servers. Portal metaphors are widely
used by public library sites for borrowers
for using a login as users and by
university intranets for students and for
faculty.