Portal Development
A web portal would be referred to as a website with lots of pages, resources and features (real time chat, voting polls, message board, rating tools, discussion forums, videos and Image gallery, blog community and others) to make it easier for customers to find all related information at one place. Initially only search engines were referred to as web portals however with the advancement in technology we see that more and more industries are coming up with web portals to cater to their business objectives as well as to give something more to customers. Exhaustively a web portal is a browser based application allowing companies to efficiently merge business processes within and across the departments by combining access to organized and unorganized data.
There are some functions and features that a portal should have. These include:
Allowing the different information and service providing departments to update their own information.
Present the information and services that a user would need according to this profile.
Present the information and services that a user would need according to this profile.
Set up things from the users’ perspective.
Allowing for a single sign-on feature for the users.