XML Information Portals

Aggregate information from multiple sources and deliver from a single source, tailored to users' requirements

Enterprise Information Portals provide a single gateway to diverse information, business processes and applications, with secure access control, personalized to a user's needs and preferences.
Enterprise Portal technologies provide unique opportunities for sharing information throughout an organization. Corporate portals ideally serve three types of content:

1. Applications
2. Information (internal and external)
3. Expertise (who knows what).

Beyond the obvious benefit of deploying a unified user interface, the portal should support extended process and data structures. In this way, a portal can present fully defined business process steps for each user; context management, a component of knowledge management; and common administration and management.

Features of XML Information Portals include:

• Information/Content aggregation, management, and personalization
• Access Control and Security
• User Profiles and Preferences
• Categorization and classification
• Meta Search and Retrieval
• Multi-channel Delivery
• Basic repository services - a cache for content
• Contribution and collaboration

Some of the benefits that portal solutions can bring to your organization are:

• Easy deployment and maintenance of web-based applications
• Fast access to information and knowledge
• A single point of entry from inside and outside the organization
• Aggregation of disparate information sources
• Improved collaboration and communication
• Closer links between staff, customers, suppliers and partners