Enterprise portal

Enterprise portal

An enterprise portal, also known as an enterprise information portal (EIP) or corporate portal, is a framework for integrating information, people and processes across organizational boundaries. It provides a secure unified access point,[1] often in the form of a web-based user interface, and is designed to aggregate and personalize information through application-specific portlets. One hallmark of enterprise portals is the de-centralized content contribution and content management, which keeps the information always updated.

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History

The mid-1990s saw the advent of public Web portals like AltaVista, AOL, Excite, and Yahoo!. These sites provided a key set of features (e.g., news, e-mail, weather, stock quotes, and search) that were often presented in self-contained boxes or portlets. Before long, enterprises of all sizes began to see a need for a similar starting place for their variety of internal repositories and applications, many of which were migrating to Web-based technologies.[2]

By the late 1990s, software vendors began to produce prepackaged enterprise portals. These software packages would be toolkits for enterprises to quickly develop and deploy their own customized enterprise portal. The first commercial portal software vendor began to appear in 1998. Pioneers in this marketing included "pure play" vendors like Epicentric, Plumtree Software and Viador. The space, however, quickly became crowded by 2002, with the entry into the market of competing product offerings from application server vendors (such as BEA, IBM, Passageways, Oracle Corporation and Sun Microsystems), who saw portals as an opportunity to stave off the commoditization of application server technology, and Business Intelligence vendors such as Liferay portal. Enterprises may choose to develop multiple enterprise portals based on business structure and strategic focus while reusing architectural frameworks, component libraries, or standardized project methods (e.g. B2E, B2C, B2B, B2G, etc.).

In 2003, vendors of Java-based enterprise portals produced a standard known as JSR-168. It was to specify an API for interoperability between enterprise portals and portlets. Software vendors began producing JSR-168 compliant portlets that can be deployed onto any JSR-168 compliant enterprise portal. The second iteration of the standard, JSR-286, is final-released on 12 Jun, 2008.

A study conducted in 2006 by Forrester Research, Inc. showed that 46 percent of large companies used a portal referred to as an employee portal. Employee portals can be described as a specific set of enterprise portals and are used to give an interface for employees to personalized information, resources, applications, and e-commerce options.[3]

Fundamental Features

  • Single Sign-On — enterprise portals can provide single sign-on capabilities between their users and various other systems. This requires a user to authenticate only once.
  • Integration — the connection of functions and data from multiple systems into new components/portlets/web parts with an integrated navigation between these components.
  • Federation — the integration of content provided by other portals, typically through the use of WSRP or similar technologies.
  • Customization — Users can customize the look and feel of their environment. Customers who are using EIPs can edit and design their own web sites which are full of their own personality and own style; they can also choose the specific content and services they prefer. Also refers to the ability to prioritize most appropriate content based on attributes of the user and metadata of the available content.
  • Personalization — Personalization is more about matching content with the user. Based on a user profile, personalization uses rules to match the "services", or content, to the specific user. To some degree, you can think of the two like this: customization is in hands of the end user, personalization is not. Of course actual personalization is often based on your role or job function within the portal context.
  • Access Control — the ability for portal to limit specific types of content and services users have access to. For example, a company's proprietary information can be entitled for only company employee access. This access rights may be provided by a portal administrator or by a provisioning process. Access control lists manage the mapping between portal content and services over the portal user base.
  • Enterprise Search — search enterprise content using enterprise search

Common Applications

Enterprise portal vendors

Vendor Product Name Technology License Portlet API
LG CNS Co., Ltd. iKEP Portal & Collaboration 4.0 Java EE Proprietary JSR-168, JSR-286, WSRP
Apache Software Foundation Jetspeed 2.2.0 Java EE Apache License v2.0 JSR-286
ATG ATG Portal Java EE Proprietary JSR-168
Ascensio System SIA TeamLab ASP.NET GPL version 3
SISEG Saman Portal PHP Proprietary WSRP
Backbase Backbase Portal Software Java EE, .NET Proprietary Widgets / WOA
Bitrix Bitrix Intranet PHP Proprietary
Broadvision Broadvision Portal 8.2 Java EE Proprietary JSR-168
Bluenog Bluenog ICE 4.5 Java EE Proprietary JSR-168
Edge Technologies enPortal Java EE Proprietary Proprietary and Java API
Elcom Technology CommunityManager.NET .NET Proprietary unknown
eXo eXo Portal 2.5 Java EE Affero General Public License JSR-286
eXo eXo Platform 3 Java EE Proprietary JSR-286
JBoss and eXo GateIn Portal 3 Java EE LGPL JSR-286
Hippo Hippo portal Java EE Open Source and Proprietary Licenses JSR-286
Fasihi GmbH FEP Java EE Proprietary Licenses JSR-286
IBM WebSphere Portal 7.0 Java EE Proprietary JSR-286, WSRP
Interwoven TeamPortal Java EE Proprietary JSR-168
Lumis - Brazilian Company Lumis Portal Suite 5.0 Java EE Proprietary JSR-286
JBoss JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 5.1 Java EE LGPL JSR-286, WSRP
Larsen & Toubro IntraNet ASP.NET Proprietary unknown
Liferay Liferay Portal 6.0 Java EE LGPL and Proprietary Licenses JSR-168, JSR-286
ECPortal ECPortal 10.0.2 Java EE Proprietary JSR-286
Localtoolbox Corp. Localtoolbox Portal 4.2 PHP Proprietary Unknown
MetaQuotes Software Corp. TeamWox Groupware C++ Proprietary
Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2010 ASP.NET Proprietary WSRP
Open Text Corporation Vignette Portal 8.0 Java EE Proprietary JSR-286
Oracle Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g Java EE Proprietary JSR-168, JSR-286, WSRP
Oracle (BEA Systems) Oracle WebLogic Portal 10g Java EE Proprietary JSR-168, JSR-286
Oracle (BEA Systems) Oracle WebCenter Interaction 10g Java EE/ASP.NET Proprietary JSR-168
Oracle Oracle IAS Portal 10g Java EE Proprietary JSR-168
Orchid Software Orchidnet ASP Proprietary Proprietary
Regroup.com Regroup Ruby Proprietary
Saltware Co., Ltd. enView Portal 3.2 Java EE Proprietary JSR-168, WSRP
Samsung SDS ACUBE Portal 5.0 Java EE Proprietary JSR-168
SAP AG SAP NetWeaver 7.0 Java EE Proprietary JSR-168
SORCE SORCE V9 ASP.NET Proprietary unknown
Sun Microsystems Sun Java System Portal Server 7.2 Java EE Open Source, licensing & support plans JSR-286
Sun Microsystems Sun GlassFish Web Space Server 10.0 Java EE Open Source, licensing & support plans JSR-286
Synacor Synacor Portal and Synapps PHP Proprietary Proprietary
The Media Shoppe tmsEKP 1.52 Java EE Proprietary unknown
Tibco Software PortalBuilder 5.2 Java EE Proprietary JSR-168
TmaxSoft ProPortal 4.0 Java EE Proprietary JSR-168
Union Square Software Workspace ix ASP.NET Proprietary unknown
United Planet GmbH Intrexx Professional & Intrexx Compact (Version: 5.1) Java EE Proprietary unknown
Tzente jAPS 2.0 Platform Java EE GPL version 2 Showlet
Jasig uPortal Java EE Apache License v2.0 JSR-168, JSR-286
Verax Systems Verax APINI Java EE Proprietary unknown
Nicolas Viel Open Portal Foundation (formerly Viking Portal Foundation) ASP.NET GPL version 2 unknown
SX Team Ajax Portal 1.0.4 Java EE, ASP.NET and PHP Proprietary and Apache License v2.0 JSR-286, Porjax v1.0, Mashup(WOA)

See also

References

  1. ^ Boye, Janus (2005-01-18). "Portal Software: Passing Fad or Real Value?". CMS Watch. http://www.cmswatch.com/Feature/120-Case-Against-Portals. 
  2. ^ Knorr, Eric (2004-01-09). "The new enterprise portal". InfoWorld. http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/01/09/02FEportal_1.html. 
  3. ^ Urbach, Nils (2009-11-19). "An empirical investigation of employee portal success". Elsevier. 

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