According to IBM, "portals are the next-generation desktop." Portals are a
single point of access to information for users and can provide either
various types of information (horizontal portals) or detailed information on
a single topic (a vertical portal). Yahoo, for example, is a horizontal
portal, providing information on multiple topics. IBM has introduced
WebSphere Portal Server as a foundation on which to build an enterprise-wide
framework and allow services or extensions to be plugged into the Portal
Server with a minimum of difficulty.
Portal provides a variety of features:
Integration with various enterprise-wide applications The ability to allow
access to various services as portlet applications Personalization and
profile management The ability to publish and... (more)
Most developers would agree that software development is not as daunting a
task as is efficient software development. We have seen teams that can design
and develop software - and with automated development tools, IDEs as they are
called, the software development process has become a lot easier. But while
an architect can always come up with a design and a development team can
write the ... (more)