Sunday, June 26
What Is an Enterprise Portal?
While some argue that the portal is merely a website, others argue that it is more than that. An enterprise portal can be viewed as a means by which an organization tries to web-enable its applications, services, and information to its internal employees as well as its external partners. So, to that extent, enterprise portal software should be able to solve some of the complex challenges that arise out of web-enabling systems. To mention just a few examples, the problems could be associated to that of integrating the applications; providing a single sign-on to the end users so that they do not have to remember passwords for different backend applications; providing only the right information to the right user using authentication and authorization methods; ensuring application and network security; increasing usability by using techniques such as role-based personalization; providing content management features; and using KM functionality to integrate unstructured content such as file systems, database
systems, and websites.
INFO Good enterprise portal software should solve the challenges arising out of web-enabling systems and applications.
As you can see, a portal is a website, no doubt, but it is much more than just that. It is
the complexity that surrounds the portal that makes it so much more interesting and worth studying. SAP NetWeaver Portal is one such technology, an amazing one that aims to solve complex issues and tries to bring together the different SAP Business Suite solutions. In a way, it was born out of a need to provide a common user interface for various SAP products and to simplify access to end users using single sign-on. The next few chapters will unravel the potential of the SAP NetWeaver Portal to provide you with a greater understanding of what an enterprise portal is and what it can do for your organization. Portals come in different flavors, such as horizontal and vertical portals, employee portals, and manager portals. Portals can be classified into different categories based on the functionalities they provide and the user populations they serve.
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