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US Report: Portals much of a muchness
News While most users mainly use portals for searching, an increasing number are logging onto them for entertainment and leisure, said Jill Frankle, an analyst at International Data Corp.who helped author a new report on Internet Web portals.
[October 8, 1998, 9:14]
Portals: Opening new doors to business
News If they're done right, portals can provide financial returns and less tangible benefits. These kinds of numbers are enough to make any business manager sit up and take notice, which may be why portals have become a shining star in an otherwise...
[January 5, 2004, 14:55]
You've got mail! Portals hungry for piece of e-commerce pie
News The role of merchandiser is a new one for the hub sites, or "portals," which began as search engines or popular corporate home pages. At the moment, the portals are mostly known as a convenient place to find all sorts of no-charge services, from e...
[November 16, 1998, 14:53]
Corporate Portals as Extranet Support for the Construction Industry in Hong Kong and Nearby Regions of China
White Papers This paper presents the corporate portals for the construction industry with an aim of solving the collaboration problem in the construction industry in Hong Kong and nearby regions of China. Discussions are provided as to how corporate portals can...
[November 3, 2008, 0:01]
A Service Oriented Architecture for Portals Using Portlets
White Papers Portals and Portlets are emerging technologies and gaining lot of popularity. Portals are gaining attention among programmers due to their ease in development, richness in functionality, customization of interface and pluggable architecture.
[March 22, 2007, 0:00]
Bringing AJAX to Grid Portals
White Papers Grid portals provide researchers the power of Grid through Web browsers. These portals are mostly Java-based and therefore the Java Portlet Specification 1.0 (JSR 168) has been widely adopted. One of the key issues Grid portals are facing now is...
[July 2, 2007, 1:00]
Upgrading Large Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Intranet Portals to Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2007
White Papers Organizations that are upgrading large enterprise portals from Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 require the ability to conduct the migration with minimal impact to dependent business users...
[September 16, 2009, 1:22]
Worldwide Trends in Portals
White Papers To provide a citizen-centric electronic government, it became obvious that information and services needed to be clustered into portals. While portals are currently at the center of most government's electronic government strategy, they are an...
[July 12, 2005, 0:00]
Rising Demand of Portals and Effective Web Development
White Papers Website development is highly creative task as requirement of web portals may vary with changing business needs. Electronic commerce has speeded well across Australia since last decade and different web development companies of Sydney have come up...
[May 1, 2009, 1:18]
Spanish Insurers Boost Productivity 240 Per Cent With Microsoft-Based Portals
White Papers It replaced an existing IBM AS-400 infrastructure and built a number of portals based on Microsoft software, which automated a number of key processes. Spanish Insurance business Groupama Seguros couldn't match its competitors in terms of...
[February 27, 2009, 0:23]
Startup promises 'portable portals'
News Despite the rash of personalisation features dominating the Web's major portals, McGeady claims their major flaw is that you can't take those features with you while you surf. The big portals are communities in the same way destination resorts are...
[October 8, 1999, 9:07]
University Web Portals Quality Assurance: User Perspective
White Papers Web portals are one of the largest, considering that anyone who uses the internet pretty much uses web portals. Since the explosion of the internet, web portals and their uses have become more advanced and complex.
[November 25, 2008, 23:00]
Global Communication Service Company Uses Portals to Improve Access to Information
White Papers To meet that need, the organization deployed a global portal infrastructure based on Microsoft software, on which it now hosts more than 100 collaborative portals. New client-facing portals can be deployed in days and can be enriched through the...
[February 22, 2007, 0:00]
IBM gets portals talking
News In an attempt to open its business portals to mobile phones, IBM has introduced software that enables its Web sites to take dictation. IBM's Voice Application Access technology already let IBM's personalised business portals respond to some voice...
[April 29, 2003, 12:52]
Microsoft Executive Circle Webcast: Using Portals-Based Solutions to Win More Business
White Papers Immedient's portals-based solution uses familiar Microsoft tools and technologies to give the better insight into leads and customers, while providing real-time access to sales and marketing performance data.
[December 6, 2008, 0:23]
A Semantic Search Engine for Spatial Web Portals
White Papers Spatial Web Portals, such as NASA's Earth Science Gateway (ESG, esg.gsfc.nasa.gov) and ESIP's Earth Information Exchange (EIE, eie.esipfed.org) have improved the sharing, exchanging, and interoperating of Earth science information.
[November 28, 2008, 23:00]
Dutch Schools Tap Expertise to Deploy Education Portals at Reduced Cost
White Papers Schools in the Netherlands often want to deploy education portals but lack the expertise and budgets to do so on their own. Wortell, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, helps schools achieve their educational and administrative goals with portals...
[July 25, 2009, 1:18]
An Infrastructure for Building Semantic Web Portals
White Papers This paper presents the KMi semantic web portal infrastructure, which supports two important tasks of semantic web portals, namely metadata extraction and data querying. Central to the infrastructure are three components: an automated metadata...
[November 25, 2008, 23:00]
Donation and Portals Enable Nonprofit Agency to Bridge the Digital Divide for 600,000 Citizens
White Papers Supported by a Microsoft donation of nearly U.S.million in software, the foundation developed two portals: one for use by the citizens of San Diego (SDCommunities.net), and one for use by foundation staff and volunteers.
[June 20, 2007, 1:00]
Extending Portals to Support Mobile Access
White Papers Enterprise portals represent an excellent mechanism to create personalized desktops for different stakeholders within the enterprise. Simultaneously, both customers and employees are increasingly mobile and require mobile access to their desktops.
[February 21, 2006, 23:00]
