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]
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]
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]
web portals likely a better option
Talkback Provided that the web portals are multi-platform client and web browser friendly. Two, web portals allow for an easier KISS architecture. For one, they would allow access in almost all situations. Not that many customer sites, hotel PC's, etc, etc...
[April 9, 2007, 0:29]
A Platform for the Development of Semantic Web Portals
White Papers For the time being, the main difference with respect to a traditional Web portal is based on technological aspects: traditional Web portals are based on standard Web technology (HTML, XML, servlets, JSPs, etc.semantic portals are based on that...
[November 25, 2008, 23:00]
Integrating Web Portals With Semantic Web Services: A Case Study
White Papers However they have focused only in data integration, not allowing users to take advantage of services offered by Web portals. In previous work the author has developed: PISA (Web Portal Integration Architecture) which is a Web portal integration...
[November 25, 2008, 23:00]
Russian Universities Use Portals to Improve Standardization and the Learning Process
White Papers In their search for ways to improve their educational processes, Russian institutions of higher learning are turning to electronic portals. CROC, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, helps them build portals based on Microsoft Office SharePoint...
[July 25, 2009, 1:18]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
News Burst: Marks & Spencer links with portals, interactive TV
News The company, which has also recently launched a rare series of television advertisements promoting its shops, announced Wednesday it has secured distribution arrangements with two online portals, Microsoft's MSN UK and the BBC's beeb.com, and with...
[September 7, 2000, 9:40]
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]
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]
Services Provider Helps Speed Deployment of Rich Learning Portals by 80 Percent
White Papers ITWorx, headquartered in Egypt, is a global software services provider that specializes in education portals based on the Microsoft Learning Gateway framework. The portals strengthen educational communities, as teaching becomes more effective...
[July 25, 2009, 1:18]
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]
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]



