Portal Technologies and Applications

Challenges and Pitfalls in Portal Information Management

INTRODUCTION One major objective for information portals is to provide relevant and timely information to their intended target groups. The main challenge from an information management perspective, however, is that the portal itself does not have full information ownership, and therefore cannot guarantee information quality. Poor information quality severely decreases the actual business value of […]

A Coaching Portal for IT Project Management

INTRODUCTION Current investigations of numerous institutions (Genus & Dalcher, 2003; RAE, 2004; Sauer & Cuthbertson, 2003; The Standish Group, 2003) demonstrate that about 75% of all IT projects fail. The reason for such a high rate of IT project failures is mostly a lack of professionalism and competence in IT project management (RAE, 2004). IT […]

Collaborative Enterprise Portals

INTRODUCTION The strategic goal of an enterprise portal is to provide a simple-to-use view into content, applications and collaboration tools for all who interact with an enterprise: its employees, customers, suppliers, and business partners. While there are multitudes of enterprise portal deployments, each can be assigned to one of the three distinct groups. These groups, […]

Collaborative Real-Time Information Services via Portals

INTRODUCTION The increased use of online services in the commercial world has produced considerable impact on traditional technologies. Traditional information technologies were developed in an era where use of Internet technologies was not widespread. They have a long history and are often based on mature and stable technologies, or practices such as user interface design, […]

Community Geographic Domain Names

INTRODUCTION The Australian (.au) Domain Name Authority (auDA) announced the creation of Community Geographic Domain Names (CGDNs) in November, 2002 (auDA, 2005b). This scheme is novel because it restricts licensing and use of the CGDNs to community-based groups running community portals. The community group must demonstrate that they are representative of and inclusive of all […]

Commercialization of Web Portals

INTRODUCTION Portals may be defined as starting points on the Web for users which may lead them to e-business services (Adar & Huberman, 2000). Portals are part and parcel of e-business (Kappel, Werner, & Schroder, 1998) whose common goal is the electronic support of business or market transactions. E-business affects the way businesses interact with […]

Commercial and Open-Source Web Portal Solutions

INTRODUCTION Web portals present an effective way to integrate applications, people, and business by offering a unique point of access to these resources within an organization and also with external business partners. Moreover, the integration of business processes, automation of daily tasks, and data integration contribute to cut down costs and accelerate business operations. However, […]

A Comprehensive Methodology for Campus Portal Development

INTRODUCTION A campus portal is an exciting recent phenomenon forming part of the new generation of online services for all stakeholders in institutions of higher education. Conceptually, the general notion of a portal should be to be distinguished from that of other Web-based applications and the traditional Intranet of the institution. The literature review in […]

Comparing Portals and Web Pages

INTRODUCTION Just how do Web pages and portals differ? A fair question, since both have common characteristics. However, important differences can be drawn. The purposes of this chapter are to (a) provide a basic background of both Web pages and portals, (b) compare the structure of Web pages with the infrastructure of portals, and (c) […]

A Content-Incentive-Usability Framework for Corporate Portal Design

INTRODUCTION The knowledge based theory of the firm argues that firms obtain competitive advantage by creating, storing and applying knowledge (Jayatilaka, Schwarz, & Hirschheim, 2003). According to Grant and Baden-Fuller (1995), a firm’s ability to leverage knowledge held by members in the organization is dependent on first, the ability of the firm to create an […]

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