Portal Technologies and Applications

The Content of Horizontal Portals

INTRODUCTION The word “portal” has been around for quite some time, but its use to describe a tool for electronic commerce has emerged only recently. This paper examines the definition of Web portals and a general method by which they might be classified. Literature related to the business model associated with horizontal portals is examined […]

Constructing and Deploying Campus Portals in Higher Education

INTRODUCTION A portal is a doorway, a gate, or a means of entrance. For example, the local library is a portal for knowledge. In this age of the Internet, portal refers to a Web site that offers a broad array of resources and services, such as e-mail, forums, search engines, and online shopping malls (Webopedia, […]

Cross-Cultural Dimensions of National Web Portals

INTRODUCTION TO CULTURE Culture can be defined as the manifestation of “learned behavior consisting of thoughts, feelings and actions” (Hoft, 1996, p. 41) formed under the influences of social, biological, psychological, economic, and ecological environments over an extended period of time. But, as Hoft notes, culture is a complex subject encompassing many diverse concepts. By […]

Countermeasures for Protecting Legally Sensitive Web-Powered Databases and Web Portals

INTRODUCTION The issue of the escalation of security breaches in the field of Web systems has caused a great deal of disquiet in the computer security community. The majority of recorded security violations against legally sensitive portals have raised numerous issues both at an individual and at an organizational level. Furthermore, taking for granted the […]

A Declarative Approach for Designing Web Portals

INTRODUCTION As many enterprise and industrial content management techniques are moving towards a distributed model, the need to exchange data between heterogeneous data sources in a seamless fashion is constantly increasing. These heterogeneous data sources could arise from server groups from different manufacturers or databases at different sites with their own schemas. Since its introduction […]

Design of a Proposed Nursing Knowledge Portal

INTRODUCTION Nurses responsible for making strategic decisions in the hospital are tracking performance metrics that accurately measure how well the hospital is performing. These nurses are always looking for the appropriate strategies that can be combined with qualitative measures to respond just in time and accurately to clients. The information presented to strategic decision makers […]

Developing a Knowledge Management Portal

INTRODUCTION Knowledge management has been heralded as an important component of a successful business strategy, yet how does a company implement a knowledge management (KM) strategy that provides a return? Since the advent of KM, the academic literature and practitioner’s guides have been awash with KM strategies that guarantee substantial economic returns. Unfortunately, these KM […]

Designing Portals for Knowledge Work

INTRODUCTION An increasing share of work in businesses and organizations depends on information and knowledge rather than manual labor and physical goods (Wolf, 2005). Knowledge work contributes substantially to the long-term success of an organization. It is characterized by unstructured, creative, and learning-oriented tasks and involves access to a wide variety of structured and unstructured […]

Designing a Portal and Community with the Community Generator

INTRODUCTION What is behind a Web portal—indeed, it is a community. People in virtual groups and rooms. But, what is an Internet business community and how is it possible to social-engineer these communities? This article deals with this topic. BACKGROUND Definitions A virtual community is, in the sense of Rheingold (1993), a group of people […]

Developing Online Learning Portals in Low Bandwidth Communities

INTRODUCTION University portals are emerging all over the world. Portals have been perceived by many people as the technologies that are designed to enhance work and learning processes at university by making workflows simpler and information more readily available in a form in which it can be processed (Franklin, 2004). There are many benefits for […]

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