portal

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portal
By Soheila Ghane
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outline

• 1.History
• 2.Introduction to issues
• 3.Defining Portal
• 4.What can be expected from a portal?
• 5.What can not be expected from a portal?
• 6.Kinds of portal
• 7.Portal softwares
• 8.ACFamily Network

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History

• Portals really started out with ISP's, the
  Internet Service providers like AOL and Prodigy
  and that bunch of folks who had to give you some
  kind of thing beyond what you could find yourself
  on the Web. And they were sort of the early
  portals.
• The search engines like Yahoo and Alta Vista and
  Excite, whatever, when they discovered people
  really weren't kind of using them exclusively,
  they wanted to get something like frequent flyer
  loyalty to them.
• So what they did is they became big horizontal
  malls for information on the Web and in fact,
  those kind of portals are often called horizontal
  portals or mega-portals.

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Introduction to issues

• "We will do nothing short of transforming our
  cars and trucks into a portal for the Internet."
• The idea of a homepage was that a company, person
  or university had a presence on the Web that had
  the look and feel of its home.
• With a Web portal, you are escorted to a door,
  the portal of a house, by a real estate agent who
  often has spent hours learning about you.
• portal is user-centric, while a homepage is
  owner-centric.
• A homepage does not a portal make.

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Defining Portal

• Portal is a term, generally synonymous with
  gateway, for a World Wide Web site that is or
  proposes to be a major starting site for users
  when they get connected to the Web or that users
  tend to visit as an anchor site.
• It as a hub from which users can locate all the
  Web content that they commonly need.
• Portal is a web system that brings the vast
  information and service resources available from
  many sources to many users in an effective manner.

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Cont.

• Portal is a web system that provides the
  functions and features to authenticate and
  identify the users and provide them with an easy,
  personalized and user-customizable web-interface
  for facilitating access to information and
  services that are of primary relevance and
  interests to the users.

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What can be expected from a portal?

• provides a single sign-on to a variety of catalog
  and directories of information and services
  related to a specific topic or organization along
  with a personal start page.
• provides materials free of charge for everyone
• wants that the user gets services /information as
  easy as possible
• (access and software)
• portal should be seen as a fruitful complement to
  other projects / networks / websites
• portal should a place where you can do things, If
  you have applications there. it means you can do
  things like update data.

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What can not be expected from a portal?

• It's not everything they're ever going to use,
  but the stuff that they commonly need.
• Portal will not provide information or services
  directly , other than explanations to guide
  people to agency web sites .
• Materials that content all project results in
  details

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Kinds of portal

• Portals are not a one size fits all
  solution. Although the term portal is often
  treated as synonymous with enterprise information
  portals there are actually many, different types
  of portals each one tailored to meet a specific
  business need.
• There is two basic kinds of portal
• Vertical portal (Vortal)
• Portals that focus on specific services and
  subjects.
• Do customization based on you authenticating into
  them -- them understanding your roles
• You can personalize the thing.
• Example university of Michigan()

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Cont.

• Horizonal portal (Hortal)
• they're trying to give you everything you could
  imagine a person could want on the Web.
• A horizontal portal can't have customization
  because it doesn't know who you are
• everybody comes in, sees the same thing, but they
  can personalize it to some degree
• some people call them HEP's for Horizontal
  Enterprise Portals.
• Example Yahoo.com ,Alta Vista.com , Excite.com

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Cont.

• Other kinds of portal
• e-Commerce or e-business Portals
• Provide information on products and services
• Facilitate the sharing of information to external
  partners, customers and suppliers.
• Often include supply chain management features.
• Usually have a transactional processing component
• E-commerce portals aim to increase the value of
  the relationship whilst lowering the cost.
• Example e-Bay.co.uk ,amazon.com , The
  Trainline.com

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Cont.

• Information Resource Portals
• Information Resource Portals give researchers a
  view on informational resources.
• These are typically large collections of records
  of a particular kind.
• Cross searching multiple related collections is
  one important goal of these portals.
• Example Data Portal , British Academy Portal
• Institutional Portals
• These portals provide all information about an
  institution and the services it provides.
• This needs to be presented as both external views
  and to institution members.
• Example Anglia , London School of Economics

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Cont.

• Portals for e-Learning, Awareness and
  Training
• E-Learning portal focus on guiding students
  through a structured learning experience and
  providing the necessary support to increase
  effectiveness of the portalas a means of delivery
  of course material.
• Example CHEF
• Awareness and training portals are more
  focused and specialize in a specific area for a
  more experienced audience.
• Material is provided to researchers wishing
  to take on board new techniques, such as
  e-Science.
• Example GENIUS

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Cont.

• Collaboration portals
• Enable a geographically dispersed workforce to
  interact around projects and business through a
  common access or rallying point.
• Offer generic tools such as chat, white boards
• Example CHEF
• Grid Information Portals
• Simply provides information about Grid resources
  (computers, databases) and their capabilities .
• Grid information portal will combine sources to
  create query results
• Example InfoPortal

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Cont.

• Grid Application Portals
• Grid application portals provide a variety
  of mechanisms to access active services such as
  generate new data, information or knowledge
  through simulation, data merging or mining from
  on-line instruments .
• ExampleGridPort

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Portal softwares

• Portal software provides the platform and tools
  needed to deliver information and services to the
  public, staff, vendors, and partners.  Portal
  software gives you the ability to manage
  information in a coherent and structured fashion
  while providing a productive tool for your
  audience.
• Portal Software is a web based application to
  bring your audience, application, systems, and
  processes together to form a centralized
  collaboration experience.
• Portal software integrates technologies to build
  personalized work areas and communities to
  increase productivity for users.  Portal Software
  is built for corporate intranets, extranets,
  communities, web sites, and projects .

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Portal Software Benefits

• Efficiently deliver information to the audience
• Increase productivity for the end user
• Provides customizable features and development
  tools
• Increase interaction between customers and
  employees
• Personalized environments for end users
• Integration of external applications and services
  by portlets

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ACFN Portal

• This is an online premium service provided to Air
  Canada Flight Attendants
• It is an Internet tool for posting requests for
  flight .
• It is accessible from any Internet computer
  anywhere in the world 24 hrs/ 7 days a week.
• ACFN will provide an explanation of terms and
  step-by-step instructions.
• The ACFN respects your privacy Therefore will
  not, sell or give your information to anyone .

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References

• http//www.chozamsoftware.com/software
• http//campustechnology.com/techtalks/transcripts.
  asp
• http//www.e.govt.nz/
• http//www.eu-portal.net/
• http//tyne.dl.ac.uk/ReDRESS/Portals/portals
• http//www.acfamily.net/acfnews/part1.htm
• http//www.airlinecrew.net/vbulletin/archive

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