March 2004
Intermediate to advanced
544 pages
11h 34m
English
Portal projects have a checkered reputation for becoming resource sinkholes, leading to cost overruns and unmet user expectations. This reputation is deserved due to the lofty ambitions of most portal projects. The central idea behind the portal is to rein in disparate decentralized applications, creating bold new standards at the highest level of an organization that permeate down to the lowest branches on the corporate tree. Cooperation among groups of users and organizational decision makers is essential to the enterprise portal, and central authority, along with a healthy dose of resolve, are often needed to break through bureaucratic gridlock. The portal may call for rewriting dozens or hundreds ...
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