What Is an Enterprise Portal?
In November 1998, Merrill Lynch declared the portal marketplace a legitimate investment space. The company describes an enterprise information portal (EIP) as follows:
Applications that enable companies to unlock internally and externally stored information, and provide users a single gateway to personalized information needed to make informed business decisions.
But these gains are not made without meeting new challenges. If you start thinking about a portal solution, you will see that you are faced with a lot of, well, let's call it features that you did not have before. For example, you must leverage existing systems while bridging across enterprise business applications such as ERP and CRM systems. Security ...
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