Chapter 16. Enterprise Portals, Mashups, and Other User Interfaces
A portal is considered an entry point into some area or world. In the technology world, we view an enterprise portal as a window into a myriad of points that could reside anywhere in the world. Touch points could be internal or external and provide a wealth of information from a wide variety of sources.
Wikipedia defines an enterprise portal as this:
An enterprise portal, also known as an enterprise information portal (EIP) or corporate portal, is a framework for integrating information, people, and processes across organizational boundaries. It provides a secure unified access point,[1] often in the form of a web-based user interface, and is designed to aggregate and personalize ...
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