portals enable users, employees, customers, and suppliers to expand beyond their traditional boundaries by providing a single common interface to access globally dispersed content and applications. most important, portals also allow users to communicate with other enterprise applications, content factories, and processes. dynamic portal capabilities also provide personalization that enables users to create tailored views of information or receive customized content. in addition to personalization capabilities, portals allow users to publish, share, and subscribe to various documents in an enterprise, regardless of original format.
portal technologies, such as websphere portal, support important back-end operations that provide the flexibility, scalability, and security required for any robust web-based environment. advanced portals include capabilities such as single sign-on (sso), authentication and authorization services, directory services, content management, collaboration, mobile device support, search and taxonomy services, accessibility support, and internationalization.
effective portal implementations require careful planning and execution. at the core of successful portals are personalization policies that help ensure user privacy and data security. this article explores the potential of portal personalization capabilities, security, and privacy considerations when designing portals and portlets, and outlines portlet design best practices that support benchmarks for flexibilit... 下一页