Implementation Strategy for Portal Adoption

by Mohit C. Mutha

Portals provide a common user interface (UI) platform for federating varied content and applications. In addition, portal server products offer out-of-the-box features such as personalization, security, and administrative control. The portal server also provides several customization hooks for layout, themes, skins, security, and so forth. Compared with building a custom Web application having these features, portal servers are an attractive choice for decentralized content and module management, configurable UI, personalization and customization, short time to market, and maintainability.