Cloud Computing

A Web Portal in Simple Terms

What is a web portal?

A web portal is a web page that collects information from different sources and creates a single point access to information. It is a dynamic user-centric collection of everything a particular user need. It gives every user a customized and personalized web page with information relevant to only that user(s). A web portal accommodates both employees and consumers allowing transactions to be itch-free and properly documented. It will enable your employees and customers to be organized, streamlined and connected.

Features of a web portal

A web portal delivers organization-specific information in a user-centric way. It requires users authentication to determine users cohort (for example staff, Pensioner) and the users role (for example Managing Director, Manager, auditor) and what projects or jobs a user is working on or the users activity log.it allows web content to be divided into public and private. A web portal achieves these through the following features

• ·         Information Integration: a web portal integrates information from different sources and delivers relevant information to user(s).
• ·         Notification: web portal using push technology allows users to receive information about job assignment, news feed, updates from their desktop without the user actively requesting for it.
• ·         Task Management and Workflow: task management services can help users take part in and/or manage formally defined business processes. The workflow functionality allows the automation of business processes. Thus, as part of a workflow-automated business process, a portal would prompt its users when they have tasks to perform.

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