Why portals?

Portals have gained acceptance in the enterprise due to their capability to streamline and organize diverse applications through a single channel. The productivity gains experienced by an employee, customer, or a partner clearly provide immense functional value to an enterprise, due to features such as easy access to a wide array of enterprise resources, consolidated search capability and content management. Similarly, enhanced user experience through customized content, persistent preferences, and single/seamless sign-on access result in satisfied users.

Due to the need to consolidate applications and content across the enterprise, portals provide subsidiary benefits of aligning business units in terms of the applications they create and the content they generate, with a single customer/user view.

Some of the benefits of having portals are listed here: