Portal Server Capabilities

Collaborative services allow users to do the following:

•Chat

•Organize meetings

•Share calendaring information

•Define user communities

•Participate in net meetings

•Share information in discussion groups and on white boards

Business Intelligence Portals

Business intelligence portals provide executives, managers, and business analysts with access to business intelligence for making business decisions. This type of portal typically indexes business intelligence reports, analyses, and predefined queries, and are associated with financial management, customer relationship management, and supply chain performance management. Business intelligence portals also provide access to business intelligence tools (reporting, OLAP, data mining), packaged analytic applications, alerting, publishing and subscribing. Peoplesoft is a typical vendor provider of business intelligence types of portal.

Types of business intelligence portals include:

•Procurement portal

•Self-service portal

•Business portal

•e-Commerce portal

•Sales support

•Customer relationship management, operations, and employee portals

•Consumer portal

Portal Server Capabilities

Sun Java™ System Portal Server 6 2005Q1 software provides the following capabilities to your organization:

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