Mapping Portal Server Features to Your Business Needs
Table | Search Features and Benefits (Continued) |
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Feature | Description | Benefit |
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Subscriptions | Enables the user to track new or changed | Discussions, search categories, and |
| material in different areas of interest. | searches (saved searches) can be tracked. |
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Personalization
Personalization is the ability to deliver content based on selective criteria and offer services to a user.
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Table 3-4 Personalization Features and Benefits
Feature | Description | Benefit |
Deliver content | Portal Server includes the ability to |
based on user’s role | automatically choose which applications |
| users are able to access or to use, based on |
| their role within the organization. |
Enable users to | Portal Server enables end users to choose |
customize content | what content they are interested in seeing. |
| For example, users of a personal finance |
| portal choose the stock quotes they would like |
| to see when viewing their financial portfolio. |
Increases employee productivity, improves customer relationships, and streamlines business relationships by providing quick and personalized access to content and services.
The information available in a portal is personalized for each individual. In addition, users can then customize this information further to their individual tastes. A portal puts control of the web experience in the hands of the people using the web, not the web site builders.
Aggregate and | Portal Server enables an enterprise or service |
personalize content | provider to aggregate and deliver |
for multiple users | personalized content to multiple communities |
| of users simultaneously. |
This enables a company to deploy multiple portals to multiple audiences from one product and manage them from a central management console. Also, new content and services can be added and delivered on demand without the need to restart Portal Server. All of this saves time and money, and ensures consistency in an IT organization.
Aggregation and Integration
One of the most important aspects of a portal is its ability to aggregate and integrate information, such as applications, services, and content. This functionality includes the ability to embed
