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INTRANETS
Intranet Components from West
Custom Links and Search Boxes
Intranet Basics
Portal and Intranet Basics
Here's an Overview of intranets, enterprise portals and public portals:
Intranet
- Web page consisting of links to information for use by employees
- Also known as corporate intranet, firm intranet
- Key characteristics: Available only to staff of organization. Brings together internal links and data in addition to external links; general static Web pages with no individual customization; informational in nature; return on investment (ROI) from increased productivity
Enterprise Portal
- Browser-based access to internal software applications and information for use by employees
- Also known as corporate portal, corporate information portal, enterprise information portal, intranet portal, enterprise application portal
- Key characteristics: Available to company staff and possibly designated clients and suppliers; aggregates company-specific (proprietary) data in addition to Web data; provides individual customization and company-specific categorization and search; ROI from increased productivity.
Public Portal
- Browser-based gateway to a wide array of publicly available resources
- Also known as portal, vertical portal (or vortal), affinity portal
- Key characteristics: Available to general public; aggregates broad range of publicly available data; provides individual customization and/or generalized categorization and/or search capabilities; ROI from advertising sales
- Examples: FindLaw, Yahoo
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