An enterprise portal, also known as an enterprise information portal (EIP), is a framework for integrating information, people and processes across organizational boundaries.

It provides a single point of entry, often in the form of a web-based user interface, and is designed to aggregate information through application-specific portlets.

Basic Features

• Single Point of Entry — enterprise portals can provide single sign-on capabilities between their users and various other systems. This requires a user to authenticate only once. Access control lists manage the mapping between portal content and services over the portal user base.
• Integration — the connection of functions and data from multiple systems into new components/portlets.
• Federation — the integration of content provided by other portals, typically through the use of WSRP or similar technologies.
• Personalization — Users can customize the look and feel of their environment.Customers who are using EIPs can edit and design their own web sites which are full of their own personality and own style; they can also choose the specific content and services they prefer.
• Permissioning — the ability for portal administrators to limit specific types of content and services users have access to. For example, a company's proprietary information can be entitled for only company employee access Best suites for:
  
  
  • Content Management System
  • Document Management System
  • Collaboration Software
  • Customer Relationship Management
  • Business Intelligence
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