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Advancing the Concepts & Practices of Information Resources Management in Modern Organizations

Enhancing Portal Design

Enhancing Portal Design
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Author(s): Yuriy Taranovych (Technische Universität München, Germany)
Copyright: 2007
Pages: 7
Source title: Encyclopedia of Portal Technologies and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Arthur Tatnall (Victoria University, Australia)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-989-2.ch060

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Abstract

In recent years, portals became more and more popular among organizations (Klaene, 2004). A portal provides a solution for aggregating content and applications from various information systems for presentation to the user (Linwood & Minter, 2004). Generally, portals pose three main architectural requirements (Linwood & Minter, 2004): as portals integrate heterogeneous content from various sources, a modularized architecture is necessary to allow maintainable portal systems. Second, portals require separating various concerns (Fowler, Rice, & Foemmel, 2002). For instance, the portal’s user interface is supposed to display heterogeneous content consistently on various devices, whereas the backend is supposed to syndicate content from various sources. Third, a consistent management and coordination of different information sources, portal elements, and other components is necessary for good portals design.

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