Enhancing Portal Design
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2007
Publisher
IGI Global
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.
Chapter of
Encyclopedia of Portal Technologies and Applications
Recommended Citation
Taranovych, Y., Schermann, M., Schweiger, A., and Krcmar, H. (2007): ”Enhancing Portal Design” in Encyclopedia of Portal Technologies and Applications, Tatnall, A. (ed.). Hershey, PA, USA: Information Science Reference, pp. 353-359.
