02. Enterprise portals

As the public portal revolutionized the value of the World Wide Web for consumers, enterprise portals now offer the same benefit to the corporate user, dramatically increasing the value of corporate information to both the company and its partners.

An enterprise portal provides an employee or business partner access to an appropriate range of dynamic information about the company. It offers the company the opportunity of achieving increased economies of scale, collaboration and management of data and increases the effectiveness of employees by improving the re-use of the company's intellectual capital. Connecting people to people is just as important as providing people with the information they require.