Portal

Portal is a website which integrates various content services. In this meaning, it usually contains 3 different portals.

Enterprise portal, also regarded as Enterprise Information Portal, is a framework for integrating information, people and processes across organizational boundaries. It is designed to collect and personalize information through application-specific portlets as a web-based user interface, and always keeps the information updated.

Intranet portal is the gateway that unifies access to all enterprise information and applications on an intranet. This tool helps company easily manage its data, applications, and information. For enterprise user, it is the same as enterprise portal.

Web portal is a collection of large numbers of links presenting diverse information from other sources. It offers services such as e-mail, news, entertainment rather than what search engine offers. Web portals provide a way for enterprises to provide a consistent look and feel with access control and procedures for multiple applications and databases, which otherwise would have been different entities altogether.

Portal should show not only enterprise-class content, but also enterprise-class applications. For a company, portal is not only a tool to publish some news. Processing businesses for both customers and staff is much more important.

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SharePoint

SharePoint is a software platform developed by Microsoft for collaboration and web publishing. It contains many functions including developing websites, portals, intranets, CMSs, search engines, wikis, blogs and other tools for business.

The capabilities of SharePoint work together to help company quickly respond to changing business needs. With SharePoint, developers can build custom applications and components to rapidly respond to business needs. It helps users access the right people and information at the right time to make better decisions and get the job done.

SharePoint mainly contains 6 components. SharePoint Sites provides a single infrastructure for all business websites to share documents with colleagues, manage projects with partners, and publish information to customers. SharePoint Composites can create do-it-yourself business solutions. That means building no-code solutions to rapidly respond to business needs. SharePoint Insights gives everyone access to the information in databases, reports, and applications. SharePoint Communities makes it easy for people to share ideas and work together the way they want. SharePoint Content sets up compliance measures and let people work naturally in Microsoft Office to make content management easy. And the last one, SharePoint Search, helps people find the information and contacts they need to get their jobs done.

Liferay

Liferay Portal is an enterprise portal which includes a suite of applications. It represents a full application of J2EE using technologies such as Web, EJB, and JMS, especially applying Struts framework technology on the user interface. Users can also modify the source code of Liferay Portal to add new functions.

The followings are some of the main features that Liferay Portal contains:

Out-of-the-box Tools

Liferay Portal provides out of the box portlets that any other portal on the market doesn’t include—Choose from over 60 to customize your work environment. Included are Liferay CMS and Liferay Collaboration offering web publishing, content management, collaboration and social networking.

SOA Framework

Liferay Portal is developed using an open SOA strategy that makes it the choice of enterprises for enterprise application integration to integrate existing HR, accounting or sales systems and any other sources of important data.

Secure Single Sign on (SSO)

Liferay Portal can get all of your different systems together and make them available by logging in just once via the secure SSO.

Granular, Role-Based Authorizations

To ensure that the right people control the right information, administrators can assign each user or group of users different "roles" that has varying levels of access and editing rights to specific communities, files, applications and tools.

WebSphere

WebSphere Portal is a collection of software tools that helps companies build and manage web portals. It is developed and marketed by IBM. Now it is sold in five editions: WebSphere Portal Server, WebSphere Portal Enable, WebSphere Portal Enable for z/OS, WebSphere Portal Extend, and WebSphere Portal Express.

The basic products of WebShpere Portal provide customization, Web content service, document management, and production with scalable portal site framework. The extended products contain powerful components, which enhance the effectiveness of portal sites.

You can customize the portal based on user or job roles, security needs, device settings, personal preferences, and administrative settings. You can also define workflows to support your business processes. You can manage your portal's content using IBM's Web Content Management, which is integrated with WebSphere Portal.

WebSphere Portal is a core part of IBM Workplace. Many other related products, including WebSphere Voice and the WebSphere Everyplace products, work with WebSphere Portal to enable users to access applications running on virtually operating system. Users can have access to the portal from any types of devices, such as Web browsers, rich clients, mobile phones, and PDAs.

WebLogic

WebLogic Portal is one of the best portal frameworks for producing highly interactive composite applications in SOA environment with powerful, integrated tools for Java developers and strong support for standards. WebLogic Portal's framework provides reliable, high-performance, and personalized application delivery that engages customers, keeps infrastructure costs down, delivers solutions rapidly, and standardizes application architecture.

WebLogic Portal has a unified portal framework. With the combination of development environment and running application, developers can focus on portal application rather than basic structure. Developers take advantages of unified development environment as well as its expansion to quickly integrate Web service, application, and business process to create new portal resources.

WebLogic Portal supports the entire portal life cycle including design, development, configuration, management, testing, and running. It consists of three large module: WebLogic Workshop Portal Extension，WebLogic Portal Admin Console，and WebLogic Portal Server. There are two designs in the overall structure of WebLogic Portal. One is XML-oriented architecture, which is applied in the portal extension. The other is SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture), which is applied in the whole WebLogic platform. It is these two that ensure WebLogic Portal has rich and flexible interface performance and strong ability in service integration.