Benefits of Portals
The catalysts for developing portals are as varied as portals themselves. Among other reasons, portals have been developed to:
Provide better access to information
Remove barriers to applications
Create order from the chaos of data in an organization
Promote reuse of information
Reduce training time and cost
Improve information access for decision-making
Cultivate better relationships with customers
Reduce overhead costs such as benefits administration
Speed turnaround for processing such as expense reimbursement
Allow searches of large volumes of heterogeneous data (documents, pages, database, messages, multimedia)
Simplify telecommuting
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