Proven Portals: Best Practices for Planning, Designing, and Developing Enterprise Portals

Emerging Trends and Technologies

As the scope of enterprise portals grows, the associated information retrieval problems will worsen if new technologies and techniques are not enlisted. One of the primary values of portals is that they allow us rapid access to a broad range of content and applications; however, that benefit is undermined by the very success and growth of portals. To ensure that we can keep ahead of the information overload problem today we must design portals with effective search, directory, and information architectures. In the near future we will require additional tools to manage content and to allow our applications to assume more responsibility for weeding out irrelevant information.

Researchers have worked on problems ...