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

Conclusion

Successful portals share common features. They solve real business problems, keep their focus on the user, use deep integration, design for growth while maintaining performance, and keep the portal and constituent applications secure through centralized enterprise identity management and security controls. Depending on the type of portal, these features vary in importance.

In the next chapter we will shift our focus away from identifying key characteristics of well-designed portals to outlining the steps required to design and build your own proven portal.