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

Preface

If you need to plan, design, or deploy an enterprise portal this book is for you. Initiating a portal project (or rescuing one under way) is an exciting, sometimes daunting, challenge. Fortunately, the craft of portal design is now mature enough to identify the best practices that lead to successful implementations. Examples of those implementations, or proven portals, and detailed discussions of design principals are provided throughout this book.

Part I discusses several elements of portal design, including:

• Organizing information in an intuitive, coherent manner

• Creating a modular, adaptable framework for application integration

• Identifying core portal services, such as collaboration and content management

• Developing a robust, scalable architecture ...