Enterprise Information Portals

Enterprise information portals are growing trend in the design and deployment of intranets in business.

Enterprise in highly competitive environment must cope with mountainous information. At the same time, they must act quickly to make timely business decision.

An enterprise information portal (EIP) is a web based interface and integration of intranets and other technologies that give all intranet users and selected extranet users access to a variety of internal and external business applications and services.

For example, internal applications might include access to e-mail, project websites, and discussion groups; human resources Web self-services, customer, inventory, and other corporate database; decision support systems, and knowledge management systems.

Enterprise information portals can be defined as an applications that enable companies to unlock internally and externally stores information and provide users a single gateway to personalized information need to make informed business decisions.

Enterprise information portal have been developed to provides an effective platform for knowledge workers in organizations to find, manage, use and share previous disparate information.

The volume of data and information available in an organization in growing exponentially resulting in information overload. Not all of the information is relevant to users.

The business benefits of enterprise information portals include providing more specific and selective information to business users, providing easy access to key corporate intranet website resources, delivering industry and business news, and providing better access to company data for selected customers, suppliers, or business partners.

Enterprise information portals are design for work processes, activities, and user communities to improve the access, workflow and sharing of content within and across the organization.

However, in order to present something as simple as a Web page with links to useful internal an external information sources, applications and services, an enterprise information portal must integrate many information technologies. So fully fledged corporate portals are proving to be a challenge to build.  
Enterprise Information Portals