Enterprise Information Portals (EIPs) are application that
enable companies to unlock internally and externally stored
information and provide users a single gateway to personalized
information to make informed business decision. EIPs has
evolved to include "Enterprise Portal" and "Corporate Portal".
A typical enterprise/corporate portal would have the following
components:
Provisions for Security
Business Intelligence Tools
User Interface
Personalization
Search Engine
Customizations
Taxonomy (Indexing/Catalogue)
Application and Data Integration
Document Management
EIP technology is applicable to internally-facing, trading
communities, trans-enterprise and
externally-facing enterprise applications of all types. Some
benefits of EIPs include:
Competitive Advantage
Decreased Cost of Information
Increased ROI
Facilitate Collaboration
Accelerated Innovation
Universal Access to Enterprise Resource
Greater Employee Productivity
A unified, dynamically integrated and maintained view of
enterprise data and information
