Enterprise portals provide a secure unified access point,[1] often in the form of a web-based user interface, and are designed to aggregate and personalize information through application-specific portlets.
These sites provided a key set of features (e.g., news, e-mail, weather, stock quotes, and search) that were often presented in self-contained boxes or portlets.
Before long, enterprises of all sizes began to see a need for a similar starting place for their variety of internal repositories and applications, many of which were migrating to Web-based technologies.
It's built using modern Web 2.0 technologies, such as AJAX, widgets, representational state transfer (REST) and WOA/SOA approaches.
Other common features include; In 2014, independent analyst firm Real Story Group divided the Enterprise Portals technology marketplace into two categories: Infrastructure and Specialist vendors.
[8] The two categories include ten vendors that the firm evaluates in its Enterprise Portals Report.