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ALSO CALLED: Web Search Portals, Information Services, Search Portals, Vertical Industry Portals, Vortals, Web Portals, Internet Portals, Online Services, and Vertical Portals
DEFINITION: Vortal is also short for voice portal. On the Web, a vertical portal (sometimes called a vortal) is a Web site that provides a gateway or portal to information related to a particular industry such as health care, insurance, automobiles, or food manufacturing.
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How Rich Internet Applications and Web 2.0 Enable Wealth Management Client Relationships
| sponsored by Actuate Corporation
WHITE PAPER:
This paper describes some of the new technologies that have being used by financial firms to give them a real advantage in attracting and retaining wealthy clients.
Posted: 21 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jul 2008
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Maximizing Portal Application Performance
| sponsored by ClearApp, Inc.
WHITE PAPER:
This white paper highlights advancements in portal technology, exploring their effect on application performance management and their ability to overcome existing management challenges.
Posted: 27 Aug 2007 | Published: 01 Aug 2007
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PORTALS DEFINITION (continued):
(A vertical industry is one that is focused on a relatively narrow range of goods and services, whereas a horizontal industry is one that aims to produce a wide range of goods and services. Because most industry tends to specialize, most industry tends to be vertical.) A term that might also be used is interest community Web site since any vertical industry brings together people sharing an interest in buying, selling, or exchanging information about that particular industry. Vertical
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